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* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: If you massacre 3/4ths of a city when capturing it, the city will be happier than if you'd just occupied it. It's not crowded anymore, and that is one of the main sources of unhappiness. The fact that you've almost murdered everyone doesn't have any effect on the survivors' mood.
** Though, this may be more of a case of these citizens being too busy shitting their pants and hiding from this occupation/mass execution force to make trouble, lest they be the next to come under fire.
*** Averted post-''Empire'', where looting a city results in massive happiness penalties that could easily spark a revolt within a couple of turns unless you cut taxes and fill the city with garrison troops. Looting usually works best when you don't intend to hold the city at all - just keep the (huge amounts of) cash and give it back or let the enemy retake it.
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** To make matters worse, there is ''always'' [[Paranoia Fuel|a Geisha sitting in your throne room. Watching.]]
* [[Scrappy Mechanic]]: Surprisingly enough for a series this long, there really aren't that many. There is one that mars what is otherwise a brilliant game, ''Shogun 2''. "Realm Divide" basically has Japan ally up and split into two sides when you reach about 15 provinces or so (Out of about 65). These sides consist of you and whatever allies you have (until they inevitably backstab you), and the other side consists of everyone else in Japan. If you don't think that's unfair enough... each clan arrayed against you is [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|given multiple gigantic stacks of veteran units every turn.]]
** This is also prevalent in ''Rome'' and ''Medieval 2''; once your empire is large enough, the other factions will gang up on you, often while still remaining at war with one another ([[Gang Up
* [[Spiritual Licensee]]: Given the scales, time periods and battles involved, the Total War games tend to be reminiscent of various movies. More specifically, you've got ''Rome,'' which is reminiscent of ''[[Gladiator]],'' and the ''Shogun 2'' DLC ''Fall of the Samurai,'' can pretty much pass itself off as a prequel to ''[[The Last Samurai]]''. Indeed, at least one reviewer has called it the "[[Tom Cruise]] DLC."
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]: Want to see how the Moors would have fought the Mongols, how the Scots would have handled the Timurids, how the Turks would have invaded the Americas, or the Danes would have fought Reconquista Spain? Have at it!
** Which leads to a bit of [[Fridge Horror]]. Every action you take has the possibility to irreversibly change world history, for better or for worse. Say for instance, you are playing ''Napoleon'' as the British, and you lose your fleet. This causes a chain reaction of events. France then invades Britain, which no longer has a fleet to defend it. France wins the war of the Sixth Coalition due to Britain's absence. France colonizes the world, becomes a superpower, Etc, ''Nous avons cette conversation en français.'' See, one slip up can potentially cause disaster in more ways than one!
** Theoretically, one can have incredibly ahistorical wars. Venice's ''mercenari'' troops storming the gates of London to take it from Scotland, Sicilian knights campaigning through the Russian steppes, Spanish knights and Jinetes fighting Mongol horsemen for control of Vienna, Egyptian spearmen climbing the walls of Arhus to fight Danish Vikings, Byzantine spearmen charging through arrows from English longbowmen as they try to take Milan, or [[A Scotsman in Egypt
** And that's not counting the ability to pitch off the different [[DL Cs]] of ''Shogun 2'' with the factions in the original game. Ever wanted to reenact the final battle in ''[[The Last Samurai]]?'' Now it's possible.
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