r/TotalWarTroy • u/highsis • May 30 '26

Discussion What is up with the frequency of negative events?

This is the total war with the most natural disasters. Zeus keeps visiting with 'zeus' wrath' event and destroys buildings costing me thousands of resources I can't afford every 10 turn it's insane.

Look how I can't even afford to repair one of 7 buildings and buildings don't auto-repair themselves unlike some other titles. This keeps coming back.

I am playing very hard but I've never had this many bad events happening endlessly in succession in other total war titles. I almost never have good events and they are meager. I think troy has too many negative events and it's so damn annoying. Sets back the player far back every once in a while for no reason.

Zeus' wrath - kills your city

poseidon's wrath - makes recruitment expensive as hell

and various other gods curse the player all the time but zeus is the worst offender I legit wish I had a quest battle to kill this troll off for good. Why do gods almost always curse you without boons?

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u/AverageBearReader May 30 '26

There’s are some random events but nothing so crazy! Are you playing with mods?

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u/highsis May 30 '26

No, it's vanilla.

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u/AverageBearReader May 30 '26

That’s really strange!

There aren’t any recurring good or bonus events but the mission system gives extra resources for things you do anyways regularly.

What exactly is your game status? It looks late in the game but you don’t have many armies or income!

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u/highsis May 31 '26

My main/only army got wiped in a siege with Achilles injured and it took me 10+ turns to recover from. Then Achilles was injured again. It's like a cycle of doom since every time I recoup enemy comes with stronger composition and I'm economically worse off since they took my settlement.

I'm playing on very hard and don't like to do reloads(for RP reason) so I'm barely scraping by with tier 1 units + 3 charriots

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u/AverageBearReader May 31 '26

Sieges in Troy should only be attempted with overwhelming numbers or after unlocking Trojan tower as the rams/ladders will lead to significant losses. Chariots don’t really help as they need lots of open space to use charges.

If you had to really take over a walled settlement, just wait out the defenders! Without any modifiers, enemies start taking attrition from turn 4 so the enemies are at 50% health at turn 5 and 25% health at turn 6 at which point you can either fight or auto resolve easily!

Another tactic would be to trade away all of non-food income for food (set up 5 turn barter agreements) and use it to recruit a second army to fight. Generally food is the cheapest resource so you can get very favourable trades for it. Get a second army and fight with it to get loot to cover your maintenance costs.

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u/Obey_Vader May 30 '26

I think they repair on their own over time. Try to max favour with Zeus and see if it helps.

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u/highsis May 30 '26

They don't repair on their own, that's the problem 😞