'Nomadic' is an umbrella term it includes both Iranic tribes and eastern Germanic tribes, as well as the Slavs. These barbarian factions start in Eastern Europe. They also have a lack of infrastructure and must often rely on captured buildings such as ports. The Huns have some of the best horses in the game and have very skilled horse archers, however, their infantry selection is limited.

They start as a horde near the Roxolani and Alan tribes north of the Black Sea. Their army is primarily made up of large units of cavalry with high endurance. The Hunnic faction is distinct from the Nomadic factions, for they are only represented by the fearsome Huns themselves.

1.5 Northern African ('Carthaginian') faction.

The remaster also made ALL of the factions playable, such as the Celts, Romano-British, Berbers and Slavs, giving players more of a choice for playing as the barbarians and taking down either one or both of the Roman Empires! West Rome is unable to recruit merchants until their debased currency has been fixed. Merchants were added from Medieval II to both the base Rome and Barbarian Invasion, bringing with them a new problem facing the Western Roman Empire, being debased currency. Alongside all the features added in the general remaster (improved unit models, graphical updates, etc) came new mechanics and new factions. It is something of a spiritual predecessor to the later Total War: Attila, featuring many of the same concepts and settings as Attila, and many of the concepts set forth in Barbarian Invasion would reappear in Medieval II: Total War and beyond.Д«arbarian Invasion was bundled in with Total War: Rome Remastered featuring multiple new enhancements and features. It takes the setting of Rome: Total War forward by four centuries to the closing years of the Western Roman Empire, and features a wide variety of new features on top of the existing features of vanilla Rome.

Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion is the first expansion to Rome: Total War.

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