A Total War Saga: TROY - Rhesus & Memnon (DLC)

A Total War Saga: TROY - Rhesus & Memnon is a faction DLC for the Bronze Age grand-strategy title TROY, adding two playable lords to the existing campaign map: Rhesus of Thrace and Memnon of Ethiopia. Each comes with a bespoke unit roster, unique faction mechanics, and a fresh strategic angle on the same Iliad-inspired conflict. If you have logged serious hours with TROY's base factions and are hungry for a different opening position and playstyle, this DLC delivers exactly that. If you haven't touched TROY yet, start there first. Rhesus plays as a cavalry-heavy Thracian ally arriving late to support Troy, meaning your early campaign is a land grab under time pressure before the war's momentum shifts. His roster leans into fast, hard-hitting horsemen and light skirmishers, rewarding aggressive early expansion over turtled economic development. Memnon brings Ethiopian forces to the field, fielding some of the DLC's most visually distinct units, including heavily armoured infantry that punch above their weight in pitched line battles. His campaign narrative arc frames him as a foreign saviour, which translates mechanically into specific alliance and resource constraints that force you to think carefully about diplomatic positioning before committing to a front. On the campaign map, both lords interact with TROY's existing resource system - Bronze, Food, Wood, Stone, Gold, and Influence - without fundamentally rewriting how that economy works. That is a compliment and a caveat. Veterans will slot right in and start optimising build orders immediately. Newcomers to TROY will still need to climb that resource-juggling learning curve, and this DLC does nothing to flatten it. The AI opponents behave consistently with the base game, which means competent enough at mid-difficulty to punish sloppy expansion but not a genuine late-game threat once your economy scales. Modders have addressed some of these AI ceiling issues in the workshop, and both new factions are mod-compatible out of the box. The real-time battles hold up well. Memnon's armoured units create interesting defensive scenarios where you can hold a narrow pass against numerically superior forces, while Rhesus rewards players who understand how to cycle cavalry charges without over-committing to melee. Neither faction introduces a broken unit type that trivialises the mid-to-late campaign, which is the right call for balance. The 72 percent positive Steam score reflects a community that largely enjoyed the content but felt the asking price versus playtime ratio is tighter than premium DLC releases from the same publisher. That sentiment is fair. For strategy players who treat TROY as a long-term rotation title, Rhesus and Memnon add genuine replayability with two campaigns that feel meaningfully different from the base roster. For casual buyers or those who bounced off TROY's mythological interpretation of historical warfare, this DLC will not change that calculus. Approach it as a targeted content drop for committed fans, calibrate expectations accordingly, and you will find two well-constructed faction experiences that respect the source material. Diego, Scout Team