All Total War: Pharaoh start positions

Check out where your favorite character starts into the game
All Total War: Pharaoh start positions
All Total War: Pharaoh start positions /

While Total War: Pharaoh comes with the option of random start positions – a first for the series –, every character and their corresponding faction still has a standard location to begin the game in when you’re not playing a customized session.

Of course this is of immense importance to your campaign: Different locations will offer a variety of resources to exploit that could make your economic situation easier or more difficult. In Pharaoh, you must also consider that many of the units you can recruit are based on the region you’re in, so your starting location has a great impact on what your armies are going to look and play like. Finally, each location will enable you to fight different types of enemies early on, so that’s another very important aspect of your experience.

As Creative Assembly is revealing more and more details about the game, the Total War: Pharaoh start positions also become known one by one – we’re collecting them all here so you can check out where your favorite faction usually starts the game from.

Total War: Pharaoh – all start positions

Ramesses

Creative Assembly

Ramesses has been put in charge of Sinai by the current ruler of Egypt, putting him somewhat outside the Egyptian arena and into conflict with the Canaanites to the north. With the Mediterranean to the west, the Gulf of Suez to the south and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, Ramesses can quickly carve out a pretty secure realm. Suez acts as a choke point towards Egypt, which can be easily defended. That should allow the young nobleman, who is out to prove himself as a worthy ruler, to use full force against the Canaanites and Hittites to the north, if he so wishes. Alternatively, the door to Egypt lies very close by as well.

Tausret

Creative Assembly

Tausret starts in Upper Egypt, which is the southern half of the country – this very confusing naming scheme once again shows the importance of the Nile for Egypt's history. The river flows from South to North, so the northern part is downriver and thus called Lower Egypt. That means that Tausret is pretty much surrounded, which makes for plenty of dangers and opportunities.

We’ll update this article with more start positions as they become available.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg