The Elder Scrolls: Total War - a complete overhaul to Medieval 2: Total War - launched this week, bringing some proper bombast to battlefields across Tamriel. Even Skyrim's nation-rending civil war never amounted to much more than a gathering of drunk LARPers waving sharp sticks at each other in the snow. Unfortunately, Bethesda's open-world games have never been too great at the whole mass battle thing. Like any big daft fantasy blockbuster, The Elder Scrolls needs war.