Total War Games

Just start with the first ROME game. Also make sure your laptop has decent cooling!

just choose which period suits you most i like guns so i suggest empire total war if you like samurais go with shogun or if you like knights and horses try medieval total war 2 and if you like barbarians try rome hope this helps you :3

Start from the beginning and work your way up the series. Each one is a one of a kind gem. =)

Based on the video card, i wouldn't recommend anything past Medieval 2.
Rest is based on your preferences of the time period and setting.

You might also want to take mods into account, for example medieval 2 has an excellent warhammer mod. Rome first of the name has very good mods. But my favourite stays the first one, shogun, i just find it has the best immersion but it might be because i bought it the day it came out.

I have always preferred the first one (Shogun). The others are far to into world management, and far too complicated.

For example Medieval is a great game, until about 75% conquered, and then you just auto lose.
I also really enjoyed Shogun 2, Until about 50% conquered. I looked it up, and you basically have to know that that the game will suddenly start to do everything to kill you at that point and you need to have planned and stockpiled like a billion gold and more troops than you would ever possibly need.

I could run Total War Rome 1 fine with an Intel integrated GPU (HD2000) in my old laptop, so you should have little problems with Rome 1, plus it's an epic game even if you are a newbie at this kind of games

Choose the period you like the most. You can't go wrong with Total War. Just don't pick Rome 2. It's shit.

All of them. :D
Some of them have demos on steam, so try the demo first.

Ok thank you guys, it was really helpful. My last question is about multiplayer. I would like to know how good it is. I watched some TW Rome II let's plays, and multiplayer was very nice. Is it good in other TW games or you just treat it as singleplayer game?

Ok thank you again for all advices.

Just stay away from Empire on Steam. It's a glitchy mess of a game that won't run on a ton of machines and has zero support at Steam or with the developers.

Good luck and have fun!