Empire Total War, Again

[Caliga]

Now that I think I never played either of those. They were good? :s
I took them to just be the old games but on a different, smaller map.

Yeah, especially the Spanish campaign.  It had a very different feel from vanilla MTW2.  For example, since it started in 1519, it was possible to get Spanish musketeer regiments (though you need a bunch of prerequisite buildings and they're expensive) and cannon.  Your colonial armies tend to consist of a core of elite conquistator units (both mounted and foot), maybe a musketeer unit, and then HORDES of cheap, shitty native auxiliaries.  Most of the field battles start with the natives clubbing each other to death, and then you use the Spaniards decisively to rout the weakened enemy armies.

Extremely rapid conquest of Mexico is possible since you have cannons and the natives tend to have rather primitive fortifications, but you will almost always be overwhelmingly outnumbered on every front, so it can be a bit of a challenge to deploy your elite (i.e. Spanish) forces strategically to protect your holdings, since not only are there large enemy field armies but also you tend to have lots of revolts until you start Catholicizing your conquests.

[DGuller]

IMO, Total War is made for Medieval period.  I'm still wasting most of my free time playing M2TW with Stainless Steel 6.2 beta mod.  I think this type of game doesn't work well with combat that is almost 100% ranged.

What does that mod do?

I've been playing it for so long that I don't even remember how it's different from vanilla.  I think the basic idea of the mod is to keep the historical flavor of the game unchanged, but to make it actually work well.

[Vince]

Empire TW is 50% off on Steam so I figured what the hell and bought a copy.  Worse comes to worse I can go back to playing MTW2 with Sicilian Vespers Mod.

[Caliga]

Empire TW is 50% off on Steam so I figured what the hell and bought a copy.  Worse comes to worse I can go back to playing MTW2 with Sicilian Vespers Mod.

O RLY?  I wonder how long that promo is running...

[Vince]

Empire TW is 50% off on Steam so I figured what the hell and bought a copy.  Worse comes to worse I can go back to playing MTW2 with Sicilian Vespers Mod.

O RLY?  I wonder how long that promo is running...

Weekend only.

[Ed Anger]

And Steam has a habit of ending that shit early. So if you want it Cal, I'd grab it.

[Caliga]

And Steam has a habit of ending that shit early. So if you want it Cal, I'd grab it.

Downloading now.  In eight hours ( ), I shall embark on my quest to keep the Colonies part of the Empire. 

[Syt]

And Steam has a habit of ending that shit early. So if you want it Cal, I'd grab it.

Love your sig. Bradbury's da man.

[viper37]

And Steam has a habit of ending that shit early. So if you want it Cal, I'd grab it.

Downloading now.  In eight hours ( ), I shall embark on my quest to keep the Colonies part of the Empire. 

wait for the new patch on Monday to start your game.

[Vince]

Well I see the Total War tradition of the entire world declaring war on me by turn 5 for no damn reason is still alive and well.

[viper37]

Well I see the Total War tradition of the entire world declaring war on me by turn 5 for no damn reason is still alive and well.

It wasn't like that before the last patch, and hopefully, it won't be after this one.

[Vince]

Well I just assumed everyone hated me and went to war with me because I was playing as the French.  However, another game as the Netherlands confirmed it.

That patch is being released today, right?

[MadBurgerMaker]

That patch is being released today, right?

Downloading right now for me.

[Caliga]

I finished the first Episode in the "Road to Independence" campaign yesterday.  I had to mess around with gfx settings quite a bit to get the game to run smoothly, but once it does the graphics are really nice.

The Episode was a complete joke, but I'm sure it wasn't supposed to be hard since it's essentially a tutorial.  One weird thing I kept noticing in the battles was, if I'd scroll to an area of the battlefield I wasn't earlier paying attention, alot of my regiments would be just standing there, facing AWAY from the Indians shooting arrows at them.  In such cases it seemed like I had to command them to attack several times before it 'stuck'.   At one point (in the final battle of the episode) I just gave up and ordered them to charge and fight melee, which they did do correctly.

[Caliga]

Love your sig. Bradbury's da man.

"Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time— And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel."
-Ray Bradbury, Salon.com (29 August 2001)