Empire Total War, Again

[Razgovory]

When I downloaded an AI patch Medieval total war was fun.  Though even with out the battles were still nifty.

To play Empire Total war and try to conquer the world as the Americans would be kinda neat though.  American Marines sack London!

[Faeelin]

When I downloaded an AI patch Medieval total war was fun.  Though even with out the battles were still nifty.

To play Empire Total war and try to conquer the world as the Americans would be kinda neat though.  American Marines sack London!

Already done it.

[Agelastus]

I disliked Shogun because I didn't know what any of the provinces were or who the factions were.

Just play the Takeda. They are the cool ones. Takeda Shigen is the coolest of them all.

I preferred playing the Uesugi myself...CRUSHING those Takeda scum.

[Razgovory]

When I downloaded an AI patch Medieval total war was fun.  Though even with out the battles were still nifty.

To play Empire Total war and try to conquer the world as the Americans would be kinda neat though.  American Marines sack London!

Already done it.

That's it I'm getting it.

[Cecil]

I disliked Shogun because I didn't know what any of the provinces were or who the factions were.

Just play the Takeda. They are the cool ones. Takeda Shigen is the coolest of them all.

I preferred playing the Uesugi myself...CRUSHING those Takeda scum.

Playing Uesugi is like playing on tutorial difficulty. Its virtually impossible to loose.

[Caliga]

I don't remember the names/locales of the factions but I used to like to play Shogun as the southernmost faction (i.e. occupied Kyushu) and sweep northward.

[Cecil]

I don't remember the names/locales of the factions but I used to like to play Shogun as the southernmost faction (i.e. occupied Kyushu) and sweep northward.

That would be Shimazu IIRC. They have it fairly easy as well since their lands has a very limited access and their enemy to the north Imagawa has split lands which is always a lot more difficult to play with. On the other hand their special unit is somewhat hard to get at times since its basically random and their starting lands are rather poor. Uesugi has probably the richest lands and are easy to defend and 2 of their 3 enemies has split lands and is easy to walk all over. The third being Hojo is usally very passive and spends most of their time defending against Takeda.

[Tamas]

Has anyone tried the 1.04 patch?

[Agelastus]

I disliked Shogun because I didn't know what any of the provinces were or who the factions were.

Just play the Takeda. They are the cool ones. Takeda Shigen is the coolest of them all.

I preferred playing the Uesugi myself...CRUSHING those Takeda scum.

Playing Uesugi is like playing on tutorial difficulty. Its virtually impossible to loose.

The AI manages it quite easily, even when only facing the AI. If the Uesugi lose Shinano (?) to the Takeda as the AI they are toast.

The easiest faction is the Hojo, in my opinion.

[Drakken]

The easiest faction is whoever gets the Geisha unit first.

[Cecil]

I disliked Shogun because I didn't know what any of the provinces were or who the factions were.

Just play the Takeda. They are the cool ones. Takeda Shigen is the coolest of them all.

I preferred playing the Uesugi myself...CRUSHING those Takeda scum.

Playing Uesugi is like playing on tutorial difficulty. Its virtually impossible to loose.

The AI manages it quite easily, even when only facing the AI. If the Uesugi lose Shinano (?) to the Takeda as the AI they are toast.

The easiest faction is the Hojo, in my opinion.

The AI is pretty funny. They usually play Imagawa and Oda well and the rest like complete shite. Hojo is easy to play but the AI never makes it. And the Shinano thing is only because its some armymagnet located there, Imagawa has a tendency to grab the province as well.

[Faeelin]

So, despite its many, many flaws, ETW broke ground by having naval combat and trade theaters.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Creative's first expansion for the game will focus on North American Indian wars.

[Cecil]

So, despite its many, many flaws, ETW broke ground by having naval combat and trade theaters.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Creative's first expansion for the game will focus on North American Indian wars.

[Tamas]

WTF is the Indian (as in, India) faction doing invading the Bahamas?

So on the market of historical strategy, we have:
-CA, who do not know what the word means
-Paradox, who are throwing darts on the board (EU3 Complete vs. HOI3)
-Calvinus, one of Thibaut's developers who gets everything right except for the interfaces and thus bogs down otherwise faboulous games (Great Invasions, WW1)

[Syt]

After patching today trying to launch the game results in a CTD. And I honestly can't be bothered to do a reinstall.