Napoleon Total War

[crazy canuck]

I knew there would be one sucker that actually bought it.   The thing that surprises me is that you would publicly admit it.

What

crap at any price is still crap.

[MadBurgerMaker]

RTW and M2TW and their expansions are worth more than $20.  Sure, ETW was/is a pile of shit, but those aren't.

[Agelastus]

RTW and M2TW and their expansions are worth more than $20.  Sure, ETW was/is a pile of shit, but those aren't.

[Ed Anger]

RTW is fun unless you bloat it up with useless mods that bloat the map and unit counts.

[MadBurgerMaker]

RTW is fun unless you bloat it up with useless mods that bloat the map and unit counts.

Yeah, that bigass map mod sucks.  I didn't think there could be such a thing as too many provinces, but that one does it.

[grumbler]

RTW is fun unless you bloat it up with useless mods that bloat the map and unit counts.

Yeah, that bigass map mod sucks.  I didn't think there could be such a thing as too many provinces, but that one does it.

Yeah, I hated the one with too many provinces, but the other one with that many provinces where is wasn't too many was great.

[Tamas]

RTW is fun unless you bloat it up with useless mods that bloat the map and unit counts.

Yeah, that bigass map mod sucks.  I didn't think there could be such a thing as too many provinces, but that one does it.

Yeah, I hated the one with too many provinces, but the other one with that many provinces where is wasn't too many was great.

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[Octavian]

RTW and M2TW and their expansions are worth more than $20.  Sure, ETW was/is a pile of shit, but those aren't.

Agreed although with the Darthmod ETW is IMO playable.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Agreed although with the Darthmod ETW is IMO playable.

Yeah it's playable, but even DarthMod can't (or couldn't, haven't used it in a while) fix all the shitty little annoyances and bugs in ETW. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Yeah, I hated the one with too many provinces, but the other one with that many provinces where is wasn't too many was great.

Hm?

[Viking]

Yes, that's why Shogun Total War was the first game in the series; featuring ninjas, it could standalone.

No, this is why Shogun Total War was the first game in the series. It was an actual game.



Also known as Samurai Swords (due to a copyright conflict with Shogun the book)


Every aspect of the STW is taken from the board game. There is no equivalent Medieval Game or Rome Game.

[Viking]

I've played Nappy Total War and it's not that bad. Two week turns and winter attrition means that you have campaigns rather than sustained pressure.

Naturally you have little A.I. resistence against you when you face them on equal or better terms. 2-1 against means I get bloodied, 3-1 against means I have to run away next battle or lose my army. But the AI is improved.

Artillery is stronger and does alot of damage, which is great, as Austria I only had two artillery in each of my armies north and south of the alps ( in the campaign game) and I was still planning disposition based on where it was best to place the guns. Skirmishers were useful, so much so that I usually deployed them in masse where the enemy would arrive one by one. Just watching a single cavalry charge 4 skirmishers with loaded guns was a chilling sight, then watching those 4 skirmishers get routed to a man when charged by 4 cavalry was even more worrying.

The drop in function sounds great, I might actually buy the game for that... Starting a battle against an equal number of Frenchies commanded by Davoudt only to have some human player drop in and kick my ass. That could be fun.

Napoleon might work great for an ACW mod. I seems to have all the mechanics ready and the weaponry seems more fitting (artillery, rifles, dragoons etc.)