**EMPIRE TOTAL WAR**

NoIdea said:
Anyone actually completed either campaigns yet?

I started on global domination mission first, lol. I'm up to 1780 i think.

I own the americas, carribean, and about to start on Europe.

Is there a time limit? Does the clock keep going? My criteria was world domination only.
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You have until 1799!

Playing as Britain is easy. Since the AI never launches naval invasions you will never get taken over.
 
Good game, I enjoy it, but I'm having the same trouble as with the other total war games in that the strategic elements feel very basic. Compared to the EU games, theres just nothing to it.

The battles of course, are very enjoyable. When certain strategies, like ambushes and out-flanking work, the results are a lot of fun.

Taking heavily fortified cities is still my favourite type of battle, though it can get stressful at time, like when my stupid infantry refuse to fire.
 
Subterranean said:
Good game, I enjoy it, but I'm having the same trouble as with the other total war games in that the strategic elements feel very basic. Compared to the EU games, theres just nothing to it.

The battles of course, are very enjoyable. When certain strategies, like ambushes and out-flanking work, the results are a lot of fun.

Taking heavily fortified cities is still my favourite type of battle, though it can get stressful at time, like when my stupid infantry refuse to fire.
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Always liked the concepts of the EU games, just wish they had been turn based.
 
I can't stand sieges - I much prefer field battles.

Once they patch up naval invasions (and a host of other things) then this game will step up a level in difficulty. I'm currently playing VH/VH and I'm not experiencing that much of a problem. Apart from a few wipeouts here and there, of course :D

Still enjoying my "err" moments. Yesterday I was lined up, waiting for the Spanish to attack. They marched up and stopped about 200 yards away, apart from one of their drummers, who kept on going. He stopped about 10 feet short of my firing range. Turned around, saw the rest of his troops 50 yards behind him and then ran back. Made me chuckle - I got a screenshot of the little dork :D
 
I havent had any technical troubles with the game, but for those who have, CA officials made these 2 posts yesterday.


Dear All,

I'd just like to add that we're watching all the threads reporting bugs and issues and feeding these into our own testing and patching process.
As we said recently another patch will be released early next week, which addresses several critical problems and more are planned beyond that point.

The reason we dont list every detail a patch will cover is because some problems, when investigated, turn out to require longer to fix and get moved into the next patch cycle.
Therefore we don't list ahead of time everything that will be fixed. Equally sometimes smaller issues get fixed very quickly and are included at the last minute.

Again, our thanks to those of you who are highlighting issues with politeness and patience, we're working hard not only to correct outstanding problems but to expand Empire's playability too.

Kind regards,
Kieran
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Please have faith in us. The campaign AI team are fixing invasions and other issues. The battle team is fixing fort pathfinding and naval avoidance and boarding etc. The sound team are fixing sound issues and the graphics team are fixing display issues. We've fixed the video problems. We do have a presence on these boards contrary to what has been said. I have posted a number of times.
This isn't the Medieval II team, this is the Empire team and we'll deliver patches via steam quicker than for any previous total war game. Yes we recognise steam has created it's fair share of problems for some people but one great advantage of steam is we can get fixes to you much quicker.
I can't give you a list of every fix that's been done, because I don't have a definitive list, that is forthcoming.
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smithy83 said:
been thinking about geting this heard horror storys about the bugs tho (people playing for over 100 turns but crashing everytime so they cant progress)

any major patches been out yet?
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I had something similar....the AI would get "stuck" every time at the same year on Denmark's turn....I thought it had locked the computer up, the music stopped, etc....but I went and watched TV, came back and it was at the next turn....I solved the problem by drastically reducing the size of Denmark.
 
Inazuma said:
Post it :p
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+1

Heres a shot of when my army invaded Lithuania somewere and the enemy sent there army in to kill me...ive got all there army onscreen.

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Markopolo said:
Anyone online and fancy a mp game? Just played pookie and lost horribly if it helps :P
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That was good fun - thoroughly enjoyed myself. I think it was a couple of lucky points which won me that game though. I think 2v2 and 4v4 would be fun - we should get a little team together and try some :D

Inazuma said:
Post it :p
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I just checked and I didn't have Fraps on :(
I shall keep a close eye on further battles, see if I can catch it again :D
 
I'm really not sure what I should be researching to best serve my Empire, I'm only 11 years into the short campaign, so definitely in need of some guidance.
 
Squark said:
I'm really not sure what I should be researching to best serve my Empire, I'm only 11 years into the short campaign, so definitely in need of some guidance.
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Well for military techs you want Ring Bayonet and Rank Fire as soon as possible, they are a must.
 
im so new to thsi game its my first TW game im taking seriously altho i find it so hard to have the paitence for games like this.

Any tips for an absolute beginner?
 
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