Empire Total War Question
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Started playing this again thanks to this thread 
Went with Britain (obviously) with the difficulty settings on medium but found that it was too easy once you secured most of the Americas. Started a new Late Campaign with America on Hard so i'll see how that plays out.
Installed a big additional units mod for Darthmod but it's actually kind of annoying because there's almost too much choice.
Went with Britain (obviously) with the difficulty settings on medium but found that it was too easy once you secured most of the Americas. Started a new Late Campaign with America on Hard so i'll see how that plays out.
Installed a big additional units mod for Darthmod but it's actually kind of annoying because there's almost too much choice.
I think any of the modes are easy once you break the back of it with a faction, same with all TW games the difficulty is only in getting solidly established and pretty much the whole series when you get on top you inevitably snowball.
I couldn't get past turn 1 without falling asleep , 5 turns in I gave up :/
I love this dearly and have been playing a lot of darthmod recently. The biggest problem i have is crashes during AI turns. It always happens when im 80-110 turns into a world domination game which then knackers the game and i cant continue.
It always seems to happen when i install a friendly country such as prussia into the US to help me out. Seeing is that isnt historically accurate the game has a fit when i hit a certain year.
It always seems to happen when i install a friendly country such as prussia into the US to help me out. Seeing is that isnt historically accurate the game has a fit when i hit a certain year.
Well I've discovered a slight problem with the 4 turn mod. I've "won" in that I've locked down the victory conditions. Nothing left in the world that isn't British/Austrian/Poland/Russian owned and we are in one big alliance.
So I've now got about 180 turns of nothing until 1799
So I've now got about 180 turns of nothing until 1799
But they're my allies
We carved the map up between us. I own Americas/India and a little of North Africa/Italian states to secure victory, Poland owns Northern & Western Europe, Austria Sourhern and Eastern Europe with Turkey area then Russia holds their old heart land and Scandanavia. We've been in alliance for about 100 or more turns now. Would feel bad betraying them
We carved the map up between us. I own Americas/India and a little of North Africa/Italian states to secure victory, Poland owns Northern & Western Europe, Austria Sourhern and Eastern Europe with Turkey area then Russia holds their old heart land and Scandanavia. We've been in alliance for about 100 or more turns now. Would feel bad betraying them
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Its a shame that Napoleon TW was a bit of a let down. It should have been so much better on the scale of ETW.
I put 900 hrs into Empire and loved it. However its unfortunately got a seriously flawed grand campaign that has both Save breaking issues and crashing issues. You might also find for example that the pirates late game will cause crashing, due to provinces they take in the Southern Americas. Darthmod can add to campaign issues unfortunately due to the size of armies it can cause, which again after many turns can cause ai crashes. then theres the siege battle issues, which can be worked around with no fort mods.
But all in all its a classic flawed diamond and at some point you'll realize Napoleon may be the better option. Despite losing the far better campaign scale, it also avoids siege battles by default and doesn't have game breaking campaign bugs. CA are a bizarre developer in many ways and very capable of releasing games you can end up loving and hating in equal measure.
But all in all its a classic flawed diamond and at some point you'll realize Napoleon may be the better option. Despite losing the far better campaign scale, it also avoids siege battles by default and doesn't have game breaking campaign bugs. CA are a bizarre developer in many ways and very capable of releasing games you can end up loving and hating in equal measure.
Well my grand coalition is being picked apart, Russia the weakest of the bunch was kicked by Austria and Poland so far be it for me to miss an opportunity i steamed in and took two thirds of their territory whilst Poland/Austria land grabbed too.
Still 100 turns left, if they go for it I'm taking Austrias side as Poland is too near my front door!
Still 100 turns left, if they go for it I'm taking Austrias side as Poland is too near my front door!
To be fair I have around 1.5 million gold sitting unspent and I make about 100k a turn so I could probably field monster stacks and destroy them quickly, just being cautious as they can attack me on every front. All my veterans are accumulated in Russuan territory as well so my western and southern armies would be a bit weak.
I'll let them make the first move and steam in!
I'll let them make the first move and steam in!
Well finished my campaign, my grand coalition fell apart but luckily Austria came down on my side instead of against. Brutal war with Poland lasting about 60-80 turns (15-20 years with the game mod) after initial quick gains in sure the computer was cheating as with about 15 territories in Central Europe/North Africa they were churning out mega stacks non stop. Eventually broke them when they actually snuck attack my army locking down France. 4.5k of them vs 1.2k of mine, I lost and my army was wiped out but I took out around 3.7k of them in the process, snatched 3 territories they diverted troops away from Italy to shore up and I took Italy and that was that. Final battle was in Algiers they had 6k against 10k of mine, monster battle I then declared war on Austria and crushed them swiftly.
Loved the game, will replay again at some point. Few minor frustrations I hate when you fight huge battles on the battle map (like the last battle in Algiers) and instead of all troops on the map it drip feeds them in when units die to keep overall numbers down. On old TW games everyone would be on the map at once I liked the 4 turn per year mod but found it slow at the end, I had 40 years with no enemies just clicking continue, was irritating
Great game though, never played through Shogun 2 so that's next!
I then declared war on Austria and crushed them swiftly.Loved the game, will replay again at some point. Few minor frustrations I hate when you fight huge battles on the battle map (like the last battle in Algiers) and instead of all troops on the map it drip feeds them in when units die to keep overall numbers down. On old TW games everyone would be on the map at once
I liked the 4 turn per year mod but found it slow at the end, I had 40 years with no enemies just clicking continue, was irritating Great game though, never played through Shogun 2 so that's next!