Shogun 2: Total War

lucky13 · 22 Jun 2010 at 15:10

I Cannot wait for this either, I loved the first one played it with every faction.

Plus I hope they make the castles epic, I miss good sieges since empire and napoleon.

Will they include the mongols again?

Biohazard · 22 Jun 2010 at 16:33

8igdave said:
Pretty easy to get though. I found I had to make game rules to provide a challenge. For example if I play Germany and I take out Denmark and the Italian factions I will be loaded beyond belief. Move over to the British isles and I don't think I could spend all my money if I tryed. All can be acomplished with standard armys as well, or just lots of cavalry. 4/5 generals can decimate armys if used properly on their own.

Also I beleive the record for beating the game is 7 or 9 turns.

Try doing that as Scotland..

BobbyBBB · 22 Jun 2010 at 19:27

RedDanDoc said:
I'll probabley get it but I'm dissapointed that it isnt Rome 2. I'm 50+ hours into a Rome campaign right now I just love the diversity. They dropped the ball after Rome total war IMO.

MTW2 was not much different apart from the date :confused:

RedDanDoc · 22 Jun 2010 at 20:34

BobbyBBB said:
MTW2 was not much different apart from the date

I found it to be more diverse units wise and the AI was a lot more aggressive.

MumboJumbo · 22 Jun 2010 at 22:01

Biohazard said:
Try doing that as Scotland..

I have done. Scotland works differnt:

1) crush england quickly

2) Move over to denmark and watch for rusians inevitable feeble attack. If you don't take hamberg germany will likely never attack you and use a boat as a fail safe to stop germany advancing past the capital (name just escaped my head).

3) Move round take the Spanish peninsula as the ai in the game can't get onto the british isles if you put a boat in the way because they don't understand how ships work.

4) profit.

The only reason scotland is harder is because pikes are so easy to disrupt in vanilla and it takes away some really good units they could have. They also don't have the best artillery but thats trivialities in M2tw and just makes the game a bit more fun when you are blasting the poo out of your enermys before they reach you instead.

Also the fact the gme can be beten in 7 or 9 turns is just unbelievable. Basicaly you take germany and expand very aggressively then call 4 crusades to each corner of the globe. You can then take 5-7 provinces a turn pretty much. Granted it is pretty cheap. But I guess its a nice thing to just try, its not easy. You have to be very good at winning with scraps of an army.