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but whatevs I just got Napoleon and if Medieval II is any indication I'll put at least 300 hours into it. if I can run napoleon maxed out i oughta be able to run Shogun, right?
anyway I quit my first campaign because I figured napoleon would be harder then Empire so I started as Prussia on easy
I got sieged once before I took paris, which I looted for 30k then promptly gave back to the french for a peace treaty so I could crush meckenburg and Austria
All this talk of peace, vassals, protectorates, I've never managed more than a trade route or an alliance offered by happenstance. I've only just realized that you use merchants by literally moving them on top of things like wine or fur, and I don't use priests because assassins make heretics/witches die better. Does anybody have tips for not-genocide in TW?
Also, I'm totally going to punch the pope in his stupid smug face soon. Milan and those Papal armies are all that stand in my way. I already hold the mouth of Italy and Milan the city. Going to punch him so hard. Stupid crusade calling English hating hat wearing old man.
take your best merchant and send him out to acquire foreign merchants. you get upwards of a thousand florins per acquisition and it kills the foreign merchant and increases your merchant's skill
use priests, use tons and tons of priests everywhere because the more they convert the better they get, and thus the more likely you are to have a cardinal and therefore papal influence. you also want 99-100% whatever religion you spread in conquered regions on account of happiness issues
also the ai is open to influence via gifts, you can steal generals with princesses, and extortion is totally viable
useful shit when your passing out some bayonets and fire by rank to some country on the other side of the world for industrial shit
and by the time you invade that other country you're gonna have platoon firing and better bayonets
I was all "uhh $100 I shouldn't really but I guess..." but no
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I prefer to dole out military tech to the weaker nations. France getting really powerful? Whoops how did Prussia suddenly acquire quicklime shells and reorganized procurement?
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holy crap is everything that expensive in new zealand
prussian line infantry can eat a dick
That's a pretty standard price for new software, but the price drops more rapidly than in North America. It'll be less than half that in a year. L|ama would also save $20 by using an online store.
As for expense; fuel, cars, most manufactured goods are pretty expensive. Meat, produce and activities can be more affordable.
musketeers are pretty hardy for cheapo line infantry
they do the job super good, though I only ever use them to support units of jagers/silesian skirmishers or i'll mass them to take a star fort
but they are merely fodder to ensure the preservation of my first foot guards
so they don't have any of those units, fandy.
i was fighting prussia.
Someday soon hopefully.
it was pretty hilarious to see ottoman infantry rout as soon as my gunline fired once
Been trying to get my hands on it/Empire TW Gold Edition, despite sucking beyond words at the demo for it and Empire. Just seems so much more complex than previous TW games.
In terms of depth, is it as scary as I think it is? Just seems to have a huge feature set, and even more diplomacy.
For me it was scary.
I felt overwhelmed. "How did I think I could lead a nation to war?" I thought.
I learned.
Naw, it's not so scary
The unit diversity is feh because line infantry is line infantry and the battles get boring a little faster then MII, to my mind
but at the same time there's so much goddamn content it doesn't matter and oh man naval battles
I have such a feeling of accomplishment because I punched out the world. From the Pope to Spain and a brief foray into Russia, I made Europe mine. Just sent an expedition straight to Jerusalem, sacked it, exterminated the populace and claimed victory with 50 odd regions in my domain. I was about to start pressing into Russia, maybe Greece and Northern Africa connected to Spain. The Moors had a single piece of Spain which I felt compelled to have. So, naturally, I took the entire peninsula and wiped out Spain, before surrounding that one Moorish region.
All told, the only pieces of Europe left were from Helsinki then East and South straight down (meaning Greece). I personally removed Scotland, Denmark, France, Spain, H.R.E., and Poland from the map. By rights, the Papacy should have been done as well, as far as I could tell they had no holdings left. Milan had only one island region and it's capital in Northern Africa left.
This was such a tough campaign, probably even tougher than my first attempts at Rome. Just a constant barrage from all the fractured nations of Europe, and having fronts open on all sides made for such a harsh border. Now, with Europe subdued, the Pope a warmongering Englishman voted in by corrupt English cardinals, and all my enemies in ruins, I'm setting my sights to the horizon. The New World awaits.
Also, totally ignored the Pope the entire game. I didn't even get one of my own elected until there was no other nations left to vote against me. It felt pretty good.
I think Total War might be my favourite video game franchise.
i mean the egypt campaign is about napoleon's expedition to reach the tippoo sultan in india
i would kill for a chance to bring the revolution to the unwashed savages slaving away in oriental despotisms
console games are regularly $120 to $130, PC ones are usually only up to $100. And yeah it's like $98 or something on mightyape but I wanted it then (and its 50us on steam which is about 70nz now but hhhhhehhh bandwidth)
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Going to destroy the circuit when I upgrade to a SSD package.
Not gonna happen
Alot of people are talking about their games getting corrupted, though I haven't had that happen to me personally.
Too Galactic for you.
the strategic map is kind of like civ without all the government stuff, but instead of completely idiotic dice rolls and spearmen killing abrams you do all the battles and they're the focal point
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Really it's more like civ plus
That's not an entirely accurate comparison, of course, but you do build an empire in both of them
Just finished a Prussian campaign in NTW. Sorta disappointed in how bad the AI is even though it is so much better than previous ones. I've finally graduated to VH/VH and it's still pretty hard to loose anything better than 40/60
I killed Napoleon like 3 time, 2 of them because his general unit charged my Jagers. You are a general. You should not be changing. Ever.
The other game I've been playing recently is Mount and Blade, and boy i have no idea how it would work but some sort of total war/mount and blade mix would be so awesome.
If I'm stuck on mediocre wireless networks is Shogun's multiplayer gonna crap all over me? Haven't picked it up yet and I really want to but totally shouldn't. Also a bit worn out of TW: I've beaten 4 campaigns in the past 3 months
Yellow stuff is me (Spain), the red and orange are my allies (Tlax and Tar natives, they're also allies with each other). I obliterated the Mayans and Aztecs, the Chichimecs and Apacheans are enjoying their little feud above my allies. France is also prancing around there. I'm slowly working my way West from the penninsula, but might cause friction with France. I have 24 of the needed 30 regions to win.
Problems: Alliances aren't meant to last. I wanna take the Tlax and Tar, but from previously trying, I know that'll just result in a war of attrition. 3000 man stacks will win any given war of attrition against a powerful, limited foe like myself. The English, despite being dispersed already, landed again in the Yucatan, and they're too advanced for me. They've got mortars and muskets all over the place, I barely have muskets and use almost 60 - 70% native mercs. If the damned English weren't showing up on my porch, I could take my allies down.
How can I advance against my allies/line my border to ensure they don't get aggressive, while simultaneously fending off the far superior (and surprisingly numerous) English? Also, possibly the French.
Is there any actual end to these God damned explorers? I need to concentrate on the natives, but find that the French/English are just like those bloody hordes out of Barbarian Invasion except worse. They don't have any homes, settlements, not a God damned thing, and must be expelled through force. Worst yet, they come back!
If you have enough turns left, I would suggest just holding off the fighting and build up dem armies
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you get to deal with well equipped european armies instead of swarms of easily routed natives
also if i had one wish it would be for a working copy of stainless steel, all i want for christmas.
My final act as the English was to drive the Papacy into the sea and break the gates of Jerusalem.
I was a pretty shitty Catholic.
I've been consolidating my armies, that is to say, I have about 5 armies on my allies borders, 3 armies fighting guerrilla warfare (England landed smack dab in an all jungle section of the map) and an army punching rebels up top. My allies, being natives, have massive armies and seemingly dozens of them. For some really bizarre reason, nobody is hostile with anybody. I had to provoke the Aztecs and Mayans, I even had to provoke the Apacheans and English. No one is losing armies against each other, thinning the heard, they're all just hoarding and it's getting crazy.
My border forces are pretty much all dismounted/mounted conquistadores, and really, if I wasn't dealing with the English, I could take them. The damned English, though! So many muskets. My forces can't compete and I can't replenish them fast enough. I'd be churning out muskets and handgunners, but my settlements are also very finicky. They're fine so long as I pump them with militia and +happy/order buildings, but the minute I do any other type of building (financial or military), they go bonkers. I noticed my lands are heavily unChristian, so I've stationed a priest in every single settlement, with hopes of lowering the dissent.
Whoever was behind this "no colonies, can't destroy the faction" stuff with England/France was probably the same guy responsible for hordes in Barbarian Invasion. I bet everyone at the office hates him.
Edit: Also, are there any pirate mods for Americas/Empire? I have this craving to play as a European nation against full-on pirate and privateer factions, in the Americas.