SUBSIM's totally awesome Empire: Total War thread

[Raptor1]

I've just been playing as Britain and managed to secure Denmark, the Netherlands and a part of America but every time I click research now, it brings up a white screen and crashes :cry::cry::cry:

Well, you can't expect a game to be bug-free a month after it's released these days...

[Biggles]

Well, you can't expect a game to be bug-free a month after it's released these days...



Yet you could years ago...oh the times change...

[HunterICX]

Yet you could years ago...oh the times change...

that goes for everything nowadays.
Drivers, OS, Games.

HunterICX

[Captain Vlad]

But the Marathas get those incredibly painful 64pdr siege guns, do they not?

Yes. Yes they do.:DL

Hey, does anyone know if you fail your campaign objectives, if you can keep playing. I have 20 more years, but I'm in a situation where I actually don't WANT to declare war on Sweden and Poland. Do you just get a failure screen and off you go, but if so, I'll probably continue to be friendly to my Slavic and Scandanavian buddies.

[Castout]

AAaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgh you guys are driving me insane I'm still waiting for the game here........:damn:

[fatty]

Guys, I have hit a wall here. I recently discovered that Empire drops saved games on your C: drive. My C: partition is very small and with a couple dozen saved games at nearly 100mb a piece, I wanted to get rid of some and so I went to the folder and deleted all but my most recent autosave and named save.

Now, the saves are not showing up in game to load! The continue campaign button is greyed out too. If I start a new campaign I can save and reload from that fine, but the other saves are still missing.

How do I make my saves show up in-game?

[HunterICX]

Did I just underestimate the Native American tribes :damn:

I think playing as the British it made me a bit cocky about those natives :D
''Now worry Sah, It shall be a sound victory without any dificulties''

for the 1600 indians I payed aprox 1200 men iirc :dead:(have screenshot at home)
lucky after the victory many units where still intact so I could reinforce them to full strenght.

Next I attacked their town which was now poorly defended.

meanwhile on the sea I'm doing very good, sinking french ships.

United Provinces broken alliances and noticed that they have big fleets around my isle so I've to keep a good eye on those.

An Army of mine has finally arrive in Austria to help them with the war against Poland-Lithuania.

HunterICX

[papa_smurf]

Things going well in my Swedish campaign. The invasion of Poland-Lithuania is gathering pace, as im poised to take Warsaw, and so far Russia has stayed on my side, but this will all change. For once im done with Poland-Lithuania, my next target will be Russia, specifically the Crimea Peninsula so I can get a direct trade route to the Ottoman Empire (which I hope to ally with once declarign war with Russia).
Other ambitious plans include; setting up in the carribean, invasion of France (not for some time as its only 1710), and maybe even India.

[Oberon]

Did I just underestimate the Native American tribes :damn:

I think playing as the British it made me a bit cocky about those natives :D
''Now worry Sah, It shall be a sound victory without any dificulties''


HunterICX

We Brits do seem to have a knack of underestimating the enemy...

Isandlwana springs to mind... :hmmm:

But then again, sometimes the enemy underestimates us :yeah::salute:

[HunterICX]

We Brits do seem to have a knack of underestimating the enemy...


Well....in my case I learned my lesson :shucks:

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4115/uo0020r.jpg

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4005/uo0021i.jpg

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/149/uo0022t.jpg

Now the things where going down hill...

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9412/uo0023.jpg

the last stand?!

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/599/uo0024.jpg

lucky this group recovered and fought back:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/884/uo0025.jpg

Bow's versus Musket:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6290/uo0026q.jpg

the enemy was at their limit too, after a few volley they sounded the retreat only their chief remained:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5831/uo0027j.jpg

bayonets!

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3803/uo0031v.jpg

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9123/uo0032.jpg

HunterICX

[Max2147]

Talk about a bloody battle!

[Captain Birdseye]

I managed to recover my campaign.

This afternoon I conquered the Brussels and the Rhineland using Churchill's war hardened first army, supported by his second shock army :DL

The Spanish didn't know what hit them, they had 5 units facing 12 of mine, they were routing all over the place until a hard core of Spanish troops were holed up inside a building, my pikemen stormed the building and Brussels was mine.

The Swedish are giving my a bit of jip in the East, raiding a lot of my trade routes, maybe if I take Scandinavia off them they might see sense. I just have to wait for my navy to return from the Caribbean on Pirate hunting duties :)

[Lzs von swe]

Guys, I have hit a wall here. I recently discovered that Empire drops saved games on your C: drive. My C: partition is very small and with a couple dozen saved games at nearly 100mb a piece, I wanted to get rid of some and so I went to the folder and deleted all but my most recent autosave and named save.

Now, the saves are not showing up in game to load! The continue campaign button is greyed out too. If I start a new campaign I can save and reload from that fine, but the other saves are still missing.

How do I make my saves show up in-game?


I think you have to let the auto_save.empire_save stay in the folder.
And yes, 10 saves is over 1Gb Hd space. I think the readme in one of the patches mentioned that they had put a limit on number of saves, at 1000...

[mr chris]

In the big patch that is coming soon they have stated that the is going to be a delete save game button in the main menu. :DL
Which is nice i just hope they sort out the sound issues the random crashes and the issue of having to to play with no AA with my ATI card so as to make the battles load.:damn::damn:

[fatty]

I think you have to let the auto_save.empire_save stay in the folder.
And yes, 10 saves is over 1Gb Hd space. I think the readme in one of the patches mentioned that they had put a limit on number of saves, at 1000...

auto_save.empire_save is still in the folder; in fact, that's the only save I left behind. When I start Empire now, it just isn't there.

What I may try to do is rename that autosave, then play a new campaign a bit to generate a new autosave, and see if I can swap the file names back and fool it into accepting my old save.

[fatty]

This has got to be the most bizarre behaviour in any game I have ever played.

I start out with auto_save.empire_save created from playing one turn in a regular campaign and fatty.empire_save which was my last auto_save from my campaign.

I check and make sure auto_save is in the save list in the game. I back out to the game's main menu and alt-tab. I delete auto_save.empire_save and rename fatty.empire_save to auto_save.empire_save. I go back to the game and go to the load game menu. The auto_save has disappeared.

Anyone got any ideas before I have to restart my campaign and lose a week's worth of playing?

[HunterICX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2rglw-nhk

a little movie I made trying it out
playing a battle as the Russians against Poland-lithuania

just need to figure out how to remove the last 2 things

-The unit info box
-the advisor thing (top left)

HunterICX

[mr chris]

Great video Hunter.

Am still having sound issues and have to play with no AA enabled. But this pic still looks kinda cool.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/MrChris99/UO0013.jpg

[nikimcbee]

I haven't played all week.:o I love the fire by rank! I wish you could volley fire on command like in Coosacks 2. I've totally broken up several attacks with well timed volleys!:arrgh!:

[nikimcbee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2rglw-nhk

a little movie I made trying it out
playing a battle as the Russians against Poland-lithuania

just need to figure out how to remove the last 2 things

-The unit info box
-the advisor thing (top left)

HunterICX

The trade off is that you are stuck with the SH red triangle!:haha::/\\k:

[nikimcbee]

Here's a screenshot of the gallant and famous "Flying McBee Artillery."

http://img511.imageshack.us/edit_preview.php?l=img511/1337/scan0001g.jpg&action=rotate&degree=-90&r=0.3640581032004972

[HunterICX]

:o Hey! don't point that thing at me!

HunterICX

[stabiz]

:o Hey! don't point that thing at me!

HunterICX

Sounds like my ex girlfriend!:woot:

[Biggles]

Sounds like my ex girlfriend!:woot:

You could've just said "That's what she said", and it'd be just as funny, but with a familiar touch:O::haha::har:

[nikimcbee]

:o Hey! don't point that thing at me!

HunterICX
You don't want to kiss the gunner's daughter?:haha:

I tried the "puckle gun" for the first time. I had low expectations for it. It worked great, except it was friendly fire!:stare: I couldn't get my guys out of the way fast enough.:shifty: i thought it was going to be a short range weapon. It's not.

[HunterICX]

You don't want to kiss the gunner's daughter?:haha:


I think it will blow my mind :D

HunterICX

[Captain Birdseye]

Guys, I have researched fire by rank, but a lot of the time, my militia never do. Same with some heavy infantry. Although they are firing at will.

Do you know how to solve this?

Also, when's this patch out? I can't save ETW again til it's out!

[Raptor1]

Err...*cough* *cough*

Militia, by definition, is an undisciplined group of men who are practically useless on the battlefield except when one needs to draft every man that can hold a musket into an army, and will as such, never fire by rank

Your line infantry will use fire by rank, light infantry will skirmishing tactics and generally fire at will IIRC

Define "heavy infantry", please

[nikimcbee]

Guys, I have researched fire by rank, but a lot of the time, my militia never do. Same with some heavy infantry. Although they are firing at will.

Do you know how to solve this?

Also, when's this patch out? I can't save ETW again til it's out!

I'm guessing that the quality of a miltia member isn't up to fire by rank. That would be cool if the experenced troops did, but the green troops did not. That's just a guess though.

[nikimcbee]

Err...*cough* *cough*



Define "heavy infantry", please

The over weight ones:haha:. Need more drill and marching time; burn fat.:haha:

[Raptor1]

I'm guessing that the quality of a miltia member isn't up to fire by rank. That would be cool if the experenced troops did, but the green troops did not. That's just a guess though.

No, militia can't fire by rank, ever

[nikimcbee]

No, militia can't fire by rank, ever
They do excel at panicing and retreating though:haha:. Just ask the the 550 Armed citizen militia that went up against my 80 (4 regiments) of cav. They couldn't scatter and run fast enough.:D

[Raptor1]

"No, sir, the enemy cannot break our lines, we have no lines"

The only militia regiment that actually justifies the food rations you give it to leave the city is the American Minutemen unit, they seemed quite painful in the few times I encountered and used them

[nikimcbee]

I love the long rifleman (US) They make awesome skirmishers to slow up infantry and cav for my arty to rip them apart.:yeah:

[nikimcbee]

On a side note, It would be soooooooo cool if they did a Civil War version of this.:hmmm::yeah: For the key cities, they could use the actual CW maps. Especially if they had the seige guns that protected the forts and rivers.

[Raptor1]

I'm hoping for a Victorian-era expansion or total conversion mod

Maybe from the start of the Belgian Revolution to the end of the 19th century (Including what the game allows of the 1848 Revolutions, Austro-Prussian War, American Civil War, Italian unification, formation of the German Empire...)

[nikimcbee]

I'm hoping for a Victorian-era expansion or total conversion mod

Maybe from the start of the Belgian Revolution to the end of the 19th century (Including what the game allows of the 1848 Revolutions, Austro-Prussian War, American Civil War, Italian unification, formation of the German Empire...)

That's a lot of uniforms to make! I'd pay for that expansion. Crimean War would be cool to.

[Franklin Van Valkenburg]

Why is the War of 1812 always the forgotten war? :-?
I'd start in 1800 and go to 1899... gets the Napoleonic fans their Trafalgars and Waterloos and the Victorian fans their Gettysburgs and Rorke's Drifts... :D

[iambecomelife]

On a side note, It would be soooooooo cool if they did a Civil War version of this.:hmmm::yeah: For the key cities, they could use the actual CW maps. Especially if they had the seige guns that protected the forts and rivers.

Your wish is my command:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=242448

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/Caesar84/union2.jpg

Also take a look at the World War I: Total War mod sub-forum (shameless plug for yours truly). Now that there are real-time naval battles there are some interesting possibilities for dreadnought/battlecruiser lovers...:arrgh!:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=227939

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/Untitled-11-8.jpg

Oh, and there is also a Victorian-era mod being worked on too!

[Raptor1]

Eh, the Napoleonic wars should be kept completely seperate in my opinion, the whole situation there is completely different (In fact, they should have added 1800-1815 into the existing campaign, no idea why they didn't)

I think they should do 2 seperate expansions, like they did for RTW, a Victorian era one (as BI was for RTW) and a Napoleonic Wars addon (as the Alexander campaign was for RTW)

[nikimcbee]

Your wish is my command:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=242448

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/Caesar84/union2.jpg

Also take a look at the World War I: Total War mod sub-forum (shameless plug for yours truly). Now that there are real-time naval battles there are some interesting possibilities for dreadnought/battlecruiser lovers...:arrgh!:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=227939

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/iambecomelife/Untitled-11-8.jpg

Oh, and there is also a Victorian-era mod being worked on too!


You da man!:yeah: That's totally cool! And I still have 2 wishes left!:hmmm::D

Your dreadnought looks great.:up:

[A Very Super Market]

Nah, militia is fine in the early game. I think the useless ones you are talking about are the "Armed Citizeny" that spawn when you attack in cities. The militia that can be trained in regular cities are okay, but they sure aren't line infantry.

[Raptor1]

Militia can survive at firing range until someone has fire by rank, then they get mowed down way too easily to be of any real use (Other than the usual town watch, that is)

[HunterICX]

Militia are fine for little defence duties, I always carry 1 unit of Militia to defend the rear of my cannons if Cavalry sneaks behind it unnoticed so I can hold them off for a bit till my own cavalry or Line infantry takes the fight over.

HunterICX

[papa_smurf]

Militia are fine for little defence duties, I always carry 1 unit of Militia to defend the rear of my cannons if Cavalry sneaks behind it unnoticed so I can hold them off for a bit till my own cavalry or Line infantry takes the fight over.

I've started to do that, due to pesky Polish cav getting my artillery. Sooner I get puckle guns, that better:D

[Captain Birdseye]

Thanks for that guys, I had been using them alot to make up numbers, but i've replaced all of them bar unit with proper line infantry. Using them for re-reinforcements now :)

When I click on an enemy city, you can obviously see the gold bars representing the number of units in the city, but what do the silver ones mean? i'm about to invade Vienna but am unsure on what this actually means...

[A Very Super Market]

That is the number of "Armed Citizenry" units that will pop up when you besiege the town. Naturally, there are more of them in a faction's capital, but they are pretty useless at fighting. You can steamroll them with provincial cavalry, easy.

[fatty]

I think they represent the citizenry that will join the battle if you assault the city i.e. in the form of 'armed mob' units. The gold bars are the regular garrison forces.

Edit: damn too slow.

[A Very Super Market]

Too busy playing chess with Skybird, eh? :D

[mr chris]

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/MrChris99/UO0019.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9148/uo0017.jpg

[Oberon]

A Victorian era mod...mmmmm :yeah:
Red Shirts fighting it out with Boers and Zulus, Dreadnaughts and Rams cutting through the High Seas, their cannons flashing with fire.

Yummy :D

Still...I have to get a rig to play the bloody thing first!! :damn:

Anyone got the winning numbers for this weeks lottery? :hmmm:

[Raptor1]

The Victorian era was sadly overlooked in games (as was the Great War), I hope that the mod turns out well

[HunterICX]

they should have started with the 17th century (Pikes&Muskets)
then a expansion for the 18th century (current ETW)
and another expansion for the 19th century (Victorian)

if it would be done properly it could be a better game.

HunterICX

[papa_smurf]

I was thinking that for a possible expansion could cover the period form 1800 to 1890. This would then include major campaigns seperately, like in M:TW - Kingdoms. So for example you could have:
- Napoleonic War (including Spanish peninsula war)
- Crimean War
- Franco/Prussian war
- US Civil War

Sound like a good idea?

[HunterICX]

Ok, natives intercepted my army...ok

but this....

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7029/trapx.jpg

:o

the battle started off without Deploy.
I had to get the hell out of there to higher ground, turn around and face them...but damn..beeing ambushed from both side just of the start really startled me

HunterICX

[nikimcbee]

Nice one hunter! I died laughing when I saw this.:up: I don't have the Admiral Akhbar advisor turned on.:haha:

[Raptor1]

REVOLUTION!

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8452/revb.jpg

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

REVOLUTION!

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8452/revb.jpg
Lang heiliges Lebhaftdeutschland!!!!

[HunterICX]

REVOLUTION!

Slaughter the Royal family!
Lie about the intend of the revolution, say its for the people!
Make sure you erase Capitalism!
Kill al counterrevolutionaries!
Make sure every little bit of suspicious activity (or make them up) by the people is enough to send to the camps as Enemy of the People or revolution!

wait.....:oops:

wrong revolution....:damn:

HunterICX

[Castout]

Hmm just tried to play the game for a few hours.

The gameplay feel of the battle is much different than in Medieval 2 thanks to ranged weapon.

The sea battles are tedious.

And some bugs...most notable the changing sound volume in game.
And a few others like floating dead body and floating flag setting which somehow always reverted back to always.

No crashes so far.

Performance is good on par with medieval 2 I believe.

Somehow I think I like medieval 2 better when I first got it and tried it.

[Lzs von swe]

Ok, natives intercepted my army...ok

but this....http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7029/trapx.jpg

:o

the battle started off without Deploy.
I had to get the hell out of there to higher ground, turn around and face them...but damn..beeing ambushed from both side just of the start really startled me

HunterICX

Yes, I´ve had this happen too. I was getting myself a cup of coffee in the kitchen, expecting the deployment phase, when I heard the cries of my soldiers...

[Captain Vlad]

Observation: Sending a guy in a cloak, tricorn hat, cloak, powdered wig and a leather domino mask to kill a holy man seems sort of...

...perverse.:hmmm:

[Castout]

Observation: Sending a guy in a cloak, tricorn hat, cloak, powdered wig and a leather domino mask to kill a holy man seems sort of...

...perverse.:hmmm:

Where's the assassination clip? It was a let down when no clip appeared!

Btw

I was experiencing disappearing sound in ETW battles to a pretty annoying level. Sometimes the volume sounded as if they had been muted and in the next moment it sounded too loud to be comfortable with.

It turns out that I had to disable Steam community in game option.
This can be set through steam interface and now there's no more disappearing and volume changing sound in battles!

[HunterICX]

It turns out that I had to disable Steam community in game option.
This can be set through steam interface and now there's no more disappearing and volume changing sound in battles!

:o I have to try this!
I've the same problem, sometimes the sounds don't play when cannons are firing and 15 seconds later I hear all of them going off.

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

:o I have to try this!
I've the same problem, sometimes the sounds don't play when cannons are firing and 15 seconds later I hear all of them going off.

HunterICX

just tried it, didn't solve my sound issue...too bad:-?
let's hope the next update fixes it.

HunterICX

[mengle]

http://www.9lives.be/games/empire-total-war/nieuws/grootse-empire-total-war-patch-onderweg
happy now :03:

[Raptor1]

http://www.9lives.be/games/empire-total-war/nieuws/grootse-empire-total-war-patch-onderweg
happy now :03:

Translation to normalspeak?

[stabiz]

Big patch coming.;)

[HunterICX]

Big patch coming.;)

releasing today (28/04) :yeah:

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Good, good, I got the sense that there is a big patch coming from the Belgspeak, but good to know it's today

[Task Force]

(its not today here.):yep: Its only 8:08.

[Raptor1]

(its not today here.):yep: Its only 8:08.

Fine, you are the only one that will have to wait longer to get it then :O:

[mr chris]

Another day to wait guys.

Taken from a post at the total war centre.

April 28th

I have to start this one by saying 'and this is why we don't normally put dates on things'.

The patch will now go live tomorrow (29/4/09), rather than today as there have been some last minute technical issues to do with distribution. I should stress the patch itself has been through the CA, SEGA and external Beta group test phases and has done well, so we don't expect any hitches with the code itself. That said we're unable to bring it you this evening due to a technical problem with uploading/distribution.

My apologies to those of you who have cancelled appointments/meetings/dates/operations/weddings as a result of this change, this upgrade will make a genuine difference to the way Empire plays and of course address it's stability issues.

Kind regards,
Kieran

[Arclight]

My apologies to those of you who have cancelled appointments/meetings/dates/operations/weddings as a result of this change, this upgrade will make a genuine difference to the way Empire plays and of course address it's stability issues.At least they're staying modest. :haha:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

http://www.9lives.be/games/empire-total-war/nieuws/grootse-empire-total-war-patch-onderweg
happy now :03:
For those of you who don't understand Dutch.

For owners of Empire: Total War tomorrow new patch for the game will be put available. In sum one worked more than seventy bugs whereas the gameplay a package tweaks underwent to approach to the wishes of the gamers. Plaster himself had normally last week on exactly must to stand, but Creative Ensembly decided build in delay on the nippertje some days to carry out more tests. Thanks to new behaviour ruts and the improved user interface also the sea fightings now a package more dynamically gone. The patch implement still the possibility of carrying out invasions by means of sea. Toch technology at present relative young is and such strategies fairly scarce will be. Possibly rising patch conduct more improvements so that the AI improves here on react and anticipate. For the multiplayer finally we can expect ourselves also to necessary subtle improvements.

With the exception that it will be out on wendesday.:shifty: (Note I used Yahoo Babel Fish to translate this, so the english isn't perfect.)

[Biggles]

At least they're staying modest. :haha:

Knowing the type of gaming freaks out there, I'm almost certain someone held up their wedding for this.:woot:

[mengle]

For those of you who don't understand Dutch.

For owners of Empire: Total War tomorrow new patch for the game will be put available. In sum one worked more than seventy bugs whereas the gameplay a package tweaks underwent to approach to the wishes of the gamers. Plaster himself had normally last week on exactly must to stand, but Creative Ensembly decided build in delay on the nippertje some days to carry out more tests. Thanks to new behaviour ruts and the improved user interface also the sea fightings now a package more dynamically gone. The patch implement still the possibility of carrying out invasions by means of sea. Toch technology at present relative young is and such strategies fairly scarce will be. Possibly rising patch conduct more improvements so that the AI improves here on react and anticipate. For the multiplayer finally we can expect ourselves also to necessary subtle improvements.

With the exception that it will be out on wendesday.:shifty: (Note I used Yahoo Babel Fish to translate this, so the english isn't perfect.)

thanks mate :yeah:
i was hoping that Hunter would do the translation instead of me :haha:

[Task Force]

Woot! just got this game today!:D and I got it right on time to get the patch tomorrow.:yeah:

[Arclight]

Knowing the type of gaming freaks out there, I'm almost certain someone held up their wedding for this.:woot::rotfl:

"I'm sorry honey, but I just can't marry you untill I slaugthered those damn rebels."
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/EZatHome/quit1-1.gif

[Castout]

Will you xxxxxxx, King of France take Princess yyyyyyy as your beloved queen . . . . .

:hmmm: . . . .


And so everytime they quarreled they would solve it through ETW LAN battles.....

#$#$@@^ Take that jerk!

&%$$##$ don't give me attitude eat this! (artillery coming)

When the hubby cell's rang he took it up and briefly said "I'm beating my wife call you later!"

[Raptor1]

The Empire of Austria objects to this marriage!

[Castout]

The Empire of Austria objects to this marriage!

Bah just send them state gift :shucks: if that doesn't please them just send them my entire army :woot:.

[Raptor1]

Achtung, Royalists, the patch is OUT, and the patch notes are...LONG! :salute:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Can someone post the link?

[Raptor1]

Can someone post the link?

AAAAAHHH!

SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHU...

...whoops, sorry...

No, there isn't a link because the patches have to come through Steam

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

NO NOT STEAM!!!:down:

[stabiz]

Then you are borked, I`m afraid. How do you even play the game without steam?

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Then you are borked, I`m afraid. How do you even play the game without steam? I was just joking I have steam but I'm not every fond of using it is what I ment.

[Castout]

Achtung, Royalists, the patch is OUT, and the patch notes are...LONG! :salute:

Patch notes where to find that?

[A Very Super Market]

Hi guys,

Update 3 for Empire: Total War will be available to download later tonight. In the mean time, below is a list of all the major fixes included with the release.

Many thanks,

Mark O'Connell
(aka SenseiTW)

CRASH FIXES
- Fixed crash when disbanding generals unit.
- Fix for crash on trying to merge ships from port into ships next to port.
- Fixed rare crash relating to boarding.
- Fixed crash to do with reinforcing armies.
- Fixed crash on revolution video attempting to play.
- Fixed crash for double clicking on sinking ship on campaign map.
- Fix for crash on merging units but moving into fort before army arrives.
- Fixed several crashes related to rakes.
- Fixed crashes relating to battles when running Czech or German versions of the game.
- Fixed crash on moving army into region of faction player has military access and then cancelling military access.
- Fixed crash on trying to exchange ships between 2 fleets.
- Fixed crash on spamming move orders to puckle guns locked in melee combat.
- Fixed hard lock on inviting host to their own MP game.
- Fix to prevent loading of mod causing crash post patch.
- Various end turn crash bugs fixed.
- Fixes to crash bugs relating to completion of revolutions.
- Some fixes relating to merging and disbanding.
- Fix for several crashes in land battles.
- Several crashes relating to attacking cities fixed.
- Several load save game crashes fixed.

CAMPAIGN
- Armies now placed correctly on battlefields in relation to campaign.
- Fix for nearby ships sometimes not being included as reinforcements for battles.
- Fix for incorrect numbers sometimes showing on trade routes.
- Units with limits on how many can be recruited now show how many are available.
- Various fixes relating to rakes and infiltrating.
- Fixes relating to problems moving armies/merging into army's right next to settlements.
- Various trade bug fixes.
- Fix for moving agent from settlement moving army instead of agent.
- Fix for several bugs relating to military access and armies being in regions.
- Fix for tattered flags appearing on fleet/armies even when at full strength/fully repaired.
- Fix for sallying out armies breaking siege at times even when losing the battle.
- Fix for bugs relating to capturing ships on returning to campaign map from naval battle.

LAND BATTLE
- Improvements to path finding have been made.
- Some fixes to units not garrisoning buildings.
- Fort gate ownership made clearer with faction flags appearing at the gatehouse.
- Fix for problem relating to artillery unlimbering after being ordered to limber.
- Fix for puckle guns moving on their own in some circumstances.
- Fix for big slowdown in unit movement on some battle maps in the Road to Independence episodes.
- Fix for missile cavalry not reloading when out of combat.
- Jaegers now have muskets instead of incorrect rifles, Prussian Jaegers keep rifles.
- Quebec episodic land battle fixed ground type in deployment area
- Fix for unrealistic numbers when ending a land battle by quitting on the battle results screen.

NAVAL BATTLE
- Several fixes for ships clipping into each other.
- Improvements to boarding have been made. Crew is more fluid in attack and more resolute in defence. Men survive long fall and officers join in the boarding attack.
- Crew uniforms improved to make identification of the crew type and faction easier.
- Defending ship is not allowed to fire cannons anymore during boarding procedure.
- Improved naval grouping UI and group movement made.
- Improvements made to ship collisions to reduce chance of ships getting stuck.
- Fix for sail damage not being shown when volumetric effects turned on.

MULTIPLAYER
- Various fixes for joining games/game lobby issues.
- Fixes for problems relating to spectators being kicked/locking up on other players joining games in certain instances.
- Long riflemen and winged hussars removed from early era battles.
- Fix for insufficient funds always showing on unit cards even when enough money is available.
- Player name is now displayed on unit tooltips.
- Team chat is now displayed in a different colour.

AI
- Basic fix for AI being unable to move army by fleet.
- Aggression of factions in campaign improved, as well as tweaks to diplomacy.
- Improvements to campaign AI relating to its waging of wars, recruitment and movement of armies.
- Improvements made to battle AI to make it more reactive, use buildings better as well as squares and rakes.
- Siege battle AI improvements made.
- Improvements to naval AI to make it bunch up less, its use of galleys and long range units such as bomb ketches.

MISCELLANEOUS
- Delete save game button added to save game list.
- View replays button added to single player Play Battle menu.
- Various sound fixes and improvements.
- Various incorrect text messages fixed.
- Fixes to various graphical glitches with display of walls.
- Fixes made for stuttering videos.
- Fix for several game option settings not being saved correctly, including settings such as floating flags.
- Fix for unit voices/attack confirmation being heard for all units in an alliance instead of just for the player's army.
- Armour and shield values are now added into melee defence value shown on unit cards.
- Lots of other small and minor bug fixes.

BALANCING
- Land unit recruitment cost in campaign has been increased, with higher cost on higher difficulty level.
- Ship recruitment and upkeep costs have been increased in campaign.
- Various balancing and cost adjustments to improve multiplayer land battle balance.
- Ship costing improvements made for both campaign and multiplayer.
- Economic tweaks have been made to campaign to reduce amount of money made in later part of campaign.

EXTRA NOTE:
- We are aware of an issue with community created maps that results in a crash when someone without the map tries to join the game. This crash will be fixed in the next patch.
- Further work is being done on improving AI Naval invasion behaviour and this will be included in the next upgrade patch.
- Please also note that this update is save game compatible but you should start a new game to see all of the benefits.

Here you go

[Castout]

Thank you :yeah:

[HunterICX]

:rock:Seems that patch fixed my sound issue!!!
just tried a quik battle and sounds seems to play off as they should do.
no more missing and delayed sounds so far :yeah:

HunterICX

[Task Force]

Haveing great fun in Empire total war... Currently playing as Prussia, have connected east and west Prussia, and am currently invaiding denmark... only thing between me winning is there capital. (which Im moveing all everything in east prussia to take down.:yep:

[mr chris]

Good stuff. :up:
Try out the smoke and blood mod makes the battles look so much better.

[Biggles]

Haveing great fun in Empire total war... Currently playing as Prussia, have connected east and west Prussia, and am currently invaiding denmark... only thing between me winning is there capital. (which Im moveing all everything in east prussia to take down.:yep:

You do know Denmark have Iceland too?:O:

[Castout]

I'm playing the French. Almost wipe out the British colony in North America, conquered almost the whole Europe now I'm at the border with Russia which is at war with me.

But since the patch my income has dropped significantly. Now I'm at risk of being bankrupt :D. Oh my . . . .

[HunterICX]

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/3712/cossacks.jpg

A Cossack army marching towards the Swedes which dared to attack one of my towns.

a bad trade, as soon after this little skirmish I conquered St.Petersburg

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

You do know Denmark have Iceland too?:O:

And Norway, but they tend to lose it to the Swedes pretty early on

[Task Force]

well. prussia was doing nice... declared peace after a 8 year war with denmark... then poland... and russia... and there little buddys thought it would be great fun to declare war on me.:shifty: Then it turnt into germany 1945...:yep: (was pushed back to where I had all my forces (which was berlin.), except for the spall forces I had in east prussia...)

In the end we surrendered to the russians. (who at the time controled most of eastern europe.) They were huge!:o

Time to start a new campaign... wonder what country to pick.:hmmm:

[A Very Super Market]

Are any of you noticing that the Mughals always get steamrolled?

[HunterICX]

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7959/49158856.jpg

Crushing Crimean thugs.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

The Crimeans sure surprises me during my Prussian campaign. They've taken half of the russians ground, including Kiev. Really amazing, this new patch sure makes the AI brighter!:hmmm:

[Task Force]

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7564/myempire.jpg
my empire. still expanding.
http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/8459/tfsships.jpg
some of my ships.
I am currently attacking the pirates... on there own soil.:arrgh!:

(my money is low, cause I ordered a large group of ships.)

[papa_smurf]

Bit of an empire there Task force.



Heres my current Swedish empire:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4731/empire2009050711052990.jpg

[HunterICX]

My Russian Campaign became a disaster, everyone around me declared war and started to nick away my provinces.

Poland-Lithuania, Ottoman, Courtland, Sweden, Georgia and the Chechen.
http://planetsmilies.net/angry-smiley-1551.gif

and I couldn't fend them off economy didnt allow me to maintain a bigger army and the army I had was perhaps enough to fend of one of my enemies.

so started a new campaign as Prussia, and I just upgraded my army technology and buildings...when I had a budget of around 40.000 I boomed my army into a big size and declared war on Saxony which would pull Poland-lithuania at war with me as well but without it's allies.

I got Saxony's capital now, the rest of the saxony army is in Prague.
I took over West Prussia from the Poles, and now as a steamroller I will head south destroying Saxony in my path.
Poland Lithuania is in war with Austria which might come in handy.

HunterICX

[Captain Vlad]

My Russian Campaign became a disaster, everyone around me declared war and started to nick away my provinces.

Poland-Lithuania, Ottoman, Courtland, Sweden, Georgia and the Chechen.
http://planetsmilies.net/angry-smiley-1551.gif


The Russians start with a lot of potential but little of it developed. You have to essentially stall for time by buying off one of your enemies early on, taking out your two weakest annoyances and maintaining an offensive against one of the big guys and then be patient enough to develop all those little farms you've got into money-making enterprises.

Not having a port at first hurts, and worse, all the ones you can easily take are in areas your enemies tend to dominate with their Navy.

What I did was get Sweden friendly with me with a state gift on the first turn, and then encouraged continued good relations with a trade agreement with them and the Polish. I pretty much gathered what I had together and seized the Crimea very early...but it was a while before it did me any good, since the Ottoman's can easily blockade it. I didn't have a useful trading port until I took the entire Black Sea coastline away from them.:doh:

[Task Force]

Well, I am martching with my allie who is geting huge. The dutch... They currently have everthing from spain to west prussia.:o I control the entire med. sea. I have stopped the pirates in the atlanic, and am starting my march on the natives/united states.:yeah: Just useing my islands to build up a army/moveing in a large navy.

Russia is doomed, already taken over part of the south west russia. marching right through.:yeah: The dutch and I are taken over poland. and Im getting ready to march into courtland. The country list just gets smaller and smaller every couple of turns.:yeah:

[HunterICX]

The Prussian Campaign is going very well,
just knocked Saxony out of excistence, and therefore can focus myself on Poland-Lithuania and Courtland who recently declared war on me.
my main armies are now assembling in front of the border to lay siege on Warsaw, I have to do it quikly as my Army upkeep costs are exceeding my income. When I've taken Warsaw I will start disbanding some units to lower the upkeep costs. Then I stabilize my new gained territory and plan the next step to knock Courtland out of history and take the Polish province bordering that of Courtland.

HunterICX

[HunterICX]

Well, now I'm in a crisis :D

Austrians declared war on me for no apparent reason, anyway so I saw a chance to knick away a small province from them.
the Warsaw siege was a decisive victory for me.
but now I'm nearly bankrupt :dead:
so now I have to stabilize what I've got, disband some troops I don't need.
the Austrian province and Warsaw are not happy with the new rule so I need to deal with that too.

after I saved, just for fun I let myself go bankrupt...and when clicked end turn Sweden declared war.

now when the turn-switch was over my King died, and my new heir took the throne...
Sweden didnt found the new heir worthy of the throne and therefore is going after it :hmmm: (declaring war)

when I ended turn without going bankrupt (raising the noble's taxes and disbanding some troops)
my king stayed alive and Sweden did not declare war.

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Guns don't kill Kings, bank managers do :arrgh!:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Guns don't kill Kings, bank managers do :arrgh!: And revolutions!!

[Biggles]

Had a pretty cool thing happening to me when playing as Prussia the other day. My king died, and was replaced by his son. Then Sweden declared war, because they didn't agree that my new ruler had the right to lead the country. Don't know exactly what it said, but basically, they thought that the wrong person had become leader! Pretty cool feature.

[HunterICX]

Had a pretty cool thing happening to me when playing as Prussia the other day. My king died, and was replaced by his son. Then Sweden declared war, because they didn't agree that my new ruler had the right to lead the country. Don't know exactly what it said, but basically, they thought that the wrong person had become leader! Pretty cool feature.

Thats what it said when my king died and his son (heir) took the throne
pitty you dont have the King/president/Queen as a active unit in one of the provinces. if you lose that province, your nation is probally without leadership and chaos will spread amongts the rest of your provinces.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

BTW, I've seen people who experienced "Civil War" rather than revolutions. Never came across it, what is it?

[HunterICX]

Warsaw and the Austrian provinces spawned some Rebel armies...but they are easily to be dealt with.

I threatend Austria and Poland-Lithuania into signing a Peace treaty :D
and they both did.

giving me the breathing space needed to stabilize my newly conquered territory...courtland however refused to sign...so have to keep an eye out on the North of East Prussia

the economy is slowly getting a bit better.

HunterICX

[Arclight]

For some reason I'm still getting the impression there's something wrong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5qcG_BjRQo&feature=channel_page). :roll:

[mr chris]

@ Arclight The same thing happens to me when i load up a battle. I found out that i have to disable AA in the game menu and on the card settings and all runs well. Not very impressive on CA part as i thought that they would have addressed this in the last patch. Playing with no AA is ugly as sin.

[Arclight]

Never even got in a battle, game would lock before that. :haha:

Running Win7 I went from 182.06 to latest 185.85 drivers just now. It solved the corruption in the menu, but would still lock just before entering battle. Disabling AA solved it, thank you for pointing that out mr. Chris. :salute:

Not sure it's CA at fault here, may well be Nvidia putting out a new driver every week. :shifty:

[mr chris]

Don't think it is a Nvida or ATI issue either. As im running 2x 4870 x2 ATI cards. Which should in all honestly run the game with everything maxed out no trouble but it seems CA have other ideas. Have heard of various other people having this problem with both nvida and ati chipsets.

[Biggles]

Had an awesome battle as the Prussians. Took loads of pics, but Fraps didn't work properly, none of them were saved. :damn::damn::damn::damn:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

I've won my first campaigns as the Dutch and as the Prussians and now started a new one as the Russians that is going well so far, I made peace with the Ottomans, captured Crimea and had Daganastan and Prussia both of which where captured that included a join action between my forces and two Polish armies during the battle for Koningsburg. Now I have to destroy the Barbary States since they're raiding my only trade route and I don't have enough money to rise a navy or at least not yet. :shifty:

[HunterICX]

Warsaw is starting to be a pain in the butt :stare:
3 times they rebelled and destroyed a building during that process.

its starting to cost me more then its worth if this continues like that.

HunterICX

[papa_smurf]

My Dutch campaign is starting well, as I control the ENTIRE east indies trade area :D, which is nicely bringing the cash just got to deal with the occasional pesky pirate fleet, but does not worry me. One thing I have found that is good been Dutch is the amazing Flyut, what a ship! I've had these take one 5th rates and win. I will be using these more in my fleets as I expand my overseas empire.

[SteamWake]

Just got this title over the weekend. Had lots of fun with it but still learning the interface. Placing units can be frustrating at times.

I havent gotten very far but something weird happend in the Jamestown scenario.

I managed to select a single unit out of 6 or so and sent them to attack the Indian village... oops :doh: once thats done its too late to add troops.

Anyhow after a great start they then got their asses kicked and retreated with only 7 out of 40 soldiers left I sent them back home for R&R. They did thin down the poupulation a bit.

I then sent a full contengent of troops including the poor unit with 7 troops to attack the village and something weird happend. You know how when you select troops they say "Milita !" or some such or "Orders understood" which is all well and good then out of no where I keep hearing the F bomb... "F*ck !" loud, clear and a bit angry over and over till the battle was done. Fortunatly the natives were vastly out numbered and the battle was over quickly.

I had to turn the sound down :rotfl:

Anyone else heard this?

Steam version BTW

[Biggles]

Never came across it!:o Then ofcourse, I didn't bother much about the RtI campaign...

[SteamWake]

Never came across it!:o Then ofcourse, I didn't bother much about the RtI campaign...

The only thing I can figure is that those poor 7 sots were a little pissed about being sent back. :rotfl:

[Task Force]

I started a new campaign...
Britian is currently bankrupt.:shifty: and spain/france hates me. lol

[nikimcbee]

I'm at 1735 in my Swedish campaign. All I have to do is capture Brandenburg and I win. Although, poland broke the peace treaty and attacked Prussia, then me:stare:. I have been saving my attack on Prussian for the very end, since they are my allie (although useless):doh:.

Hannover picked a fight with me, and in a monster battle I beat them. i don't know how I won the battle. My center and right flank collapsed, but my left flank held and was enough to finish them off.:woot:

[papa_smurf]

I have been saving my attack on Prussian for the very end, since they are my allie (although useless):doh:.

I'm doing the same in my Swedish campaign, and yes they are useless:nope:. I've been allied with them for at least 10 years, and they have done nothing for me, except expand their own borders.

[Biggles]

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2295/empire2009051119593260m.jpg
The battle of Kabul. Total victory for the prussian army, and the end of persian influence in western asia. On this picture: milita peasants firing at prussians.

[Oberon]

I started a new campaign...
Britian is currently bankrupt.:shifty: and spain/france hates me. lol

It's amazing how little things change in 200 odd years, we're still bankrupt, and France and Spain still hate us :haha:

[Task Force]

lol... now where to get money...

[nikimcbee]

I'm doing the same in my Swedish campaign, and yes they are useless:nope:. I've been allied with them for at least 10 years, and they have done nothing for me, except expand their own borders.

I was excited when they joined me. They moved some troops around.....and did absolutely nothing. I've got to smack down Poland again, and then try and take prussia in one shot.
Other than that, this campaign has been way too easy.:06:

[SteamWake]

Okay WTH ... I was sieging a french city when they mustered troops from another city.

Wasent really ready for that but entered the battle anyhow. After about 15 minutes I could see the writing on the wall and ordered all troops to retreat.

Most all of them got away with a few exceptions and poofed off the edge of the battle map.

Return to the campaign screen eager to pull my troops back and replinish and get some reinforcements.

Wheres my Troops !!! :wah:

All gone ... poof nowhere on the map.

So if you retreat you loose all your troops anyhow?

[A Very Super Market]

A bug? Shouldn't be happening....

Oh right, it is a siege. I think that the game destroys your force if you withdraw during a siege. Stupid really. Were you banking on the French surrendering? The game's AI is wonky, and they will never surrender, or retreat from a battle. Naval invasions are starting to pop up though.

[HunterICX]

I think it depends how much is left from the total amount of troops you had, if its too low the army automaticly is destroyed/disbanded.

AVSM, the AI does retreat in a siege as the defending force, I had it happen sometimes now and then...Kill the General and cause lots of troops to retreat at the same time.

as I saw 3 fresh units banners that where inside buildings to flash white and retreated shorty after (and I didnt touch them one bit, yet)

HunterICX

[SteamWake]

The fort under siege (their capitol) was all but empty. Maybe two stacks. If I had not gotten interrupted by troops from another fort it would have been easy and they may well have surrendered.

I had retreated from the battle with the vast majority, at least 80% of the troops remaining. The reason I retreated was that it was obvious that if I stuck it out, getting flanked, outnumbered nearly 3 to 1 it would have been a slaughter. I did what I thought was prudent and got out of there... only to be slaughtered. :doh:

Thats messed up. Pissed me off so much I shut the game down and havent been back yet. It was the main force with the highest general and like at least a dozen stacks... poof, gone, because they retreated :stare:

[HunterICX]

Thats messed up. Pissed me off so much I shut the game down and havent been back yet. It was the main force with the highest general and like at least a dozen stacks... poof, gone, because they retreated :stare:

then I figure there is a penalty for retreating on command, sounds logical as you can abuse the retreat to get a easy escapes when the things are not looking bright for you.

if the odds are against you, I wouldnt enter the battle in the first place concluding that out of the enemy numbers and type/quality troops (if the option is still there to break the siege and move back)
if I can't due its a interception, I would have to use everything I got.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Basically, if you have no chance to win, make sure they won't be able to call it a victory. In other words: take down as many as you can!

Question: Anyone ever maneged to make a settlement surrender? They always refuse for me.

[SteamWake]

So no tactical withdrawls then, fight to the death. :nope:

[Biggles]

So no tactical withdrawls then, fight to the death. :nope:

It's actually fun!:D

Besides, I've managed to retreat several times without having my army crushed by invisible forces. I dunno why that happened to you.

[SteamWake]

I dunno why that happened to you.

Im just lucky that way.

Like the first time I played the road to indipendance my advisor tells me the economy was going to pot and I needed to increas taxes by the goverment button.

Well I looked for that button for about 5 minutes when I resorted to the manual and realized the button was greyed out. :doh:

You would think the tool tips would tell you what the button was wether active or not.

[HunterICX]

So no tactical withdrawls then, fight to the death. :nope:

Men, tonight...we dine in HELL!!!:D

HunterICX

[A Very Super Market]

I meant on the strategic map. Even single units of conscripts will never retreat in the face of an experienced army.

[SteamWake]

Doggonit found another excruciating bug. As of 1.2

If you play the road to indipendance campaign and get to chapter 2 what ever you do ONLY CAPTURE THE CITYS YOU ARE MISSONED TO.

If you do capture any other city / farm / outpost whatever you cannot advance to chapter 3.

The game will say its complete and chapter 3 is unlocked but will not open chapter 3.

You have been warned.

[SteamWake]

I meant on the strategic map. Even single units of conscripts will never retreat in the face of an experienced army.

I dident thing units or anything for that matter would do anything without your telling them to.

Qued recruitment and finishing off of previous orders that werent completed the previous turn are the exception.

[A Very Super Market]

When an enemy army tries to engage you in the field, you get a choice of fighting, auto-resolving, of withdrawing. One of the AI benefits touted by CA was the ability of it to recognize when to fight and when to withdraw. I have seen none of that, only fights to the death, which are annoying and ridiculously unrealistic.

[SteamWake]

Okay now Im officially pissed.

I have played through the road to independance at least three times. From the start.

Replayed from a save point just prior to capturing Louisberg at least 4 times.

Each time I get the same result. The screen that says you accomplished the mission pops up. You click the check mark and........ nothing :o

I wouldent have put that much effort into it except the only way to unlock America as a 'faction' is to complete that 'tutorial'.



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Edit: Workaround

I finally got past this little glitch. I loaded the 'autosave' which was just prior to taking Louisberg, autoresolved the battles, captured the fort and when the mission accomplished screen popped up I clicked the magnfying glass button. BOOM two more missions qued.

Funky glitch that one but I belive the key to be choosing the magnifying glass in lieu of the check box will get you past it.

[A Very Super Market]

Playing as the US isn't particularily rewarding anyways. You should just use a mod and play as the Thirteen colonies.

[Task Force]

Task Force land (Britian) has taken over The americas!!! except for some natives in the west. I have distroyed the United States, the thirteen colonies joined me, all the eastern Natives, The Frence in northern america, and the spanish in Mexico/S america.

Now to kick the spanish out of cuba, and the pirates out of there islands.

In europe, we have gotten a landing point for my troops to get into europe.

I have spain, and 3/4 of N africa. And am trying to keep a good relationship with the Ottoman empire!:D Next step, Italy.:yep:

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

News from the Land of the Tzars, the mighty armys of Russia have conqured Austria, Wurttemberg, and Bavaria. Now rumors are spreading that Poland, long-time ally of Russia might be the next conquest,but as these are only rumors its also possible that France, Spain or even The Ottomans might be next, no one outside of the Tzar's court has any idea what the Russians will do next. But we shall see whos next on the list.:D

[HunterICX]

Reports from the Prussian Empire.

In a final battle against courland our General Frederick von Staufbergen fell in battle. It didnt affect the outcome, a total defeat for courland.
their last capital fell to us and courland was now a part of history.

Due increase of activity of Russian, Polish and austrian gentlemen and priests in my empire we send our rakes to deal with them.

results:

2 Polish Gentleman's murdered
1 Polish Priest murdered
1 Russian Genteman Murdered
1 Austrian Murdered
3 Austrian Building sabotaged.

lost 2 rakes in the process.

After my increase of troop activity at the Russian border they declared war on me.

I've conquered one of their territories in the North and am now moving towards Muscovy.

HunterICX

[Biggles]

Prussian soldiers marching towards the russians.
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/1002/empire2009051816015028.jpg

[Biggles]

My swedish allies, being under shellfire from their own artillery, some mistakes are to be expected during the chaos of battle...
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4779/empire2009051816041373.jpg

[Task Force]

:rotfl:
My countrys king is now a thirteen year old. The old king died, and amasingly this kid is better in alot of aspects.:rotfl: Like dealing with other countrys.:yep:

Well as the 1700s come to a close... (its around 1794) we still are the takeing down spain. (talk about the 100 year war) Im starting to think this will be 100 years of war.:rotfl:

War realy stimulates the economy! my economy has started to sky rocket after being broke for some years.:yep:

[Castout]

Playing the Brits now around 1840.

I've accumulated 450,000 credits. Bought peace and trade from France and a few minor nations.

Squashing the mughal empire from Southern India and North Africa. My next invasion spot would be Jerusalem and I intend to keep it until the Armageddon. :DL

[papa_smurf]

After going so well my Dutch campaign has effectively ended, as i'm now bankrupt. This is sue to a series of ill conceived invasions of Mughal and territory and French Guyana, which has led to all my lucrative trade routes been seized as well as my home trade port been blockaded by a sudden act of agression by the Prussians:wah:. All of this took place in just one turn -phew!

I should of expceted this, but I was blinded by my expansionist greed to expand my empire, and it cost me. When I start a new campaign, I will not be doing the same again - honest:D

[Arclight]

Controlling the seas is key with the Dutch, learned that the hard way as well. :yep:

The French had a strangle hold on me for a long time, untill I finally got some 3rd and 2nd rates out to sea.

[Task Force]

The spanish are fleeing. Im watching there ships leave and not come back... Pushed into a little island, and southern italy.:yeah:

Scratch the island. just defeated them, my loss 38 to 258! stupid peoples. my rockets killed them while they were in there fort.

[Raptor1]

Pushed into a little island

You mean Sicily?

[Task Force]

You mean Sicily?

No Cuba (which realy isnt that small), Im starting my invasion of Sicily... :yep: Right after I import acouple of large armys there. (starting my full invasion plan... To take down the smaller western countrys.)

[Task Force]

Im about to land the biggest invasion force in the history of my country. 2 full armys, with 1 half army of cannons/rockets comeing from the americas.

I also just built the first rocket fireing ship, which has sucessufly distroyed a spanish merchent singlehandedly.:yeah:

[Arclight]

Empire: Total War Getting New Units (http://kotaku.com/5265172/empire-total-war-getting-new-units)

Well, kinda. :shifty:

[SteamWake]

Well its not like everyone doesent already know about this.

It was a stupid ploy by the developers. I dont know what they were thinking really. Just profit motive I suppose.

[A Very Super Market]

Ploy? You mean the bot?

[SteamWake]

Ploy? You mean the bot?

Errr I mispoke, I'm assuming a post got deleted and thought you guys were talkin about the special units thing.

[Arclight]

To further confuse people, I have deleted my post referring to the bot. :D
Well its not like everyone doesent already know about this.

It was a stupid ploy by the developers. I dont know what they were thinking really. Just profit motive I suppose.Possibly, or adding in some stuff they didn't have time for initially, perhaps a bit of game-balancing.

Nothing amazing, but I appreciate a bit more diversity. :yep:

[SteamWake]

To further confuse people, I have deleted my post referring to the bot. :D
Possibly, or adding in some stuff they didn't have time for initially, perhaps a bit of game-balancing.

Nothing amazing, but I appreciate a bit more diversity. :yep:

Well maybe you did miss the 'contriversy'. The deal is when the game was released it had two versions. The 'delux' version whatever it was called offered some 'special' units not available in the base game.

For x amount of dollars more you could get I think it was 3 more units. Woop de freakin doo !.

Well it dident take long for folks to figure out how to mod them in from the 'regular' version of the game causing quite a firestorm on various forums.

Basically they were charging you extra for something that was already in the game just not 'unlocked'.

Thats what Im referring to sorry for confusion.

[SteamWake]

Back to the game....

Had something funny happen last night.

Was your typical land battle 4 units (me) vs 3 units (them).

I had 2 infantry, 1 calvary, and 1 artillary.

They had 2 infantry and 1 altillary.

Sweet easy battle should be a milk run.

A few rounds of canister shot and infantry line fire quickly convinced them to go running. But not till after they wiped out my arty. My calvary made short work of their arty.... or so I thought.

My troops stood around on the battle field watching the enemy retreat, not a enemy flag in sight. So they stood around scratching their heads. "Why are we still here" I think I heard them said.

I noted the 'meter' bar on the left that shows releative strength was still at 50% :o so I go off on a desperate search of the map for the missing units.

Troops still standing around awaiting orders. I went back to them to get them moving and searching when wham.... a load of canistor shot. "Where the hell did that come from"? Again not a flag in sight.

I spread the troops out a bit and waited... Wham... hey ! from over there ! Where my arty had been (they got killed) was an enemy cannon with one freakin guy runnin the thing. Wham ... another load of shot.

I selected the two remaining units and told them to melee the flagless cannon guy. The two units immediatly took off running in the wrong direction :doh: So I stopped them. Sent one unit to melee the cannon guy again, again they take off in the wrong direction. So I just let them go. I moved the other unit out of range of the cannon. When the first unit reached about half off the map they about faced :88) and started running for the cannon guy :rock:

I watched the melee up close as the infantry approached the cannon dude and do battle mano a mano one at a time. One by one my brave soldiers dropped. This was one tough son of a bitch !

So I had the engaged troops pull back. The cannon guy returns to his cannon and starts loading :06:

I sent the other unit in to melee him once more. This time they ganged up on him and won the day :salute:

Ninja Cannon ! :rotfl:

[Arclight]

AI and pathfinding can cost you some men occasionally. :yep:

I'm actually one of those suckers that forked over for the "Special Forces Edition", but I knew full well that content on disc for both versions was the same. Never owned a special edition of anything, and the TW series is well worth the support. But I don't think that patch with the extra units has anything to do with the special units. :hmmm:

[Task Force]

We are attempting to distroy poland... (I have the best allie in the world... the dutch.) who have actualy helped me alot.:yep:

Currently control everything west of poland. Ottomans are pushed into 2 regions.going to try to march into india.:yep:

Russia is my only big concern.

[SteamWake]

AI and pathfinding can cost you some men occasionally. :yep:

Yea keep your calvary the hell away from those wooden stake fence things. They are murder and the stupid AI will march right into them.

Found this article which I found very insightfull and direct. Alot of this may be old hat to you guys but its still worth a browse.

http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/gaming-news/tips_of_empire_total_war.php

[Arclight]

Definetly worth a look, some good tips there. I realised I still use my cavalry medi-eval style on occasions. My cavalry always suffers bad in any fight. :D :salute:

[Discosanta]

If you have Rome Total War with Barbarian Invasion or the Gold Edition, Viking Invasion II is a fun and challenging mod to play:up:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=221299

[Arclight]

Welcome aboard. :up:

Personally I'm partial to Europa Barbarorum. Takes a little getting used to, but well worth it.

[Task Force]

Well heres my ETW campaigns current stats.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5043/empire2009060119525709.jpg (http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5043/empire2009060119525709.jpg)

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9989/empire2009060119530014.jpg (http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9989/empire2009060119530014.jpg)
Now you can see that the US is on the list... well... There was a rebelion in the carolinas... and I didnt have enough troops in the americas to stop it... so now I gotta recruit more and stop it.

[Arclight]

One queen to rule them all. :o

[Task Force]

ja, the king died.:yep: And everyone hates me. lol:rotfl:

[papa_smurf]

Well Moscow is now under Swedish control, had to crush a rebellion there (some people never appreciate new goverment), but should not be a problem. Now my attentions turn west, as i'm pondering whether to invade my Prussian allies - who have done nothing for me, just expanded their own empire, pah!, or leave them for now and invade France.

[Task Force]

Why... wont... my... FARKING save work! I was about to march into the Mughal empare.:stare::damn::/\\!!:/\\chop:roll::huh::hmm2::lost::doh: yea its that bad.

oah well... we have taken over all of europe anyway. (except iceland.)

[Task Force]

Well Moscow is now under Swedish control, had to crush a rebellion there (some people never appreciate new goverment), but should not be a problem. Now my attentions turn west, as i'm pondering whether to invade my Prussian allies - who have done nothing for me, just expanded their own empire, pah!, or leave them for now and invade France.

hows your relationship with the Prussian people.:hmmm:

[Biggles]

I started a swedish AAR at the Total War forums:D
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=268108

Never done anything like this before, should be fun:)

[Task Force]

Did I just read that there is a american civil war mod.:) Anyone tryed it.:hmmm:

[papa_smurf]

hows your relationship with the Prussian people.:hmmm:

Quite well actually, it's just that i'm in an expansionist mood:D

[Task Force]

Id try to keep them as a allie and wait till you are around them completly to attack. (have all you armies at the ready.) I did the same to a old allie the dutch in my old etw campaign. And dont let any little countrys around you live, once they see you forces have left they often declare war.:yep:

all right... gotta start a new campaign... now what country to start with.

[Raptor1]

Prussia is weak, crush them as early as possible...

[Task Force]

raptor has a good point. there weak in the early years. are they allied with anyone other than you.:hmmm:

[Biggles]

On the other hand, Prussia are some steps ahead with the military tech....

[Raptor1]

On the other hand, Prussia are some steps ahead with the military tech....

Don't let them get even more steps ahead, crush them as soon as possible...

[Biggles]

Don't let them get even more steps ahead, crush them as soon as possible...

Yes they are rather annoying, aren't they? But I hate the Poles more...

[papa_smurf]

Decided to start a new campaign, this time as Spain - lets see if I can conquer the entire Caribbean.......

[Task Force]

Started a new campaign... Prussia, world domination.

I have so far taken over saxony, poland,and courtland. I am at war with russia, and 2 smaller countrys. Well, at least russias weak right now, my armys are kind of spread out.

[Task Force]

Currently, we have control of a large ragion of russia, moscow. Russia decided to sign a peace treaty.

My troop are currently going to finlands capital. we should have control of it in no time.:yep:

and ive taken over Austria.

We now control Sweden. and all of nothern russia.

[papa_smurf]

bit of an Empire there Taskforce, might as well call yourself "Kaiser Wilhelm I":har::haha::har:

[Task Force]

ja. lol

And now france has the Prussian flag flying over paris... And I took over persia, iceland which knocked out Denmark, the dutch, and alot of smaller countrys. (ill have some screen shots later.)

Only the spanish, Ottaman (or however the hell you spell it.) empire, itilian states, Britian, and those peoples in north africa (dont think your safe peoples down there, TF land will get ya.)

Being as huge as I am everyone hates me. lol

and i learnt something about the french in this game... They are rebelious little a**holes.

Next step, Prussia in america. lol

[SteamWake]

A little off topic but have you been to their forums?

That some of the most heavy handed moderation Ive ever seen in my life.

Personaly I got a warning for making fun of myself :rotfl:

Had three or four posts deleted because "they were off topic" when they were just a post by me about a workaround for a known bug... LOL. Now we dont want to bring to light the known bugs do we?

Pretty funny....

Anyhow

Now back on topic. I had the weirdest thing happen last night.

I had a small 4 stack army get attacked by a 6 stack. When I entered the battle I noticed I forgot to replinish the troops and was going to get my butt handed to me. I selected all and told them to flee (white flag) which they did.

Just about as they reached the red line I hear ~cav cav cav cava cavalary~ and here comes some cavalry units :o no not rienforcements just a ghost brigade out of nowhere :rotfl: The ghost brigade just kind of ran around in circles. I watched for a while and then continued with the retreat.

I escaped and at the battle screen had units lost -1 :doh: 160 units went in 161 came out :06:

I guess somebody was pregnant.

A crushing defeat :har:

[Task Force]

yea, during my invasion of france i lost 2 full armys (that had been depleted. farking french incircled me... But i knocked the s**t out of them, then came back with a full army... knocked there socks off.:rotfl:

[papa_smurf]

Just about to take Portugal (cheeky twonks declared war on me!), so I'm going to teach them a lesson. The United States has appeared, even though its only 1704 - those Brits must of really taxed the hell out of them. And I'm on course for my protectorates in middle/S America joining me, giving me more trade income.

[Task Force]

:ooah ****. Well I just took down the ottoman empire, and everything else in N africa. But The Realy big country whos name I forgot how to spell in India has declared war on me... Ant they have One hell of a military bildup.... and there moveing there stuff north... so to counter act there build up and troop movement to the north. im moveing A landing force to the south area of india, and try to spread out there forces. as I see it, if I can spread there forces out, and take out the southern are of there country out, I can have my north armys move south...:hmmm:

[Raptor1]

:ooah ****. Well I just took down the ottoman empire, and everything else in N africa. But The Realy big country whos name I forgot how to spell in India has declared war on me... Ant they have One hell of a military bildup.... and there moveing there stuff north... so to counter act there build up and troop movement to the north. im moveing A landing force to the south area of india, and try to spread out there forces. as I see it, if I can spread there forces out, and take out the southern are of there country out, I can have my north armys move south...:hmmm:

Mughal Empire? Maratha Confederacy?

[Task Force]

Yea the Mugal empire The Maratha Confederacy was distroyed years ago.

[Lzs von swe]

If you did not already know it, patch 1.3 is ( hopefully ) out tomorrow. 22/6.
http://blogs.sega.com/totalwar/2009/06/18/update-13-features-list/

Have put the game on hold, awaiting these patches before starting any "serious" campaigning.

[Task Force]

after takeing india down, we years of unrest,riots, and rebelions.

We finaly have got everthing under control.

and now we move to america. (we also distroyed britian.):yep:

[SteamWake]

What do you guys think of the new patch?

I found the BAI to be much more aggressive almost to a fault.

[darius359au]

What do you guys think of the new patch?

I found the BAI to be much more aggressive almost to a fault.

I'd love to be able to see them...updated to 1.3 and now I'm getting constant CTD's , never had them at all before it :damn: - just did a complete re-install as suggested on the CA forums and now it wont even start ,just a CTD everytime.

[Raptor1]

Actually, this last patch fixed a bunch of my problems, haven't checked if it fixed my incessant MP problems yet though

[Arclight]

Anyone catch this?
Empire: Total War Gets First Paid DLC (http://kotaku.com/5300329/empire-total-war-gets-first-paid-dlc)

[Task Force]

yep knoticed it yesterday.:yep:

[Arclight]

Seems to bring a bit more variety to the armies, very welcome adition. :yep:

[darius359au]

Found what was causing my CTD's ,turns out the new patch has problems with modified script files - I'd removed my installed mods before updating but it didn't like the scripts either ,and they weren't removed when I uninstalled the game to do a full re-install :cry:

[Biggles]

Anyone catch this?
Empire: Total War Gets First Paid DLC (http://kotaku.com/5300329/empire-total-war-gets-first-paid-dlc)

The patch added some new units for free too, haven't played the game to check them though.

[Raptor1]

Yeah, one of the problems with the game was that there were practically no side-specific units, I think it's good that they're adding new units (Both free and DLC)

[mr chris]

Snapped up the DLC 14 units for 2.50 euro.

[stabiz]

Found what was causing my CTD's ,turns out the new patch has problems with modified script files - I'd removed my installed mods before updating but it didn't like the scripts either ,and they weren't removed when I uninstalled the game to do a full re-install :cry:

Where do you find these scripts? I am getting CTDs as well, and I cant recall if I had mods or not.

[darius359au]

you find them here
C:\Documents and Settings\"your username"\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts

or whichever drive your using for the My Documents and Settings

[SteamWake]

Either Ive gotten alot better than the patch or they have really changed the victory conditions.

99% of the time Im getting a "Heroic Victory" even when the losses are more or less even. :oops:

[stabiz]

you find them here
C:\Documents and Settings\"your username"\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire\scripts

or whichever drive your using for the My Documents and Settings

Thanks!:salute: That fixed it.

[Raptor1]

Either Ive gotten alot better than the patch or they have really changed the victory conditions.

99% of the time Im getting a "Heroic Victory" even when the losses are more or less even. :oops:

Same, I think it's broken

Probably better than the old system, where any more than minimal losses was "Close Victory" and anything less was "Decisive Victory", though

I wish they'd bring back the old system of determining the level of victory

[Raptor1]

Some lousy-quality Fraps photos of a multiplayer land battle I had with Hunter

Me (Austria) and Hunter (Prussia) against 2 French AI

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9089/empire2009062600481375.th.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600481375.jpg/)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8942/empire2009062600482667.th.jpg (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600482667.jpg/)
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http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6682/empire2009062600522737.th.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600522737.jpg/)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7493/empire2009062600541192.th.jpg (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600541192.jpg/)
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http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4480/empire2009062600564201.th.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600564201.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1149/empire2009062600585807.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600585807.jpg/)
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5793/empire2009062600592786.th.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062600592786.jpg/)
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9442/empire2009062601004181.th.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601004181.jpg/)
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7799/empire2009062601010316.th.jpg (http://img38.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601010316.jpg/)
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8428/empire2009062601015843.th.jpg (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601015843.jpg/)

[Raptor1]

And the follow-up naval battle...or slugfest...or massacre...or utter mayhem...

Any attempt to discern some kind of strategy or tactic used here will fail

I'm Poland-Lithuania, Hunter is the Dutch, AI is French

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3118/empire2009062601155935.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601155935.jpg/)
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9444/empire2009062601160222.th.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601160222.jpg/)
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7677/empire2009062601234939.th.jpg (http://img229.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601234939.jpg/)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5195/empire2009062601253635.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601253635.jpg/)
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5962/empire2009062601263128.th.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601263128.jpg/)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9379/empire2009062601275665.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601275665.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4226/empire2009062601285547.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601285547.jpg/)
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2023/empire2009062601301481.th.jpg (http://img329.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601301481.jpg/)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8297/empire2009062601315659.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601315659.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5277/empire2009062601343544.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601343544.jpg/)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8065/empire2009062601355110.th.jpg (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601355110.jpg/)
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8127/empire2009062601362052.th.jpg (http://img38.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601362052.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5950/empire2009062601384221.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601384221.jpg/)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5590/empire2009062601391661.th.jpg (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601391661.jpg/)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2958/empire2009062601414734.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601414734.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/269/empire2009062601415529.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601415529.jpg/)
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/6366/empire2009062601451502.th.jpg (http://img520.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601451502.jpg/)
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7789/empire2009062601473432.th.jpg (http://img30.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601473432.jpg/)
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9903/empire2009062601522967.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601522967.jpg/)
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2595/empire2009062602001049.th.jpg (http://img512.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062602001049.jpg/)

[Task Force]

Looks like youall had some intresting battles...;)

[HunterICX]

And the follow-up naval battle...or slugfest...or massacre...or utter mayhem...

Any attempt to discern some kind of strategy or tactic used here will fail

I'm Poland-Lithuania, Hunter is the Dutch, AI is French

It all came down to ''FIYAH FIYAH FIYAH!''
and the French Naval Ramming doctrine...:doh:

for some odd reason in that Naval battle my orders where like 30 seconds delayed.
I clicked and had to wait 30 seconds before I saw the new waypath on the screen.

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

And the fact that the French seemed quite keen to not only ram themselves in every opportunity, but also fire full salvos right through their own ships...

That order delay was strange, I think it's mostly because of the number of ships

[HunterICX]

That order delay was strange, I think it's mostly because of the number of ships

I guess so, we should try with less ships next time.

HunterICX

[mr chris]

Nice stuff guys i will around this weekend if any of you are playing.

[SteamWake]

Any attempt to discern some kind of strategy or tactic used here will fail[/URL]
[URL="http://img512.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062602001049.jpg/"] (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/empire2009062601522967.jpg/)

That pretty much any naval battle Ive been involved in that consists of more than 6 ships per side :rotfl:

[Biggles]

So you can play with friends and not just against them!?

That is very very tempting....:D

[HunterICX]

Nice stuff guys i will around this weekend if any of you are playing.

I think I'll be around the afternoon hours (wont be there tonight thought as there is something I want to see on TV)
Just keep an eye out on the Steam's Friendlist.:)

So you can play with friends and not just against them!?

That is very very tempting....:D

Yep, you can team up with a friend against a team of AI.
IIRC you just have to make sure the game you HOST is not ''Ranked'' (untag it in the options when your creating a game online)

HunterICX

[mr chris]

Will do mate i should be around most of the arvo.
Though i might be away watching the Lions V's the Springboks at some point.

[Task Force]

hmm... so do you use your SS name for steam hunter...:hmmm:

[SUBMAN1]

Someone let me know when they get rid of the draconian copy protection on this. I'd like to play it but....

-X

[Task Force]

your talking about steam... Then no, it probably never will.

[HunterICX]

hmm... so do you use your SS name for steam hunter...:hmmm:

Yes ''HunterICX'' is my Steam Nick

Someone let me know when they get rid of the draconian copy protection on this. I'd like to play it but....

-X

ain't going to happen.

HunterICX

[stabiz]

Nope.

[Task Force]

I myself havent had any issues with steam, No performance drop ither.

[nikimcbee]

I finally finished the US campaign. I lost the first time I played by 1 year:shifty:. I allied w/ france, which worked out really good until it captured one of the territories I had to capture to win ( Upper Louisiana). An those buggers wouldn't sell me the land. So I started to demand things from them and they declared war on me with 3 turns to go in the game. I captured all of their territory and it was game over. It was also a lot of fun going after Spain in Mexico. I took some manpower to chase those guys out.

The thing I did differently this time around, I left the Western Native tribes alone.

Now, off to the British campaign.:hmmm:

[Task Force]

So far in my marathada confederacy campaign...
we had a revolution...
amasingly, I crushed the mughal empire early on....
I captured persia, sent two armies to capture all of russia, and was scucessful... prussia declared war on me...
Britian had gotten a region, and declared war on me... Im currently pushing there way back into the sea.
Im also at war with the ottaman empire...whichs army seems to be years behind...

campaign difficulty hard...

[nikimcbee]

I had a pretty sweet attack. Around 1100 screamin Iraquois warriors vs around 800 of my guys. My lines held, and at the last second, their assualt broke under the weight of my canister shot:rock:.

Casualties: them: around 1000; me <100 :yeah:

[Task Force]

I had a battle that i was outnumbers and only had armed citizentry and a group of horse mounted guns...
Those horse mounted guns work good.:yep:
run in, shoot, runout...

[Biggles]

Playing as France atm. Most of eastern coast of North America is mine (The US popped up and took over the thirteen colonies, and after they were finished, I invaded them, since they were so weakened by the war:haha:). Spain lost Belgium to the dutch, so I took that from them, and then marched on to Amsterdam, which I took after a fairly easy battle. United Provinces is no more, but the dutch in Holland don't really like me, they revolt all the time, but my full stack crushes their rebel army every time.

Here is a pic from the Battle of Amsterdam.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/1057/cannon.jpg

[Task Force]

yay.... The ottoman empire are sore loosers... There armies are easly made, and cheep...

Sweden has declared war on me...

Im still at war with prussia...

and some 1 region country...

[nikimcbee]

I wiped out the pirates of the carribbean last night. No more Johnny Depp movies.

[Task Force]

I wiped out the pirates in the south east aisa trade theatre.:yep:

[rubenandthejets]

I just got this game and I'm loving it!
Sweden (my try it out campaign) is rampaging through the Europe and has monopolised the ivory and fur trades. Why do native Americans think they can charge into fire by line infantry backed by canister firing artillery?

Next target-those uppity "Thirteen Colonies" and what's left of New France!

[Task Force]

whats your campaign difficulty.

[rubenandthejets]

I've been playing "easy" to get the hang of it.....I hope the AI is holding something back for "hard" because it's a bit of a nutjob at the moment.

eg I watched an enemy army leave the protection of a huge walled city to raid one of my farms and even though it could have marched back to the city it sat in the farm. The city was outside its ZOC and the firelock citizens didn't stand much of a chance when I hit it the next turn.

I get a couple of CTD when I play naval battles go up against some of the more obscure nations but otherwise its working OK ( on the lowest settings)

Anyone playing the mods for this game? I need a bit more balance and realism-one province for France in Vanilla (?) and some reskins would be good. I still can't get over the very pucker "Jolly good sir"" response I get when I click on my native American skirmisher cavalry either!

[Task Force]

Im playing on Hard... It changes...

sweden is looking at Moscow... they seem to want it...

The ottomans are being pushed back into there home region...

[rubenandthejets]

I'm going to try out either "A Proper Empire" or "Rights of Man" as well as the "Additional Units Mod" tonight and see what happens.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

I'm going to try out either "A Proper Empire" or "Rights of Man" as well as the "Additional Units Mod" tonight and see what happens. I've been using Darth mod and AUM. The Darth mod ups the unit size a lot, a single unit (except England) will have 375 troops in one unit of line infantry!!! I've wondered why England gets smaller army units than all of the other countrys??

[Task Force]

what are all these things I hear of...:hmmm: