I wonder if they will do a more advanced form of fog of war, I would be extremely pleased to see a simulated version of this.

I think the naval battles may involve ship squadrons instead of single ships. Like the land battles

now that would be a fine thing!

for so far the releasedate 27 march
here is chapter 5/5 the multiplayer
http://www.9lives.be/games/empire-to...pire-total-war

Tee hee hee, all you who are thrilled about the naval battles. See anything quite bad in that vid? Health bars! :rotfl:

I did, and still I'm thrilled about it, first of all Healthbars are just an indicator and probally removable(Option or by modding). apart from that is just a ship that has hitpoints like in any naval game I know off.

and its a WAY of an improvement then those gamble battles which makes you scratch your head when your superior quality ships are losing by less number/less quality ships
never liked the naval part in battles in RTW I rather skipped it and sticked on ground battles. therefore its very nice to attempt something new in the TW series.

HunterICX

Doesn't all units have health bars in total war?

Have to say I'm not following this one much, though its about damn time for naval battles. I'm waiting for them to revisit Shogun frankly (though i wouldn't be surprised if they muck it up)

Nope.

Hmm really as I seem to remember them for structures and special units and the like (your right about all units though, sorry was sleepy). I could be wrong though, been a while since I've played a total war game.

You sure we're talking about the Total War games? :p

There's no special units, atleast not in RTW nor MTW II. Buildings have a persent counter telling the damage level, so yes, I think you could call that a life bar, but units dont have any (cant remember Shogun & MTW, but not in RTW & MTW II).

By special units i mean artillery and siege engines. I could swear I remember them having health bars for the machine itself. Also didn't ships have health bars too in the strategic map (of course i think they all did to show how depleted a unit was)?

The units don't display one no they tend to go by number alive instead

No, the siege engines have ammunition counts, but no health to speak of. In a game as realistic as TW, health bars are pretty ugly.

Pretty sure those meters in the vid are ammo bars too.

I know about the ammo bars, but im pretty sure they had something akin to a health bar too (but only when abandoned or something) to show the state of damage.

oh, but they do :D
but it's more of a "damage %" than a "health bar".

also, many units have "hit points"
in rome the perk "has been in wars" gives the generals 2 hit points. there is an irish unit in M TW 2 Kingdoms (Britannia) that has 2 hit points. So, even if most units die when hit once... some will resist 2 or even 3 hits.

Demo soon:

http://www.totalwar.com/empire/demo/

now that news made my day :up: