Napoleon Total War. I believe it's out. No excitement here?

I have a question. As far as i understood thise is a standalone addition to Empire total war, so should i go for the original first and then grab a copy of napoleon or the addon itself have training misions for beginers?

btw. I liked the game preview, looks interesting.

[Task Force]

Game is great... BUT... The biggest downfall to me is how small the deployment zone is... around half the size of Empire I guess...

I REALY like the new map, I enjoy how it changes color eatch season, and the new turn system is Great, Instead of half a year like in stock etw, its 2 weeks, so you can stop a enemy army before its too late.

Gotta get use to the interface tho... lol, too use to empire I gess.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Game is great... BUT... The biggest downfall to me is how small the deployment zone is... around half the size of Empire I guess...

I REALY like the new map, I enjoy how it changes color eatch season, and the new turn system is Great, Instead of half a year like in stock etw, its 2 weeks, so you can stop a enemy army before its too late.

Gotta get use to the interface tho... lol, too use to empire I gess.

The deployment zone is all dependent on whether you're defending or attacking and a few other things, I've seen some which extended to some half the map...

I finished the Italy campaign (Had to use some backstabbing to capture Klagenfurt after rushing my depleted armies from conquering Venice, probably shouldn't have attacked them in the first place), I like the attention to detail in some places (Like the campaign invariably starting with Bonaparte's army attacking a certain mountain, with nearly always getting the historical results down to the pursuit of Argenteau's army), but the Austrian AI behaves in a really unhistorical manner overall (Namely not defending Mantua much, which makes that section seem like a Blitzkrieg, while concentrating way too many forces around the Alps and Klagenfurt). That's not such a huge problem though, I quite liked the campaign.

Now off to getting massacred in Egypt!

[elanaiba]

Have you seen the deployment zones when ambushing an enemy army?

[Raptor1]

Though I wonder why the Revolutionary Infantry make it a point to wear tattered pants and no shoes at all times, some kind of political ideology...?

[nikimcbee]

I'm knee deep in the Egypt Campaign. I can't believe they don't have the march "Victory is with us." When I had the Austerlitz game, I modded a bunch of the sound files, and when the french would advance, it would play that march.
I love the middle-eastern music.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

the Austerlitz game

The one that was built on Sid Meier's Gettysburg's engine?

[Castout]

Come on software boutique haven't seen the came cataloged . . .

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Though I wonder why the Revolutionary Infantry make it a point to wear tattered pants and no shoes at all times, some kind of political ideology...?

Believe it or not, this was generally the state of the army after the Revolution, though the game takes it to the extreme somewhat. Quite often, recruits would be issued the jacket, some basic equipment, and of course a musket. The rest of his clothing would be whatever he happened to own.

Don't worry, as the game progresses (next story campaign), the uniforms also change. So by the time you get to the French Grand Campaign, they will be wearing the fancy 1815 variants.

[eddie]

C'mon guys, no screenies!?!

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Nordmann

Believe it or not, this was generally the state of the army after the Revolution, though the game takes it to the extreme somewhat. Quite often, recruits would be issued the jacket, some basic equipment, and of course a musket. The rest of his clothing would be whatever he happened to own.

Don't worry, as the game progresses (next story campaign), the uniforms also change. So by the time you get to the French Grand Campaign, they will be wearing the fancy 1815 variants.

I know what the general state of the French Revolutionary Army was, but I doubt that every single man managed to lose his boots, especially when they seem to be wearing perfectly normal and identical uniforms otherwise...

Well, at least the normal line infantry looks fine (Except the fact that they have single- rather than cross-straps, I wonder if someone in CA hates cross-straps for some reason...)

As for screenshots, this is all I could get so far: