SUBSIM's totally awesome Empire: Total War thread

[AJ!]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

dificulty of the TW engine is that they have to pick era's where people somewhat run into eachother in large box formations I think the Imperial Era would be the last era it would be posible to do so.

HunterICX

That hit the nail on the head. They couldnt go any further then the imperial era as tactics of modern day warfare couldnt be done in a TW game without loosing its trade mark gameplay.

The next total war game would have to be a remake or in a time period before Empire TW.

[Raptor1]

There are other eras between the invention of human waves and the end of formation combat (Wheres my TW game about the dark ages?!?!?!?!)

[TheSatyr]

Caveman:Total War-Unga and Ertu defend the fire against Boola and Shuta. "You can upgrade from a bone club to a wooden club!"

[TheSatyr]

Unfortunately,I can't play STW on my xp machine. I can install it,I can use the menus but I can't click on the battlefields to get my troops to do anything *sigh*

As for MTW and BI I can't even get that to load.

Originally Posted by AJ!

That hit the nail on the head. They couldnt go any further then the imperial era as tactics of modern day warfare couldnt be done in a TW game without loosing its trade mark gameplay.

The next total war game would have to be a remake or in a time period before Empire TW.

I dunno, if they redid the battle engine so it was like Company of heroes but no base building it would be pretty fun...

Campaign engine is kinda meh for the time period but eh.

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Rilder

I dunno, if they redid the battle engine so it was like Company of heroes but no base building it would be pretty fun...

Campaign engine is kinda meh for the time period but eh.

But that wouldn't be Total War would it?

I think the latest time period they can do it about is the Franco-Prussian War, Maybe later up until 1900 or something, I don't really know about the development of Infantry Tactics but that seems to be the general timeframe when the general tactics moved from traditional Infantry lines to slightly more modern tactics (I could be wrong though)

World War I trench warfare could be nice if they could manage it without screwing up gameplay too much

[CaptHawkeye]

I once had this lame idea of using World in Conflict's tactical interface as an inspiration base for developing a Modern/World War 2: Total War battle system. But then I slapped myself out of my own stupid and warmed up to the realization that it wouldn't work.

[AJ!]

Heres aload of new screenshots for ya.

Plus the first land battle screenshots

http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/empire-...22164625990074

[Rotary Crewman]

Simply amazing

[CCIP]

Well they're sure not sparing any particle effects

[Raptor1]

I do hope they're not sparing the features as well

Looks extremely good so far

[mengle]

verry good, just like imperial glory but just better

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Well they're sure not sparing any particle effects

they are neither going to spare your computer......thats fore sure

HunterICX

Originally Posted by Raptor1

But that wouldn't be Total War would it?

Depends on your personal opinion on what total war is.

I'd personally still see it as total war no matter the battle engine.

[TheSatyr]

It is definitely on my "to buy" list. According to Sega it will supposedly be coming out sometime in November.