47thlegion
04-17-2012, 12:31
hi all, love the game,wasn't too keen on shogun 2 as am a big napoleon TW fan but now with added firepower i find that FOTS is a great game with mix of guns and steel and i have already spent way too many hours on it.
i like the battle realism mode and always use it now as find it far better although can be annoying with no map when chasing down the scurrying enemy and they get stuck somewhere in the forest that u cant see and have to wait for ages, which brings me to my first question. when you beat an enemy in battle and it gives u the opportunity to end battle, i tend to always continue so i can take as many down as possible so to avoid any annoying remainder loitering in my provinces and causing trouble, this can take a while though so is it worth it? or if you end a battle do you take a fair amount of those left on the map? anyone know?
i completed a aizu long campaign on very hard with battle realism on. am now tackling imperial on legendary but DAMN its hard. i find the hardest part the first twenty or thirty turns while you are trying to get two or three provinces and some decent income going. i made it through this period with stasuma and was doing well (so i thought) until about turn 90 when my neglected navy was beaten in one turn by hordes of other navies who destroyed all my ports and left me in an untenable position in which i could not build a navy because i had no money or ports and if i did manage to build a few ships they would be swiftly trounced by one of the enemies, had to quit that campaign to much annoyance.
i think i have found TOSA incredibly difficult to get going on due to lack of funds and CHOSA because everyone around you declares war and slowly grinds you into dust.
so anyone else got any thoughts on legendary imperial games and how and with who to gain a foothold(ideally with chosa or tosa), i have learnt that i need a good navy by turn 90 or so as i found with SATSUMA and also with SAGA, its so annoying when you have no seapower by the time the enemies have a big force
thanks
P.S: on the total war forums someone was moaning about the game being too easy and then when on to say that he didn't like the idea of not having a map during battle or the fact that you cant save in legendary so i assume he didnt play legendary, surely those two things make it harder (especially the no saves bit!) so what's he moaning about!! some people
i like the battle realism mode and always use it now as find it far better although can be annoying with no map when chasing down the scurrying enemy and they get stuck somewhere in the forest that u cant see and have to wait for ages, which brings me to my first question. when you beat an enemy in battle and it gives u the opportunity to end battle, i tend to always continue so i can take as many down as possible so to avoid any annoying remainder loitering in my provinces and causing trouble, this can take a while though so is it worth it? or if you end a battle do you take a fair amount of those left on the map? anyone know?
i completed a aizu long campaign on very hard with battle realism on. am now tackling imperial on legendary but DAMN its hard. i find the hardest part the first twenty or thirty turns while you are trying to get two or three provinces and some decent income going. i made it through this period with stasuma and was doing well (so i thought) until about turn 90 when my neglected navy was beaten in one turn by hordes of other navies who destroyed all my ports and left me in an untenable position in which i could not build a navy because i had no money or ports and if i did manage to build a few ships they would be swiftly trounced by one of the enemies, had to quit that campaign to much annoyance.
i think i have found TOSA incredibly difficult to get going on due to lack of funds and CHOSA because everyone around you declares war and slowly grinds you into dust.
so anyone else got any thoughts on legendary imperial games and how and with who to gain a foothold(ideally with chosa or tosa), i have learnt that i need a good navy by turn 90 or so as i found with SATSUMA and also with SAGA, its so annoying when you have no seapower by the time the enemies have a big force
thanks
P.S: on the total war forums someone was moaning about the game being too easy and then when on to say that he didn't like the idea of not having a map during battle or the fact that you cant save in legendary so i assume he didnt play legendary, surely those two things make it harder (especially the no saves bit!) so what's he moaning about!! some people