Assorted VI Questions

[Kongamato]

Random questions of mine on the upcoming Viking Invasion Expansion Pack.

If this thread does not belong, then by all means do what is necessary with it. I am very tired so I might miss something.

1: Will there be any new music included for the Vikings or other factions?

2: Will kind of diplomatic system is being incorporated into the Viking era strat game?

3: Do any of the new cav units get to ride ass-kicking jet-black horses?

4: Will gunpowder infantry recieve improved missile power, or would that be inaccurate?

5: How will the game be sold?

6: When will we first get to play an RTW demo? Could it be included in VI?

Thats all for now.

[Captain Fishpants]

Quote[/b] (Kongamato @ Jan. 30 2003,02:18)]Random questions of mine on the upcoming Viking Invasion Expansion Pack.

If this thread does not belong, then by all means do what is necessary with it. I am very tired so I might miss something.

1: Will there be any new music included for the Vikings or other factions?

2: Will kind of diplomatic system is being incorporated into the Viking era strat game?

3: Do any of the new cav units get to ride ass-kicking jet-black horses?

4: Will gunpowder infantry recieve improved missile power, or would that be inaccurate?

5: How will the game be sold?

6: When will we first get to play an RTW demo? Could it be included in VI?

Thats all for now.
OK, all reasonable questions, and answered in a hopefully reasonable way:

1: Yes, the Vikings Campaign gets new music fror the Vikings. Actually, it gets rather good new music

2: The diplomacy system is much as before - as in you have to drop an emissary on someone to offer a treaty. But given that emissaries are created "late" in the Viking campaign tech tree, princesses become rather important as diplomats as well as potential wives.

3: I've not spotted any ass-kicking jet-black horses as such, no. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

4: There aren't any new gunpowder-based infantry in the pack, as the focus is on a period some 400 years earlier than the arrival of gunpowder in Europe. On the other hand, we've included a new cannon, the Organ Gun, as part of the additional material for the original campaign.

5: The game is coming out as an add-on pack - 1 CD in a DVD-style case plus manual. It'll be available in stores and online retailers.

6: Sorry, the pack won't be including a Rome: Total War demo.

MikeB ~ CA

[Kongamato]

Thank you.

[Kristaps]

Just wondered: will there be a way to play an early/early Europe wide viking campaign? In the history, they did manage to conquer parts of France, and even Africa; they also ruled most of Russia and Ukraine; at times harassing even the Byzantines.

[Kristaps]

Still wondering: how abouts extending the M:TW into later centuries? Europe was a mess with a good number of fairly equal rivals all up to the WW II.