View Full Version : What unit size do you play on? (RTW)
Personally i play on default (large), as i feel this is how the game is meant to be played and it reduces balence issues (MTW experience speaking there)
Darth Binky
10-10-2004, 06:26
Default is large?
I swear default on my comp was medium. I play it on large.
Plucesiar
10-10-2004, 06:57
default is medium
huh? i dunno, i got 80 men in a unit and it says large in the options........i never touched the unit size after cavaly got way too powerful in MTW on huge.
I did hit 'performance settings' so maybe that changed it?!
I think it autodetects your computer's graphics capabilities and sets the settings to that, although you can change it. Mine has been large (eg: 81 men Hastati) since the beginning.
I play on huge. It adds a lot more depth to the game, as the death ratio remains the same, but it instantly means a lot more men. Now try it with a barbarian faction like germans, where your biggest city has about 3000 men at start, and you'll soon value even the cheapest peasant (as it means 240 of your precious men).
Other than that, it just looks nice to have large armies running around the screen.
There is something bad about it too: the rather weak pathfinding has real trouble handling huge units. In cities this can get especially painful and frustrating.
I agree csebal. Playing with huge unit sizes just feel much more epic.
Despite that, I actually play with large unit sizes. Mainly because some AI factions (especially the Germans) simply can't control their economy when starting with that many soldiers, which really unbalances the game. Hope CA fixes this soon...
Mr. taxi
10-10-2004, 17:34
I play with huge too. Makes the battles seem more epic. Only problem is indeed the pathfinding. Combine that with my laziness and I only get battles in castles. Why?
Because I bribe every army on the world map. Kinda lazy but yeah. It works. That does make every battle seem like a disaster though. Just trying to get a unit of equites (or anything else for that matter) to stand in a double line formation within a street is a disaster. Sometimes the unit turns around and tries to find a way on the other side of the city!!
If there's one thing they should fix. It's this.
Amon_Zeth
10-11-2004, 00:24
Medium. I'd rather have more effects than more soldiers.
I started my campaign with medium setting but the decided to change it to large. I'm still producing troops with medium numbers but custom battles are large.
Huge, cause my hardware can just handle it with everything on medium.
Tyburn JIG
10-12-2004, 17:46
I started my campaign with medium setting but the decided to change it to large. I'm still producing troops with medium numbers but custom battles are large.
I think you need to start a new campaign for the large unit size to take effect.
Tyburn JIG
10-12-2004, 17:48
...and by the way i voted medium. :)
Tried to edit my last post to say this but there seems to be no option for this.
Matthias
10-13-2004, 01:40
I usually play on large. I have wanted to try huge, but as i only had 256 MB of ram until now, i figured i should stick with large.
Medieval Assassin
10-13-2004, 03:09
I play on huge, when you play on huge, when you train a unit in a town with under 8000 people, its likely to subtract people from that town even after your growth is taken into account, on medium, you can build and build and it wont effect it much at all.
Small for me, but not from choice. It's all my old box will run.
I'm quite looking forward to upgrading so I can try large or huge size units. It just doesn't feel right to be fielding Hastati in tiny blocks, or to see small gangs of hoplites marching around. Still, it probably makes city assault maneuvering easier.
Huge but careful with seiges&formations!
smoothiemaker
10-14-2004, 01:35
the defalt is normal on normal vidio quality and large and high vidio quality.
i play with normall becouse i use horse calvery and when lard they have a proplem skimerishing and normall makes it easyer to munerver infintry.
ps: wish you could couse what units what sive i wish theses were unit sived opsions
achers: small, normal, large, huge
infintry: small, normal, large, huge
spearmen/pikemen/hoplites: small, normal, large, huge
calvery: small, normal, large, huge
chariots: small, normal, large, huge
horse calvery: small, normall, large, huge
if this was so my opions would be
achers: huge
infintry: norrnal
spearmen/pikemen/hoplites: small
calvery:small
chariots:huge
horse calvery: normal
praetorians cavalry
10-14-2004, 12:53
I play on huge.I love a battle with lots of men
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