dose anyone play on generals cam?

I always played the gen´s cam when playing the Romans in RTR since their formations was pretty reliable. Tried it in EB too but had to let it go. I kinda like the concept though as it makes it painfully obvious how hard battles was to fight back then.

So, a question for those who have used General's Cam, did you zoom it right into the General? I've tried this before and it was INCREDIBLY hard.

no I don't although this could be consided cheating in a seens we have some areas that they had and we didn't. like messages or the sound of troop fighting, trumps for signals and the sences of danges behind or near you :skull:

anyway that my view

I zoom the cam right to the general in most cases.But sometimes it is impossible to give some even simple orders with such zoom due to the way of army controlling in RTW.
IMHO ,RTW wasn't designed to play with general cam,it simply doesn't have proper interface for that and we can only imagine some things as king Hannibal says.

In real life the general would not have to personally control his army. Before the battle he would probably meet with his capitains, and tell them what he wants, but during the actual fighting the decisions would be taken by unit capitains. It would simply be impossible to micromanage a battle. There are too many factors involved, and the time delay needed for reports to reach, and orders come back from, the general, would probably see the unit dead before it knew what to do. Obviously large scale decisions like when to charge, when to withdraw, when to flank could be ordered from the top, but telling the units where to charge would be down to them, as no one else can accurately gauge the enemy at that point.
Was it Sun Tzu who said 'a battle plan only works until you make contact with the enemy' (or words to that effect)...
Since the units in RTW dont think for themselves, I believe that trying to act as a limited general does not really give an accurate battle. Without control they will blindly walk into suicidal situations, or miss obvious weaknesses in the enemy army...

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Originally Posted by Kugutsu

In real life the general would not have to personally control his army. Before the battle he would probably meet with his capitains, and tell them what he wants, but during the actual fighting the decisions would be taken by unit capitains. It would simply be impossible to micromanage a battle. There are too many factors involved, and the time delay needed for reports to reach, and orders come back from, the general, would probably see the unit dead before it knew what to do. Obviously large scale decisions like when to charge, when to withdraw, when to flank could be ordered from the top, but telling the units where to charge would be down to them, as no one else can accurately gauge the enemy at that point.
Was it Sun Tzu who said 'a battle plan only works until you make contact with the enemy' (or words to that effect)...
Since the units in RTW dont think for themselves, I believe that trying to act as a limited general does not really give an accurate battle. Without control they will blindly walk into suicidal situations, or miss obvious weaknesses in the enemy army...

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In my case I'm not trying to make it more 'real'. No, I'm trying to make up for the 'thick as a post' AI and have some fun. Plus, I still control my whole army except in rare cases when I'm a mile away from a few units (in which case I group them up and put them under AI control). This all falls into the 'to each their own' category. :2thumbsup: