What are you looking forward to?

Well, since your infantry, cavalry and Arty cannot swim over the English channel to defeat France, I think there are certain countries suited for naval power. Especially those located on an island as Britain is.

It was the trouble for Holland in the 17th and 18th century to build a navy strong enough to rival britain for naval supremacy and to maintain an army large enough to keep France ( With Europes strongest land force)
at bay.

The cost of such an enterprise was even for the dutch economy disastrous.


Every continental state has such troubles, they exception maybe portugal, wich was protected by Spain over land (when they have an alliance of course)

When you build a large navy as say Prussia, you will be overwhelmed by the forces of Russia and Austria lurking on your borders.

When you build a large army for huge costs, as say Holland, to keep France from conquering your land, then your navy, colonial empire and economy will be crushed by the english fleet.

So trouble... :wall:

But not for Britain, Cause England never had the need for an enormous standing army, because they could sink other armies before they invaded.


So England is suited for Naval domination. (Presumed the english get rid of the Scotts of course)

The strategic option here then is to neutralise Britain. Invade or or foment unrest. Although the quality of Britain's troops was relatively high they were never very numerous, so if you can get a foothold you might succeed.

This is what happened, with the French supporting rebellions and trying to organise invasions. However, they were never successful at it, mainly because a strong RN stopped the invasions and limited the support for rebellions. Hmm... What to do? Just do it fast and successfully.:yes:

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Originally Posted by BoyarPunk

2. Making alliances actually worth something. Have an diplo-option similar to Europa Universalis wherein if you go to war, your ally(-ies) immediately must choose to honor your alliance and fight alongside you (or subsequently back out and lose a tremendous amount of respect). Likewise, if your ally goes to war with faction neutral to you, you have the option to support your ally or take a big hit against your reputation/prestige by stiffing them.

I've always dreamed of seeing campaign battles with one or more allies fighting along side you against one of more opponents. Have never come close to seeing that happen in any campaign going all the way back to MTW.

Implementing multi-faction battles would truly make alliances so much more worthwhile and the battles themsselves so much more epic.

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If your ally wants / needs your help they should send a diplomat asking for it and stating what help they require. There should be penalties for not helping (other than losing an ally to an enemy faction, which becomes more powerful).

Same when you ally attacks a neutral country, they should ask you to supply troops (in a similar manner to a crusade).

Well, the English may not have had a large number of standing land armies but at least for coastal invasions and raids the sailors on the ships were used to increase manpower. Also they relied heavily on auxilaries/mercs for a large number of campaigns far from the English mainland. (The use of indian regiments for example for over 150 years. Hell they were even in africa fighting the Italians and Germans.) So yes Britain didn't really need a large standing land army anyways. Oh and there are only ten factoins and three continents. Australia, South America, Antartica, and Africa are being left out for the most part. (It should however feature bits of North Africa. So really they kind of scewed you over historically wise.

This however is balanced by the fact that if they did include Africa, it would be pretty much rebel hunting half naked black men for most of the game.....

There will be more than 10 factions in Empire.

Jack Lusted

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There will be more than 10 factions in Empire.

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What? slightly more than 10 factions? That isn't enough.
Or I incorrectly understand you... Maybe 10 playable factions?

One other thing, if this is supposed to go along historical lines, will Napolean be there? Like an event or something. If he is there he better have insane bonuses for his character. Kind of like the Kingdoms one I am guessing. Also, the Americans are going to have to revolt when Britains at war with France. Otherwise Britain will just crush the poor dumb bastards...

"The game will include 10 playable factions including Britain, Prussia, France, Spain, America and the massive Ottoman Empire."

That was taken from the sight. I hope there isn't a crap load of non-playable factions... Having like 15 versions of Aztecs, Papal States and Invading hordes gets boring after ahwhile....

Check out the summary thread you CA guys :tongue:

(as should everyone else :yes:)

This game is going to be massive!!! The thing I'm looking forward to is the uniform's of this period as major nation's had started to uniform their armies in national colour's Prussian Blue,Russian Green,British Red and so on......and if CA show the same detail to uniform's as in MTW2 then this is going to be awesome.British Ship's of the Line taking on all comer's....well she did rule the waves more or less.....this period saw the start of her empire building.
Bigger land battles with sub-commander's who can react and think for themselves so I can be focusing somewhere else on the battlefield.
The disappearance of deployment area's on the battlefield and the fact that you have to march on the map and deploy in your order of battle.Not all land battles started with armies facing each other as some general's did tactical manovering,flank marches etc.
Finally I hope CA and the maker's of ETW will take note of thing's said in this forum or are we all just wasting our time writing these message's while we wait in earnest for the game to come out and CA will please themselves what they put in or out of the game.....remember it's sales that counts.