OFFICIAL-Demo Release Date

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/42851

Hi guys,


I am pleased to report that our official Empire: Total War demo will be available via Steam from 4pm GMT on Friday 20th February.

Giving you a taste of the epic engagements that you'll be experiencing from 3rd March, the demo will take you through the basics of land and naval command and then unleash you in two historical battles!

You will get to play as the mighty British Empire as they do battle against the Americans in the 'Battle of Brandywine Creek' and then take on the French Navy in the 'Battle of Lagos'...

Battle of Brandywine Creek

After landing from his transport ships on the American coast, Major-General Sir William Howe led the British troops eastwards, with the intention of capturing Philadelphia.

In preparation, American General George Washington readied most of his units to defend from this frontal assault around the narrow crossing of Chad's Ford on the Brandywine. The Creek flows through the countryside of Pennsylvania, enveloped by sheer cliffs and heavily wooded hills on both sides. Safe in the knowledge the fast flowing creek could not easily be crossed; Washington was confident of holding his position.

However, more detailed surveillance of the terrain would suggest that alternative routes could turn the battle in the favour of the British.

Battle of Lagos

As so often in 18th Century warfare, French plans to invade England during the Seven Years War were reliant on ships from the naval base at Toulouse joining ships from Brest. The British had both ports blockaded, and the French had to wait for one of the blockading fleets to withdraw for re-supply before attempting any rendezvous.

The opportunity came when the British fleet under Admiral Boscawen at Toulon withdrew to Gibraltar. The French under Jean-François de la Clue-Sabran left Toulon, and began to make their way towards Brest. Passing the Straits of Gibraltar, the French were spotted by Boscawen's lookout ships.

Giving chase, Boscawen's fleet was only slightly larger than the French force, and caught up with them off the coast of Portugal where battle was joined. Take control of the British and defeat the French to end the invasion threat to Britain.

We hope that you enjoy playing our demo, which will give you a small taste of Empire: Total War action in preparation to leading your own empire to victory in March!

Thanks,

Mark O'Connell

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
THE DEMO LEGIONS HAVE PREVAILED!!!
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The anticipation is killing me!

Woooo!

Party in this thread! :elephant: :birthday2:~:cheers::elephant::cheerleader:

Most excellent news, we can finally play ETW for ourselves. :2thumbsup:

Needless to say I can't wait. :beam:

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Battle of Brandywine Creek

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Will there be Hobbits?

Excellent news! Thanks, Mark!

a real date and a test of band width at steam.

If the new video that came out today took forever to load/download, how bad will it be to try to snag the demo?

Awesome! :2thumbsup:

~:cheers:



Yeah, that pretty much sums it up...

I was kinda hopng for a limited (severly limited) version of skirmish battles with a choice of 2 facions and a handfull of low quality troops/ships to choose from... i dont know how on earth I ended up with that expectaion, but hey at least we are getting a demo! :2thumbsup:

...we are not going get any peace from Polemists for the next 6-12 hours are we?

Let's not tell him, lol

Well, where is he? Fainted?

on topic: YAY! FINALLY! YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! :yes:

Heres hoping he hasnt died of shock. ~:)

Looking forward to it - thanks CA!

CR

Well in a few hours I can play DoW2. Looks like I wont spend my money on Empire until April or later.

Polemists and the rest of you who are not registered at Steam had better do so before the download time…

Any increase in speed will pay off later.

I may not know much about steam but I don’t see how the speed will be increased if we install now instead of last minute.

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Originally Posted by Greyblades

I may not know much about steam but I don’t see how the speed will be increased if we install now instead of last minute.

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Because of the time it takes to get your account and passwords set up.:idea2:

To go with that, it may be a bit slow when ¾ of the world tries to do the same thing at once.

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done just for this game:D

is there any way of making the download start automaticly (am at work that time)

Wonderful!:2thumbsup:

Does someone know how big that demo will be?? :book:

He is most likely sleeping. Now that there is a date I am good and can wait, two historical battles is what the Demo has always been so I am glad. Something to do now till march. As for Steam already have it, and have had it for 2 years now. Just got to wait

DEMO!!!!!

Great news!!!

Polemists is going to get one hell of a wake up call...
Oh I've got steam sorted. Phew. I had forgotten how much of a great big avert the main page looked like.

Excellent....:laugh4:

yaya but sad at the same time cos thats like 14 hours away lolz. guess i have to bow to the inevitable evil steam and register

DEUS VULT!!!!

w00t, thats 9AM my time and I just happen to have tomorrow off work! Wonder what I'll be doing Friday afternoon?

As far as download times goes, isn't Steam partially p2p? So it shouldn't be too bad.

I've always had great download speeds from Steam

I GET FRIDAYS OFF UNI THIS IS PERFECT!!!!!!

:beam::beam::beam::beam::beam::beam::beam::beam:

Yeah right! This must be some sick joke. I must be dreaming.:dizzy2: I can hardly believe it. I am sure my computer will probably explode when I boot it up tomorrow.:wall: I just won't believe it until I fire my first volley.:applause: