The Official Hopes, Dreams and Fears Topic

**rajpoot** · 07-22-2008, 08:39

Most of the listed hopes I'm sure are going to be realized, some of them like drummers infact have been confirmed. The dreams I fear, won't be :(
I have always thought men would look distinct if they a few extra model insted of skins. I mean, it will make a whole lot of difference if the individual has the same uniform as the next one but is a mite taller. The formations would look a lot more realistic too then......I never understood why do they not have soldiers with difference in their hights or, their build......
Again, sharpshooters I doubt we shall see. Perhaps as a whole specific unit, but not interspread with others, the screenshots don't show any 'different looking' units in the columns of musketeers.
Of the fears, we have rocketships in there, and probably they'll be in use many times more than they ever were in reality.

My own fear; We won't have larger unit scales, the same old 200 men at the most on huge.
And that my computer will never be able to run this game anyway. lol.

**sassbarman** · 07-22-2008, 09:23

Honestly the only dream i have is that there will actually be some sort of challenge from the a.i. for the expierenced player. I hadn't played med 2 for probably close to 4 months or so and just recently
started up a new campaigne as the moors, and was immediately reminded of how inept the a.i. is in this game.

**Marius Dynamite** · 07-22-2008, 13:21

Dreams,

I just really want the diplomacy to be a lot better. I would like to see Wars be declared, given a name then allies declaring what they will do in the war, or if they will back out of their alliance and remain neutral. When the war is won territory captured should be divided up between the victors, depending on both common sense and how much each faction contributed to victory. For example, if France declares war on Spain and captures territory in the pyrenees and Spain asks Britain for help then the territory won back should go to Spain and not Britain, but Britain should recieve more of the reparation money from France. France decides wether to go into Total War or to admit it cannot beat the alliance and pay the reparations.

Its just a dream though because I cant imagine being Spain, asking the British AI for help in the pyrenees and them sending significant help within a reasonable time in the total war engine, although I think these kind of things should be in Total War games by now.

**Dutch_guy** · 07-22-2008, 15:06

I'm still hoping for some sort of a Glorious Achievements mode, by far my prefered mode in MTW.

**Martok** · 07-22-2008, 19:13

I definitely second wanting a competent AI (both on *and* off the battlefield), as well as a robust diplomacy system.

By "robust", I don't necessarily mean a diplomacy model where you have tons of different diplomatic options (although that would certainly be nice), but in that when you form an alliance with a faction, that it actually means something. Allies shouldn't backstab you unless they have a very good reason to do, *and* actually have a reasonable chance of winning. I don't want to see a repeat of MTW where small factions with only 1-2 provinces decide to backstab their superpower ally (who has 30 provinces).

Originally Posted by Dutch_guy

I'm still hoping for some sort of a Glorious Achievements mode, by far my prefered mode in MTW.

That would be lovely as well.

I don't want to have to conquer half the map in order to "win".

**Divinus Arma** · 07-23-2008, 21:25

Originally Posted by Martok

I definitely second wanting a competent AI (both on *and* off the battlefield), as well as a robust diplomacy system.

By "robust", I don't necessarily mean a diplomacy model where you have tons of different diplomatic options (although that would certainly be nice), but in that when you form an alliance with a faction, that it actually means something. Allies shouldn't backstab you unless they have a very good reason to do, *and* actually have a reasonable chance of winning. I don't want to see a repeat of MTW where small factions with only 1-2 provinces decide to backstab their superpower ally (who has 30 provinces).

I second that! Here, here!