EMPIRE TOTAL WAR - CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL TRAILER!

[Divinus Arma]

I dont think those are settlements. I think they are capitals.

CA has already stated that there will be several settlements per territory. But then here it seems that there is only one piece of territory per country. Take the capital and you take the entirety of that country's land?

Would love to get CA in here to comment...

[Megas Methuselah]

Yeah, any comments from CA would be much appreciated...

I really need to know how the new province system works. And about the multiple settlements per province, I can't help but wonder if each little individual settlement is both capturable and garrisonable. (sp?)

[CBR]

Hm army movement and turn sequence seems to be the same as older titles. I guess the preview mentioning "Even commands are streamlined so that orders are issued and then moves made, thus speeding up turn time." was not the way we thought...


CBR

[TB666]

CA has already stated that there will be several settlements per territory. But then here it seems that there is only one piece of territory per country. Take the capital and you take the entirety of that country's land?

Well I think that if you take the capital, then you control that which is a blow for the enemy but you don't control the land.
You need to control the towns and resources as well to have total control over the land.

Like here for example

Where it says "Urban Growth".
When that bar is full, there will no doubt be a new town that appears on the map that the enemy needs to control as well.

[batemonkey]

When that bar is full, there will no doubt be a new town that appears on the map that the enemy needs to control as well.

Good spotting!

[Alerion]

it looks too awesome... I'm really hoping they pull this one off as good as it looks... and I really hope I somehow can afford a new PC, 'cause this game'd kill mine...

[Thermal]

stop it at 43 seconds and you'll see some of the diplomacy, things like trade rights not needing to be both ways i.e looks like you can demand trade off a country, but don't need to give it yourself!
other options like technology diplomat bar was interesting too, perhaps it could include sharing countries developments and resources!

at 48 seconds, its hard to see as the tab goes quick but it looks like you can only go into a region if your at war with someone, it says 'you do not have rights to this region, choose an option, declare war or cancel move' so this shows that the computer can only go on your land in war! a get the hell outta my land option at last!

stop att 1:22 and you'll see the amount of population has rose massively, madrid has 6 million, so realistic, or perhaps far-fetched population figures are in place at least! also here, public order for different classes is evident! green background for happy class, and orange/red for unhappy by the looks of it, a lot of income too, hopefully they'll be plenty of money in the game!

1:34 nice new building panel, tells u the level off the building too, quite sassy the type and the graphics makes it easy to access and looks nice too, i wonder what the infrastructure element will bring too.... at 1:36 we see the panel for a farm too, alot of new benefits have been put in place it seems aswell as a farm trait saying 'produces sheep' wow so perhaps things like even sheep can be resource for trade! after that it goes to a war factory with research elements! how cool...

from 2:37 onwards some nice pics of the continents! this looks awesome, i hope the release date is brought forward, though i doubt it, and to think they may still be working on it, this could be one hell of a good game!

[GFX707]

stop att 1:22 and you'll see the amount of population has rose massively, madrid has 6 million

Are you sure that's not for the entire region/country? The population of Madrid now is half that.

[Thermal]

Are you sure that's not for the entire region/country? The population of Madrid now is half that.

not sure, but its better than the maximum of about 30000 in med 2

[Sol Invictus]

I think the populaion number is for the entire Region not just the Capital City of the Region.