Campaign Timescale

[Sir Beane]

The rediculously slow movement speed has always bugged me about Total War games. Take England for example. In Med 2 it takes around five or six turns I think to get from the South of England to the top of Scotland, without roads.

If we think back to the Battle of Hastings. After Harold defeated the other Harold at Stirling bridge how long did it take him to get back down South to Hastings? I think it took him a couple of days. The same thing on Medieval 2 would have taken the better part of two years, at least.

Another example is sailing from the Old World to the New. If my info is correct he made it from Spain to the Bahamas in five weeks. And that was sailing more or less blind with a ship that is technologically inferior to those in Empire.

Ships in Empire should at least be able to make it from North America to Europe in a turn, even on a 4 turns a year game.

The speend of Med 2 ships makes me think they were all experimenting with piloting boats without sails, or maybe they got a few guys to get out and push :P