Ideas about ETW (AI, city ancillaries, universities, parallel building, civic virtue)

[Sheogorath]

Is this the point where I'm supposed to make a Welsh joke?

I dont know about Russians, but the Cossacks had an extensively horse-based diet :P

[Sir Beane]

Is this the point where I'm supposed to make a Welsh joke?

I dont know about Russians, but the Cossacks had an extensively horse-based diet :P

Eatin' horses makes ya faster... possibly.

Speaking of food, anyone have any info on what the average European or Russian soldier ate while soldiering? Fresh horse every day might not be so bad, considering the alternatives. From what I remember an interview mentioned Coleslaw as a researchable tech that staves off scurvy and therefore raises morale, what other delicious dishes might we be able to acquire for our men?

[Sheogorath]

I dont know for sure, but I imagine it was fairly similar to a sailors diet unless they could 'obtain' items from towns or bring live animals with them. That would mean lots of salt meat and hard bread/biscuits. One can certainly see why it was difficult to stop looters :P

I do know that Napoleon's army was one of the first to get canned rations, although not on a large scale.

[Sir Beane]

I dont know for sure, but I imagine it was fairly similar to a sailors diet unless they could 'obtain' items from towns or bring live animals with them. That would mean lots of salt meat and hard bread/biscuits. One can certainly see why it was difficult to stop looters :P

I do know that Napoleon's army was one of the first to get canned rations, although not on a large scale.

Thinking about it, canned rations may make it in as a tech we can research. It might raise morale through better nutrition or something similar.

If only the pot noodle had been invented in the 18th century. It would have livened up the rather bland diet.

Thinking about it an army at the time would have greatly benefited from a lot of modern foods. Foil packaging and other methods of keeping food fresh are something we take for granted but might have saved a soldier from malnutrition and death while on the march.

I'm sure Napoleon would have loved French Fries (the Walkers brand salted potato snacks, not the sliced potato treat, although he probably would have liked those to)

I wish that the baggage train and supply lines were represented in game so that food supples were something we actually had to worry about. It seems that in Total War a soldier can find all he needs despite being miles away from home, in Russia, in Winter, in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps they learned to live on snow and mud?

Supply lines would add an extra layer of depth and strategy into the game. It would mean assaults would have to be carefully planned, supply centres set up, supply lines protected with sufficient military force.

And we would have the chance to try and cripple an enemy advance by cutting off supplies and starving them out.

I'm not sure the A.I could cope with it, but it would be a blast in multiplayer and a great way to stop Blitzers.

[Sol Invictus]

I dont know for sure, but I imagine it was fairly similar to a sailors diet unless they could 'obtain' items from towns or bring live animals with them. That would mean lots of salt meat and hard bread/biscuits. One can certainly see why it was difficult to stop looters :P

I do know that Napoleon's army was one of the first to get canned rations, although not on a large scale.

That was Napoleon III though.