The road to Independence disscusion

**Emperor of Graal** · 01-13-2009, 19:48

The Road to Independence. This is a single player campaign mode in which the player
fights the British to gain independence in America

**Sir Beane** · 01-13-2009, 20:04

Since it doesn't replace a pre-existing feature I don't see any reason why CA shouldn't make it. If done well it will be a change of pace and a nice little story driven campaign, if done badly then no one actually has to play it.

I don't see a downside really.

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 01-13-2009, 22:01

There is only a limited amount of development time to go around. Time spend on this isn't spend on some other feature.
The less of that time is spend pandering to our trans-Atlantic friends and the more is put in to increasing the core game value the better. As such I'm not in favour of The Road to Independence. Doesn't help in the least that I'm more sympathetic to the Redcoats then the tax dodging, tea throwing Colonials.

**Praxil** · 01-14-2009, 00:09

Ugh! Voted wrong thing, it will be nice to see how this campaign will be done.

**ConnMon** · 01-14-2009, 01:49

I can't vote, but I think it's a good idea. As Sir Beane said, its not changing/removing anything, so why not?

**Polemists** · 01-14-2009, 05:37

I choose undecided, here's why.

Overall I am against the 13 colonies as a major faction of a EMPIRE total war game, as it is not a empire till after (if you wish to call it that.)

Now, that said, it's done. It's made, it's in the game, it's playable. If something is playable and in the game, I will play it. If it's broke and useless, at least it dosn't interfere with main game, if it is fun, and people like it, you can look forward to more story driven campaigns in other TW games.

**General SupaCrunk** · 01-14-2009, 20:00

Yes very good idea!

**Emperor of Graal** · 01-14-2009, 20:11

Yes I like more of the personality with advisors

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 01-14-2009, 20:43

I'm too hardcore for a tutorial campaign.

**Emperor of Graal** · 01-14-2009, 21:01

Go to this website and watch the clip.
http://www.totalwar.com/
it tells about the RTI or Road to Independence
Watching it starts to look more special feature than Tutorial
Not to go against you FisherKing for as far as I know
you could be right

**Sir Beane** · 01-14-2009, 21:15

Just to clear up the Tutorial issue.

Yes. The Road to Independance will function as a Tutorial. However CA seem to be aiming to make it more complex. I believe while the beginning is a tutorial the later chapters will be more akin to the normal campaign, except with story and fixed goals.

So yes we will probably see some advisor lectures at the start and so on. After all that is over it will just be a story driven campaign, which will probably be worth playing through once even if you know what you are doing.

For what it's worth CA have stated repeatedly that it will have something to offer to veterans of the series. Whether you believe that or not is your call.