Who are you going to play as first?

[Polemists]

Yea you guys are welcome to correct me but if you find the IGN article, I believe it states that when England revolts there is a chance the 13 colonies may form, and you DO have the option to either continue playing as England or to start playing as the 13 colonies in the grand campaign.

This all depends on unrest though, as other players have pointed out. If you do want to play as america quickly it is best to start unrest early, because if you wait until 1770's the game's going to be nearing it's end by time you form.

Like I said,

The mechanics of revolts are not all that concreate but my best guess still remains that if a colony rebels, it becomes a emergent factions, aka: Greece, Ireland, etc. This is similiar to rebels in Rome given names, Gladiator Uprising , etc.

If your own faction revolts, then it pushes regieme change, and then you can choose to side with loyalist or rebels.


13 colonies is only known emergent faction you can play.


Thus is my knowledge thus far, just restating the facts from earlier, I believe this is all in the summary thread.


Of course it's all speculation until we get our hands on.


THE


DEMO

[Sir Beane]

Yea you guys are welcome to correct me but if you find the IGN article, I believe it states that when England revolts there is a chance the 13 colonies may form, and you DO have the option to either continue playing as England or to start playing as the 13 colonies in the grand campaign.

This all depends on unrest though, as other players have pointed out. If you do want to play as america quickly it is best to start unrest early, because if you wait until 1770's the game's going to be nearing it's end by time you form.

Like I said,

The mechanics of revolts are not all that concreate but my best guess still remains that if a colony rebels, it becomes a emergent factions, aka: Greece, Ireland, etc. This is similiar to rebels in Rome given names, Gladiator Uprising , etc.

If your own faction revolts, then it pushes regieme change, and then you can choose to side with loyalist or rebels.


13 colonies is only known emergent faction you can play.


Thus is my knowledge thus far, just restating the facts from earlier, I believe this is all in the summary thread.


Of course it's all speculation until we get our hands on.


THE


DEMO

It will probably still be speculation even after we see a demo, since CA aren't in the habit of including a portion of the campaign map with their demos.

[Polemists]

Way to crush my dreams beanie.


Actually no one knows about the demo, because so far our demos have always included either tutorial bits or historical battles, yet rumor is ETW has no historical battles.

Yet CA has been bound determined thus far to not give players just a custom battle in the demo.

So we may see something like part 1 of RTI you never know.



That said, whowever is in the DEMO

is who I will be playing first

[Sir Beane]

Way to crush my dreams beanie.


Actually no one knows about the demo, because so far our demos have always included either tutorial bits or historical battles, yet rumor is ETW has no historical battles.

Yet CA has been bound determined thus far to not give players just a custom battle in the demo.

So we may see something like part 1 of RTI you never know.



That said, whowever is in the DEMO

is who I will be playing first

Actually I think you might be on to something with the idea they will include part of the RTI campaign.

Maybe we will see the first part of the third chapter, the Battle of Bunker Hill?

[Polemists]

Assuming the the Battle of Bunker Hill?

Is basically the bare bone basics of defending, attacking, and etc on the battle map I don't see why not. I'd be similiar to the shogun tutorial in the Shogun Demo (yes folks, I go that far back in my demo crazes).

Obviously we'd be playing 13 colonies against the british, and it may not be moddable as it's scripted.

Still I am interested to see the minutemen units against the cannons of england.

[ainamacil]

It's gotta be the 13 Colonies. I've been an England player through two Medievals (the only campaign I've played where England was an option and I didn't play them the first time through was the Britannia Campaign, where I conquered all with the Green fist of my Irish forefathers), but now it's time to play the armies of my own country.

Huzzah!

[bloodshed]

Has it been confirmed that the only way you could play as the 13 colonies in the GC is by a revolt. Or when you beat the RtI it takes you to the campaign? The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 isnt the game only from 1700-1799 so when you finish RtI you would only have like 30 something turns to conquer everything your suppose to? Im just confused lol.