I was happy to report about Steams chat, for those who want to use it. And there are other great programs like Teamspeak and Skype, chat tools used by many Total War warrior teams.

http://www.teamspeak.com/

http://skype.com/

But very honestly I have found that after a few minutes in deployment saying basically that “we should wait and see what they do”, chat drops away. I’m sure that this is not true for everyone, but text is satisfactory for me.

I am reading the enemy and my teammate’s movements, and responding the best I know how. That is the game to me. Total focus is on the action, not much time for words beyond a “NOW” to coordinate an attack