What Are You Looking Forward To Most In Empire?

**Durango** · 02-06-2009, 19:32

Originally Posted by seireikhaan

An integrated military and diplomatic AI.

Hear Hear!

Being that I can't vote yet, I'll just write:

Tricornes!

Scottish Highlanders!

Larger map!

Smoke and the *kaboom* of cannons!

Subtle and elegant interface!

Marching music!

My country represented finally!

Snobbery and arrogance!

This is just what we can see, at the moment. Regarding AI, only speculation is possible, but I have my hopes up. I love this time period. After all, Total War at its very core is about formations of men fighting. And you can't have more emphasis on formation than in the 18th and early 19th century - with the exception of phalanxes during Alexandrian times.

**Freedom Onanist** · 02-06-2009, 19:46

The time priod

Ehm.............

That's it really. TW was meant for this period from the start, everything we've had to date was just groping around in the dark. Let the Enlightnment shine a light in the darkness of religiosity and superstition!

**ollicompolli** · 02-06-2009, 20:36

I'm looking forward to: Naval battles
Bigger map ( our good old elephants in India)
Better bribery options (in Rome too easy, in Medieval impossible)

What other time period will CA take then? Rome 2? 'Cause i'm not seeing WW2: Total War.

**Quintus.JC** · 02-06-2009, 20:48

Enhanced Diplomacy and Politics for the win!

They'd better

**Phog_of_War** · 02-06-2009, 21:06

I cant vote yet so...

I am very intrested in the new naval battles.

Also the development of new and different tactics on the battlefield. TW players are not used to just lining up infantry and letting them blast away at each other. IMO, lines of infantry just look like big, fat targets for my cannon.

**General SupaCrunk** · 02-06-2009, 21:53

All.

**Polemists** · 02-07-2009, 07:27

Speaking as someone who played HRE in MTW, Carthage in RTW, Western Rome in BI, and France in MTW2, most of the time, I have to say a improved diplomacy and military is the win.

It's not the trade rights, map information or techs that will do it in for me.

It's the idea that in the past, there were seiges against me the likes of which the world had never seen before.

At times I'd have 6 to 7 factions all fighting me, while barely fighting each other, sending 2 or 3 stacks of troops against me, a turn, while just blockading ports of other foes. Then when I'd finally hold 4-5 of these factions off and finish off one, lo and behold suddenly Milan or Vandals or some other random faction just "Suddenly" attacks.

So if the unification AI against the player will end, and factions will start acting like independent factions. I'll be VERY apprecative.