Quote Originally Posted by Mailman653 View Post
I wonder how the unit will differ from a ship of the line. What would motivate me to build the ship if its available when I can equally build a triple decked ship with more firepower.
Mailman, could it have something to do with the timing of when it's available in the game, specifically for the Americans? Maybe it's one of those things where the better ships aren't available for the Americans early in the game but then the Constitution eventually becomes obsolete.

Quote Originally Posted by Mailman653 View Post
And where does it say the ship is a special pre-order thing? Cause I've seen this story about the special unit for quite some time.
Not special pre-order but exclusive to certain retailers, like BB. In my post you'll see that it says "the U.S.S. Constitution is available as an in-game download when E:TW is pre-ordered or purchased from Best Buy." I looked at Gamestop just now and they don't show it, didn't see it on the Amazon listing either. It's really hard to tell what the picture shows on the BB website but there is something in the upper right-hand corner that I didn't see in the package pictures on other sites.

On the page linked below CA/Sega show it under Pre Order a Box Copy in Retail but further inspection shows that it doesn't have to be pre-ordered from them, as in the quote in my last paragraph.

A Google search showed that Play.com is supposed to have the exclusive in the UK. I actually noticed that when I was searching for retailers that were carrying the download in general to see if there were any other US retailers.

Source: http://www.totalwar.com/empire/gameinfo/pre_order.php