Is anyone else looking forward to their old tactics being out of date.

[IlDuce]

I can't really say much about Shogan as I've never played that but it's always seemed that mostly the tactics of R:TW carried over to M:TW and vice versa. But with E:TW it looks like we're going to have to re-evaluate and will probably lose a fair few battles at first. Then of course there's the brand new naval battles. As much as I looked forward to Rome and Medieval 2 this seems like an entirely new game. Sort of how GTA improved with 3, VC and SA but really changed with GTA4.

Or are you more apprehensive/hostile about these changes. I could see why some people wouldn't like the change from the formula of the previous games we all enjoyed. We are creatures of habit.

[crazyviking03]

I am super pumped. Nothing will ever be the same as Shogun lol, but Empire is touching my favorite period in history. Im actually looking forward to a more infantry centered army, as I was never a fan of using too much cav in any of hte previous games.

[Shadow_Wolf33]

I played mostly with archer/artillery heavy based armies anyway. Empire will be a nice break for me actually, as I wont have to use up 4/8 slots on infantrymen on the off chance the enemy army is able to get off a charge against my lines. I never was a big cavalry user anyway, I'd much rather stand at range and fire the bows etc.

This game might be right up my alley tactics-wise, especially if there's good anti-infantry artillery that's effective.

The naval battles I'm really going to have to work on though, and develop a good tactic for. Otherwise my ships will be afraid to leave port without numbers that would be considered an armada or fleet by all current standards. 5 french ships sailing against my 10? I can't micro that!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES MEN!!!

[Sir Beane]

I'm a lot like Shadow_Wolf33. My playstyle consisted of defensively using lots of archers with a few heavy troops as support. Empire will be great because my tactics actually work a lot better than they did in previous games .

In fact I was quite suprised when I utterly destroyed the Americans in the Demo. I thought I was going to lose at first until I learned how things worked .

But it will definitely be nice to have to get used to new tactical challenges.

[Fondor_Yards]

Considering musket range is basically the same as javelin range, based off the demo at least I'll get along fine.

[Hollerbach]

The demo has already shown me that my old tactics don't work! I'm also a big fan of archer types in previous TW games, however I've found that the musket weilding troops in the ETW demo feel very different the archers of previous games. Plus when drill firing etc become factors I think this will really be a whole new experience!

[Beskar]

My old play style was in its basics - Archers, Ongars and Riders. (plus some urban cohorts to kill pesky greek pikemen)

In a sense, nothing has changed, except for the fact is like like archers versus archers where I usually was just killing footmen in comparison.

I would be interested to see the range of troops we get though. In terms of numbers, strength and range.