New French preview

[quadalpha]

Some press thing in Paris. Report here: http://www.universtotalwar.fr/Forum/...showtopic=2294

New info:

- Trade agreements increase relations over time.
- Scotland and Ireland will be prone to rebellion at the beginning, especially Scotland, and will be able to form new nations.
- Trade routes colour coded to indicate status.
- You can appoint generals from your most experienced units!
- Infantry can use grapples for climbing walls.
- The population of a captured city prefer that you didn't destroy it in the capturing.
- Captured ships can be renamed.
- Loading is much faster, except when there's a town involved.
- They saw 4x4 multiplayer going on.
- You can demand the surrender of a beseiged town before battle.
- The lack of sound in the demo was due to a missing file ... but there won't be pipes or fifes.
- They will be working a set of modding tools.
- Rumours of an expansion based on Robert Lee's battles; speculation about a Napoleonic or a Civil War expansion.

[Megas Methuselah]

Except for the exclusion of pipes and fifes (), Nice!

[A Very Super Market]

Y'know the French always make good stuff.


No, it doesn't work.

Anyways, this is cool

[Mailman653]

Aww no pipes or drums. It doesn't surprise me to read that a possible expansion would cover Napoleon and maybe end with the US civil war. That would be roughly 50 or so years? Lots of room for new tech and factions. In any case, it might provide with a tiny peek at what a hypotetical modern TW game would look like, to use the survey that came out last month, a WW I game. I think depending on the popularity of Empire and the expansion might determine the fate of the future TW game and whether it moves into the 20th century or goes to ancient China, Greece or Japan as suggested by the survey, IMO.

What was going on in Europe during the 1860's? Were people drinking their tea and reading the newspapers and laughing at the Americans and their little war? The only global implication that I can up with off the top of my head is that instead of having one trading partner in the US, you'll have two, the USA and the CSA.

[quadalpha]

Aww no pipes or drums. It doesn't surprise me to read that a possible expansion would cover Napoleon and maybe end with the US civil war. That would be roughly 50 or so years? Lots of room for new tech and factions. In any case, it might provide with a tiny peek at what a hypotetical modern TW game would look like, to use the survey that came out last month, a WW I game. I think depending on the popularity of Empire and the expansion might determine the fate of the future TW game and whether it moves into the 20th century or goes to ancient China, Greece or Japan as suggested by the survey, IMO.

What was going on in Europe during the 1860's? Were people drinking their tea and reading the newspapers and laughing at the Americans and their little war? The only global implication that I can up with off the top of my head is that instead of having one trading partner in the US, you'll have two, the USA and the CSA.

Italian unification, publication of Alice in Wonderland.

[Megas Methuselah]

Italian unification, publication of Alice in Wonderland.

German unification, and the Red River "Rebellion" in Canada's westward expansion. Ignore Mailman's USA-centrism.

[Monk]

What was going on in Europe during the 1860's? Were people drinking their tea and reading the newspapers and laughing at the Americans and their little war? The only global implication that I can up with off the top of my head is that instead of having one trading partner in the US, you'll have two, the USA and the CSA.

The first thing that popped into my head was the Crimean War, but thats in the 1850s, so i was a decade off. Can't really think of anything that happened in that decade.

Though I hope that if the American Civil War is portrayed in a comming xpack, it's done so as a relatively minor event, or one that would "close out" the expansion. Focusing too much on that conflict would be boring since there were only two major players, both American. At least IIRC.

[Sol Invictus]

The Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

[Mailman653]

The first thing that popped into my head was the Crimean War, but thats in the 1850s, so i was a decade off.

But thats perfectly fine, if the expansion starts with Napoleon, lets say 1800 and the US civil war ends in 1865, then that means we have 65 years of game play. It would be nice if they made each one their own seperate campaign, M2TW expansion style. It would really focus the action to one reigon or regions rather than worrying whats going on across the globe.

[chairman]

There was plenty going on in Europe during the 1860s. At the beginning of the decade was the Franco-Austrian War (1859) in Italy that paved the way for the Kingdom of Sardinia (Savoy) to unify most of the peninsula the next year; The Second Schleswig War (1864) where Austria and Prussia annexed the southern territories of Denmark within the German Confederation. Two years later, Prussia kicked Austria out of German affairs permenantly in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), with newly consolidated Italy supporting Prussia. This war had the strange incident at the battle of Lissa, when the desperate Austrian admiral ordered his ironclads to close to point-blank range and ram the more powerful Italian warships, actually succeeding in winning the battle. At the end of the decade, Prussia, leading the new North German Confederation and their southern Allies invaded France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), which ended in unification and creation of Second German Reich, the deposition of Napoleon III and the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. So, the 1860s were also quite exciting for Europe as well. These are just the major wars that involved the big powers within Europe. In the colonial sphere, in 1860, Great Britain and France launched an expedition against China in the Second Opium War. In 1861-67, a coalition of European powers led by France unsuccessfully attempted to install the Austrian Maximilian of Habsburg-Lorraine as the first emperor of Mexico, leading to his execution in 1867. In Asia, the Taiping rebellion finally ends in 1864 after 14 years with the fall of Nanjing; in Japan, the Meiji Restoration takes place 1866-69.

Chairman

[Megas Methuselah]

There was plenty going on in Europe during the 1860s. At the beginning of the decade was the Franco-Austrian War (1859) in Italy that paved the way for the Kingdom of Sardinia (Savoy) to unify most of the peninsula the next year; The Second Schleswig War (1864) where Austria and Prussia annexed the southern territories of Denmark within the German Confederation. Two years later, Prussia kicked Austria out of German affairs permenantly in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), with newly consolidated Italy supporting Prussia. This war had the strange incident at the battle of Lissa, when the desperate Austrian admiral ordered his ironclads to close to point-blank range and ram the more powerful Italian warships, actually succeeding in winning the battle. At the end of the decade, Prussia, leading the new North German Confederation and their southern Allies invaded France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), which ended in unification and creation of Second German Reich, the deposition of Napoleon III and the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. So, the 1860s were also quite exciting for Europe as well. These are just the major wars that involved the big powers within Europe. In the colonial sphere, in 1860, Great Britain and France launched an expedition against China in the Second Opium War. In 1861-67, a coalition of European powers led by France unsuccessfully attempted to install the Austrian Maximilian of Habsburg-Lorraine as the first emperor of Mexico, leading to his execution in 1867. In Asia, the Taiping rebellion finally ends in 1864 after 14 years with the fall of Nanjing; in Japan, the Meiji Restoration takes place 1866-69.

Chairman

Damn your eyes, you didn't mention the Red River Rebellion!

[Sol Invictus]

Y'know the French always make good stuff.


No, it doesn't work.

Anyways, this is cool

GAH! Not again.

[Rhyfelwyr]

- Trade agreements increase relations over time.
- Scotland and Ireland will be prone to rebellion at the beginning, especially Scotland, and will be able to form new nations.
- Trade routes colour coded to indicate status.
- You can appoint generals from your most experienced units!
- Infantry can use grapples for climbing walls.
- The population of a captured city prefer that you didn't destroy it in the capturing.
- Captured ships can be renamed.
- Loading is much faster, except when there's a town involved.
- They saw 4x4 multiplayer going on.
- You can demand the surrender of a beseiged town before battle.
- The lack of sound in the demo was due to a missing file ... but there won't be pipes or fifes.
- They will be working a set of modding tools.
- Rumours of an expansion based on Robert Lee's battles; speculation about a Napoleonic or a Civil War expansion.

I am very very glad to hear that, no more having to fight tiny enemy armies by marching my full stack through narrow city streets, just because Autoresolve would give me disproportionate casualties. Excellent news!

[Sir Beane]

I am very very glad to hear that, no more having to fight tiny enemy armies by marching my full stack through narrow city streets, just because Autoresolve would give me disproportionate casualties. Excellent news!

It's only excellent news if the AI will use it. I have given factions down to their last city in Med 2 plenty of hances to become my vassal or take a ceasefire but theu refuse. Often when I have a giagantic army sitting outside their gates. Let's hope the AI is smarter this time around.

[Ishmael]

GRAPPLES! YAY!!!
All the other small details (eg towns can surrender) are nice too-they help fill the game out and make it that much more enjoyable.

[Noddy The Beefy Egg]

The french cover fir ETW