Empire: Total War Review

**knoddy** · 03-04-2009, 22:43

It's now WASD to scroll the map, they changed it. Forget to read the manual? ;)

yes i know i said or use buttons :)

Polemists - i wasnt trying to be critical, just stating my experience, i got bored very quickly with the RTI, it limits what u can do, understandably, but just seems to do enough to keep you interested. This could be different, for and introduction to new TW players its prob quite good :)

more insights - AI seems good on teh campaign. i sent a small force to reinforce my southern province in my marathra (sp?) camp and they had to go through mysore, who quickly sent out a force to intercept and i had to leg it :)

the murghals (sp?) also began pirating my trade route to europe and blockading my port, till i destroyed their fleet :D they also made a move on my town and got wtf pwned by my tactics :D but the battle was even in terms of numbers and unit skill.

i forgot to add in my first review, that i like it when u see dudes on boats with muskets firing into other boats at close range :D

also forgot to add that while load times are better they are still a bit long for me. but ill live with it. load times with steam not offline was like 2 mintues for the game 1-2 minutes for battles/campaign. with steam offline load times are like 30 secs for everything. also the computer turn takes a while especially when u can see your whole trade fleet but just press space and it all goes faster :)

neway off to uni, ill post more this arvo, ima try and send a small fleet into a trade theater :D

oh and with the agents, i started with 1 scholar, 1 rake and 1 missionary, let the missionary preach cos i was only like 90% hindu, been skilling up the rake by infiltrating mysores small towns and farms etc. and put the scholar in my town with a school to speed up research but thinking bout changing that to send him to steal some :D

edit: havnt seen any sign of AI agents although my gates of my fort did magically open in a battle against the murghals lol ;)

CheerS Knoddy

**Thermal** · 03-04-2009, 22:45

woo i just so just imitated this thread!

**pevergreen** · 03-05-2009, 04:27

Yup, you did.

Most cities dont have walls built, they cost 4000 level 1 and 8000 for level 2.

"Siege" battles are a lot of fun, you can tell that you are going to be taking the town if you win.

I use a lot of gentlemen to speed up my research, and ive seen a LOT of enemy gentlemen and rakes fiddling with my stuff.

I've only had one ally break, and that was because i tried to draw them into a war, which they didnt want any part of.

Even so, we are sitting as neighbours at peace.

**knoddy** · 03-05-2009, 04:36

i think my problem is that im playing as marthra and nobody likes me :D so everyone is happy to declare on me :D i dunno i had portugal declare for no real reason then someone else killed them off :D

also ive now had a couple of people die to assassins :) my scholar who was on his way to steal tech and another rake.

Cheers Knoddy