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    Default Re: Awful, awful naval battles......

    Ignoring the more important arguments here, I want to tell you guys to just stop using manual broadsides.

    Honestly, the auto-aiming does a much better job of it, and it takes SO much micromanaging that you'll get carpal tunnel if you keep using it.
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    I just tried using the auto fire in a battle only to find that it didn't actually fire at all.
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    Default Re: Awful, awful naval battles......

    When the field of fire cone passes onto an enemy ship, they will fire. Or not, if they're reloading.
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    Quote Originally Posted by A Very Super Market View Post
    Ignoring the more important arguments here, I want to tell you guys to just stop using manual broadsides.

    Honestly, the auto-aiming does a much better job of it, and it takes SO much micromanaging that you'll get carpal tunnel if you keep using it.
    The manual broadsides just seem gimmicky to me. Even the intro video doesn't show ships doing broadsides as they are in-game, it was a linear progression down the ship.

    So many times I've raked an enemy line, tried doing the manual broadsides, and just the middle 20% of the shot will hit the ship due to how it fires off in a perfectly spaced line along the full length of my ship, which is obviously longer than the enemy ship is wide. With the auto-aiming they would point inwards focused moreso on the target.

    My question with it at this point is if there is some sort of a damage bonus applied if a cannonball hits when fired from a manual broadsides in order to encourage use of that feature. I hope not, but I can't rule it out, either. I'm starting to feel like they made some poor concessions in gameplay in the name of "accessibility", as Empire is one of CA's most "mainstream" releases. Just look at the marketing behind it, those banner ads were everywhere. Design choices based on "accessibility" often turn off the hardcode fanbase to which the success of a series like Total War is founded upon.
    Last edited by Dogfish; 03-12-2009 at 01:01.

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