Brigden Response to Game Flaws in Empire: Total War

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You are all being quite hard on CA.

I for one, believe this game is by far the greatest game of all time. Its so epic and has so much depth. Granted, there are issues thats need to be adressed. Creative Assembly aimed for the stars but got stuck in the clouds. Still, the clouds are higher up than any other game out there in the genre. I believe that with a lot of post release work this game truly could reach the stars.

Some things I want to see except that which have already been said:

1. My stationary (they are all stationary) fortress _moved_. Jupp. It did not move on the campaign map, but during two different attacks against my fortress the battle map looked totally different. This is not a huge error, but still something of a "Oh really? Last battle my fortress was on a huge hill in a landscape full of trees and now my fortress is on flat grass covered landscape. I did not move my fort! The enemy must have moved my fort while I was sleeping!".

2. I want to be able to give my generals names of my chosing.

3. Charles XII should be able to participate in the battles as a general. I thought CA said that Charles XII of Sweden were the only king who could do this? But I sure cant get him to ride with his troops. Sweden should have a huge moral bonus because of Charles going to battle with his army. Ofcourse, his death on the battlefield could turn this bonus in the opposite direction.

4. Reinforcements arrive at very weird places.

5. Statistics at the end of a campaign. Now this is really important to me. And I do mean _really_ important. I would kill for this feature.

I want to know exactly how many battles I fought, how many I won, who was the greatest general during the campaign (not just mine), how many of my soldiers died, how many they killed, who they killed, bars, stats, numbers, economy, awards, largest battle, graphs showing which country was strongest in certain areas during certain times, best regiement (most kills, least losses), worst regiment (most losses, least kills), I want statistics at the end of the game that shows all this. Thats what I really want, the CTD be damned, the statistics is more important.