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[A1_Unit]

I could uderstand if a mod did it but if CA does it then that's way too much focus on one time period.

[peacemaker]

How is that too much focus? The combat of the era is virtually identical and therefore easy to replicate, not to mention Napoleon is big and important and stuff.

Think about previous games: The medival period had MTW,M2TW,Kingdoms, and maybe MTW expension I dunno what that was. RTW had BI, which was only a hundred or two hundred years later. I don't think that ETW and NTW is too much focus, because they're virtually the same game but..a little different.

Am I just crazy here?

[Peasant Phill]

How is that too much focus? The combat of the era is virtually identical and therefore easy to replicate, not to mention Napoleon is big and important and stuff.

Think about previous games: The medival period had MTW,M2TW,Kingdoms, and maybe MTW expension I dunno what that was. RTW had BI, which was only a hundred or two hundred years later. I don't think that ETW and NTW is too much focus, because they're virtually the same game but..a little different.

Am I just crazy here?

It's to focussed because a campaign will only have a span of a few decades AND it's virtually identical.

Every other expansion/follow-up game had a span of at least 100 years (except ATW).

P.S. MTW had Viking Invasion.

[A1_Unit]

BTW, I posted at TWC my discovery of a table of historical battles; all taking place in the 17th century (they aren't active battles either). Hmm... what could this mean?

[Durallan]

Patch should be comin soon... Anyone still playing this? lol

[Krauser]

Patch should be comin soon... Anyone still playing this? lol

Not right now, but I will do one campaign after patch to see how it plays. Might even play more if it turns out to be really good.

[peacemaker]

I've been meaning to but wiped my hard drive of old stuff and have been too lazy to reinstall it...I'm scanning this thread every once in a while to see if it comes out so that I'll go start playing the game again.

[Sheogorath]

Patch should be comin soon... Anyone still playing this? lol

I've been playing it with Imperial Splendour. Really improves things. Sadly I'll have to wait for them to update it after the patch to fix all the stupid gameplay changes CA's forcing in.

[Servius]

I too am waiting for the patch to start another campaign. I haven't tried Imperial Splendor yet, might have to check that out. My biggest beef is the AI, particularly the Diplomatic/Campaign Map AI. If/when that gets fixed, next on my wishlist will be the MP campaign.

[Slaists]

I've been playing it with Imperial Splendour. Really improves things. Sadly I'll have to wait for them to update it after the patch to fix all the stupid gameplay changes CA's forcing in.

The diplomacy triggers seem to be the same in IS. I guess, those are "under the hood" and the modders cannot do much about it. The game is much more engaging and in general harder than vanilla though. Beware though, that one of the ways IS achieves it is by letting the AI's army upkeep be about 50% of the player's (and less) on medium settings.

[Lemur]

Patch should be comin soon... Anyone still playing this? lol

I tried to do a short British campaign, just for giggles. The campaign AI quickly forced me to quit in frustration. Such a good game engine, hamstrung by such idiotic AI.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I tried to do a short British campaign, just for giggles. The campaign AI quickly forced me to quit in frustration. Such a good game engine, hamstrung by such idiotic AI.

Last night I started a British campaign. It was the first time since the middle of July that I played ETW. I have ended all my alliances and I ant to play it very slow. I will see if that is possible or that I have to go back to RTW/M2TW.

I really hope that the patch will restore the original diplomacy.