Border Wars

[Yun Dog]

In MTW2 we were subjected to the most predictable and boring strategy game ever. If you shared a border with an AI nation they immediately declared war on you. It was a game killer.. the Total War strategy actually made the game easier because there was no reward or requirement for any diplomacy it was route 1 steam roll one nation after the next. Boooooring, for me personally it made M2TW so boring and predicatable and repeditive I stopped playing it and have not since.

Now we are made to suffer this same lame strategy model in ETW - we get no choice about applying this patch - suddenly a good game turns into a boring and predictable one. In my current game as prussia vh/vh I am deliberately keeping minor nations and poland bordering me as a buffer to other nations as soon as I take another province whichever nations share a border with that province will delcare war - Im bored already just writing about it - I have no wish to play this out as there is only 1 way to play it out - steam roll one nation after the next.

For a game that is attempting to position itself as a strategy game - this is the most infantile strategy model I have had the misfortune of experiencing.

please give me a glimmer of hope that they are planning to fix this as a priority and actually add some game to the game.

I feel like the guy in Jurassic park

"are there going to be any dinosaurs on the dinosaur tour"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTtlETsHL6Q

"is there going to be any strategy in the strategy game"?