Napoleon: Total War (Official Expansion Thread)

[Krusader]

Boooooring!

Ok, it picks up where ETW ends but I'm not going to buy this one right away, possibly never, maybe if ETW actually has a campaign AI by that time.

I'm not buying anymore TW titles. Don't think the majority in EB team are either, if the recent comments on the internal fora are indicative.

[Discoman]

Story driven campaigns? This is what I feared. I guess this means that we can't conquer certain parts of the map, or play as certain nations. If it was just the Napoleonic era, and you could play as anyone you wanted. I'd be much happier with this.

Right now, it's a pass for me.

[Jack Lusted]

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

[mlp071]

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

Ok ...and? Is it same shallow , no-AI campaign that we have now?I am sorry , but CA has done seeing my money , and judging on response from 3 different forums i am not alone.

What happened to "magnificent AI", moding tools and "most modable version of TW " that we were told about prior to ETW release.I guess we consumers were beta testing game for you, and payed to do that in addition.So no thanks...ever again.

Saying that , i suggest to everyone to keep away from any CA product, until they make their words count.Otherwise we will never see decent game from them again.

[Sheogorath]

Cynic says: This is CA's way of saying "Sorry guys, we screwed up with ETW. Here's another game that works. $60 please."

Optimist says: This is a good opportunity for CA to actually listen to the community this time around. They can screw with ETW and turn it into Starcraft all they want, while making NTW into a good and somewhat realistic strategy game.

College Student Says: Where am I gonna get that $60?

[Martok]

Temporarily stickied.

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

Well that's something, at least. Although to be blunt, I too feel CA has no business working on an expansion when the original game still needs some heavy-duty patching before it's worth playing again.

[econ21]

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

That sounds good - the Napoleonic wars are very well suited to the TW model: lots of warring factions at each other's throats. Losing India and America may be a plus if it allows more provinces in Europe. I think restricting the number of homeland provinces in ETW made it too easy to permanently knock out a major faction. Contrast that with the Spanish ulcer or the invasion of Russia, where two factions were almost impossible to knock-out. Some kind of faction re-emergence or other mechanic would be good, e.g. to model the re-emergence of Prussia and to some extent Austria after their defeats (heck, even France itself in 1815).

[GeneralHankerchief]

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I'm going to give this one a shot. Aside from the fact that I love the era and was devastated that they left this out of ETW proper, the past two installments in the Total War series have seen expansions that were better than their original counterparts. Kingdoms in particular. I think the trend will continue here.

[Discoman]

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

So that means no Americas or India? How will this effect things like the Louisiana purchase, or Britain's income from controlling India? Will there still be trade spots that we can get resources from? Will we see new resources now that the player probably won't be able to get tobacco, coffee, and tea?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Well if it's standalone at least I don't have to buy Empire.

[dejan07]

I agree with you Alexander the Pretty Good!
My thoughts precisely!

[pevergreen]

There is a grand campaign style campaign on Europe in Napoleon.

Yet the IGN piece stated this was the evolution, so, keeping to your trend, next should be a new engine, with the associated revolution.

Which leads us to believe that there will be no expansion pack for E:TW though this could easily be seen as one.

[seireikhaan]

Nope. Not getting it. The current state of ETW is appalling. The game has gotten progressively more and more unplayable as the patches have progressed. Give me some AI that treats individual nations as actual nations, not speedbumps that throw themselves upon the player to halt progress. Give me AI that has at least some concept of how to resolve a war. THAT is what I need improved in the game. Not fancier animations, not fancier uniforms, not elimination of clone armies.

Grr...

[Mailman653]

No War of 1812 (in its entirety and playable as both US and England)?

[Monk]

I understand this is a very exciting time for CA but...

whatever happened to the multiplayer campaign beta? Is that now planned for N:TW? Will we need to buy N:TW for MP campaign? Is it even on the drawing board at this point? Understand this was a huge selling point of ETW for me and was hyped like crazy right before launch.