Some moer spice please

**pevergreen** · 11-05-2009, 02:04

I hate fighting battles that mean something.

I love the ability to name units. They get titles if they do well. I had a group of 3 line infantry, 1 militia and 1 horse that held off about 3000 Austrians over a few years. The line infantry did the gruntwork and so they got titles. The First "Defenders", Fifth "Stalwarts" and Sixth "Vanguards"

**Prussian to the Iron** · 11-05-2009, 02:50

I think in my old Prussian campaign I assigned 3 or 4 "Guards" armies, made up of elite units (Swiss Guard infantry, some uber cavalry, and some elite rocketeers and 8-inch mortars [AUM mod for all]). they each had special designations based on the order of their recruitment; that would be a nice stat too: under everything else, it has the vity they were recruited in, and what year they were.

**Megas Methuselah** · 11-05-2009, 04:15

Originally Posted by pevergreen

I hate fighting battles that mean something.

I love the ability to name units. They get titles if they do well. I had a group of 3 line infantry, 1 militia and 1 horse that held off about 3000 Austrians over a few years. The line infantry did the gruntwork and so they got titles. The First "Defenders", Fifth "Stalwarts" and Sixth "Vanguards"

That's not very creative, moonyash aussy! My men tend to get names like "3rd Levy, Warriors of Allah," "7th Cavalry, Hooves of Death," or, "2nd Levy, Sackers of Madrid."

**pevergreen** · 11-05-2009, 05:05

Well, my Prussians are stuck, alright? Nothing but defending going on. Attacked by Austria, Courland, Venice, Poland-Lith, GB, Russia etc

I just lost East Prussia and my capital. Bah.

**peacemaker** · 11-05-2009, 07:28

And, by God, don't even bring up the snows of Europe or America. I hate winters. And jungles. I hate jungles with a passion.

Agreed.

On a sidenote, I also hate maps with hills/mountains-I always end up on the very bottom of a very steep slope. It kind of reminded me of M2tw

**Dead Guy** · 11-05-2009, 10:37

Well, compared to the crazy mountain sides of RTW, I'd say all terrain in ETW is pretty much flat.

Even ridges are pretty rare in my experience, though I did play on a map in Sweden yesterday where I had lots of ridges in my deployment zone. They came in very handy in that battle because the enemy had reinforcements from three armies, so I was able to defend a few select bottlenecks against the cavalry onslaught at the start. It was a nice change from the usual long line on flat grassland.

I guess hills aren't really as useful as in M2TW/RTW (you don't gain range for bows because you have none and melee height advantage doesn't really matter as much), I mainly use them to approach artillery safely or hide my howitzers behind.

**Braden** · 11-05-2009, 17:37

Granted not encountered anything other than “billiard table” flat seas for my naval battle but I’ve had some GODS AWEFUL weather for land battles.

Raining SO hard you can’t see the 75 meter/yards of rifle range…good luck aiming cannon!

Must admit though much I would assume might depend on your graphic settings as you can’t really have a battle with driving rain if its going to cause the frame-rate to drop so dramatically that it becomes a “slide show”.

**Peasant Phill** · 11-05-2009, 20:57

It's just me then, apperently.
But another question: Does the weather affect your/the ennemies units in any noticable way?

Deadguy, you can still use hills to a great extend as it should extend the range of your guns.