NTW campaign map

[KLAssurbanipal]

[KLAssurbanipal]

Map looks like ETW with new menu. I don't like these provinces... Units Cards are ugly...

I am not seeing arrows to American and Indian map. In NTW will be only Europe map? If Yes it will be horrible.

Where is Turkey?!? It is horrible! WTF?!?

In this map won't be impossible colonial conquest and sea battles without sense.

It is the worst map of Total War series.

[econ21]

I like the main map (Europe campaign, third of the set). It goes from Portugal to (I am guessing) Moscow, which is what is required to cover the main campaigns. Thank goodness there is no America or India. No serious wargame of the Napoleonic wars would include them, especially if the scale is one turn to two weeks. They would slow the game down to crawl, mess up the AI and be totally irrelevant to playing or beating the Corsican ogre. For the colonial stuff, we already have ETW. For Napoleon, I am looking for a deeper simulation of continental warfare, where France cannot be taken out by capturing two cities.

The Italian and Egyptian campaign maps look decent too - I guess they will be more substantial campaigns than the Road to Independence campaign.

[KLAssurbanipal]

America should be in game. During 1812-15 was American-British War....
Ottomans should be in grand Campaign.

[Owen Glyndwr]

I know! Now we can't play out the "What if Napoleon had held onto the Louisiana Territory" And there's no Haitian revolt, and we can't use the Americans to pester the British while we rampage in Europe.

I think at this stage, France/Britain's colonial holdings were just far too important to be left out of the main campaign.

[Durallan]

thanks for the screens, it looks interesting, the main interface does look quite plain, considering its no where near done it could go through one or 2 more iterations.

On all this critique of a game that hasn't been released yet... I tend to agree with econ 21, it would be nice to concentrate on europe this time round, and see if they can get the battle and campaign AI right. if all goes to plan then they can think about expanding it more.

[Meneldil]

Given that the whole reason why Napoléon invaded Egypt was to reach India more easily, all these maps are retard.

No india, no north-america = mistake.

[antisocialmunky]

Would be fun to play as America and win the War of 1812 by invading Britain.

[Fisherking]

I would agree that it should be more than Europe.

Even if it was just garrison requirement in something like the trade theaters.

But just think of what it would have been like if Boney had gotten to India!

[Sheogorath]

Normally I'm the cynic and all, but I think we MAY want to calm down here.

Remember, NTW is supposed to have multiple campaigns, three (I think) mini-campaigns, and a regular grand campaign. These MAY just be screencaps from the mini-campaigns.

[Jack Lusted]

The third campaign map is just Europe because we wanted to focus on the European conflict where the vast majority of the Napoleonic Wars were fought and where Napoleon fought all of his campaigns apart from Egypt which is its own campaign.

[antisocialmunky]

It would be nice if we took the grand campaign to 1820 or something like that and incorporated all hte new stuff in it.

[pevergreen]

It originally was planned to go until 1820.



I remember.

[Psycotic Empire]

I really like the new map division and the new provinces, but I don't like the fact that turkey is out of the picture. I'd really just like CA to drop the whole Nepolean thing and move back to Japan or China. I would love to see a new Shogan 2: Total War. Heck, do a sci fi setting, I think that would be great as long as it's exicuted well. I know its to late and CA is neck deep in development for NTW, but maybe 2011? It would be a dream come true for me.

[Fisherking]

The third campaign map is just Europe because we wanted to focus on the European conflict where the vast majority of the Napoleonic Wars were fought and where Napoleon fought all of his campaigns apart from Egypt which is its own campaign.

Real information!

Thanks Jack Lusted!

[KLAssurbanipal]

Screenshot on the main map I counted 20 fractions and 60 provinces. It will not be a big game but the mini-game.
Why CA? Why....

[nameless]

Screenshot on the main map I counted 20 fractions and 60 provinces. It will not be a big game but the mini-game.
Why CA? Why....

Because the game's about Napoleon in that specific era.

They are making this game for everyone, not for you. Stop it with your selfishness. You are acting like CA is making this game only for you and you alone and we should all follow.

And where the heck do you get the idea that it'll be a mini game? There're are more provinces in that european map than there are in the European map for ETW or are you deluding yourself?

[antisocialmunky]

Any Swiss sightings yet? It'd be part of the southern most pink thing.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

And where the heck do you get the idea that it'll be a mini game? There're are more provinces in that european map than there are in the European map for ETW or are you deluding yourself?

There are 77 regions in the European theatre.