Worth the money?

**Fisherking** · 04-14-2010, 06:11

It is a great game and I am like FO I have played hundreds of hours and have not touched 3 major factions yet.

It is immersive, it is smooth, and it is fun.

You are missing out on a lot by not having it.

**edyzmedieval** · 04-14-2010, 07:06

Yeah well, I had it, the retail Imperial Edition, it's just that I had to give it away. Damn it...

Anyways, I'm gonna join soon. Imperial Edition on Steam, lock it to my account because I already have Empire there so I want to keep them in one basket.

**Cruelsader** · 04-21-2010, 18:10

IMHO the game is not worth the current price. Why? First, some background to my opinion. I have played STW and MTW a lot (and I mean a lot). I have also played RTW but not as much: I got bored with the featureless battle maps, sieges and poor AI. Since I was disappointed with RTW I ignored MTW2 and ETW. NTW caught my attention, however, because of the idea of multiplayer campaign. Fortunately, a friend of mine has a copy so I had a chance to play instead of being forced to buy it blindly. I did not play much (maybe 20 or so hours) but what I saw was enough for me. The graphics are truly spectacular (at least compared to RTW not speaking of older titles), however the battle AI seems to be even dumber than in RTW. What really annoyed me, however, was the way the units responded to my commands. There seemed to be path finding problems in settlements. Also, as far as I could tell the units do not take into account friendly units and obstacles (including landscape) when firing. Cannons keep shooting into obvious obstacles and, unless you babysit them, massacre your own troops. In one siege battle my Chasseurs units tried to shoot straight through solid fort walls!! etc I really do not see point playing a game set in gunpowder era where units are unable to determine whether they have clear LoS. Multiplayer wont help against that.

**Royce** · 05-05-2010, 20:32

Good evaluation and I have to agree with you 100%. The preset battles are very boring and Waterloo especially was a big dissapointment. The number of units available are just so few. Twenty units just do not do justice to epic battles. Napoleon went into Russia with 165,000 troops hardly represented by a mere 20 units in NTW. Too bad I really liked the TW series and had hoped they would progress. The graphics are good but that's about it.

**Graphic** · 05-07-2010, 01:50

Originally Posted by Royce

Good evaluation and I have to agree with you 100%. The preset battles are very boring and Waterloo especially was a big dissapointment. The number of units available are just so few. Twenty units just do not do justice to epic battles. Napoleon went into Russia with 165,000 troops hardly represented by a mere 20 units in NTW. Too bad I really liked the TW series and had hoped they would progress. The graphics are good but that's about it.

You should try playing multiplayer historical battles, or creating your own LAN server and filling all the empty slots with CPU opponents. 4v4, 80 units vs 80 units.

**Royce** · 06-10-2010, 22:59

Fisherking I think it's worth the money but of course I'd like to see some improvemets. You seem to know alot could you tell me how or where to find the Brunswick Line Infantry (Great Britian)? Sorry I hope it's ok to ask this question in this forum. I'm just at a loss I think I've looked everywhere. It isn't listed as DLC. Thanks for any help.

**edyzmedieval** · 06-10-2010, 23:45

Get the last tier of the military recruitment building in London?

**Royce** · 06-11-2010, 20:30

Still not sure where Brunswick Line is. I have built everything possible in London and no Brunswick I thought it might be in another country a bit like the Polish Legion for France.