New trailer

[Swoosh So]

Im not sold on the whole sea/land battle mix i cant really see it working.

[Gregoshi]

Swoosh, we are just going to have to wait and see on the land/sea battle as well as a number of other features of interest/concern such as the hero units. It's the waiting that's the hard part.

Question on ETW/NTW: did they have battle replays? The closeup views shown in this video, while spectacular to look at, would not be the best view point to actually fight a battle. However, if there is replay capability, then the zoomed in view would be awesome to use.

[Swoosh So]

Most likely they were made using the ingame cinematic editor thats been present since rome totalwar check this youtube video and channel to see what can be done with it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sin329?...22/_bcaAWiHDSw this guys videos are great.

I agree tho and its a great idea that deserves its own thread to have a cinematic camera option when viewing replays. (yes replays are enabled in ntw but the views are standard as far as i know)

[Gregoshi]

That's pretty cool Swoosh. I don't recall the RTW had an ingame cinematic editor, but then, I didn't spend loads of time with the game to explore all the features.

I was "analyzing" this latest trailer again looking for details I may have overlooked. One out-in-the-open bit I completely didn't question before now has me curious. The three (Takeda?) men watching the invasion fleet come - any idea what they are? Scouts? Are we seeing a new kind of unit? What kind effect would they have on the battles? How would they function - just extending your vision of the battlefield? Or is this a "formation" you can put a unit in that scatters it out over a wide area to locate the enemy? Anyone have a thought on this?

[Myrddraal]

Hmm, I thought those were for the dramatic effect of the video. Although it says all footage was taken in game, that's not the same as saying this is a gameplay trailer.

[Gregoshi]

If that is the case Myrddraal, then I'm a little disappointed.

[Myrddraal]

Well I say that because it seems to me that the entire sequence is too long to be a battle intro. We see ships, scouts, night falls, armies gather, leave the fort...

I just get the impression that this was made up of several sequences of in game footage to tell a story, rather than to show the game as it will be played. An official machinima if you like.