DISCUSSION MP Camps .vs regular MP

[Gregoshi]

I prefer the regular battles, due to the fact that if I'm low on time, I don't need to waste time waiting for my MP campaign buddy/buddies to come on to play, I can just shoot on and play some regular games then.

Well, in that regards, I found this answer from a MP question in the IGN Reader Q&A interesting:

...and we're also looking to give the battles a great deal more purpose too. As was said in Gladiator: "What we do in life, echoes in eternity". Wouldn't it be nice if all your battles went towards something, bigger? Anyway I've said too much...

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Can't wait to see what that means!

[Magyar Khan]

Cant imagine what it would mean.... What i know is in my own experience the most epic battles were not epic cuz the armies were large but because something was at stake. Like à cbw match. THE campaignbattles. Training with friends, giving lessons, À competitive game or an undefeated record with subudailives ... Such things make à battle epic. Not THE graphical eye candy and 50k troops....

[Gregoshi]

The choice of the word "purpose" is what struck me. It does't sound like a ladder or something like that. Some kind of MMO campaign perhaps?

[Magyar Khan]

what i can imagine on this that an internal server records all our battleoutcomes based on japanese family and a webbased map shows who is in control of what province.... thus allowing clans to focus on a weak family and turn the tide..... btw now i read this i think its a cool idea and i make a thread of it :o)

[vartan]

Is this 55k men on the field thing going to come to any real fruition? or should I be more worried about my screen exploding?

[LadyAnn]

56k men, 8 factions, 7000 men per faction, 20 units per faction, 350 men units. Whooahh!
And people use 40 men per unit online 'cause that's the only thing that works :) (that was how it was in other games, the SP has 200 men units, but MP plays with 80.)

Annie