How long have/had you played Total War Multiplayer?

**Magyar Khan** · 09-08-2010, 10:17

Get à clan that fits you And listen to what their vets tell you..... Perhaps you have talent or ur hard worker.... In both you can become à very good player.... I remember clearly THE first tw days of paolai kanuni and kyolic. All three different in talent and intensity but over time they got there....

**Kocmoc** · 09-08-2010, 12:37

Originally Posted by Magyar Khan

Get à clan that fits you And listen to what their vets tell you..... Perhaps you have talent or ur hard worker.... In both you can become à very good player.... I remember clearly THE first tw days of paolai kanuni and kyolic. All three different in talent and intensity but over time they got there....

Skill is one thing, but hard work is the key. There are different kind of player:

1. the Player who play with knowledge
2. the player who play with feeling
3. the player who play with a combination of both
4. the rest

I personal know only a few player, who ever reached the stage of really feel the game. Stretching things and situation to the max and gain time in many aspects.
There was many player who had some real good knowledge, but didnt brought it on the field, Knowledge is needed and essential, but the feeling is what wins a game.

The best way to improve fast is, playing better player in 1v1. Team-games are pointless, if you want to learn the game and raise your personal skill. Too many side effects, where you cant relay on in a normal game.
In my early days, i played the better player all the time, i always did attack, since those guys wanted a victory for the ladder.

Playing within a clan is good, since many things are shared. I did need a few days in NTW to get told, that i can change my camera. I ask myself, how long it needs till a new player learn to do that.

Anyway, i played from start of STW till MTW with some breaks, alltogether around 3 years.

Koc

**Sp00n** · 09-08-2010, 13:09

I played from Shogun release date to when Rome arrived, absolutely insane amounts of hours on Shogun, some played even more insanely though I'm pretty sure JstFeared used to play sometimes until he fell asleep on the keybaord.

It did get to the point where you were so fluid anticipating what your oppenent would do or making them make mistakes looking for openings to attack etc.

Shogun was a joy to play 1v1 due to all the different army styles you could face. MTW brought lots of new good players and the field of competition got a lot tougher. Great times though shame Rome was so terrible online.

**Magyar Khan** · 09-08-2010, 15:03

true koc, i myself was just playing with feeling... i had and still have totally no idea about stats... in a way i dont care thus for me its important that when i see a unit with big spears also has a big spears bonus..... otherwise it may take ages before i found it out by trial and error.... therefor i was happy that guys like u told me some units or formations were crap in mtw/vi... :o)
i remember a 1 vs 1 vs amp and i had h1 monks and his were h0 and mine got beaten easily.... still i dont know why :o( this sort of results or maybe hidden tricks may disencourage new players but we may expect some endurance from newbees...

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 09-09-2010, 12:41

I thought that how Grey Wolves eat us sheep Magy.... By studying those unit stats!

**vartan** · 09-18-2010, 01:45

Originally Posted by Kocmoc

Skill is one thing, but hard work is the key. There are different kind of player:

1. the Player who play with knowledge
2. the player who play with feeling
3. the player who play with a combination of both
4. the rest

This is so true, and I've always felt like a #2, in both chess as well as RTS games (among other games). I simply find myself impatient or not motivated to teach myself and practice the skill knowledge needed to make wise and intelligent decisions during the games. I've always played with intuition. But this year I was able to gain much more knowledge than ever in terms of the TW series games. Give me a #3! (And I'm sure that 'the rest' falls under beginner players because after a short while beginners and newcomers enter #1 or #2, and then move forward.)