Do you remember Braveheart (aka Tartan Army)?

[gollum]

Well, yes, TW is certainly no chess on the campaign but it can be chess on the battlefield if properly balanced. There isn't anything like the morale system of TW battles and that can make for some very intricate play. Even the campaign can be fun if you play the multiplayer camp - a rival player commanding all the enemy armies you fight and a rival faction. Hopefully that will make a return in STW2.

If you are looking for perfect cofee shop, you will inevitably end up concluding that there is no perfect coffee shop. That's because conditions are something a good writer has to work with, not against.

Writers often tend to be giving too much importance to their own emotions and through that end up attributing emotions to things they don't have such, like the weather and coffe shops.

[dajarvi]

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If you are looking for perfect cofee shop, you will inevitably end up concluding that there is no perfect coffee shop. That's because conditions are something a good writer has to work with, not against.

Hence, be content with what we're given.

Writers often tend to be giving too much importance to their own emotions and through that end up attributing emotions to things they don't have such, like the weather and coffe shops.

Emotion is crucial to writing something poetic or good, unless you're writing a technical piece. In that case it doesn't matter too much. When I speak of emotion, in my mind, I'm thinking of being in the "mood" to write. A lot of times I'll write out of sheer discipline, but I'll return to a previous work when the mood hits :) To bring this back to Shogun, more logistics and long-term planning on the campaign map, including army movement, construction of fortifications, use of supply wagons, and more emphasis on RPG for Generals, are just some ideas to keep a gamer involved. Prior to Empire, mods have tried to achive this, but could only go so far due engine limitations. And I do agree, playing against a human opponent is much cooler than A.I., but more depth, like chess or Hammer of the Scots, would really be cool too.

Gollum, thanks for your conversations. It was good chatting! Perhaps we'll find each other on the Shogun 2 battlefield!!

[gollum]

If you put too much emotion/mood in poetry it becomes surprisingly mediocre.

I can't find where i said the "Hence, be content with what we're given." bit that you quoted. Is it from someone else?

Yes, the suggestions you make about the camp map are good no doubt and in fact i've seen them asked/suggested for the last 6 years or so now - especially logistics. It seems that STW2 is deeper in the camp map - the political aspect especially; marriages, agents, alliances etc. Characters seems central and "customisable" as the camp progresses, if one is to believe the trailers, but you never know if what the trailers say plays as they say it :)

Thank you as well for the chat - yes, perhaps we'll meet there :)

[dajarvi]

"Hence" was something I said. I wrote it in the quote, thinking my text would be separate, but it didn't work as expected :)

[gollum]

I see, no worries :)