Empire 2 Total War

[Risasi]

Yeah, you're probably right.

Well, if I'm just wishing for rainbows and unicorns I'm still hoping for an Empire 2, but like FotS they then follow up with a Standalone Expansion of the Renaissance Era, with Pike & Shot.

And then a Victorian Era expansion, a la RotS. Then I'd still like to see them tie all three together for the loooooong campaign play-thru, spanning all three eras? Maybe, just preserve the territories owned going into the next era. How about that? I'd pay extra for DLC expansions that do this.

That would get me what I want (and many others who liked Empire). It would let the guy who only wants to play one era do that.

[edyzmedieval]

It would balloon the production costs immensely, and while it would be super rewarding for us players, it would translate to either a huge marketing campaign to make sure they sell enough copies or a ton of DLC packs. Not to mention a much longer development time.

[Risasi]

You are very good at playing devil's advocate.

[edyzmedieval]

All jokes aside, I am the first one to advocate for a TW game with a huge amount of content. The French in NTW example again - you can build 2 full stack armies with INDIVIDUAL units. Like literally it has around 30-35 units that are all different.

Yes, that includes artillery and other standard units. But it can give you at least a full stack of unique, historical units.

And I love that!

But it's just one single faction, in one single game, focused on that specific faction (Napoleon TW). Sooo... yeah.

[Risasi]

I never did buy Napoleon. I got turned off by all of the people howling about how it should have been nothing more than an expansion to Empire.

Since I finished my Shogun 2 campaign I was going to start another Rome II campaign, but perhaps it's time to reinstall Empire again and give it another go-round.
I mainly have toyed around in the Warpath campaign. My wife is full blood Native American, and I'm a mutt American with a couple of tribes in me too, so I like that campaign just to start a counter revolt to kick those "white devils" out of our lands. ...even though it's not very well representative of the indigenous tribes.

Maybe this time I should give the French or Prussians a good solid 100 turns of play or something. I feel like I have never played far enough in Empire, and have not really touched the European factions. Just enough to play around a little to get a feel for it. The question then is Vanilla or look at one of the mods again? I've installed DM 8 in the past, and also Terra Incognita. I think the latter really has some serious potential if they keep developing it.

EDIT: My bad. I meant Imperial Splendour. TI development stopped a few years ago. They are still working on IS though...

[edyzmedieval]

Go for Vanlla first, enjoy the scope of the game and the commercial empiring that you can do.

[Vuk]

I didn't like Napoleon. To me, the strength of the TW series is the sandbox experience. NTW was too controlled and narrow. It really did not interest me at all, and I gave it a fair shot, then tried it again a few years later. ETW was the worst game they ever released at the time of its launch, but it was eventually patched into one of the best the series has ever done. NTW had all the polish one could ask for, but still stunk IMHO.