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    Default Poll: What unit scale you use?

    It would be nice to know what unit scales people use the most.
    I always use huge units because it makes battles much more exciting with 6000-7000 thousand men on the field
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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I use normal, but only cos my comp can't handle anything bigger.
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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    After learning that Roman units are 80-men sized historically, I switched from normal to large to give a little more reality feeling. Haven't tried "huge" yet... might be quite fun except I guess the timer will always run out during city assaults?

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I'm also on large as it best fits my system spec, whatever that may be

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    With my old pentium 1600 normal.


    With my new athlon 64? Huge...

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I'm on Huge at the moment but i think next campaign i might switch down, just for a bit more maneuverability.

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I'm using normal at the moment but can't vote.
    I think about switching to large, though.

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I use large, I want to set it to huge but I dont want to set down the unit details... (all is on lowest exept unit detail and unit scale... can't wait for my new graphics card, 1 month and 4 days to go!)


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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    i always use the default option in mtw stw and now rtw so large for me

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I use normal cuz I can't go higher. If I had a choice I would use large.

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    Large for me. I'd love to use huge but it's just a bit over the envelope at times. Ho ho, when I build my next computer though... ho ho!

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    Quote Originally Posted by Fuct
    I'm using normal at the moment but can't vote.
    I think about switching to large, though.
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    I use huge. What I wonder is what was CA's original plan for unit sizes. It was 60 for STW and 60 for MTW with varying sizes for spears and cavalry and a few specialty units.

    I'm thinking they were shooting for large unit sizes due to the fact that Roman units are 80 men in size but due to the fact of the need for higher processing power and appealing to the market as whole they went with 40 so that it would work on most systems.

    After a quite a few battles on the campaign map I have to close the game and restart it. After that it will sart laggin with just 1000 men on the field. No big deal now that I know where the problem comes from and it seems to be related to battles with lots of missile troops.

    Also for those of you that want to see how many men your system can handle. Go into custom battles and keep selecting peasants until the game gives you a message that says you have gone above the reccomended limit.The game looks at your hardware and makes an estimation of where your cutoff is at. For me it is 6000 I believe.

    For me the real cutoff is 4500 men. It can handle 4500 to 5500 men with a slight lag and above that it gets a bit annoying.
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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    26 units at huge (240)
    My flatmates' inferior PC also gives the warning there.

    I generally play at large.
    Huge has too many side effects like horde formation charriots not fitting in cities...
    maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    Large

    Gives a better phalanx / infanttry feeling than normal setting, and is ok for my computer (I can handle huge in 1v1... but in 2v2 or 3v3 MP games, huge is too demanding)

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    No lagging problems here with huge (I only play huge - same in MTW). My little beauty (Athlon 3200+ and 5900 vidcard) can handle it perfectly, with only a little choppies when accelerating the clock.

    Huge unit size gives a better feeling, a more realistic one I might say. The cavalry and especially chariots (chariot archer, at least) spread out a bit too much though...
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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    Played my first campaign with large units and now my second with huge. The battles give now a nice epic feeling. But if the AI has problems on the strategic map by depleting the population I will switch back to large.

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    Default Re: Poll: What unit scale you use?

    I use Large.
    Huge setting is unmanagable( at least for me ), and have serious lagging problem. My system : P4 3.0c, Radeon 9600XT, 512MB RAM. It's ok unless two large armies start killing each other. When the battle is nearly over, fps was dropped to almost below 10( didn't measured exactly ). I don't want sacrifice any graphical settings, so I use Large.

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