So how is MP?

[ShadeHonestus]

Okay, so I've been busy since MTW/VI release, but i find myself with too much time on my hands so I'm going to get RTW. However, what friends have told me and what I've read in the forums seems to say MP is not as good as MTW and Shogun. One of the biggest complaints I've heard about is speed and movement. What are the realities of the MP situation? Many old vets still playing? If its completely fubar is SP good enough to justify buying it?

Thanks and hi to all those who remember me.

[Wishazu]

the mp suffers none of the problems of the single player battles as the intelligence of your human opposition tends to be much higher than the AI, though that isnt allways the case, there does tend to be alot of spammers out there who really just waste the time of the people who want to play properly, for instance, me and preston spent ages waiting for a game the other day, our opponents eventually sorted themselves and the game started, thats when we leaqrned that the greek player had spammed with cretans and slingers and had only 3 units of hoplites, this is very annoying as he had let his ally down and was completely annihilated by the balanced armies fielded by myself and preston. this is annoying but not common enough to ruin the overall enjoyment of the game, if you want to play with people who have principles regarding the way the total war games should be played online then check out the CoH, there are a few threads in these forums regarding this society of which i myself am a member :)

[Mongoose]

"Okay, so I've been busy since MTW/VI release, but i find myself with too much time on my hands so I'm going to get RTW. However, what friends have told me and what I've read in the forums seems to say MP is not as good as MTW and Shogun. One of the biggest complaints I've heard about is speed and movement. What are the realities of the MP situation? Many old vets still playing? If its completely fubar is SP good enough to justify buying it?

Thanks and hi to all those who remember me. "

Read afew of Elmo's post on the 2nd page of the lame cavalry tactic thread.

EDIT: elmarkofear = Elmo

[Puzz3D]

Wasn't the Shade clan into using Total War games for historical reenactments? If you are hoping for that, forget about it. Despite the implication in the History Channel's Decisive Battles television program that you can reenact historical battles from the period with the game you can't really get anything remotely close to them. The gameplay doesn't allow it, and is more like a typical gamey RTS complete with horses that can jump right over a phalanx, artillery that shoots exploding rocks and fire arrows that work in rain storms and incinerate their targets in 5 seconds.

[Mongoose]

When playing RTW, you must expect the unrealistic ...

[Lord Adherbal]

yeah I guess that exactly why a lot of us dislike RTW. Even tho it might be a fun RTS game on it's own I get no satisfaction at all if the battles aren't anywhere near historically correct.