I need a "historical recap"!

[ChaosLord]

"Memories, you're talking about memories.." Man, what a great movie that was. It would be nice to see a log or something similar to it, would really be nice to look back on the decisive battles and military geniuses your empire created. But as the AI can't even remember its attacking places when you load games, and that CA doesn't think campaign battle replays were something fans wanted, it seems unlikely to happen for any of R:TWs expansions, or the next TW game. :(

[sapi]

Failing this, you should be able to write a short comment on their life when a family member dies, which can then be accessed from the family info scroll.

[pezhetairoi]

Dammit, they should just include a feature that records all your battles large and small, the numbers involved and the casualty lists, AND lets you append battle honours to a call-up scroll that unfurls every family member you click. That way you can also comment on the relative importance of the battles you fought and lets you remember. Otherwise dead generals are just forgotten, like the C-Beams before Tannhauser Gate.

[sapi]

pezhetairoi, since we're dreaming we might as well wish for the battle recorder to keep track of individual units, from the date made to the date combined/destroyed.

eg.
Army Name---Unit Type----------------------------Decorations------------Date Formed---Date Destroyed-----Location of Remaining Members
-------------(player added+pre-determined)
Legio X Victus---Legionaries---Held line at [random place]; outstanding valour (auto)---222BC---Merged with Legio XIV Roma 201BC---Legio XIV Roma

[/dreams]

[Colovion]

all these things would be awesome

I remember wishing for AoK style graphs for the different factions vs eachother and in RTW they were there. Expanding on that stuff like being able to click on a Family Member after they die and see what their details of their reign was; or alternatively doing the same when clicking on the Timeline Details and getting, as stated above, a Historical Recap.

Ohhhh so many possibilities.

[Spartiate]

I believe sometimes we get something in the way of a recap in the speeches before battles sometimes............but only in the Roman campaigns.I think it was FrogBeastEgg who once posted on a speech made by her General before a battle.The General and all the units had been together for a long long time and battled their way across half the map before getting attacked by a much superior force.The General proceeded to make a speech about how he valued the men, how they had been together all these years and about their families back home and the likelihood that they would never see them again.
I know it's not what you had in mind but it's the closest thing this game is gonna give us to it.It was one hell of a speech if you can find it here somewhere.

[Azi Tohak]

Heck, I think the speeches are one of the best parts of the whole game. And I would love to see that speech Madam Froggy posted.

But...do you think CA has even thought about a full record of events? Because I would love that too. Keeping track of my RTR game as Armenia. I think that would have been great to count the number of times I was overextended and all the Ptolemaics had to do was attack, and I would have been DOA.

Ah well...if wishes were fishes...

Azi