Originally Posted by
frogbeastegg
Well. I've got it. I've played about 2 hours in one go, a rarity for me. And ...
Oh, blimey, I hate to say this but I see no difference between this and the old RTW except a shedload of graphical glitches! Oh, and the obvious things, like different units and map.
Maybe in battles the AI is a tiny bit better ... but I can't really decide on that yet. I guess maybe somewhat better, if I'm forced to decide, and that is good.
Let me dedicate a paragraph to the entirely too much money I started with; it’s probably the second big problem here, the other being the passiveness of the AI. I built up 1 new army and expanded the one I started with. I constructed a whole lot of buildings in my starting city and the first I conquered. I peppered my lands with watchtowers. I didn’t need to work for any of it. I didn’t need to worry about money until about 370AD, and even then the worry was a very mild one, created mostly by my extravagant spending and lazy expansion – in other words the cash problem was entirely my own fault. Even in RTW I needed to work for my money and what it gave me in the beginning. It was the one slightly difficult part. BI removes even that.
So where is this very different game everyone was speaking about!? Really, because I’d love to know. I played Saxon because I didn’t want to ‘waste’ the hardest faction by using WRE for my first game, and be left playing the easier factions afterwards. If I have to play WRE to get any semblance of a reaction out of the AI and game then I can’t even see the point.
Oh, and while I think of it, a big frown and a rap on the knuckles to CA for not fixing the pause/game speed toggle problem/bug/issue/whatever which quite a few people, myself included, kept on reporting with all past versions of the game. Yay. I love not being able to pause most of the time; it's great when the phone rings and I have to leave my battle running. And watching my army being massacred on the highest speed setting while I frantically punch ctrl+t over and over trying to get it to slow back down is great too! Serves me right for trying to speed past the opening phase where my army marches in a mostly straight line, doing not much, in a bid to actually play more of the interesting parts of the game.
:cough: Perhaps that was rather abrasive, but I'm Not A Happy Frog after watching half my army get annihilated on top speed while I hammered buttons trying to get it to slow back down. Nor A Happy Frog after finding that all the aggressive AI and so on appears to have been put in other people’s copies of the game. I feel like I am playing on ‘super easy’ level, not very hard.
Now, if I’d been started with much less than the crazy 15,000 denarii, and had been attacked – or reacted to even a bit while attacking! – then it would have been tougher. But I did have way too much cash, and I was totally ignored except when I forced the game to notice me. Yawn.
So to sum up: after 2 hours the frog’s opinion is basically “Gggrrrrr!!” and perhaps “GAH!!!”
EDIT: Oh, and for the sake of reference, I'm hardly what you could call a strong faction. Any medium sized army of half decent units would cause me real trouble. If I lose an army I've got nothing to replace it.
I also forgot to expand fully my rant on those confounded rebel armies. I hate them, always did and still do - pointless little messes of peasants even 2 decent units can run over easily, which do nothing more than force me to divert an army and then fight another boring battle. Half the time I just smack them to death with my general's bodyguard and nothing else. Which turns him into a super general. Making other battles easier.
But while we're on the point, I suppose I should be glad I saw a rebel army of 2 peasants, 1 hunter and 1 spear warband! Wow! That's probably the best one I've ever seen.
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