Winning Eleven 9: The Total War of Football games!!!

[Viking]

Hardly. It's well-designed and rewards skill, but realism is something entirely different. Units react instantly, no supply lines, lack of NCOs, wrong movement speeds on the campaign map, unrealistic build times, etc.; the point I want to make is that although the TW series of games is well-designed and adapts the reality into the game in an admirable way, it remains a game and certainly not a realistic representation of the reality of warfare in the relevant timeperiods, neither on a tactical or strategic level. Beakon of realism CA is not, nor have they claimed to be such. Admittedly I didn't illustrate this properly in my earlier post, preferring the cheap-shot way out.

Hmmm..well. The strategical part is missing some realism and some parts in the battles too, ok. But the physics in the battles, is quite realistic.

[Geoffrey S]

Hmmm..well. The strategical part is missing some realism and some parts in the battles too, ok. But the physics in the battles, is quite realistic.

The charge effect on pikes, the fantastic leaping foottroops? Point is, while it's more realistic when it comes to the tactics of the period compared to a large numbers of the competition, it's still far removed from reality and certainly just a game.