Making the battles epic - blood, death animations, music, dirtier skins etc.

[Ciaran]

I couldn´t care less about graphics, what´s the best graphics worth if the game gets boring after the first week of playing because the AI is as smart as stale bread.
Living in Germany, there´s also the danger of censorship - something those from the whole EU might be looking forward to, because the German system has best chances to make EU reglementation.

[HenryLet]

Does anyone know the PC requirements to run this game, cos I have a 1.5 Ghz fast PC with only 256 MB of Ram memory!!

[A.Saturnus]

I couldn´t care less about graphics, what´s the best graphics worth if the game gets boring after the first week of playing because the AI is as smart as stale bread.
Living in Germany, there´s also the danger of censorship - something those from the whole EU might be looking forward to, because the German system has best chances to make EU reglementation.

It's not only about graphics but immersion. Besides it might even be usefull for gameplay. That way it may be possible to distinguish fresh units from tired ones just by looking at them.

[Lochar]

It's not only about graphics but immersion. Besides it might even be usefull for gameplay. That way it may be possible to distinguish fresh units from tired ones just by looking at them.

Chances are, if you see a troop of completely bloody/dirty troops, they're tired. I think having visual clues can help gameplay, and like you said seeing a bright shiny unit entering the fray, you know they're going to be fresh.

[Ciaran]

Now that would be a usefull application of the new graphic system, one issue with RTW is you can´t see the exhaustion status of your units like you can in MTW.

[Divinus Arma]

CA could, possibly and if they so desire, create a death animation where limbs are properly removed, heads properly decapitated, and intestines properly disemboweled (sic).

Then the remains represented could be in bloody masses of flesh.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

DA: you ever read much medieval literature?

your statement reminded me of some of the scenes from Blind Harry's "Wallace" (late medieval epic poem about William Wallace).

I wonder if the messy slaughterhouse look is really what people want though...

[Orda Khan]

Well I don't. My preference is for improved battles, gore is way down on my wish list

.....Orda