Quality Demo

[t1master]

after the roman crapshoot, i am basing my purchase or lack of... on the demo.

if it plays like the rome demo did, then i'm not buying. the rome game was no different than the demo imo, and not worth the money.

[Lord Adherbal]

the RTW demo hardly needed any tactics to beat - just a more or less clever use of the uber war elephants and the sacred band cavalry. I remember having a lot more problems with the MTW demo (I was a TW noob back then though): it was a struggle to protect the weaker units of the tiny army you controlled (Jaffa) and even though the s**tloads of saracen cavalry routed often and the temptation of chasing them was big that ofter resulted in tired and isolated units that became easy preys to the enemy's reserves.

[Slyspy]

Yeah, I should have paid attention to my misgivings after playing the RTW demo and thus saved myself £30. I have learnt from my mistake and this time the demo will be all important.

[Orda Khan]

In all honesty, the Jaffa battle did appear daunting but simply placing your small force on hold/hold it was remarkably easy to gain a victory because of the huge upgrades on your units. RTW and BI were much the same, only 16 Romans escaped in one of my Chalons victories. The MTW II demo will not be much different, what would be the point of a demo that is very difficult? Better to make the customer feel he is a Godlike general

.......Orda

[Kraxis]

In all honesty, the Jaffa battle did appear daunting but simply placing your small force on hold/hold it was remarkably easy to gain a victory because of the huge upgrades on your units. RTW and BI were much the same, only 16 Romans escaped in one of my Chalons victories. The MTW II demo will not be much different, what would be the point of a demo that is very difficult? Better to make the customer feel he is a Godlike general

.......Orda

Yes... But most people who tried out that MTW demo, had never played a TW game before. Even I, an STW veteran (including MP) lost a few times initially until I learned to use my units to their fullest. It was very much a challenging battle.

[Weebeast]

That Jaffa battle has some error in the adf file(in the full game). Saladin is supposed to be riding the royal ghulam troop, not Bedouin camel.

I've never played Total War demos. I just bought MTW out of curiousity. At the time (2002) it was pretty awesome to have a strategic game that plays out the battles.

[Duke John]

If the demo is too easy than it isn't exactly encouraging either. With the BI demo I just lazily clicked some units not even thinking about tactics and I won the battle.