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    Awsome preview guys!~ those dragons & fire lances sound like allot of fun!

    Have you had a chance to play with the demond army?

    How about those 10 ft tall devil monsters? are they as uber as they look?

    Does a campaign game play like normal or does it feel different?

    I guess my last & most important question is do you think its close to an open release?

    thanks againf or the previews, the games looking great!

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    Yeah, the Demons are the only faction I've used in the campaign. They're actually very...different from most of the factions. They have MANY different units, but each unit only serves a specific purpose and can't do anything else very well. Most of their units are for support, and you really need to be coordinated for your army to come together and win without taking a ton of losses. It's hard, but fun - kind of takes you back to the old Shogun TW days when every unit, no matter how crappy it is, was useful for something.

    The Hanyas? Those are the 10 ft tall monsters, and they just so happen to be my favorite unit. These guys are so big that they don't even need to swing their weapons, just walking around knocks guys out of their way. They're a ton of fun to watch, but won't last long unless backed up. They are usually the infantry unit that gets the most kills in my battles.

    yeah, the campaign is definately different. Most of the factions have very advanced starting armies, so you're up against armored heavy cavalry and hordes of horse archers right form the get-go, and it's very challenging since you can't retrain your advanced units for a while, until you get the requirements for them. The start of the campaign is basically trying to remove as many elite units from the enemy's possession as possible while keeping as many of yours alive as possible, I've found.

    Hmm, I'm not sure if it's close. I'd probably be able to give a better answer when a patch arrives.

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    So does this mean overpowered elites, since it's a fight for them?
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    No, not overpowered. Just better than levy units. A good metaphor would be every faction starting out with many units of Militia Pikemen and Light cavalry, with a few units of Silver Shield Pikemen and Companion Cavalry mixed in, but only the ability to retrain the militia and light units initially. So if you lose your Silver Shields and Companions fast, you'll be at a disadvantage if the enemy still has theirs. They're definately not invincible or overpowered, though.

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    Cool, i like the sound of units playing a specific parts, like Shogun. I sometimes dislike how many units in rome are 'all in one' soliders.

    Anyone played as the indians yet? what do they play like?

    Are archer units overpowered like in vanila rome?

    Whats the moral of the units like, do they break easily?

    Also is this patch your talking about going to fix the problems the closed beta testers have found? have there been many bugs?

    thanks again guys, really appricaite the info! ;)

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    JHust out of interest is there a very hard campaign very hard battle options?

    I hope so as I belive that is the only way to make battles challenging for me!
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    yes there will be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike007
    Cool, i like the sound of units playing a specific parts, like Shogun. I sometimes dislike how many units in rome are 'all in one' soliders.

    Anyone played as the indians yet? what do they play like?

    Are archer units overpowered like in vanila rome?

    Whats the moral of the units like, do they break easily?

    Also is this patch your talking about going to fix the problems the closed beta testers have found? have there been many bugs?

    thanks again guys, really appricaite the info! ;)
    Yes I have. I wouldn't call the archers overpowered not at all.
    Well in the old version morale was to low but it is said to have been fixed in the patch, but I haven't had time to test this much.

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    How fast are the units aswell?

    I played EB and to me the infantry moved way way to fast! IS this apparent at all in BL or does it seem fine?
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