Multiplayer blog is up

[DukeofSerbia]

Elephants for Timurids look good.

Cavalry Balance: No longer is there a need to cap cavalry, they kill on the charge but when they stop they are easy targets. Like infantry they cannot be selected and moved as an indestructible mass ”blob”. If you find your cavalry surrounded by enemy units and try and get out of there - bad luck, you are just too big to be missed, even peasants will thrust at your mount. Best of all missiles love cavalry, such big juicy targets, how can you miss.

Peasants/Serfs can't beat knights in any situation in open battle (except if is not in marche).

[Orb]

Atrocious punctuation from CA. "era's" indeed.

That said, I'm optimistic about most of the things.

[Bob the Insane]

Peasants/Serfs can't beat knights in any situation in open battle (except if is not in marche).

I am sure the the lone knight surrounded by a 100 or so angry peasants with pitch forks would not be too quick to agree with you there...

I think it would be only right that the best unit used poorly would/should be vunerable to even the worst unit used correctly...

[CeltiberoMordred]

A standing horse is easy to kill as well...

[Monarch]

Dam, I was thinking I'd get this on mid range settings, but I now I know small unit size is same as normal on rome, I guess that just dropped to low :/

Apart from that, this blog has made my day. Especially info abou maknig the annoying game unbalancing upgrades less useful.

[t1master]

just need the demo to see how the battles play out....

did they mention anything about the lobby and being able to make sense of the chat, both in game and in the lobby.

i think a few more old timers would have stuck around if chat was more userfriendly in rtw...

[Monarch]

I think old timers would work out how to press t for chat mate ;)

I think it was more the game they where put off by, not the chat system ;)

[gunslinger]

I'm not usually one to blather on and on about what I hope they will do with the game,but if they are going to make cavalry virtually defenceless when they're not charging, then I hope they also include a command for charging and immediately withdrawing (from that fight, not the battle). I guess another option would be to make cavalry strong enough to charge straight through several ranks of infantry, killing some and just running past others. Even in MTW single player, you could get into trouble if you let your cavalry charge a flank, and then didn't stick around to micromanage it back out of there. You could give it an order to run to another spot on the battlefield, but as soon as a unit took a swing at them, your cavalry would stop and fight.

Sounds like they've also gotten away from the rock, paper, scissors thing. There's no reason I can think of that armored men on armored horses weilding swords and/or lances shouldn't be able to fight a stand-up battle against armored men on the ground weilding swords, or clubs, or axes, or pitchforks, etc.

Of course a horde of peasants should be able to deal with a single knight, but no way should a unit or two of peasants be able to deal with a unit of knights, even if it is a prolonged static battle.

[Ituralde]

It sounds great.

Hearing that from Puzz3D. Never thought it could happen...

I really like the stuff he's talking about and for the first time I might really go into the TW Multiplayer experience big time. With M:TW I didn't have a connection to the internet, with R:TW the gameplay bugged me off.
M2:TW seems to be progressing well. Only problem I have now is to get a computer that will let me play it online without lags due to the bad performance of my system.

Cheers!

Ituralde

[just4apetition]

hey ppl i got a petition link for a ME 2 multiplayer campaign,

http://www.petitiononline.com/2908jt01/petition.html, please sign it and spread

the word.

[JR-]

the 3v2 seige game sounds like ace fun!

[SirGrotius]

the 3v2 seige game sounds like ace fun!

Well said!

This blog was interesting, thanks for bringing it up.