Impresions on the new demo!(Spanish vs Aztecs)

**Spino** · 10-24-2006, 16:06

Relax people, this demo will be all over the net within a week's time.

**Furious Mental** · 10-24-2006, 18:07

Well in the mean time there are a few screenies posted over on the www.totalwar.com forums.

**hoetje** · 10-24-2006, 19:20

Originally Posted by Furious Mental

Well in the mean time there are a few screenies posted over on the www.totalwar.com forums.

Which link please?

I can't find it

**hoom** · 10-24-2006, 19:25

Gah! I got Cortez killed (suspect friendly fire)

So one of the Spanish units is a unit of Pavise crossbows.
They don't deploy the Pavise per-se, it sits on their backs then they turn back to the enemy & crouch down to reload.

The Aztecs get some guys that chuck some HUGE arrows at you

French & English knights have had a visual upgrade: new helmets & English have a new war hammer.
The Billmen seem to have a new bill but has a bit of a texture glitch.

**Gith** · 10-24-2006, 19:51

Originally Posted by hoom

The Aztecs get some guys that chuck some HUGE arrows at you

Just a guess, but atlatls? I haven't seen any of the new demo screens.

**CrownOfSwords** · 10-24-2006, 20:52

good the old bill was wayyyy too small for the english billmen, and i still dont understand why the yeomen carry hammers...?

**hoom** · 10-24-2006, 21:05

I didn't see any of the 'you spin me right round' move in my one play of Agincourt :)
...but there is a new 'spin' move thats an eyesore

I've also had difficulty getting cav to charge with lances, didn't notice similar issue with original demo O_o

Also some screenies:
New Knights

New bills, hard to see but there is a hook on the back, still quite small though

One of these things just doesn't belong here...

**Zatoichi** · 10-25-2006, 13:51

Originally Posted by CrownOfSwords

... and i still dont understand why the yeomen carry hammers...?

The archers carrying hammers is pretty accurate for Agincourt. They used the hammers to knock in the pointy stakes, and then used them to knock off the pointy French during the following mud/blood bath.

My Amazon sponsored download is currently chugging at a rather slow 11.9kb/s, and is saying I need another 13 hours... Seeing as I'm sneakily using my work pc, I'll have to wait until tomorrow evening before I can take any useful part in the demo impressions discussions. Bah.

**ProudNerd** · 10-27-2006, 08:21

Originally Posted by hoom

Gah! I got Cortez killed (suspect friendly fire)

So one of the Spanish units is a unit of Pavise crossbows.
They don't deploy the Pavise per-se, it sits on their backs then they turn back to the enemy & crouch down to reload.

The Aztecs get some guys that chuck some HUGE arrows at you

French & English knights have had a visual upgrade: new helmets & English have a new war hammer.
The Billmen seem to have a new bill but has a bit of a texture glitch.

im glad the hammers and bills looked silly and way too small i cant wait to see what they look like now. What about the AI is it better? Is the gunner reloading glitch fixed? I really hope so.

**Zenicetus** · 10-27-2006, 08:31

Otumba is very challenging. Frame rate looks improved from the early demo.

What I want to know is this... are we going to see tactically useful terrain, like that small bluff on the right side of the Spanish lines, in the campaign game? Or the hills in Pavia? Is the auto-generated terrain in campaign battles going to be this interesting, and tactically useful?

Yeah, I know... we need to see the final game to know this. I just didn't want to get too excited from the demo, which is very nice. I remember being disappointed in the RTW auto terrain, after seeing the demo.