Impresions on the new demo!(Spanish vs Aztecs)

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

I got the new demo just today in the early morning and i want to say that the battle of otumba was interesting enough because the Spanish have the strength and the armaments but the Aztecs have a very good morale to counter against that!!

I would like to know which were your impresions of the battle?

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Did you preorder through amazon? I and many others still haven't had the email confirmation yet.

[Quid]

Meh, I also pre-ordered through amazon and have not yet received anything. Neither the confirmation nor the email telling me that I am entitled to the goods...

Quid

[Dave1984]

I've pre-ordered and had confirmation but haven't seen any sign of any demo.

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

Guys i have pre-ordered from gpstore in Australia the Collector's edition!And they have sent me the confirmation this morning

[Basilios II Voulgaroktonos]

But you have to hurry because the demo is available only for 24th and 25th of Octomber!!!Thats what i saw in the link of downloading the demo...

[Dan.o6]

Damn, why cant Play.com give me the demo.

[PROMETHEUS]

What stupid advertizing policy to give the deom to some and not to others.....

[spong]

Damn, why cant Play.com give me the demo.

I hear that, I ordered mine from play.com too, what makes Amazon so special?

[Furious Mental]

Can you post some pics of the battle, unit descriptions, etc?

[Dave1984]

I hear that, I ordered mine from play.com too, what makes Amazon so special?

Nothing, apparently, I still haven't heard anything from them.

[Gith]

So is the new demo only going to be available to those who've preordered?

If true, that's pretty frustrating.

[hoetje]

No mate,we will probably have it all,just a few days after the amazon.com subscribers.So don't worry :)

Would any amazon.com subscriber plz post some screenshots,unit descr.or so?

Thank you

[Gith]

ahhh, relief. As I understand it this one will work without SSE2, so I can see if it will run well on my pc..

[Spino]

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

[Furious Mental]

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

[Pius]

I got the new demo just today in the early morning and i want to say that the battle of otumba was interesting enough because the Spanish have the strength and the armaments but the Aztecs have a very good morale to counter against that!!

I would like to know which were your impresions of the battle?

You wouldn't like to tell us YOUR impression, since you've got the demo, and the rest of us don't?

[hoom]

Readme is dated the 20th & does not mention SSE2.

- Celeron 1.7GHz Pentium 4® (1700MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor.

Original SE demo readme:

- Celeron 1.5GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD®
processor. The processor must support SSE2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2

CPU has gone up though...

Also the broken crossfire note has been removed.

[Zimfan40]

I preordered from Amazon and too, but with no word of the demo. But then, a week later, despite sending an order confirmation, they have yet to take the money from my checking account, so I guess I've gotten as much as I've given them so far!

[hoetje]

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]

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]

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]

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

[hoom]

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...

[Polemists]

I don't understand why the yeoman carry hammers either but that is off topic.

Could someone please cover there thoughts on Aztecs and Spanish :)

[TheImp]

Would be nice to have some screenies of Spanish vs Astecs. Thanks.

[Luiscalejo]

cool

[Styles]

Hi all,

I'm not new to the org but this is the first time I post something :)

My impression on the second demo is far better than with the first one.
It seems to be more balanced than the first demo as far as I can judge this because of the scripted battles.

After playing a few Pavia battles it looks like they have improved a lot since the first demo came out. The French cav. has now more problems against those Landsknechts and the battle took far longer (except the Generals Bodyguards they fought very long but could not breach the Landsknechts formation).
Arquebusiers did not much damage against infantrie but a lot against the French Knights they killed 16 Gandarmes in two volleys but only two in three volleys against the Generals Bodyguard and 6 in 4 volleys against the Crossbows.

In the battle of Agincourt the archers killed a lot more Frenchis than in the first demo. The French Generals Bodyguard run over my dismounted knights and killed almost all knights in the first charge.

The first time I played the Battle of Otumba I lost against the masses of natives. The Spanisch Knights did a great job but they are not very strong and get easely killed by light and heavy infantrie.
The second time I won with a little bit of luck. My knights did a great Job in killing the Generals and then the Azteks started to withdraw from battle.

[Phil17]

Wow the demo sounds good, when is it official release? the demo that is. also the new one with the aztecs.

[CaesarAugustus]

So does anyone have screens with Aztecs in them???