New Total War game announced!

[Trax]

Hope they keep the old formations, otherwise EB3 is going to have a hard time there.

It's a new engine so I doubt they will.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Sadly, I will have to agree with you Trax - the formations were only left in M2:TW due to it being on the same engine as Rome. It's too early to gather any knowledge about the modability from the previews though, so let's just hope for the best.

BTW, the .Org has opened up a forum for E:TW. You can find this new residence here.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yeah I agree there. It would be the extreme of wishful thinking to even presume they might be in.

But that's not everything: to use the naval battles properly, EB would have to dump the Engine delivered formations and insert its own. (Diekplous etc.) Just how much chance of happening does that have?

Anyway, let's not worry about EB3 when there hasn't been even a single EB2 release yet.

[hoom]

Hope they keep the old formations, otherwise EB3 is going to have a hard time there.

Indeed.
The article says that the period starts with 'sharpened sticks & swords' & I think that there should be at least some historical justification for including some sword & pike units, thus the formations/animations.

[Trax]

Swedish army had considerable amount of pikemen even in the Great Northern War, so there is a slight chance that we will see a special pike formation.

[Shigawire]

Well, I think it's awesome none the less.

[Azazel]

Wow it sounds awesome. The whole fighting armies on faraway lands looks cool. However, EB will always be on my computer, the historical research present is just so cool

[Tellos Athenaios]

Well, I think it's awesome none the less.

True. Having buildings on the battle field that can be strategically used (apart from the blunt wall & tower taking in assaults); and having naval battles should make for some pretty exciting game.

[Warmaster Horus]

Well, while the news of a new total war game is always welcome, I'm worrying a bit.
EB is at 0.9. EB2 isn't even started (being modded, that is). And now there's a new game out? I wonder as to the reaction of the EB team members.

[Ypoknons]

My first question was "what will this mean for EB?", but it's really impossible to say at this stage, I'd imagine, since all we can do is speculate what the engine will and will not do. Hopefully EB members won't be discouraged by the fact that MTW2 is "obsolete".

Still, it's a bigger problem for the Lordz since they now have more direct competition. I'm sure they'll continue their thing, though.

[Elminster12]

Well, while the news of a new total war game is always welcome, I'm worrying a bit.
EB is at 0.9. EB2 isn't even started (being modded, that is). And now there's a new game out? I wonder as to the reaction of the EB team members.

Probably the same as their reaction to M2:TW, I wager...

[NeoSpartan]

E:TW won't come out unit AT LEAST a year from now. And once it comes out, it will be another year woth of patches and updates to make the game worth a darn.

By that time, EB will be LONG complete, EB2 will be in its later beta versions like .8 or something, and modding of the new game will start to be planned.

There is something I gotta say:

EB is going to be around for a LONG TIME. And I will be here lurking in the forums telling new guys:
-"the Gaestae are NOT overpwered"
-"Lorica Segmentata (sp) will not be in EB because it falls outside EBs timeframe."
---"Stop arguing which is better Segmentata (sp) or mail!!"
-"Attack the AI and stop complaining about the AI spamming armies"
-"The Economy is FINE, learn to manage it"
-"recommended settings are Vh/M, its too easy for me, but its perfect for roleplaying"
-"READ THE FAQs!!"

fun times ahead fellas

[Lysander13]

Being a relative "noob" to the total war series ( never played Shogun or MTW ) it seems to me that titles like RTW became infinitely more attractive once the big "mod teams" i.e..RTR & EB started releasing full conversions.
Mods like EB have simply transform RTW to a completely new experience. Prior to that, i didn't really enjoy RTW either. I just didn't find steamrolling all the other half-ass factions with my uber Romans enjoyable. I have MTW2 and simply don't care for it yet. I suspect eventually i will enjoy MTW2 as well but not until teams like EB start releasing full conversions to it. I also suspect i will have the same feeling about ETW. So if it comes out next year, i'll probably start enjoying it 2,3 or 4 years down the road when the modders start exploiting the title's modding capabilities ( presuming this will be possible to a great extent of course). I'll probably just be beginning to enjoy MTW2 by then with EB2. As a poster more or less said over at TWC in the ETW announcement thread over there; it seems like CA relies too much on modders to bring out the full capabilities of titles they release. I'm not saying this is done on purpose or that they actually do rely on modders for anything. It just seems to me it takes the modding community to add that final polish to the title sort of speak. At least in my opinion for RTW this holds true and hopefully for MTW2 it will hold true as well. So i'll probably get excited about ETW in about 4 yrs if the current pattern holds true. If not i'll still have EB1 (RTW) and hopefully EB2 (MTW2) to keep my warmongering appetite satisfied.

[Sarkiss]

i dont like the era and only hope it'll deliver an opportunity to create Persian- Greek wars mod that would properly represent naval battles. you could have Salamis as a historical battle.
for me, the next TW game set in classical era (let it be RTW2) would be a better news.