New Total War game announced!

[olly]

Just remembering that I enjoyed STW the most as it had better AI but, and do correct me if I am wrong (incase anyone needed an invitation on this forum), as the battlemaps were always the same for each region didn't the AI always set up the same way on each battlemap? By the end of it I knew where every ambush was coming from.

Surely this would mean the AI hasn't really improved but just it was more scripted in STW (didn't really get to play MTW for a couple of reasons)?

Anyway I would take STW campaign/battle maps any day over RTW's if it meant the old AI was back.

Still want the RTW graphics (modded by EB or RTR or another mod of comparable standard of course) though being the sucker I am for a pretty army.

[Starforge]

Sadly - putting games out for most companies is mostly (if not only) about what you can sell. I'll be suprised, actually, if E:TW is anything more than new skins, new map, new cities with a couple of obligatory new features for the reviewers to overhype.

I realise that I'm old enough to be a cynic - but they've had now 4 opportunities (If you count the BI and Kindoms expansions) and quite a few years to work on diplomacy, AI and other not so great features and have left those things relatively untouched while spending most of their time tarting up the game.

I'll buy it - to give them development money playing the longshot that one day they'll actually produce a reworked AI but, like M2TW, I'll be waiting for an EB or other quality mod to actually play it.

[-Praetor-]

Nice!