What are you looking forward to?

[Haudegen]

Actually I am very fond of the emphasis on the campaign map

I hope the map will contain the whole world and that it´ll be possible to make expeditions around the globe, with some dark spots to be dicovered, like Australia or central Africa.

Further I´m curious whether they create a new game engine from scratch or whether it will be an upgraded version of the RTW engine, like M2TW. I wouldn´t be too disappointed if it were the latter case, because it would probably make things easier for the modding community.

[Jack Lusted]

It uses a brand new game engine.

[Mylae]

It uses a brand new game engine.

I wonder what will be the hardcoded limits. M2TW expanded to 31 the faction slots. If Empire is gonna raising tis limit to 50+ possible factions i'd like it.
Also, I'd like a more "historical" approach, in which historical messages will play a decisive chioice role. Look at Europa Universalis to see what i mean.

[icek]

Im looking forward to see japan in tokugawa's family hands and to make sme "last samurai" on some english azz. but on the other hand japan was closed for the rest of theworld in that time and im afraid this game will be just another all-graphics + naval battles enviroment to create boring mods.

[Freedom Onanist]

to make sme "last samurai" of some english azz

Huh?

[icek]

Huh?

read one more time or watch the movie

[Freedom Onanist]

read one more time or watch the movie

Yeah, tried that, still makes no sense to me? What have Japan, the Togukawa and English azz got to do with each other?

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

It uses a brand new game engine.

Guess alot of people might have to upgrade their RAM if they didn't do so already For MT2W?


Moghul India and USA

[Stuperman]

@ Jack lusted (or any other CA official)

Will ETW support multi-core cpu's and/or Agea's physics processing unit?

@SaFe - agreed

[Fate]

The main parts of this game that i'm looking forward to, the ilberian war; England and portugal against france. Battling in the Americas, (hopefully) fighting in the carribean (would be awesome!), and the turmoil of india, sikhs vs muslims, whilst the british sit and the sidelines waiting to take out the victor.

I cant wait!! XD

And they'd best do british riflemen the respect the need!

[anders]

Im just relieved that the "viking total warrior" or whatever it was called that was mentioned in norwegian media yesterday wasnt the big news CA promised us...

but the scope of this empire game is alarmingly big, lots of room for historical-accuracy cockups and lack of depth in the portrayal of factions.

[snorky]

I have been wanting navel battles sins i first played mt, So i hope they make something cool out of it. But for this specific total war i hope the main factor of the game wil be trade, like it was religion in m2t. Cause most wars fought during that time are about controling trade

[Kraggenmor]

but the scope of this empire game is alarmingly big, lots of room for historical-accuracy cockups and lack of depth in the portrayal of factions.

Theres as much room to get them correct too.

Of course, one should never sacrifice gameplay on the altar of realism too.

I'm looking forward to fighting the American Revolution and to naval battles in general.

This would be one where it would be especially nice to have the Rebels as a playable faction! Build your pirate empire!

[gardibolt]

Since the map will be much bigger, one hopes that it will no longer take 25 years to cross the Atlantic....

[BoyarPunk]

Thought of a few more things besides the return of titles...

1. I'm going to assume most of the playable factions will still be governed by a monarchic form of goverment...so I hope CA brings back the option to change your faction heir.

2. Making alliances actually worth something. Have an diplo-option similar to Europa Universalis wherein if you go to war, your ally(-ies) immediately must choose to honor your alliance and fight alongside you (or subsequently back out and lose a tremendous amount of respect). Likewise, if your ally goes to war with faction neutral to you, you have the option to support your ally or take a big hit against your reputation/prestige by stiffing them.

I've always dreamed of seeing campaign battles with one or more allies fighting along side you against one of more opponents. Have never come close to seeing that happen in any campaign going all the way back to MTW.

Implementing multi-faction battles would truly make alliances so much more worthwhile and the battles themsselves so much more epic.

[Frederick the Great]

This game is going to be massive!!! The thing I'm looking forward to is the uniform's of this period as major nation's had started to uniform their armies in national colour's Prussian Blue,Russian Green,British Red and so on......and if CA show the same detail to uniform's as in MTW2 then this is going to be awesome.British Ship's of the Line taking on all comer's....well she did rule the waves more or less.....this period saw the start of her empire building.
Bigger land battles with sub-commander's who can react and think for themselves so I can be focusing somewhere else on the battlefield.
The disappearance of deployment area's on the battlefield and the fact that you have to march on the map and deploy in your order of battle.Not all land battles started with armies facing each other as some general's did tactical manovering,flank marches etc.
Finally I hope CA and the maker's of ETW will take note of thing's said in this forum or are we all just wasting our time writing these message's while we wait in earnest for the game to come out and CA will please themselves what they put in or out of the game.....remember it's sales that counts.

[Nobunaga]

wondering how battle engine / battle mechanics will be. Am mostly interested in mp balance / good mp experience.

sometimes more means less...

[Freedom Onanist]

I like the Campaign map as well but if that doesn't work too well it massively impacts the battles.

Also, how will factions that don't engage in the Industrial Revolution be modelled? The Ottoman empire declined throughout this period becasue of its inability/unwillingness to engage in the kind of technological and social changes happening in the West at the time. Similarly for the others - Persia, India, China, etc...

Will you be able to play any African nations?

[Nobunaga]

will their be a mp campain?

[ramela]

I'm looking forward to modding Finland in (as a challenge faction of sorts) and kicking Swedish and Canadian (!!!) ass.

Take that for always thwarting us in Ice Hockey.

[iblewafuse14]

I'm looking forward to modding Finland in (as a challenge faction of sorts) and kicking Swedish and Canadian (!!!) ass.

Take that for always thwarting us in Ice Hockey.

I'm going to play as UK since they own parts of Canada :P... Canada = kick ass... Hockey is our sport and UK has the red coats

[Iavorios]

I personally would love to know is China in the game. It must be, if you have the entire world, you just can't miss one third of the global population. And if it is in, well it would be fun. Taking China out to globally conquest, and putting the world under the rule of the emperor will be great. And bices, China become tehnologicly bad only after 17-18 century.

[lars573]

I'm going to play as UK since they own parts of Canada :P... Canada = kick ass... Hockey is our sport and UK has the red coats

No they don't, Canada=French. Until 1760. Well after the game will probably start.