What are you looking forward to?

[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.

[Freedom Onanist]

China become tehnologicly bad only after 17-18 century.

Certainly by the 17th century they would've been hard pressed to compete navally. thorughout the 18th century they were moribond and playing wouldn't be nuch fun if it was made accurate.

Of course there is always the danger that CA will use China as the joker in the pack. A sort of fantasy faction. I was watching a programme the other day on the History Channel and there were still people insisting that mystic powers had made the Chinese the scourge of the battlefield I think that's what the poor saps believed during the Boxer rebellions - bullets would never touch them. That was until a lump of lead with no knowledge of Eastern mysticism decided otherwise

[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.

[iblewafuse14]

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

I'm sure most of it will be French BUT, the English speaking settlers who went to what is now New York did move north and settle in Southern Ontario.