What are you looking forward to?

**Fate** · 08-22-2007, 16:45

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** · 08-22-2007, 17:28

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** · 08-22-2007, 18:01

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

**andrewt** · 08-22-2007, 18:16

I hope they keep nations' relative strength as historically accurate as possible. This time period is when some nations became way more advanced than others and met with people who are so far behind them technologically. I'd rather not have them make certain nations stronger for PC crap reasons.

**Kraggenmor** · 08-23-2007, 14:34

Originally Posted by anders

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** · 08-22-2007, 18:26

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

**BoyarPunk** · 08-22-2007, 19:12

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.

**UltraWar** · 08-22-2007, 19:53

I doubt that I have anything to look forward to. I can still just barely run Europa Barbaroum and Medieval Total War 2!

**Frederick the Great** · 11-11-2007, 14:33

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.