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Quote Originally Posted by Sheogorath View Post
Weee-eelll, in the early part of the game, pikes and polearms were still in use. In fact, many nations still issued NCO's with halberds up until the Napoleonic wars (although it was more for beating men into line than actually fighting the enemy).

Anyway, melee will be a big feature of ETW. Judging by the interviews, they're probably going to put even more emphasis on it than they should, which makes sense, from a gameplay standpoint. Its sort of boring (to most people) to just watch your dudes stand in a line firing and reloading over and over until one side runs away.
Even IF they go %100 historical, there was plenty of melee fighting in the games time period. Huge bayonet charges, cavalry, that sort of thing.
Just play as the Russians. If CA has any sense, they'll be the kings of melee :P


Yay melee!

I just imagine... what if Medieval 2 total war consisted of nothing but peasant archers, a few generals, and some cannons.

Shoot, reload, shoot, reload, charge, kill general, fire cannon. Oh, ok, some of the peasant archers have little blades on the end of their bows to spear each other with.

Meh.