First Campaign Footage

[Husar]

I wonder whether I'm getting old.

I liked the campaign stuff even though it didn't look very special.

But noone told me that we now get Ballistae that are larger and heavier than ships and look more like something I'd expect in their Warhammer games...

I was quite fond of the small ones that threw really big arrows in the original Rome, but now they seem to have been replaced by something far bigger than trebuchets that throws huge bombs and looks scarier and works better than any of the cannons Napoleon ever fielded. What's up with that?

[Sp4]

XD I like how he had the balls of fire crush his own chariots.

[The Stranger]

I wonder whether I'm getting old.

I liked the campaign stuff even though it didn't look very special.

But noone told me that we now get Ballistae that are larger and heavier than ships and look more like something I'd expect in their Warhammer games...

I was quite fond of the small ones that threw really big arrows in the original Rome, but now they seem to have been replaced by something far bigger than trebuchets that throws huge bombs and looks scarier and works better than any of the cannons Napoleon ever fielded. What's up with that?

you have them in different sizes, the accuracy, i guess is up for debate :P it seems like the things in the game were more like big catapults tho, rather than ballistae

http://www.carpenteroakandwoodland.c...an-war-machine

http://alexisphoenix.org/ballista.php

http://www.romanarmy.net/artillery.shtml

http://www.thefullwiki.org/Catapult

[Barkhorn1x]

I also had no idea these things were so BIG.

[edyzmedieval]

As I've said in another thread, the campaign map does look really good, so a big plus for that.

We'll see how the battles pan out when the game is released.

[quadalpha]

I also had no idea these things were so BIG.

TWSS

Edit, having seen the video: That battle was massively silly.

[B-Wing]

I do hope this battle was pre-programmed to maximize damage and function more as a highlight reel than accurate gameplay footage.

[Mongoose]

The campaign looks great, but the battle disappointed me. I dislike that they're going with the "über knock-back doom chariots" approach. Like others said, it reminds me of stuff I've seen in Dawn of War.

[dge1]

I do hope this battle was pre-programmed to maximize damage and function more as a highlight reel than accurate gameplay footage.

One of the things I've read about it was that the Ballistae accuracy was buffed up quite a bit so they could show the effect if one hit a unit.

My thought is that one the size shown in the battle would only be useful against walls in a siege. Hitting a moving group should be almost impossible.

[Hooahguy]

Here is a huge battle panorama:

http://tww-data.s3.amazonaws.com/panorama3/index.html

[easytarget]

I do hope this battle was pre-programmed to maximize damage and function more as a highlight reel than accurate gameplay footage.

Same here, because what was in that video looked really stupid.

[quadalpha]

Same here, because what was in that video looked really stupid.

Those commentating clowns don't help either.