Demo Discussion Thread

**Wausser** · 02-21-2009, 12:29

hmm I keep getting close defeats on the naval battle, anyone gut suggestions to beat those wine drinking lads?

**Sir Beane** · 02-21-2009, 12:32

Originally Posted by Wausser

hmm I keep getting close defeats on the naval battle, anyone gut suggestions to beat those wine drinking lads?

Try splitting your line in two and attempting to get a ship on either side of each French ship. Taking two full broadsides on eitehr side should demoralise them nice and quickly.

ps. This tactic is theoretical, I haven't yet tried it in the naval battle.

**Marten** · 02-21-2009, 13:47

Originally Posted by Wausser

hmm I keep getting close defeats on the naval battle, anyone gut suggestions to beat those wine drinking lads?

I splitted my ships in 2 squadrons, first lead by "Namur", second by "Prince". Crossed the french line between second and third ship with the squadrons - 2 french sunk. Then up to the other french line, same procedure.

After that, engage at will and close combat. Captured 4 french ships. The last one was the "Acheron" (nice one CA!) to sink. Unfortunately i lost the "Jersey" - brave men fought very well.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 14:07

how do you find out your internet connection sped for steam?

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 14:16

This is actually kinda depressing. My AMD turion x2- dual core 2.1 ghz laptop can run empire swimmingly. Load times are around 45 seconds -1 min. And no i'm not joking.

My poor desktop started having confidence issues when it saw how high i had the graphics up on my lappy. Looks like I was right, the ETW demo is not at all optimized to run on a single-core system. If you have one and meet the requirements, but wonder why you're having such long load times this is likely the case.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 14:20

how do you install demo i press install now but nothing happens

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 14:23

Originally Posted by miniwally

how do you install demo i press install now but nothing happens

Try restarting your steam client, as in completely closing it down and then reopening, not just logging off.

**Polemists** · 02-21-2009, 14:26

This is actually kinda depressing. My AMD turion x2- dual core 2.1 ghz laptop can run empire swimmingly. Load times are around 45 seconds -1 min. And no i'm not joking

This is actually good news as I have a dual core labtop and was worried it may only run on desktops. Huzzah :)

**Captain Trek** · 02-21-2009, 14:29

Frankly, I'm not sure why everyone's having so much trouble with the naval battle... The first time I played it, I throughly trounced the French fleet, forcing three or four of their ships to surrender and sinking the rest, losing none of my own ships (though the admiral's first rate and the second rate took substantial damage)... I guess it may partly have been to do with the fact that I was taking a "

chain shot, just sink the bastards!" approach, using nothing but standard cannon fire...