Empire's Expansion

**Meneldil** · 03-17-2009, 16:16

I love these topics in which everybody gives his opinion without reading other people's posts, thus quickly creating a loop of
" - Napoleonic War is the obvious choice. The ACW saw significant improvement in the art of warfare and wouldn't translate well with ETW gameplay.
- ACW would be awesome, machinguns, armored steamships and what not! Napoleon is boring.
- I can't see CA going farther than the mid-19th century. Warfare evolved quite a lot by then, and the rank and file battles of ETW mostly disappeared.
- CA should add more territories: all of the Americas (with Maya), Africa (with Ape-riding black fighters of death) and Asia (mongols, samurais, kung-fu monks!) and extend the timeline to at least 1945!!!"

**Relic** · 03-17-2009, 16:40

Originally Posted by Meneldil

I love these topics in which everybody gives his opinion without reading other people's posts, thus quickly creating a loop of
" - Napoleonic War is the obvious choice. The ACW saw significant improvement in the art of warfare and wouldn't translate well with ETW gameplay.
- ACW would be awesome, machinguns, armored steamships and what not! Napoleon is boring.
- I can't see CA going farther than the mid-19th century. Warfare evolved quite a lot by then, and the rank and file battles of ETW mostly disappeared.
- CA should add more territories: all of the Americas (with Maya), Africa (with Ape-riding black fighters of death) and Asia (mongols, samurais, kung-fu monks!) and extend the timeline to at least 1945!!!"

Ape-riding black fighters of death...
what the heck have you been smoking?

**joe4iz** · 03-18-2009, 15:16

Originally Posted by Meneldil

- CA should add more territories: all of the Americas (with Maya), Africa (with Ape-riding black fighters of death) and Asia (mongols, samurais, kung-fu monks!) and extend the timeline to at least 1945!!!"

Man, I spit coffee all over my keyboard when I read that!

If they put a pucklegun on top of the ape's back and had him manned by a group of three pygmy gunners, that would be in line with past add-ons. The ape could be armoured like the apes in the Planet of the Apes.

**geala** · 03-18-2009, 15:49

Or perhaps it could be an ETW with a time machine, so you can visit RTW and M2TW time, see old friends, hear their speeches and kill them afterwards with your muskets.

**joe4iz** · 03-18-2009, 16:54

Originally Posted by geala

Or perhaps it could be an ETW with a time machine, so you can visit RTW and M2TW time, see old friends, hear their speeches and kill them afterwards with your muskets.

Or the apes could turn on their masters and you would have another faction to emerge.

Sorry, I don't mean to be highjacking the thread or anything......

**Relic** · 03-18-2009, 17:46

Originally Posted by joe4iz

Or the apes could turn on their masters and you would have another faction to emerge.

Sorry, I don't mean to be highjacking the thread or anything......

Lol, don't worry. It made me laugh.

**joe4iz** · 03-18-2009, 18:23

Glad to ablidge...is that spelled right?

Anyway, I hope for an Opium war expansion. I think they purposely left the Chinese trade routes out just for that purpose.

ACW is kind of overdone, but for them to ignore Napoleon would be like making a WW2 FPS without Nazis. So yeah,I'd like to see something with Napoleon in it also.

**Warluster** · 03-18-2009, 23:28

Originally Posted by joe4iz

ACW is kind of overdone, but for them to ignore Napoleon would be like making a WW2 FPS without Nazis. So yeah,I'd like to see something with Napoleon in it also.

Easy, make a WWII FPS about the Pacific Theatre

I actually don't own the game yet... (

) But it seems lots of people are seriously considering ACW and further timelines; can the E:TW engine actually do fast RPM machine guns and fast reload rifles? Can it emulate the defensive warfare of the late 19th century? I can imagine wars like the Boer War would be easy, but what about late ACW, and the Franco Prussian War? So many questions, but I am insanely curious.

**Graphic** · 03-19-2009, 00:19

Originally Posted by joe4iz

ACW is kind of overdone

How is it overdone? I can't think of an ACW game that isn't one of those really cheap strategy titles that third rate publishers churn out from an assembly line. And I certainly have never played an ACW game before. It needs the CA touch.

**Furunculus** · 03-23-2009, 00:42

Originally Posted by joe4iz

If they put a pucklegun on top of the ape's back and had him manned by a group of three pygmy gunners, that would be in line with past add-ons. The ape could be armoured like the apes in the Planet of the Apes.

roflmao

i am still big on the idea of adding Asia/Australasia , more trade zones, and increasing the time period to 1850.

i am really not fussed by the idea of lots of mini-campaigns, total war is all about the sandbox to me.

**ratbarf** · 03-23-2009, 02:05

Or even better, use Australia to lower the unrest in a population. Send some of the bastards to the prison colony and all of a suddent the rest will seem quite amiable. Though this could also be used to represent colonialism. So to raise the disposition of the local populace transplant some ofyour citizens to south africa or Mozambique, the like.

Personally I thing a race for africa would be the best or possibly just Colonial Total War. The 19th century is my favorite one for British History, with a Dark Ages britain comign in a very close second. But we shall see. Personally I would love to see a True Viking Invasion II instead of the mod.

As to the Napoleanic expansion, I could see this being panned out like the Alexander expansion with the possible inclusion of a storyline for Wellington as well that at Waterloo lets you decide who you want to control.