Daft questions from a beginner

[Durallan]

normally lord yunson what store people will do is they will order in a bunch of these hyped up games, and then they will get in the same amount of these pre order special cards. now what can happen is someone might cancel their pre order or they order more than they sell, so you walk in the store and there is a special forces edition for sale and you get it and pay for it and they give you an extra little piece of paper (I had to fight for mine because the store staff were daffy lol (and I preordered!)) and that USS Constitution was the bonus pre order unit for the special forces edition for gamestop or some other chain I can't remember, anyway basically you got lucky, a rather nice staff person remembered they had the little cards left and you got one for free

not that I'm sure how useful the USS constitution is but hey, free unit

I ordered mine at GAME, and got the Prussian Death's Head Hussar. I have to say though it seems a bit sad to give away these exclusive units considering that not everyone got them, so these little units that someone spent time on are only sitting on a few machines where as all the other units run around happily on everyones machines that got empire.

[Psycotic Empire]

This is probably another stupid question, but how do you change you government to constitional monarchy. I've been playing as Russia, and i've been trying to read up on how to do this. So far i've only been able to change to a republic which doesn't really suit my needs for the time being, as i would still like to keep more control over my lands. Can someone tell me how? I'm a vertern player, playing CA games as far back as Shogan all the way up to Empire so i feel stupid asking simple questions.

[Rowan]

This is probably another stupid question, but how do you change you government to constitional monarchy. I've been playing as Russia, and i've been trying to read up on how to do this. So far i've only been able to change to a republic which doesn't really suit my needs for the time being, as i would still like to keep more control over my lands. Can someone tell me how? I'm a vertern player, playing CA games as far back as Shogan all the way up to Empire so i feel stupid asking simple questions.

If you are already a republic just make the upper class angry in your capital and side with the rebels.

It goes:
AM upper class revolt -> AM
AM lower class revolt -> R
R upper class revolt -> CM
R lower class revolt -> R
CM upper class revolt -> AM
CM lower class revolt -> R

So in order to go from absolute to constitutional monarchy you need to first become a republic.
And in CM, if you need to change your head of state you need to become a republic and then CM again...

[Durallan]

it certainly turns your factions civil war into quite a fiasco when you need so many revolutions just to change the head of state... what happened to good old asassinations? or something, some way od making it easier to change the monarch in a constitutional monarchy would be nice,

hehehe, while I appreciate the offer lord yunson I am quite happy with my deaths head hussar unit ^^ I must say the US warship one while enticing for americans (on their preorder) rather confuses me because I don't remember doing too much shipbuilding in the RTI campaign which makes it seem a bit of a waste

[Psycotic Empire]

Thank you very much for this!=)

[Yun Dog]

normally lord yunson what store people will do is they will order in a bunch of these hyped up games, and then they will get in the same amount of these pre order special cards. now what can happen is someone might cancel their pre order or they order more than they sell, so you walk in the store and there is a special forces edition for sale and you get it and pay for it and they give you an extra little piece of paper (I had to fight for mine because the store staff were daffy lol (and I preordered!)) and that USS Constitution was the bonus pre order unit for the special forces edition for gamestop or some other chain I can't remember, anyway basically you got lucky, a rather nice staff person remembered they had the little cards left and you got one for free

not that I'm sure how useful the USS constitution is but hey, free unit

I ordered mine at GAME, and got the Prussian Death's Head Hussar. I have to say though it seems a bit sad to give away these exclusive units considering that not everyone got them, so these little units that someone spent time on are only sitting on a few machines where as all the other units run around happily on everyones machines that got empire.

Yeh Yay for me, I didnt even know I had it, till my wife said she wasnt going to throw away the reciept cause it had a little card attached to it, and it might be important and then I saw the card - good wife

I agree - I wanted the death head husars too - but I guess because they are a pre order unit it wouldnt be fair to give them out now - this whole thing suxorz balls when you think about it.

Ill swap you my crap US warship for your cool Hussars

Psyc Empire: dont feel bad - I dont know either I just play all my games never changing government - its not like it really makes any difference to the game

I think you have to research it first ???? Hey least you figured out how to change government!!!