Koramei posted:To be fair assaulting a fortification is supposed to be suicidal. I wish the AI would try to stare us out more. The thing is, even when attacking with an army over 3 times the size of mine, made up mostly of samurai, their assault will often be somewhat staggered and it's usually pretty easy to systematically route them, when any human player would be able to overwhelm me in this situation.
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Electric Pope posted:The thing is, even when attacking with an army over 3 times the size of mine, made up mostly of samurai, their assault will often be somewhat staggered and it's usually pretty easy to systematically route them, when any human player would be able to overwhelm me in this situation. My favorite bit is when they send up their generals after the army has been slaughtered, I guess it's them killing themselves out of dishonour but seriously guys you could just run away. The siege AI is massively confusing, I'm simplifying it a bit but how hard could it be just to have them line up all their units together at 2 wall sections and all attack at once?
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Mar 26, 2013 17:07
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NoneSuch posted:The main problem with them parking on hills is they go into dumb mode and won't actually do anything beyond sitting there which doesn't provide a challenge at all while also making it really boring. I don't know if the AI just bugs out but plenty of times when it's in defensive mode it lets me kill a ton of them with archers before it even tries to do anything, and lets me wander units up right behind them. I like to use my archers in loose formation to kill as many (costly) enemy troops/ranged when the AI is on defense. I'm pretty patient about it but I've actually noticed that after a while/after sufficient losses the AI WILL try an assault on you. This might just be in my head, might also only happen if you kill most of their ranged units, but its a thing that's happened to me plenty of times, it just takes a while. e: It's really just how you play the battles. For me the most important thing is preserving as many troops as I can and only committing to battle if I'm 100% sure I have the upper hand so I can pull off a flawless tactical victory (also hunting down and slaughtering every single enemy I can get my swords on even if they're all broken). Gotta get that sweet xp for your general 
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Quick question about Fall of the Samurai. I just tried to build my first railroad. I have two provinces, each with a railroad station, and I can even watch the train running between the two stations. I own every province between the two of them. They are consecutive stations. Yet, when I try to move troops from one station to the other (Yamashiro to Mino), it says my railway is incomplete and won't allow me. There are no enemies near any part of the tracks or stations. What am I missing here?
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Mar 26, 2013 18:01
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Enigma posted:Quick question about Fall of the Samurai. I just tried to build my first railroad. I have two provinces, each with a railroad station, and I can even watch the train running between the two stations. I own every province between the two of them. They are consecutive stations. Yet, when I try to move troops from one station to the other (Yamashiro to Mino), it says my railway is incomplete and won't allow me. There are no enemies near any part of the tracks or stations. What am I missing here? If I recall, these two provinces caused problems for me as well. I think the line has like 2 feet of rail cut through the very corner of a province. Make sure ALL of the line is owned by you or an ally.
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Mar 26, 2013 18:10
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Gimnbo posted:If I recall, these two provinces caused problems for me as well. I think the line has like 2 feet of rail cut through the very corner of a province. Make sure ALL of the line is owned by you or an ally. Ah, the tunnel slightly passes through the corner of a territory belonging to an ally with whom I somehow did not have military access. Got it working now, thanks!
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Mar 26, 2013 18:16
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I finally ordered Fall of the Samurai online (got it for 12 bucks from amazon). Are any of the DLC clans worth getting? I got all the DLC for the vanilla game and enjoyed its additions a whole lot, if that gives you any indication on where I stand with this game's DLC.
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Mar 27, 2013 00:48
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Jimbot posted:I finally ordered Fall of the Samurai online (got it for 12 bucks from amazon). Are any of the DLC clans worth getting? I got all the DLC for the vanilla game and enjoyed its additions a whole lot, if that gives you any indication on where I stand with this game's DLC. Not unless you plan on playing the campaign a whole lot (like me  ); none of them add anything unique, they're just stat modifiers. No unique units or anything like that. That said, if there's a spot you particularly like, you may want the clan for it, since location does pretty drastically affect how you play the game. And I mean the bonuses are pretty good too.Look at this map if you want a look at the starting locations. Saga, Obama, Tsu and Sendai are the DLC clans.
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Mar 27, 2013 00:55
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Am I the only one who's disappointed that there's no way to save the remnants of your army if they run away during a (defending) siege? They just automatically get executed in the post-battle screen even if they'd long since disappeared in the forest. This would be especially useful for generals!
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Mar 27, 2013 01:23
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Some new information from the community event in San Francisco. quote:1. Flaming pigs are confirmed!
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Mar 27, 2013 18:51
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Fans have been calling for the city view mode to return since Medieval II. Do they not know this?
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Mar 27, 2013 18:58
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Fans have been calling for the city view mode to return since Medieval II. Do they not know this? These are the same people who take TWC seriously, so I don't think they have a good idea about their fanbase. I would really like the city view to return, it shouldn't be so hard to implement since it's the siege mode without the soldiers and it really gives you a sense of accomplishment when you watch your city which has grown from a few mudhuts to a metropolis.
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Mar 27, 2013 19:06
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Screw flaming pigs, where's the WARDOGS!?
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Mar 27, 2013 20:16
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MadJackMcJack posted:Screw flaming pigs, where's the WARDOGS!? WARRRDOGS already in: http://youtu.be/7fqb3cPPfuM?t=57s
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Mar 27, 2013 21:05
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Trujillo posted:WARRRDOGS already in: http://youtu.be/7fqb3cPPfuM?t=57s All cinematics aside, that looks fantastic. I've been waiting for Rome II a long time, and Shogun 2 gave me a ton of hope after ETW/NTW. I need to get around to playing Medieval 2 since I picked it up on Steam, but I feel like I'll either prefer Rome on that engine or Shogun II's evolutionary feel.
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https://twitter.com/jameshrussell/status/316980138011136000 hmm? I don't get it
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Mar 27, 2013 21:52
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Mar 27, 2013 21:55
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Blitz7x posted:https://twitter.com/jameshrussell/status/316980138011136000 Warhammer or Aliens. edit: semi-beaten
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Mar 27, 2013 22:00
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I could see a bit of potential for more modern conflicts like WWI since they fleshed out the mechanics for gunpowder units pretty well. But that's more of a stretch then just changing into one of the above worlds, so I'll (excitedly) hop on that boat.
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Mar 27, 2013 22:42
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Warhammer This soon after getting the IP? Usually you spend a bit longer in production before announcing.
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Mazz posted:I could see a bit of potential for more modern conflicts like WWI since they fleshed out the mechanics for gunpowder units pretty well. But that's more of a stretch then just changing into one of the above worlds, so I'll (excitedly) hop on that boat. Decisive victory! We only lost 2.3 million men!
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Mar 27, 2013 22:55
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I'm really happy that they're returning to pre-gunpowder war. I enjoy the straightforwardness of big globs of heavy infantry and cavalry flanking. M2TW is probably one of my absolute favorite games of all time, I've got like at least 800 hours logged on Steam, and that's not counting the amount of time I spent playing before I actually bought it, and times when for some reason Steam doesn't log my time. Really looking forward to R2TW.
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Mar 27, 2013 22:57
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Warhammer: Total War is coming up. Oh god yes. e: not claiming insider knowledge, just adding x and y and getting 2.
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Mar 27, 2013 23:01
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I wonder if they hired some of those Russian dudes who made the Warhammer mod for Medieval 2.
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A Warhammer:TW game? My god if the TWC forums are bad now with only history spergs(and some legit modders), I can't imagine what it will turn into with all the Warhammer people descend to post about x, y and z. Probably some version of forum sperg accession like the end of 2001, except the star baby has a neck beard.
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This probably gets brought up every 10 pages or so, but how come Creative Assembly hasn't tackled the Three Kingdom era China? I'm playing Dynasty Warriors Empires and just thinking about how loving awesome if it were more like Total War but with my controllable super general in the thick of things giving orders. That wishful thinking aside, it's just weird that a Total War game set in China doesn't exist yet. Does Koei have the rights to making games in that era or something?
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Mar 28, 2013 01:08
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It's most likely due to Chinese history not being that popular in western countries (the main market for Total War games).
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Zettace posted:It's most likely due to Chinese history not being that popular in western countries (the main market for Total War games). It's also because it'd be difficult to differentiate Total War: China from Rome, Medieval, and Shogun.
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Lord Tywin posted:I got this information from the wretched hive that is twc where there now is a second thread where a dev is trying to explain the reasoning behind one year per turn to a horde of idiots shouting furiously about dumbing down and consoles. The fact Creative Assembly take TWC seriously enough to have not only their CA rep but also one of their head devs post there is just mindblowing to me. Where is our CA poster? We can  with the best of them if we have to, but I would wager we have come up with more quality ideas in the last 50 pages than TWC has in it's entire existence.Those confirmed items sound pretty good though. One thing they really, really need to get right is their tutorials though. They have always been absolutely terrible and I know several people who love the Total War games to watch, but find them incomprehensible and overwhelming to play. The learning curve is basically a cliff and that's something CA need to work on. This GDC speech by Plants vs Zombies creator is a fantastic watch for basically everything CA does wrong in their tutorials and it should almost certainly be required watching for every designer (not just games, the principles apply to all software). Find it here
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To be fair we have like not even 80 pages of one thread of Total War discussion by largely the same posters.  I have never seen the glory of flaming pigs but from reading these threads I seem to be in for a treat!
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Captain Diarrhoea posted:To be fair we have like not even 80 pages of one thread of Total War discussion by largely the same posters. That's a little unfair, considering that SA has had large threads for each of the Total War games, including the fact that the old megathread was retired by this one, as was the old Shogun 2 thread. Haha, if you think this is mainly the same posters you should check out TWC, not to mention their threads are things that would never fly at SA because we have actual moderation and quality control =p Flaming pigs are everything you would think they would be!
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quote:That's a little unfair, considering that SA has had large threads for each of the Total War games, including the fact that the old megathread was retired by this one, as was the old Shogun 2 thread. Mostly it's just that we're between TW games at the moment. Shogun 2 has been around long enough to lose some of it's shine, and Rome 2 is still in the pre-alpha "No-one really knows what the hell" stage. There isn't much to talk about on a forum that isn't populated with nutters creating zillion page threads whining about 1 turn a year and at least 5 open threads dedicated to masturbating about Selucids. I'm trying not to think about Warhammer Total War in the faint hope it will show up faster if I forget about it.
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MadJackMcJack posted:Screw flaming pigs, where's the WARDOGS!? Can't wait to mod them out while playing 4tpy Warhammer Total War is really going to be the best thing though
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Kaal posted:It's also because it'd be difficult to differentiate Total War: China from Rome, Medieval, and Shogun. I dunno, if they took some creative license with Romance of the Three Kindgoms (which is pretty fantastical already) it could be really excellent. I mean, they'd pretty much have to take some creative license, the actual warfare from that setting wasn't nearly as varied as what you'd get from a full game of Medieval 2. I think a Three Kingdoms: Total War could be a golden opportunity to really expand on the role of hero units (from Shogun 2) and generals with special abilities (from Medieval 2: Kingdoms).
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shalcar posted:Haha, if you think this is mainly the same posters you should check out TWC, not to mention their threads are things that would never fly at SA because we have actual moderation and quality control =p I'm glad TWC is around to defend long-dead generals of a long-dead empire against the vicious anti-Roman, pro-Carthage PROPAGANDA that CA is spewing. 
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Gimnbo posted:I'm glad TWC is around to defend long-dead generals of a long-dead empire against the vicious anti-Roman, pro-Carthage PROPAGANDA that CA is spewing. Reality has a notorious pro-Carthage bias.
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Never EVER read the Vestigia Vetustatis forum on TWC.
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In regards to how CA keeps bragging about how their map goes "Soooo far East guys, For reals, you have no idea," Is there actually a point to it with their current line-up? My knowledge of Roman history is not the greatest, but it seems to me that extending the map east with their current faction lineup is just bragging about how much empty space they've created. Is there actually a (plausible) playable faction they could slot in there that would make it remotely worth bragging about? It just seems like a weird thing for them to bring up all the time.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Never EVER read the Vestigia Vetustatis forum on TWC. I saw a thread that was just about how the only true threat to Rome was the all mighty power of DACIA. Wasn't as great as the man that argued that Wallachia successfully defeated the Ottomans, even though their king was exiled and they were forced into Vassal status. I started to notice a pattern. madmac posted:In regards to how CA keeps bragging about how their map goes "Soooo far East guys, For reals, you have no idea," Is there actually a point to it with their current line-up? My knowledge of Roman history is not the greatest, but it seems to me that extending the map east with their current faction lineup is just bragging about how much empty space they've created. Is there actually a (plausible) playable faction they could slot in there that would make it remotely worth bragging about? It just seems like a weird thing for them to bring up all the time.
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madmac posted:In regards to how CA keeps bragging about how their map goes "Soooo far East guys, For reals, you have no idea," Is there actually a point to it with their current line-up? My knowledge of Roman history is not the greatest, but it seems to me that extending the map east with their current faction lineup is just bragging about how much empty space they've created. Is there actually a (plausible) playable faction they could slot in there that would make it remotely worth bragging about? It just seems like a weird thing for them to bring up all the time. TWC bitch endlessly about how the map isn't big enough and because of that Rome couldn't conquer the entire world as is their manifest destiny as the greatest people that have ever or will ever live. The only gameplay reason I can think of for having a map that extends far further than you would ever conquer is so that there is always a need to defend the eastern front from a large enemy nation so that you can't exploit it by just conquering to the edge of the map. I presume it enables you to simulate the fall of your empire when the civil war analogue kicks in and you still have large enemies knocking on your door.
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