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Amazon is selling TW titles much cheaper than Steam is. Just thought I'd give you all a heads up! Shogun 2 Gold Edition for 24 pounds, and Rome 2 for 29.99 pounds, which is 15 dollars cheaper than what Steam is selling it for. Worth the steep difference in price, in my opinion, to order from Amazon. I'm going to order Shogun 2 Gold Edition.
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Loopoo posted:Thought as much. So the way forward is to scrap this PSU and get a more powerful one? Can't even remember what PSU I got. When you notice a problem with power or heat, you usually want to address it pretty quickly because that poo poo can have some awful consequences if you get unlucky. I don't really know the deals anymore but I'm sure you can find something useful quickly in SH/SC. I picked up a solid one last year for ~$70.
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Jul 8, 2013 20:52
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Mazz posted:When you notice a problem with power or heat, you usually want to address it pretty quickly because that poo poo can have some awful consequences if you get unlucky. I don't really know the deals anymore but I'm sure you can find something useful quickly in SH/SC. I picked up a solid one last year for ~$70. Cheers man, yeah I'll get right on it. Will probably purchase a new PSU tomorrow, along with a new tower (gently caress small towers, they're a pain in the rear end when it comes to installing stuff).
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Jul 8, 2013 21:18
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Pope Mobile posted:I've been trying to play E:TW but it won't load for some reason. I made sure all files relating to E:TW were gone (including previous saves and settings under 'My Documents') and did a completely clean install from Steam. You are missing cleaning out some txt file that I forget the name of. It's the file where you specify mod load order, and it is not under my games. Look for any total war poo poo in: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ The Creative Assembly\... Captain Beans fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Jul 8, 2013 21:20
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I am currently playing a Germania campaign because I love being the barbarian hordes that kick the poo poo out of Rome. Ive got the Julii stuck with 4 provinces in Spain, I havent taken anything from the Scipii yet (although I am eyeing Capua), and I just managed to push the Brutii out of Italy and am slowly annexing Greece. My main general is  as gently caress. I will hop on in a bit so I can get the screen for my main general.Gunderic beats the poo poo out of an army pretty much by himself:
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Jul 8, 2013 23:48
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Haha, I love cavalry in Rome: TW. I usually just keep my infantry in reserve and send my equites around harassing, flanking and charging, picking off the straggling regiments one by one. 
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Jul 9, 2013 11:32
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That screenshot made me jealous. I've been playing Roma Surrectum II as Belgae and my generals are in chariots and they loving suck. They're lucky if they can take out half a unit of light infantry without getting decimated.
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Jul 9, 2013 12:21
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Was I the only one who found Waterloo in N:TW to be disappointing? The campaign was so great, and it was a pretty uninteresting end to it. Napoleon got sneak attacked and taken out before I even knew he was being attacked. Ended up OK, because the Duke of Wellington got beaned by a lucky cannonball from across the map moments later. Just wailed on the English for 10 minutes with a half stack and ta daa, roll cinematic. Sort of anticlimactic, and not particularly challenging.
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Jul 9, 2013 17:03
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Loopoo posted:Amazon is selling TW titles much cheaper than Steam is. Just thought I'd give you all a heads up! Shogun 2 Gold Edition for 24 pounds, and Rome 2 for 29.99 pounds, which is 15 dollars cheaper than what Steam is selling it for. Worth the steep difference in price, in my opinion, to order from Amazon. I'm going to order Shogun 2 Gold Edition. Aww yea just got fall of the samurai for 10bux.
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Jul 9, 2013 17:05
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canyoneer posted:Was I the only one who found Waterloo in N:TW to be disappointing? The campaign was so great, and it was a pretty uninteresting end to it. The British/Dutch side of the battle is pretty entertaining, though.
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Jul 9, 2013 17:54
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The Waterloo bit should have had it's own miniature campaign.
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Jul 9, 2013 18:16
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SeanBeansShako posted:The Waterloo bit should have had it's own miniature campaign. Yep. Even if it was some sort of "endurance mode" with the three other battles of the three previous days leading up to it. 4 consecutive battles with the same army and a little bit of reinforcement in between (as the actual campaign was) would probably be really fun to play.
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Jul 9, 2013 21:27
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Captain Beans posted:You are missing cleaning out some txt file that I forget the name of. Finally got a chance. Tried and didn't work  I hit Play, I get the 'computer working' cursor, then nothing.
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Jul 10, 2013 03:20
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Another campaign photo dump. These are all post-marian Romans. Not that it stops the AI from making poo poo armies all the time. 1. My as gently caress general. Too bad hes getting old.2. Turned FoW off to get a pic of the world map. 3. Gunderic again (I think the same guy) beating the poo poo out of besieging Romans. 4. Didnt end up being as massive a defeat as the first one was, but Gunderic still cleaned house. 5. Lifting a siege of my Capitol. loving Brutii started conquering Dacia just so they could avoid getting their poo poo kicked in by Verritus. 6. Not as boss as Verritus or Daddy Gunderic, but still doing pretty good.
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Jul 10, 2013 06:22
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Seems like that second stack of yours did nothing, though. Did they at least tie up some of the enemy reinforcements?
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Jul 10, 2013 07:40
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Maybe he got a "Reinforcements...?" thing. Sometimes in M2TW the game doesn't send me or the enemy guys the reinforcements because it's apparently too much for my computer to handle or something.
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I think its something to do with the fact that I am playing on a lovely laptop. Neither my reinforcements nor enemy reinforcements showed up to the battle. Unfortunately I have to refight that battle because Rome crashed after the results screen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg42DC4EpMY Battle of the Nile - Roman perspective Also this is the guy they are talking about at the end of the video https://twitter.com/hiro_tachiki/status/348380895092281346] Khagan fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Jul 10, 2013 17:59
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 So, is there any truth to this or what? I can't see the Philippine-American Wars being broad enough for a Total War game myself.
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Jul 10, 2013 18:05
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It depends. Don't forget that war was the after match of a slightly bigger scale conflict in which the United States pretty much stripped Spain of its oversea colonies.
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Jul 10, 2013 18:12
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There is no way there will be a Total War title based on the Philippine-American War. It is a complete absurdity. I'm toxxing myself right now that it will never happen as a full, standalone title on the PC at regular market price. The most I could possibly imagine is some weird DLC if they make a game in the same time period and go crazy with alternate campaign DLCs. Or maybe some a mobile games spinoff like what they did with Shogun. Even that is extremely unlikely. Meme Poker Party fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Jul 10, 2013 18:41
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I can't wait for the total war game focusing on the Emu war.
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Jul 10, 2013 20:00
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SeanBeansShako posted:It depends. Don't forget that war was the after match of a slightly bigger scale conflict in which the United States pretty much stripped Spain of its oversea colonies. A game running from the early 19th century (picking up where N:TW left off more or less) and going up through the end of WW1 would make sense, would include the US Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, several Latin American wars, etc. I could see the Philippines War being added to that as a DLC the way that the Peninsular Campaign was for Napoleon. Victoria: Total War
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Jul 10, 2013 20:09
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Earwicker posted:A game running from the early 19th century (picking up where N:TW left off more or less) and going up through the end of WW1 would make sense, would include the US Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, several Latin American wars, etc. I could see the Philippines War being added to that as a DLC the way that the Peninsular Campaign was for Napoleon. But by the end you'd have biplanes and armoured cars. The technological level in FotS just barely squeaked by, and that's because completely modern mid-19th century gear was kept to a minimum. I dunno - I think the American Civil War may be the limit here.
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ChaosSamusX posted:But by the end you'd have biplanes and armoured cars. The technological level in FotS just barely squeaked by, and that's because completely modern mid-19th century gear was kept to a minimum. Total War is all about big, cinematic, decisive battles and the ACW was literally the opposite of that. It would be a terrible game.
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ChaosSamusX posted:But by the end you'd have biplanes and armoured cars. The technological level in FotS just barely squeaked by, and that's because completely modern mid-19th century gear was kept to a minimum. While I agree the idea would be hard to implement, I think its harder for us to imagine a TW game of that style then it would be for them to implement. I mean armored cars would really just be the elephants of their time if the game was designed for the era. They pulled off the change in dynamics pretty well with FOTS and E/N, for them to step even further and produce something good isn't that improbable. WWI is probably the limit though, combat just gets way too different from that point on without completely redesigning the battle phases of the game.
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Mazz posted:While I agree the idea would be hard to implement, I think its harder for us to imagine a TW game of that style then it would be for them to implement. I mean armored cars would really just be the elephants of their time if the game was designed for the era. They pulled off the change in dynamics pretty well with FOTS and E/N, for them to step even further and produce something good isn't that improbable. There's a WWI mod for N:TW that has armored cars and proto-tanks. I don't think it has planes though. I want to try it but I'm playing on a Mac so not sure if I can.
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FOTS had some post US Civil Wsr tech, late 19th century can certainly be done.
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Total War could stick to its fairly traditional format up until the end of infantry line formations towards the end of the 19th century. A Total War game set in the 20th century would be super sweet, but battle management would have to be changed up so drastically that half of the TWC community's heads would probably explode. Combat would probably have to be scaled in at battalion or brigade level, or do like Wargame: EE/ALB did by pulling out into a macro scale. I do like the idea of having regiments earning traits and skills much like legions will in Rome 2 though. As far as political and economic management goes, the slave economy system from Rome 2 could probably be adapted to worker unrest. The harder you gently caress your working classes in the rear end, and the longer your pointless bloodbath conflicts go on, the more likely a proletariat revolution might be likely. And who doesn't want to conquer the world as a Communist Ottoman Empire in 1907?
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I don't think that a Total War game that's geared for 20th century fights would really be a "Total War" game as we know it. Not that I'd mind these guys trying to make a game in the same general style, but there certainly wouldn't be any big piles of infantry duking it out in melee. For me, that's really what makes it a Total War game. That and taking history and shoving it into the garbage disposal and conquering Europe as Scotland or something.
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SeanBeansShako posted:It depends. Don't forget that war was the after match of a slightly bigger scale conflict in which the United States pretty much stripped Spain of its oversea colonies.
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Jul 10, 2013 23:07
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drat it, I'm never going to get my China focused Total War game 
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ChaosSamusX posted:
There's no mention of it anymore so it was probably wikivandalism.
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It'd be a fun exercise in "hosed up massacres of the United States" but yeah I don't think that will ever be a Total War game.
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SHISHKABOB posted:I don't think that a Total War game that's geared for 20th century fights would really be a "Total War" game as we know it. Not that I'd mind these guys trying to make a game in the same general style, but there certainly wouldn't be any big piles of infantry duking it out in melee. For me, that's really what makes it a Total War game. That and taking history and shoving it into the garbage disposal and conquering Europe as Scotland or something. Maybe it's time Creative Assembly moved onto a different type of wargame altogether. After all, the only thing that's really changed since Shogun is the move from a Risk Style map to something more Civ-lite (and that happened in the third Total War). They could start a 20th century/modern wargame from scratch, but still keep the turn-based strategy/real-time battles dynamic.
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Junkenstein posted:Maybe it's time Creative Assembly moved onto a different type of wargame altogether. After all, the only thing that's really changed since Shogun is the move from a Risk Style map to something more Civ-lite (and that happened in the third Total War). They could start a 20th century/modern wargame from scratch, but still keep the turn-based strategy/real-time battles dynamic. You are the kind of person who auto-resolves every battle and CA scratch their heads trying to work out why you are buying their tactical battle game, aren't you? And the strategic game has changed immensely since Rome.
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SHISHKABOB posted:I don't think that a Total War game that's geared for 20th century fights would really be a "Total War" game as we know it. Which is ironic, given the name of the series
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Earwicker posted:There's a WWI mod for N:TW that has armored cars and proto-tanks. I don't think it has planes though. I want to try it but I'm playing on a Mac so not sure if I can.
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Ragingsheep posted:drat it, I'm never going to get my China focused Total War game Yeah, China's military history was huge. Medieval and ancient China's wars make European conflicts look tiny in those ages.
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Junkenstein posted:Maybe it's time Creative Assembly moved onto a different type of wargame altogether. After all, the only thing that's really changed since Shogun is the move from a Risk Style map to something more Civ-lite (and that happened in the third Total War). They could start a 20th century/modern wargame from scratch, but still keep the turn-based strategy/real-time battles dynamic. A more realistic expectation is that CA will never do this because the strongpoint of the series are the tactical battles. There's plenty of other eras for them to explore where the battle engine works. The amount of people who want a 20th century Total War game is pretty bonkers to me. That WWI mod is pretty awful. It seems like a good way to exploit an AI that barely understands muskets, and little else. It could also be good to bore your friends to death.
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