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It's been true for every game from Rome: Total War to TW: Attila. The Warhammer titles are the only 3D map ones where it's not like that.
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Yeah, armies with siege engines move the slowest too.
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I like full cavalry armies in Shogun 2 and Attila (where you can spec for faster marching) but in Rome 2 where everyone gets the double pace thing I didn't find it to be terribly useful. You do go faster but I don't think it gives you an advantage worth the trade-off.
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https://www.totalwar.com/blog/anglo-saxon-unit-rosters No naval units that I can see, guess we're not going to see any sweet longboat battles.
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They have an excellent chance to nail the music. I think the music has been great in these games before, if not "historically accurate" then certainly evocative and moody. Something like these moods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDToFhtx-I Gritted up with these sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muRr8WqrU48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWF0oKwSdtM
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Just get Jeff van Dyck to do it again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-omrFODps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Drsnn0LgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok86Hw5CZqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJi0S7-9MiM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlEOkh7ZFU
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Captain Splendid posted:Just get Jeff van Dyck to do it again: I can't play RTW 2 with stock music. Its just bad.
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Klaus88 posted:I can't play RTW 2 with stock music. Its just bad. It's not even that Van Dyck's music is perfect or whatever, it's more that I feel he found great instrumentation and themes as a mix between period music and modern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4sNBfbbBDg RTW 2, Attila and Warhammer music have good symphonic pieces, it's just they sound generic to me.
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I've been having some fun playing Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai. How does Napoleon Total War hold up for gunpowder warfare? Really like setting that that perfect firing line and having the idiot AI suicide march straight into it because I have siege weapons which automatically triggers an attack. Wonder if they'll ever fix that? It's been a part of total war games since, I think, Rome 1.
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Does anyone have insight on troop formation for the early Roman empire in the grand campaign of RTW2? I've been toying with different formations for the sole reason that I was getting bored of the wide line, Archers/Heavies/Flank cavalry tactic. Right now I'm battling the greeks, and barely just cracked Sparta that had declared war. Now I don't know if it's because of their stupid morale bonuses, but when I tried the following I was almost completely massacred. Two armies of 20/20 faced each other, mostly a composition of half spearmen/hoplites/pikemen on Sparta's side and half peltasts, and on my side 4 cavalry (including the general), 4 hastatis, 8 principes, 4 velites. What I tried was to game the AI a bit by creating pockets of enemies to encircle, so I place my hastatis up front, two units together, then spaced apart, then two more. My goal was to have the enemy go at them from all sides, and have my principes come around the sides for the time it would take pikemen to get rid of the Heavy infantry. So like this: o - Hastatis O - Principes X - Cavalry V - Velites pre: VVVV
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Phalanxes rely pretty heavily on head on line battles and attrition. Because they're shielded your projectiles are also going to be less effective when hitting them from the front. What I like to do in Rome is use my Principes as my front line and Hastatis/Velites for flanking infantry and getting off really devastating missile volleys. I'd use something like this: pre:XX O O O O XX ooOO OOoo VV VV
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Traditionally, you always fight hoplites by flanking or throwing javelins in their rear. Calvary can cycle charge or chase away enemy ranger units. If you want to stick with the sacrificial hastati, maybe set them up in more of a wedge formation, then your principles can swallow up the hoplite flanks. Completely surrounding them won’t kill that much faster than surrounding them on three sides.
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Thanks for the tips. I'll try different stuff tonight. And rear javelins, why did I not think of that. That is sure to own. Gonna finish my current "pacification" of the north italy gallic tribes, then off to continue on the greek peninsula for those sweet world wonders, all the way to thrace and the bosphorus.
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I suddenly got an itch to play some Shogun 2 again, were there any mods for that one that come recommended (even though the vanilla game is really good)?
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CA is teasing what is presumably the next main series historical TW: https://comingsoon.totalwar.com/
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Boy that background sure looks like Mesopotamia
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Jan 10, 2018 17:14
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Which horse mounted horde faction will be the main antagonist this time?
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Some German hosed up and leaked the reveal, unless it's a clever ruse.  http://www.gamestar.de/artikel/tota...+Three+Kingdoms It's the Three Kingdoms China. Edit: There's a big CGI trailer in the link, and the logo matches the one on CA's coming soon page. So it looks legit. Lol CA, just announce the thing. Electronico6 fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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Jan 10, 2018 17:23
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New total war is definitely three kingdoms.
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Wooo China! I'm excited.
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Electronico6 posted:Some German hosed up and leaked the reveal, unless it's a clever ruse. Someone on that dev team plays a lot of Dynasty Warriors.
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Electronico6 posted:Some German hosed up and leaked the reveal, unless it's a clever ruse. End of the trailer says Autumn 2018. Nice. edit: lol they've just gone ahead and announced it https://twitter.com/totalwar/status/951129586426884102 John Charity Spring fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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https://youtu.be/NBMYRyYJKr4 I’m so loving stoked     
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holy loving poo poo i am so stoked
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Jan 10, 2018 17:35
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And like we thought, the Chinese murder heroes will duel like it’s warhammer
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I am legitimately more excited about this than Total Warhammer 2. That music is rad as gently caress
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This is the perfect historical setting to port in legendary lords/heroes, which will go a long way to making a history game (almost) as interesting as Warhammer to me. Good choice. I want Yellow Turbans DLC or gtfo. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 10, 2018 |
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Jan 10, 2018 17:46
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms + Dynasty Warriors = Sign me up!
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holy poo poo holy poo poo 
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Seriously, how long have people been wanting this game? 10 years? More?
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Man, it's gonna be a good year for total warring. Were there ninjas and honorable samurai in China???!???
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yuuuup this is awesome. Definitely was hoping they would go this route. If we get some hero characters fuckin poo poo up as well that'll be awesome.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been one of the dream TW settings for as long as Warhammer/WH40k.
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I can't wait to play a historic game in not europe other than Shogun
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I'm sure they realize if Lu Bu isn't a memeworthy combat god, they've hosed up.
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Gyoru posted:Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been one of the dream TW settings for as long as Warhammer/WH40k. The best part about this is that we know they're fairly flush with cash post-Warhammer and have a bunch of new stuff they're able to do in terms of systems and technology from building those atypical games. I'd put money on this being their best historical title to date
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Yeess. Looking foward to hopefully a good battle layer (still prefer Shogun 2's to what came after).
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Sinteres posted:I'm sure they realize if Lu Bu isn't a memeworthy combat god, they've hosed up. hes doing musou moves in that trailer, he definitely will be
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It's about time really, with all the Sun Tzu quotes this series has spammed.
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