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You know, in the campaign map when I was seeing them recruited and stuff where it was just those icons by themselves I was inclined to agree that they sucked, but now I'm thinking about it while seeing them in a battle, I actually like them, in concept at least. The place for the fancy art is for the character portraits. If the unit cards were elaborate too they'd end up competing for the visual space with those, whereas like this they help to emphasize them. They could definitely stand to be changed to differentiate types/ranks better though.
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Unit cards should be fairly easy to mod based on past TW games though.
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simple unit cards are where it's at. dude in silhoutte, plus weapon. I get that 'ham needed to have arty-art everywhere, cuz it's 'ham, but the unit cards are non-distinct as gently caress.
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Feb 20, 2019 00:20
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Rome 2 had the best unitcards, followed by Age of Charlesmagne. Fight me.
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Feb 20, 2019 00:33
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ZearothK posted:Rome 2 had the best unitcards, followed by Age of Charlesmagne. Fight me. I've got your back, gently caress 'em up.
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Shu Han is not even located in the State of Shu. Literally Unplayable.  E: Best unit cards were Shogun 2 and it's not even close.
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Feb 20, 2019 00:49
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The unit cards are kind of lame, but they seem much more utilitarian than most of the games. I like the idea of a simple silhuoette with the weapon being heavily accented. I really liked Rome 2's once they fixed a lot of the release problems. The silhouettes made for a good shape while the little color accents helped differentiate them. They were aesthetically pleasing, but also really good for telling what a card was for in your peripheral vision.
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Thrones has really good unit cards-- they're all colour-coded by weapon. Of course, it helps that there's only about 10 unit archetypes in that.
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is it me or is the guy in that video really bad at the game? i would uh, never do things the way he did
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Mantis42 posted:Shu Han is not even located in the State of Shu. Literally Unplayable. RotS or vanilla? Trick question they were both awesome.
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Feb 20, 2019 04:14
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I've typically loved the Period Art unit cards like in Rome 2, and I don't mind the cards that are just a scaled down model of the unit, but these silhouettes really aren't doing it for me. Ah well, like others have said, it's one of the easiest things to mod.
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Feb 20, 2019 04:23
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Plan Z posted:Looks neat. I like the idea of having multiple officers with their own sort of squads to watch over after seeing this. Plan Z posted:There's a lot of other stuff I like, but this has me much more hopeful about Records Mode. Also noticed no raze option once the battle was over. Koramei posted:They could definitely stand to be changed to differentiate types/ranks better though. Mantis42 posted:Shu Han is not even located in the State of Shu. Literally Unplayable.
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Feb 20, 2019 04:35
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Chortles posted:Did previous games have raze as separate from "Sack and Withdraw"? Any game that has raze as an option, unless I'm misunderstanding you.
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Feb 20, 2019 17:03
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Warhammer and Attila did.
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Here's today's third and final Romance Mode Yuan Shao campaign playthrough, which finally shows Yuan Shao's captain retinues, as well as Lu Bu in a manual battle near the end complete with a duel: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/383790146
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Feb 20, 2019 19:34
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In that video, the playthrough seems to be going ok then like 7 AI factions declare war on him and invade simultaneously without cause, and then he fights a battle that takes less than 90 seconds to decide. Not looking good.
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Feb 21, 2019 21:56
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The battles look really small... Maybe just cause the last hisorical TWs I've played have been DeI which has huge armies and Throb which is meant to be little warbands anyway These tiny Chinese warbands look off. Shame they didn't optimise the engine for bigger units considering how basic the unit models look.
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Unzip and Attack posted:In that video, the playthrough seems to be going ok then like 7 AI factions declare war on him and invade simultaneously without cause, and then he fights a battle that takes less than 90 seconds to decide. (Come to think of it though, I wonder how many of those AI factions that declared war on Yuan Shao did so at Cao Cao's behest? Remember that that's a key use of Cao Cao's credibility resource.) * The other is his half-brother-or-cousin Yuan Shu. EDIT: It would appear that even on Romance Mode heroes (particularly vanguards) are surprisingly vulnerable to braced spearmen with Charge Reflection vs. Mounted, as highlighted by Lu Bu in that third livestream. Chortles fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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Feb 22, 2019 16:30
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Hentai Jihadist posted:The battles look really small... Battles have been getting progressively smaller since Napoleon. It's not always a bad thing, and it's usually been easy to edit units to be much bigger.
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Feb 22, 2019 16:51
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You mean after Fall Of The Samurai right?
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Rise of the republic is surprisingly really good, even on hard. It's not just a walkover after you defeat your initial enemies like the grand campaign and all of Caesar in Gaul is. I was playing it like it'd be easy and oops Tarchuna, Taras and the Senones are all huge and I picked the wrong choice in a conflict of the orders and my provinces are in full rebellion.
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Feb 24, 2019 04:15
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SeanBeansShako posted:You mean after Fall Of The Samurai right? I don't know what it is about the Warscape engine games, but even ones that have the same unit scale as Rome 1 with the 240 soldier units don't feel as big as that game does. I think it has to do with how the infantry tend to clump together and look like their collision boxes are overlapping and clipping each other, so it looks more like blobs of men jostling to the front instead of deep formations.
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Today's first Records Mode livestream actually began mid-campaign, with Ma Teng having wrested control of Emperor Xian from Dong Zhuo and thus vassalizing the Han Empire: https://youtu.be/l513a9IUo2Q or https://twitch.tv/videos/387528166?t=00h07m48s Here's the AMA Chortles fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Feb 27, 2019 21:14
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in my rotr campaign, I went to go get a coffee after ending the turn and i came back to find my 4th legion had its commander bribed, but somehow I also managed to pick up 4 units of hipeus cavalry and a cavalry skirmisher? I'm not sure what happened? that legion should be at 18/20 but I guess I lost units of swordsmen to the dignitaries. How did I pick up cavalry units like that? The legion has 21 units?????? 
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Feb 28, 2019 00:17
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Zheng Jiang's got a faction spotlight video, showing her 'faction select' screen and focusing on her early game situation on turn 1: https://twitter.com/totalwar/status/1101159775180652546
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a new "what the teams are working on" update: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/what-the-teams-are-working-on-february-2019 highlights: another Saga game; Warhammer Lord Pack as well as "a bespoke new feature for one of the WARHAMMER I races that’ll have you bending the knee"; some FPS; dlc for the unreleased Three Kingdoms game
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peer posted:a new "what the teams are working on" update: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/what-the-teams-are-working-on-february-2019 That Warhammer feature sounds like an Empire overhaul. Sweet!
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:That Warhammer feature sounds like an Empire overhaul. Sweet! The picture of what is likely the grail says otherwise.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:That Warhammer feature sounds like an Empire overhaul. Sweet! The grail has the Bretonnian fleur-de-lis 
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Speaking of Warhammer, I downloaded Beginning of the End Times for Medieval 2, and it's a surprisingly good mod given how sketchy I found the original Call of Warhammer mod to be back in the day. I like the Warhammer games and their really neat looking campaign maps, but I do miss a lot of the more free form gameplay of Medieval 2 where you can just paint the map. Also, it has Dogs of War so I can play a mercenary army plundering across the old world.
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im playing FotS at the moment as Saga, when I start the game I can't recruit any ships. It shows a sideways hourglass on their unit card and they seem to have infinite recruitment time. I buy them but they never finish recruiting. Its not under blockade or anything. what the hell is going on?
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underage at the vape shop posted:in my rotr campaign, I went to go get a coffee after ending the turn and i came back to find my 4th legion had its commander bribed, but somehow I also managed to pick up 4 units of hipeus cavalry and a cavalry skirmisher? I'm not sure what happened? that legion should be at 18/20 but I guess I lost units of swordsmen to the dignitaries. How did I pick up cavalry units like that? You may have captured some artillery. Congrats.
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Hentai Jihadist posted:im playing FotS at the moment as Saga, when I start the game I can't recruit any ships. It shows a sideways hourglass on their unit card and they seem to have infinite recruitment time. I buy them but they never finish recruiting. This is right off the top of my head, but it might be because in FOTS you can queue up as many units to build as you want, but the money only gets taken from your treasury when you mash End Turn. If you don't have enough money (or other stuff gets bought first and your money goes down) then the recruitment doesn't happen. That might be completely wrong.
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Heads up, the second Records Mode Ma Teng campaign livestream
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Chortles posted:Due to 'events outside our control' your spies can end up changing target factions. Friendship has ended with YUAN SHAO LIU BAE is now my my bestfriend
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im so anxious about this game i need it to be good so badly
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Zyla posted:im so anxious about this game It'll be good 100%, but maybe not at launch. One of the reasons I never buy total war games at lauch is, because inevitably the game 5+ patches/dlcs in is like a 1000 times better then it starts at launch.
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The last one that was really good at launch was Warham 1 imo It was obviously better later though I think I will be able to enjoy 3k as long as there is a 2x unit size mod. The heros taking up unit slots just means smaller battles than normal which feels wrong for a 3k game
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Hentai Jihadist posted:I think I will be able to enjoy 3k as long as there is a 2x unit size mod.
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Biggest unmodded game is still RTW with 4800 soldiers in a max sized stack of 240 man units.
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