People will just go for the most twinky combination of troops they can, there's balance methods in costs to stop that now. It's why I never play Total War games in MP. Use too few, you might be screwed as your line buckles and you don't have time to reallocate your troops and are taken out piecemeal.įinally? Sadly, MP is full of twinks in my experience, people not interested in authentic battles and actual tactics but instead in simply winning with the most gamey means possible. Along with pursuing fleeing troops so they don't get a chance to regroup. Outflank the enemy - Cavalry? Yeah, that's one of their jobs. Hold the line - harder said than done, good design of the line makes a big difference. It's because they were harder than hell to pull off. There's a reason daring complicated strategies never worked well in reality but do in theory. Oh, and KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) applies. But often, just like in reality, the battle is won or lost in the maneuvers phase before a single man has even died. With that in mind, one of the clever chaps on the Napoleon: Total War team has put together this list of tips to sate all of your megalomaniac desires. Oh, an elite unit in reserve MIGHT do something, even tip the balance. It was Napoleon who said Ability is nothing without opportunity. Maybe lots of artillery to cover your crossing and try to drive them back to let you cross? you got boned on getting put into maps like that, you pretty much can't win on an even game of the sort as an attacker. Something like the + and - keys adding or subtracting ranks.ĥ: Wow. Sadly, there is no way to tell them to move that slow.ģ: Look in the commands, there should be a hotkey. Your best bet here is to have a different group assigned to your cav. But keep in mind, the terrain they move over will make a difference, as they will try to get there as quickly as possible.Ģ: That's because they won't. And more specifically, battle lines, and then place the order as a group order to hold the formation. no real interest in the era, especially since they just fucking did it with Empire, it should have been an expansion pack damn it!īut I reckon some of the advice will stand since it's been the same since Shogun.ġ: Your best bet is to form into groups. I don't know if I'll have broadband again by then, but I hope that there will still be Total War gamers playing online when I eventually do.I haven't played Napoleon. but we'll probably have to rely on online multiplayer games to get a decent fight. I want NapoleonTW to be great, I really do. but they seem to have decided that EVERYONE wants to zoom the camera around at ground level like little kids do with their toy soldiers & model railways, "oo"ing and "ah"ing at the great visuals instead of commanding the army. It's like painting a scratched railing on the Titanic when it's sinking - there are bigger issues they should be spending their time and resources on.Īfter Time Commanders was filmed for the BBC, I reckon CA got a bit carried away with the novel idea that gamers could use Total War to make their own wee war movies. gameplay rather than one minor point of graphical idiosyncrasy, it's really a case of CA saying gamers don't want to use the wheel (gameplay) because their new pyramid (graphics) looks better. That's like saying that the Sun goes around the Earth because the Ancient Greeks believed it.Aye, but if you look at the bigger picture i.e. But MIITW didn't and that was the last iteration of TW.
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