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| 29 Sep 2012 05:16 PM |
it was in campaign.
I am fighting a war against the Turks alongside Austria, and I took responsibility of taking out the Turks in the southern Balkans.
I was attacking Instanbal, and both sides had maximum amount of units, just mine were much more experienced.
I was dominating them on the field of battle, and they got pushed back. I chased them all the way to their edge of the battlefield.
Well, I guess I forgot to account for the six enemy units I hadn't seen throughout the entire battle, and when I was about to wipe out their "last" cavalry unit about six enemy units (about 600 people) jumped out from the bushes with swords and completely pushed me back.
It was like a suicide charge minus the suicide. I just ran and ran until I finally got back in artillery range. Even then more than half of my army was routed.
I formed up with my last two infantry units, my General plus his staff, my remaining artillery and one cavalry unit.
And we fought and finally beat the Turks.
And that was how I spent the last two hours. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:17 PM |
| but battles can only last one hour |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:19 PM |
@boeing
I got annoyed by the time limit and changed it to the maximum length of battles being three hours.
I mean seriously, what good battle will last only an hour? |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:22 PM |
And yes I spelled "Instanbul" wrong. I would much rather have it called Instanbul. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:24 PM |
Boeing, could you explain to me how to get a mod working on N:TW?
I can't seem to get this "Napoleon Total Factions Mod" to work. I want to play as Poland badly. |
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Boeing717
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:32 PM |
how do i even get a good battle in total war
ai is always stupid |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:34 PM |
AI is pretty smart for me.
I mean in some cases they can be stupid (mainly with artillery) but they always seem to preform well with me. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:35 PM |
the only time i ever lost a battle was 600 against 1500
and i still did a lot of damage to them |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:36 PM |
| the ai doesnt seem to do well during sieges though. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:36 PM |
| what difficulty do you play on? |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:37 PM |
difficulty doesnt matter
the only differences are that harder difficulties will have them just stand until they die
at least in empire total war thats true |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:39 PM |
In Napoleon it does change how the AI processes stuff. At least it seems so when I play.
And if you don't like the AI, just play multiplayer. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:41 PM |
| oh yeah n:tw has multiplayer campaigns doesnt it? |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:42 PM |
No I don't think it has multiplayer campaigns, but it may. I should check. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:43 PM |
| the french old guard is boss. a couple regiments held the line against the thousands of ottoman line infantry. best unit in the game by far. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:44 PM |
Okay no it doesn't have multiplayer campaigns.
Though that would be freaking awesome. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:46 PM |
| i dont think they can do it because of the huge amount of time total war campaigns take. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:46 PM |
@prind
The best units in my Russian army are my Cossacks. They are tough on horse back, but even tougher on foot.
My most numerous "tough" units though are my Russian Jagers. My army is mostly normal infantry, then I have some militia groups that patched up the army after large battles. And I always have at least two artillery units. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:47 PM |
True.
But it still would be cool for LAN or other such things for groups of people who communicate regularly. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:47 PM |
but theres an achievement for playing multiplayer spanish campaign?
also i remember once in empire total war i played 1 pikeman against 20 cavalry
after routing them quite a few times they just started circling me and i had to run at them
they would run away but eventually i killed them all
ai was terrible
they could have easily killed me with a swarm instead they attacked like in action movies
i think i had 40 casualties |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:49 PM |
also this
"Fighting Giants Commemorative Medallion Other player's faction is last to die" |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:51 PM |
@boeing
Note: This is N:TW, not E:TW.
And I just looked in game, no campaign selection on multiplayer. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 05:55 PM |
| no fighting giants is a n:tw achievement |
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| 29 Sep 2012 06:39 PM |
watching multiplayer sea battle
i exploded 10 minutes ago and they still fight on. |
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| 29 Sep 2012 06:50 PM |
| and i have campaign selection |
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