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Dys
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Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:03 pm |
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Generation
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Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 854 Location: 20km South of Hell, No(r)way |
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Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:34 pm |
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Tik
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Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 3884
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Looks kinda strategy...
I'm still looking for a nice strategy game like age of empires and co
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Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:33 pm |
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Generation
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Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 854 Location: 20km South of Hell, No(r)way |
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Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:51 pm |
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Dys
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Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 1291 Location: Bexhill |
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It's hard to classify exactly, but yes, it's a strategy game.
Has a campaign map on which you have cities and resources, armies and diplomats and such.
Then when you start a fight goes to a kind of rts mode, with individual units.
You train and maintain armies with money made from trade and taxes, and generally attempt to wipe out all other factions. At least that's what I do.
The special part of the total war games is the level of detail in the tactics. Elevation, line of sight and terrain all apply. Units have fatigue and morale, experience and a number of stats. The old games in the series were Shogun in feudal Japan, Medieval in middle ages Europe and Rome, in pre millenial Europe. All were more or less spears, swords, cavalry and archers. The new one is Napoleonic, and so you have riflemen and serious artillery. Makes for a very different set of tactics.
I could go on and on, but just say it's very deep, very complex and very good.
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:40 am |
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Dys
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Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 1291 Location: Bexhill |
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Just arrived. Couple of warnings for anyone who is thinking of getting it.
First, it validates through Steam, meaning you need the client and a Steam account to play, though you only need to be online for it to validate, after that it should play offline.
Second, in an astonishing display of ineptitude Steam doesn't seem to know how to install from discs. After validating, it started to download the game even though I had run the setup from the dvd in the drive. I unplugged the network cable and it seemed to install ok, but Steam now doesn't recognise the install and is giving me errors whenever I tell it to check the files. As of yet I haven't managed to get Steam to recognise the existence of the discs or an install.
[update]
Ok, so I ran the setup again, and told it to reinstall. That seems to have shown Steam the way. I don't know if I made some mistake which caused all this grief, but at least it's not terminal.
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Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:08 pm |
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xildurin
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 552
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played all the previous total war games and love um, totally love um...
cant wait to get this for real
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