Calling All Total Warriors!

[timmytom1]

Just joined the group. Favorite faction across all TW games has to be the English , just because they have awesome infantry and i`m very infantry centric in my tactics (until empire came out , now i just set up a bare bones infantry and cavalry force to shield the artillery as it bombs the enemy back to the stone age)

 

[Agema]

I like M:TW1 most. It's more interesting, flavoured and developed than Shogun, whilst retaining Shogun's direct, fun simplicity.

I think the later three games (and expansion) have added complexity, but unfortunately poorly-designed complexity. Consequently, they've never resolved strategic AI and gameplay problems, and much of the new systems they introduce just don't work well. Diplomacy and fleet combat are in my view the only two big improvements. The (land) battlefield AI has probably never been worse than Empire: it was never that clever, but at least up to M:TW2 it seemed to have a sense of purpose.

So, I'd go M:TW1, M:TW2, S:TW, R:TW, E:TW, from best to worse.

I'm not buying anything more TW until Creative Assembly start putting time into improving existing gameplay rather than introducing dysfunctional new gameplay.

My favourite nation was the Byzantine Empire. Not that they're particularly kick-ass (in fact quite the opposite), but it's more challenging than many, and you get to rebuild the glory of the Roman Empire in the medieval era.

 

[Ryuzaki]

I've played a lot of the Total War games, all of them since Rome, and I can't decide which I like best. As for faction, probably the English in M:TW2 or the British in E:TW.

 

[Tharwen]

Rome is the best TW in my opinion. I love playing as the Romans because of their completely solid infantry. If you plan
your strategy on outmaneuvering the enemy around them, you will not fail.

I played the trial of Napoleon, and it just didn't feel like total war to me. I think there's too much emphasis on musket in it.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

in Rome i prefered the Julii faction, having to conquer the Gauls, and then rest of the known world!

Muhahaha!

in Medieval 2, the French, their cavalry kicks major ass, Fast and Strong! perfect for those quick turf captures

 

[Nickolai77]

In Medieval i liked the English the best, but i spend much more time playing on RTW, it runs on my laptop and the interface is so much more clearer- it's hard to "see" whats going on in Medieval, so i've always prefered the orginal Total War. My favourite faction in RTW is either the Bruti, Juli or the Britons. The Briton army itself is quite crap, but i like playing as them, possibly for patrotic reasons

Does anyone here remember Time Commanders out of interest?

 

[rees263]

Does anyone here remember Time Commanders out of interest?

Yeah, that was that show where they basically played Rome Total War. It was actualy pretty funny to have them talking about major strategic decisions while all I could think was that I could go onto my computer and do the exact same thing.

I'm still very fond of Shogun, I enjoy the simplicity sometimes. The Uesugi clan was my favourite both due to their starting position and they started off slightly wealthier. Plus there was nothing as fun as building an army made up entirely of battlefield ninja and Kensai and watch it walk over armies 10 times larger.

I remember playing Medieval 1 for a bit, but Rome is when the series really began to shine. Any of the Roman factions kick ass, plus it's so satisfying when you get to beat the crap out of the senate after they treated you like their ***** since the beginning. Haven't really got into M2 yet (only bought it recently off steam) and there's no way I'm getting Empire to run on my rig at the moment.

 

[Nickolai77]

Does anyone here remember Time Commanders out of interest?

Yeah, that was that show where they basically played Rome Total War. It was actualy pretty funny to have them talking about major strategic decisions while all I could think was that I could go onto my computer and do the exact same thing.

Time Commanders in itself was quite an interesting concept and a brave experiment, being a Tv show based around a video games, shame it wasn't sucessful. However, i carn't see a TV show based around RTW appealing to mainstream audiences, it's too much of a specalised interest. I think if they re-realised the show on DAVE or the History Channel (it would make a change to endless documentries on WW2 and Hitler) it would have more sucess.

One of the things which amused me most about that show where the two historians, who came across as being a bit full of themselves in face of the familes on the show who were generally pretty hopeless. They should have released the game first, then invited teams of RTW players to compete instead- possibly against another team rather than an AI- that would be interesting.


Oh, and about the senate, it is satisfying when you beat them, but a bit underwhelming. When i first went against the senate i massed 3 huge post-marien reform armies to invade Rome, only to find the Senate army consisted of Velate's and a few Haiasti (sp?)- needless to say, i wiped the floor with them- i guess that shows the value of military intelligence.