Will it be more to do about close quarters and "melee". Surely it will be completely different to ETW and NTW?
Can a historian fill me in?
Or will they just take them out altogether?
Will it be more to do about close quarters and "melee". Surely it will be completely different to ETW and NTW?
Can a historian fill me in?
Or will they just take them out altogether?
Personally I've always hated the bore-fest of navys in all total war games. The waiting an hour for every pirate ship to get done having its way with your little navy and watching it retreat, or win, over and over again, was stupid.
Hopefully there won't be any naval battles.
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Apparently, it'll focus more n boarding and cose quarters.
this has already been posted.... but anyway
navel battles will be with the Japanese boats so it will be about getting close and personal, arrow vollys and bording, they are supposedly set to take place (or at least some) near the coast with reefs and rocks in the water that will provide points for ships to hide and ambush other ships. or something like that...
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Historically 16th Century Japanese warships were not really what you'd think of a warship being. They were really floating castles. The ship's strength was measured by how many people they could pack onto them. Ship-to-ship fighting was limited to mostly arrow fire and later on cannons in limited supply. Primative fire arms were also introduced as the trade between Japan and Portugal/Dutch increased. Early in the century though it was mainly arrows shot until the floating castles came close enough to actually board. It was then that the actual fighting took place in melee. Thus, the more men you pack onto your ship the better chance you have of winning.
The floating castles (warships) were not used out in open waters but restricted to coastal areas and river inlets. They were solely powered by oars (with some having crude sails) and were usually several decks in height. Many of the ships were small or light enough to traverse rivers. Rulers would use many ships as entertainment galleys hosting dinner parties and such or to impress a vial. These ships would be floated down rivers and sometimes disassembled and then reassembled from river to lake and lake to river as needed to get from point A to B.
My wife's uncle builds replicas of these ships today near Hiroshima and I got a chance to tour one just a week or so ago. They are definately cool to look at but not very functional besides being a platform to deliver troops or host a party!
ramming, boarding, and firing arrows at the ships i guess?
Its not all that hard.
Get some wood, whack it together and fill it with archers and soldiers...congrats, you now have the Japanese version of a man o war
Sea and Land battles will be seamless as I've heard.
I'm sure they will be very cool. You most likely will ram their ships, board them, and probably most the fighting will be archers firing at the other ship.
The naval invasion idea sounds cool. They tried that a bit with the mongol invasion add on for shogun but the enemy was always far enough away and your the invaders already on the beach (most on horseback) that it was easy to escape a bridge-like hammering.
Would they use fire arrows or greek fire style weapons??
Anyone got a picture of these floating castle-boats?
well, sounds like boring naval battles. Nevertheless, I never play naval battles in total wars.
Shveet
Looking even better in my mind that two 1st rates pummeling it out
It's going to be pretty wierd then? All you do is press attack. No tactics involved. Just a show.
But one hell of a show...
They said ships were gonna have a rock-paper-scissor system, so maybe each ship will have different soldiers on board, or something.
What about westernstyle ships built by the japanese?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes..._Juan_Bautista
1614 may still be in the games timeframe as it starts in 1545 according to the hourglass.