40 units per army? Maybe!

[SirFork]

This kind guy from the official forum posted his AAR from Rezzed and he said this!

One thing that popped up though! I wouldn't take this as set in stone, but apparently before you start a campaign you have an option! Yes, options! We all love options I know, but this is one to be pleased about!

According to what I was told, you can select whether or not to limit armies to 20 or 40 units!

If you select 20 then the same system in FotS applies, whereby a reinforcing army can occasionally give you 40 units to commaand. This option has been left in because, for some players, 40 units is simply overwhelming. But for us hardcore ancient commanders then we can have 40 units in every army! Cool beans, no?

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...me-Conquered!?

[Greatonesh]

i was thinking 50

[Sharpe]

i was thinking 50

#TWCproblems

Christ, 40 would be excellent! And naval units? I'm gonna' need a third arm.

[Greve Af Göteborg]

It sounds good, but I'm not going to celebrate before we get some official confirmation.

[SirFork]

It sounds good, but I'm not going to celebrate before we get some official confirmation.

Of course but hope is better than a direct NO i suppose

[-=PHX=-Hades]

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, this guy is saying we have the option to have 40 units in a STACK. Not how FoTS was with 40 units in battle with reinforcements, but 40 units in a STACK??

That's awesome if true.

[chargers1783]

It sounds to good to be true. May be a miscommunication that has happened so many times we get info about CA from an interview or someone who went to an event. But I don't see how CA is not capable of doing this, it is possible to have 40 units under one person's controls shown by FOTS so if CA does give the option to choose between 20 and 40 units I will be happy. But I feel like this is something they would've told us by now, like "Oh hey guys we decided to give you the option between 20 and 40 units in a stack". I pray you did not just get my hopes up.

[-=PHX=-Hades]

It sounds to good to be true. May be a miscommunication that has happened so many times we get info about CA from an interview or someone who went to an event. But I don't see how CA is not capable of doing this, it is possible to have 40 units under one person's controls shown by FOTS so if CA does give the option to choose between 20 and 40 units I will be happy. But I feel like this is something they would've told us by now, like "Oh hey guys we decided to give you the option between 20 and 40 units in a stack". I pray you did not just get my hopes up.

It is possible that they went back and put this option in recently. Nothing is final until the game is released, and even then it's not final.

This is definitely something we need to get clarification from CA about.

[SirFork]

It sounds to good to be true. May be a miscommunication that has happened so many times we get info about CA from an interview or someone who went to an event. But I don't see how CA is not capable of doing this, it is possible to have 40 units under one person's controls shown by FOTS so if CA does give the option to choose between 20 and 40 units I will be happy. But I feel like this is something they would've told us by now, like "Oh hey guys we decided to give you the option between 20 and 40 units in a stack". I pray you did not just get my hopes up.

I just reported on TWC a thread form the official one mate, no responsability on me

[simonsimons]

If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is...

[Raikou]

It sounds good, but I'm not going to celebrate before we get some official confirmation.

Yup and even if it is true does that mean you can no longer field 2 armies at once by choosing this option? need more details before celebrating...

[chargers1783]

I didn't mean to be rude if that's the way I sounded. I'm just hoping Jack, Will, or Craig can come and confirm or deny this. If they confirm it then we may actually see a positive tone from some people on this forum for once. Or others will still bash CA and ask for 80 units in a stack.

[SirFork]

I didn't mean to be rude if that's the way I sounded. I'm just hoping Jack, Will, or Craig can come and confirm or deny this. If they confirm it then we may actually see a positive tone from some people on this forum for once. Or others will still bash CA and ask for 80 units in a stack.

You haven't been rude I think they won't express until they are certain that the feature will be in, by now we can but hope.

[Gondolin]

So there will be an option for the number of units per army and probably the option for the number of men per units
Imagine huge size set for the unit and the option of 40 units per army !!

[-=PHX=-Hades]

So there will be an option for the number of units per army and probably the option for the number of men per units
Imagine huge size set for the unit and the option of 40 units per army !!

There's always been an option for the number of men per unit.

[CosmicContrarian]

So there will be an option for the number of units per army and probably the option for the number of men per units
Imagine huge size set for the unit and the option of 40 units per army !!

1000 men in a unit would be incredible, I'd prefer more men as opposed to more units.

You could have 40 units in Shogun 2 and 200 men per unit of Yari Ashigaru, it was awesome yet tedious to micromanage most of the time.

[DogSoldierSPQR]

In my opinion, for CA to implement the 40 units in one army as an option, it means that they have achieved something with multi-core support. Sure, they could've just let 40 units happen by a re-inforcing army but if they are letting it be an option which means there could be 40 in every battle, even with the enemy having it too, that means there is either going to crippling lag or we now have the ability to use multi-core...

[StealthFox]

CA has said repeatedly that armies will consist of 20 units with the ability to control up to 20 units of reinforcements for 40 total. I sincerely doubt that has changed this late in the process.

[CosmicContrarian]

In my opinion, for CA to implement the 40 units in one army as an option, it means that they have achieved something with multi-core support. Sure, they could've just let 40 units happen by a re-inforcing army but if they are letting it be an option which means there could be 40 in every battle, even with the enemy having it too, that means there is either going to crippling lag or we now have the ability to use multi-core...

This is something I've been wondering too, will they actually support more than one core?

Have they stated anything related to it anywhere?

[DogSoldierSPQR]

This is something I've been wondering too, will they actually support more than one core?

Have they stated anything related to it anywhere?

There was a thread not too long back where people were speculating about it and some people saying that it was a possibility. I personally haven't seen any confirmation on this issue, but James Russell said in the Siege of Carthage gameplay how CA want to get the most out of your PC.
With how someone is saying that 40 units per army is now an option, which I kind of doubt, it can only be achieved if multi-core was fully implemented reliably.

CA can't put something like this as an option for every battle if there would just be lag no matter what your setup is at home. It's got to work for the feature to be put into the game. If 40 units is confirmed, when Jack already so it won't be at a much more earlier stage, then we can assume multi-core support will be present.