Playing india {Martha}W/ latest Patch

[Radioman]

The India theater has shown quit a bit of change in game dynamics since the patch and I'm now at turn 120 or so and I've experienced alot of good AI corrections in relationship to Campaign and battle map activities. One notable was a province trade with "Curther???" or some sort of unheard of western entity...The deal gave me all sorts of technology advances that caused a ruckus amongst my plebeian populous, but most interestingly gave me a province up near northern Germany, allowing me to see what's going on in western Europe and I have to say that for the brief second that I saw all the units and ships under various flags I was a little taken back. Still glad things aren't that chaotic down in the spice field's of my faction's homeland. That brief look was over at my first turn since some western country immediately took my capitol, so it was back to FOW in Europe for me. I've heard and seen alot of spoilers about the makup of western forces....I'm hoping to continue this game all the way to the end with total domination!!!If all goes well, that will be my entire spring break.

[The Librarian]

I don't think the patch changed anything except some minor issues (so no AI changes yet). Glad to hear you're enjoying the game though .

[wokelly]

What patch I havent seen my game auto-update yet. it probably missed it one of the times I went to start up the game and than went and got something to eat while it was loading. All I know is the ing wall bug is killing me half the time because my retarded line infantry wont fire over the god damn wall 50% of the maps I enter into. Whats the God damn point of putting in walls but not fixing the bugs that prevent them from working like they should?

[flannk]

You can speed up the process of lining up your infantry on the wall.
In prebattle, just put the forces where you want them. Just put them on the wall and dont look at how they are positioned on the wall.
When the battle starts, give your units on the wall attack orders on the enemy and they will set themselves up at the wall and start firing the cannons at great range.
Also, when the enemy is inside the fortress i.e. after breaching a wall by cannon fire, give attack orders and they will stay on the wall and fire from above.

[Radioman]

Well it's 1776 Mexico has just claimed it's independence, following Colombia...I just gave the orders to lay metalled roads all over India...This in conjunction with playing the turns in windowed mode should give me plenty of time to multitask outside of the Empire universe...

My population map is fully green, I decided back when I was ridding the lands of Mughols that I would create a nation of mostly pleasure palaces and taverns to keep everyone happy....

I have 5 Generals with a total of 6000 land troops...About $14500 a year in army upkeep costs...I just started to build a fleet, so far 3 3rd Rate Flagships and 1 Slope...Once I've completed 10 battle ships and 6 Slopes I'll go down to the east indies and dominate that trade theater... Finally after the east indies, I'll move two-thirds of my land troops to the Americas by w/c time they should be ready for a Hindu takeover.

The Europeans, particularly England have been jumping on and off my trade route with Sweden so I took a look up there during one of those aforementioned scenarios and I saw a few one unit stacks of red coats scouting around the southern regions of Britain...I'm figuring that If I were to Drop a stack of units off in Ireland, I might be able to crush the present superpower???


All in all India is a good place to start a campaign if you want to get a good solid knowledge base of the game's many features before you play a faction that has multiple enemies constantly threatening your factions survival...Don't get me wrong though Martha Confederacy does have its threats...

1802 All of my land possessions are Green...I've taken control of the Louisiana colonies...I just destroyed the United Colonies with an auto-resolved attack...The Dutchland is my Western European Stronghold...My neighbors Saxony have indefinite rights to my lands and France is the only country in the world to be at war with me, by my choice of course...I'm building up a stronger land force in the Americas...Every major power is very friendly with me except France (my choice of course)any of the small powers that might be in my area of interest are very friendly as well.

Basically I can sit around and get richer and richer with no assaults made against me...I'm near 1.5 million as of now and my land armies are pretty small to me, but they are rated as the largest by 3 or 4 hundred measures...Turns are moderately long and with nothing going on I can see that this might be the time to wait for a real patch that makes the AI more competitive and reduce the sort of cloned unit stacks that I smashed in the colonies after taking New Orleans...They tried to take it back with a stack of archer units, it was pretty sad.
I'ld love to spend my week off modding ETW but until it is more mod friendly I won't waste my time.

The aforementioned was quite fun...shortly after my last post I quit that game and jumped into the modding aspects that are available to us with the manager device...prior to modding however I started a new game on VH/VH and found it virtually impossible to maintain control on the mainland and was forced to usurp Ceylon from the United Provinces...It wasn't until today that I found out that the British were stuck on the British Isle and that all of the minor factions are in some sort of frozen state...
So effectively all the hours and days and weeks that I've put into these extremely long gaming sessions mean absolutely nothing...Whole empires are landlocked, 1799 passes with no sort of victory notice, Vh/Vh is for the birds as usual <I survived every game in my library w/o playing Vh/Vh>...
I can't believe that this was released with no AI naval invasions...I actually was surprised to find that the American Revolution never takes place!?!?!
Bare in mind that I purposely was avoiding the forums so that I could take advantage of all the surprises that the game had to offer in a full campaign...What a fool I was, I'll never get those days back and I'm thinking of how to get Best Buy for screwing me out of $74
Ahh, you win some you lose some...I might try activating ai priorities one last time...Thank god I play the game offline...Anyways I have to go back and recreate all my Hindu units to be unique for the Maratha, as it turns out Muslim factions recruit them as well
As forcasted by CA it will be another 3 to 4 weeks before they send out their gameplay "fix" patch...Once that is released this game will rock, it's too bad that I'll be busy with my finals then...

Triple posts merged. From now on, please edit your posts instead of creating new posts, thank you. - Thanatos

[J. Fishman]

My population map is fully green, I decided back when I was ridding the lands of Mughols that I would create a nation of mostly pleasure palaces and taverns to keep everyone happy....

This is probably why it's 1776 and you're JUST laying metalled roads. I had the entire place gridded and maxed by 1750 in my first game in Empire (also as Marathas). MUST...GO...FASTER! Maybe it's just that I am obsessional roadbuilder. I have been roadcrazy since Rome.

[Radioman]

"Fixed trade nodes for those nations with resource in home region which caused unprofitable trade theatre routes eg: Sweden and Marathas"
Otherthan this patch change and whatever it might have done in connection with the marthas?? I guess most surprising was that I was offered a province in europe, that didn't happen to me prepatch...Maybe I was too caught up in other things to notice...One thing I'm certain of is that I don't like automatic updates!!! Now I have to check my game properties everytime before I start my campaign. On another note I started my recent campaign trying to give away my capital so that I could build up at the southern most tip of India in stead...Since we don't have the option to change capitols, I had to leave the provence empty and let some other faction take it...Once they did I started to build a profitable faction until unbeknownst to me, my former capitol provence regained control and reverted back to being my capital...This was some fifty turns after I let it get taken...The big problem was that it sent me into Bankrupcy at a very bad time...But there was nothing I could do I had to shore up the economy and send forces north to my new fronts make all the provinces happy and defend against upset plebians in all of my unprotected provinces that I worked so hard to build up. All in all I wish we could control which city is our capitol. I guess I'm not use to playing unmodded Total war, I don't think I've seen my populations ever uprising before. Thank god I had battle ship practice playing Imperial Glory back in the day...Otherwise I'd be fodder for any ai that decided to make my little fleet a priority.

I havn't had any wall problems, although I know that it takes a lot of time to spread them into a proper wall formation prebattle and then again when switching or moving troops to walls in battle. Once they are on the wall properly they work fine and even line themselves up when firing at enemies that get inside of the said fortifications...

Double posts merged. - Thanatos

[SunofVich]

I tried a Maratha campaign right after the patch download and after my first battle with a Mughal army the game crashed. I would try redownloading but I dont have time right now and I doubt it would do anything.