End of War Statistics

[Cynik]

It's a rough idea I had for future total war games or perhaps something a very talented modder could implement.

It's basically the concept that like after every battle you are given statistics for the causalities, that instead after every war (either by ceasefire, faction destruction or the acquisition of the faction as a proctorate) that you are given an end of war page describing you the costs of a certain war.

So for example costs like;
- Gold spent on fielding and maintaining armies (monetary cost)
- Soldiers fielded (how many soldiers all together did you draw into battle against them)
- Causalities (allied/enemy ratio)
- Territories gained/lossed
- Time spent in war (years)
- Which leaders were a part of the war (kings/queens, presidents etc)
- Battles won/lost
- Battles of particular interest (heroic victories/crushing defeats)

I dunno I think it would be an interesting feature to look back at your military commitments and see how much was invested and of course their could be a log which you could check during a campaign of each war. Which you could rename the wars to makes things more interesting.

Personally, I would love a feature like this in the next total war game but I wonder if anybody else agrees, or am I COMPLETELY alone on time investment in such a feature?

[Tspk91]

I agree completely, it would be a very interesting and inmersive feature, as important as being able to see your cities (it is not sarcasm, i really liked it in rome )

EDIT: wouldnt it be better a recording of your nations history, including battles, wars as you say, technology, territory, goverrnment, and leaders and dipomacy?

[willh90]

yeah this sounds like a cool feature.

it'd really add alot of atmosphere to the game.

tspk91, i like your idea also, there could be a chronilogical diagram for all nations including things like wars, revolutions, alliances etc.

[Phase]

I agree completely, it would be a very interesting and inmersive feature, as important as being able to see your cities (it is not sarcasm, i really liked it in rome )

EDIT: wouldnt it be better a recording of your nations history, including battles, wars as you say, technology, territory, goverrnment, and leaders and dipomacy?

Like in EU3!

[Gezoes]

I would LOVE a statistics screen (a la global politicgames like Supreme Ruler if anyone knows that) that keeps track of all casualties and wounded. And I mean all, so I can see mine, but also those of other wars and or countries.

You're not alone

[PubliusKhannus]

yep you could shape further campaigns based of this one little feature. It's a great idea but who knows if its doable.

[Piptoo]

Hope CA sees this

[Sir Winston Churchill]

I agree, completly, would be awsome.

Not only that, but add for every campaign a "War Vault", where it kep the history of every single war that every happened in the campagin, weather you were in it or not.

Also, in this War Vault, when you select a war (which you can rename if you don't like what the computer generated) if you fought a battle in it you can watch its replay (and it being an actual replay, not something where it orders your troops what to do but doesn't show exactly what happened).

IDK, just an idea. ^_^

[worm00]

That's a totally cool idea.

Sth very similar exists in Civ4 (I don't know if it's there maybe from earlier Civ iterations)... One more thing that is VERY SIMPLE in essence, and I can't see any reasonable reason (repetitive I know ) not to have it.

[Diocletian]

Yep I totally agree, this would be a great feature to have implemented, make the game feel alot richer.

[alpaca]

Sounds interesting. Except for the gold this shouldn't be too hard to implement, either (for the gold: how would you decide if the gold is spent on the war or not?)

Most of it should even be moddable if we could edit the UI.

[Xstar]

Very cool idea, +rep for you sir

[Mac Dhonuill nan Eilean]

Yeah more stats +1



How about a biographer as an ancillary .. if you have a famous general/Admiral like 6 or 7 star you get a biographer. The biographer writes a biography about him which you can read....and his rise to fame.. similar to OP which includes battles etc.

Or perhaps you could have cemeteries where you can read gravestones maybe with amusing or pertinent inscriptions. The higher the rank the more impressive the tombstone.

[alpaca]

Yeah more stats +1



How about a biographer as an ancillary .. if you have a famous general/Admiral like 6 or 7 star you get a biographer. The biographer writes a biography about him which you can read....and his rise to fame.. similar to OP which includes battles etc.

Or perhaps you could have cemeteries where you can read gravestones maybe with amusing or pertinent inscriptions. The higher the rank the more impressive the tombstone.

Now don't overdo it, the game is unfinished as it is and such features would be a huge amount of work for very little additional value in my opinion, similar but worse than the pre-battle speeches.

[Mac Dhonuill nan Eilean]

Now don't overdo it, the game is unfinished as it is and such features would be a huge amount of work for very little additional value in my opinion, similar but worse than the pre-battle speeches.

Don't worry so much. I had no intention of overdoing anything I was hoping to leave that for others .

[Qandow]

Well there needs to be some kind of statistical measure on how you did at the end of the game since winning is a foregone conclusion.