NTW video gameplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIaVe0T0Xcg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfDVRmMEbU

I don't want to watch it!

BAI looks worse than empires!

It looks more like a mod to empire than a seperate game. They have the same voice commands etc.
I was hoping for the best but this crushed my hopes.


Explain yourselves CA!

good find!

Originally Posted by Gmoney39513

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIaVe0T0Xcg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfDVRmMEbU

I don't want to watch it!

BAI looks worse than empires!

It looks more like a mod to empire than a seperate game. They have the same voice commands etc.
I was hoping for the best but this crushed my hopes.


Explain yourselves CA!

The second one looked decent. Pretty good actually. The first was horrible. The 2nd one looked much better than attack of the Blob ETW.

Second one looked actually pretty decent, the first one looked just like ETW.

Good to see that you're troops don't have to be in a perfect formation in order to fire, but ugh get rid of the stakes. If the AI plays like the second video NTW may be pretty decent, but the first one was a disappointment.

Well who knows, maybe the first one is a beta version, not the release version!

Oh my God that was weird.

How on earth did he get his hands on the game?

Originally Posted by Cozur

How on earth did he get his hands on the game?

It was from some Russian website. Those russians have there ways
Anyway it reminded me of the gameplay footage last year of the battle of bunker hill before the release of Empire.

i liked BOTH of em...

CA has done a better job with immersion, sprites, and unit movement (yes all graphical improvement... i know)...

the AI looked good in the second... and as for the 1st, what would you have like differently? line to exchange volleys with light inf??? that doesnt work... and will never?!?!

Originally Posted by Ragga

i liked BOTH of em...

CA has done a better job with immersion, sprites, and unit movement (yes all graphical improvement... i know)...

the AI looked good in the second... and as for the 1st, what would you have like differently? line to exchange volleys with light inf??? that doesnt work... and will never?!?!

Ill admit the second one wasn't that bad, and it does seem the player was very skilled, but the cavalry charging into a pack of light infantry and stakes was horrible and the AI just seemed very unorderly to me.

Looks pretty decent to me. But it's too early for me to judge the AI just after seeing those two video's.
For which I, by the way, thank you. These video's only encouraged me more to buy this game

Wait and won, nothing new since Empire.

Originally Posted by Darsh

Wait and won, nothing new since Empire.

Hard to believe you at all. Your words are hollow with all your consistant Histwar Les Grognards praise in a Total war forum.


On Topic: I liked the second one, looked alot better than the first.

From a multiplayer perspective, I was surprised by how long the AI troops were able to fight without routing. Many units were completely isolated and surrounded yet they fought til the bitter end. Many interesting things I noticed about artillery too; it appears that either howitzers now have canister, or cannon are able shells targets with indirect fire. Furthermore, near the end of the second video, you see roundshot used briefly by the AI's cannon and it was quite effective. Whereas in Empire only men directly hit by the cannon ball could be killed, it seems that in NTW just being close to the point of impact is enough to cause casualties. I'm very happy to see that as round shot (not shrapnel shot) really should be a common sight on the battlefield.

Wasn't too happy to see that cannon apparently still target the flanks of units, rather than their center. I could be mistaken but that was the impression I got by watching the cannon fire at specific targets. Still, overall it looked quite good. The improved smoke, muzzle flash, and artillery effects are very nice.

Originally Posted by Keiichi

From a multiplayer perspective, I was surprised by how long the AI troops were able to fight without routing. Many units were completely isolated and surrounded yet they fought til the bitter end. Many interesting things I noticed about artillery too; it appears that either howitzers now have canister, or cannon are able shells targets with indirect fire. Furthermore, near the end of the second video, you see roundshot used briefly by the AI's cannon and it was quite effective. Whereas in Empire only men directly hit by the cannon ball could be killed, it seems that in NTW just being close to the point of impact is enough to cause casualties. I'm very happy to see that as round shot (not shrapnel shot) really should be a common sight on the battlefield.

Wasn't too happy to see that cannon apparently still target the flanks of units, rather than their center. I could be mistaken but that was the impression I got by watching the cannon fire at specific targets. Still, overall it looked quite good. The improved smoke, muzzle flash, and artillery effects are very nice.

I second that + REP

The first video was a bit bleck. I certainly don't like seeing the cavalry still doing their genius tactic of running through your entire front line's fire arc and getting shredded.

Video 2 was a bit better, looked like they were trying to use columns.

Originally Posted by Graphic

The first video was a bit bleck. I certainly don't like seeing the cavalry still doing their genius tactic of running through your entire front line's fire arc and getting shredded.

Video 2 was a bit better, looked like they were trying to use columns.

didnt he do that? not the AI??? thought he was not too skilled... a lot of random clicking and his set up, with lines, although quickly done, were sorta irratic and not too impressive...

i'd be pretty up set if the ai turned out to play like him... LOL, j/k

Why couldn't he zoom in to see his troops marching?

Originally Posted by EmperorBatman999

Why couldn't he zoom in to see his troops marching?

Because he was trying to play the game.

Originally Posted by Graphic

Because he was trying to play the game.

Would it have killed our little Russian to see if his soldiers were marching to Hohenfriedberger oe Preussen Gloria?