You've all misread "300+ new units"...

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  1. T.C.'s Avatar

    T.C. said:

    Default You've all misread "300+ new units"...

    I believe that after seeing the latest screen shots we've all misinterpreted CA. They arent talking about 300+ new full units, they mean 300 individual units. E.g. the diversity of a unit of line infantry may well make up 5 units.

    I dont know whether this is good or bad
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    EmperorBatman999 said:

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    Sly CA.
     
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    LiN said:

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    Awesome, we got "foot" and "fusiliers" and then it will be shared by 150 countries!
     
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    Graphic said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiN View Post
    Awesome, we got "foot" and "fusiliers" and then it will be shared by 150 countries!
    Nope. Everything's different between factions. "Line Infantry" with color-swapped coat is dead.
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    Yojimbo said:

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    ca double speak, again.
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    Graphic said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForlornHope. View Post
    ca double speak, again.
    Deliberate misinterpretation, again.

    I'd like to know how someone who understands English fully can misunderstand "The game will have 360 (or whatever) units."

    In what way does that mean the major factions will have 360 units between them, or every faction will have 360 units each, or there are 360 naval units too, etc. or any other equally illogical conclusion some claim to have come to?

    "The game will have 360 units" = there are that many units total in the game.
    Last edited by Graphic; February 14, 2010 at 06:06 PM.
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    Pickle_mole said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graphic View Post
    Deliberate misinterpretation, again.

    I'd like to know how someone who understands English fully can misunderstand "The game will have 360 (or whatever) units."

    In what way does that mean the major factions will have 360 units between them, or every faction will have 360 units each, or there are 360 naval units too, etc. or any other equally illogical conclusion some claim to have come to?

    "The game will have 360 units" = there are that many units total in the game.
    what? They did this with ETW, they said there were X amount of units and then they counted each nations line infantry that had a color swap as an individual unit.
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    Actually, they do mean that there are 350 in-game units, including ships, infantry, cavalry, etc..
    this too

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    Yojimbo said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graphic View Post
    Deliberate misinterpretation, again.

    I'd like to know how someone who understands English fully can misunderstand "The game will have 360 (or whatever) units."

    In what way does that mean the major factions will have 360 units between them, or every faction will have 360 units each, or there are 360 naval units too, etc. or any other equally illogical conclusion some claim to have come to?

    "The game will have 360 units" = there are that many units total in the game.
    The fact that an reasonable person thinks that different colored line infantry are not a different unit but simply a palette swapped one.
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    Graphic said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForlornHope. View Post
    The fact that an reasonable person makes that different colored lien infantry are not a different unit but simply a palette swapped one.
    They're not palette swaps this time, slugger.

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    Thoragoros said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by -TopCat- View Post
    I believe that after seeing the latest screen shots we've all misinterpreted CA. They arent talking about 300+ new full units, they mean 300 individual units. E.g. the diversity of a unit of line infantry may well make up 5 units.

    I dont know whether this is good or bad
    Actually, they do mean that there are 350 in-game units, including ships, infantry, cavalry, etc..
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    300 new units from etw?


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    Graphic said:

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    My friend has lots of weird campaigns, I usually get the cookie-cutter ones. Sweden takes out Denmark, Prussia conquers Germany, Maratha wins, nothing happens on the Austrian/Ottoman front, France does pretty much nothing, etc.
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    Swerg said:

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    OK guys, I realize I may normally be a voice for cynicism and all that, but Graphic's got it here.

    The units are different. They've even got different names. They're not just recolors. Different textures and models, not just recolors.

    I can't fault CA for that one
     
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    War lord said:

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    To be honest CAs "350 units" line could mean anything from diffrent random veriations in a unit to in all the factions rosters together.And also is it unique or are they counting dueplicates?
     
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    Liberalis Bellatricus said:

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    350+ different land and naval units in the game. Don't you get it ?
     
  16. Destraex said:

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    And 10,000+ men in each battle lol

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    Darsh said:

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    The 300+ units are with or without the 60 different faces?

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    panzerschreck said:

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    355 units: there are 11 factions, so 355/11= 32 UNIT PER ARMY, there are infantry, cavalry, artillery, ships so 32/4=8
    There are some troops available only for historical battles like waterloo, Lodi (polish or swiss infantry for example) , there is the revolutionnary period and the period of the empire, witch means that you can divide again your number of units...

    SO I AM NOT SURPRISED, IT WAS MORE OR LESS WHAT I HAD CALCULATED BEFORE SEIING THE NEw ScRENNshots.
     
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    panzerschreck said:

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    I think that some factions fought with more soldiers than others so its normal there are more units for the austrians, french, russians, british, prussians than for portuguese, sweddish, danish, spanish... I just found prussian army had not a lot of units for infantry.
    If they give to us the uniform editor we can do more units, for example for the prussians, you take the line infantry uniform and turn it in green and you have "chasseur" infantry (was the same uniform, one blue, the other green).
     
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    Leo4444 said:

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    oh yea and revolutionary AI oh wait .. im being fooled again
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