Top 5 Reasons Napoleon will Kick ASS! *Video*

Hey Guys Joe here,

In the same vein that I did The Video Thread: "Top 5 Reasons Empire: Total War will Kick Ass", I of course had to do one for Napoleon! (My Favorite lil General!) and I wanted to share it here with you gus again!

But there's NO WAY IN HELL i'm not going to talk about the "Situation" that happened with Empire, without any anger.

Will Napoleon have enough to wipe the slate clean and clear the dark cloud of negativity? Let me and my special guest Time Traveling Napoleon lay it out for you!

Video Link:
Top 5 Reasons Napoleon MIGHT Kick Ass (and an Angry Empire Retrospective)

Screenshot:



Dedicated to the Movie character I think of immediately when someone says Napoleon, the water-slide loving guy in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!



Hope you enjoy!

Angry Joe

That guy is hilarious! I should read more there...

Well,

The supply lines are totally broken and marching into Russia is as as easy as a kindergarten cake walk according to the UK review.


And I can't really forgive them for Empire because I want a global game and Nappy doesn't offer that.

Fix ETW please.

Originally Posted by irish437

Well,

The supply lines are totally broken and marching into Russia is as as easy as a kindergarten cake walk according to the UK review.


And I can't really forgive them for Empire because I want a global game and Nappy doesn't offer that.

Fix ETW please.

Wait WHAT?!?!
I will DESTROY if thats the case.

Link or it didnt happen.

Originally Posted by AngryJoeShow

Wait WHAT?!?!
I will DESTROY if thats the case.

Link or it didnt happen.

It's true, but the guy who wrote it also doesn't provide any context (e.g., where were all the Russian armies? Attrition comes from more sources than just the weather, after all). I'm not saying the Russians had huge forces out there; in fact, they might not have. But the writer still fails to account for them, when they could very well have been off cavorting and drinking vodka in the Balkans, instead of in Muscovy.

Besides, I think we all knew that attrition wasn't going to be the true ass-kicker it should be in vanilla. You can only imagine how many "casuals" would quit the game when their 5,000 man grand army is down to 2,000 by the time it reached Moscow. Modders should quickly be able to find the parameter that defines attrition and ramp it up something fierce

Originally Posted by KippyK

It's true, but the guy who wrote it also doesn't provide any context (e.g., where were all the Russian armies? Attrition comes from more sources than just the weather, after all). I'm not saying the Russians had huge forces out there; in fact, they might not have. But the writer still fails to account for them, when they could very well have been off cavorting and drinking vodka in the Balkans, instead of in Muscovy.

Besides, I think we all knew that attrition wasn't going to be the true ass-kicker it should be in vanilla. You can only imagine how many "casuals" would quit the game when their 5,000 man grand army is down to 2,000 by the time it reached Moscow. Modders should quickly be able to find the parameter that defines attrition and ramp it up something fierce

I suppose you're joking or talking about the game not real history.Scorched earth policy,Smokensk,Vitebsk and other battles plus a little skirmish called Borodino where more men were killed in one day than any battle in history.But on second reading I think you're obviously talking about the situation in the game. It would be a game breaker to be able to march straight to Moscow. But after the one province France in ETW ,who knows ?

Originally Posted by Jihada

I suppose you're joking or talking about the game not real history.Scorched earth policy,Smokensk,Vitebsk and other battles plus a little skirmish called Borodino where more men were killed in one day than any battle in history.But on second reading I think you're obviously talking about the situation in the game. It would be a game breaker to be able to march straight to Moscow. But after the one province France in ETW ,who knows ?

Yep yep, I'm talking about the situation in that reviewer's particular campaign play-through

Well I must say I was about to think you as another one of those blind fanboys telling us all why NTW would rock (your review of ETW is what made me want to buy it) but I was wrong, you come off (blatantly) that you were pissed off with ETW and that fixed my bias concerns. I hope you're right though, that this somehow turns out to be good because in all honesty I love the Total War series, I don't want to see it die because CA had their heads up their arse.

Here you go joe:

Quote from the review:

"NTW's strat AI struggles to produce plausible play, and the new logistics system is so timidly implemented it's barely worth having"

Here's a link to the thread.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=330564

Originally Posted by calicheSCOT

Here you go joe:

Quote from the review:

"NTW's strat AI struggles to produce plausible play, and the new logistics system is so timidly implemented it's barely worth having"

Here's a link to the thread.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=330564

Damnit I cant believe this. I knew there was something up with the supply lines. At first it was hyped, then it got quiet. By the time I was making this preview I really couldnt find much information on it as if it disappeared from the game.

I suppose they implemented it and just couldn't find a way to make it work like they wanted? Thats disappointing seeing as how thats pretty much the most important part of nappy warfare.

About Russia though, id like to try it out for myself. KippyK Has a point, where was the russian armies when that reviewer guy invaded? I dont expect whether and atttrition alone to destroy my army as I march into her.

But if this guy can be taken seriously the build he got seems to need a patch......here we go again

Originally Posted by AngryJoeShow

Damnit I cant believe this. I knew there was something up with the supply lines. At first it was hyped, then it got quiet. By the time I was making this preview I really couldnt find much information on it as if it disappeared from the game.

I suppose they implemented it and just couldn't find a way to make it work like they wanted? Thats disappointing seeing as how thats pretty much the most important part of nappy warfare.

About Russia though, id like to try it out for myself. KippyK Has a point, where was the russian armies when that reviewer guy invaded? I dont expect whether and atttrition alone to destroy my army as I march into her.

But if this guy can be taken seriously the build he got seems to need a patch......here we go again

Well if the March to Moscow is as borked at the reviewer said it was, you need to make the Violent Joe Show and start smashing stuff.

You would think that CA would try to do some damage control on that article if it was indeed false. Unfortunately, when someone pleads the fifth and remains silent, they are usually guilty.

I remember watching your Empire Total War video, it was pretty entertaining. I really liked this one too, pretty spot on in regards to the criticism of Empire.

Great video joe!!!

LOVE VID

Angry Joe is my favorite online reviewer.No one combines humor,facts, and honest opinion as well as he.

If you happen to see this Joe, keep up the good work,and might I suggest taking a peek at some of the major mods for Medieval II, especially Third Age and Broken Crescent.(sorry for the ot)

I was dissappointed with Empire as well, though I did play it for over 100 hours, some of which I enjoyed.

I'll be keeping an eye on N:TW, and player's opinions.

Keep it up! Nice work Joe

Good videos, liked them. Very much captured the excitement of the community waiting for Empire to be released and the anger at what we got in the end, while still being reasonable (I wonder if it would have been so reasonable if you had done the retrospective on Empire when it was released, rather than a year after). Are you going to do a review of Napoleon when it gets released? I mean after you can either tear yourself away from it or stop swearing and declaring war on CA, depending on if its good or bad.

Thank you Angry Joe!!

I've been wathcing your reviews since a while and I must admit there great, not just what your videos areabout, but even more HOW you describe and represent it in those videos! Simply great.

Originally Posted by Fenon

Good videos, liked them. Very much captured the excitement of the community waiting for Empire to be released and the anger at what we got in the end, while still being reasonable (I wonder if it would have been so reasonable if you had done the retrospective on Empire when it was released, rather than a year after). Are you going to do a review of Napoleon when it gets released? I mean after you can either tear yourself away from it or stop swearing and declaring war on CA, depending on if its good or bad.

Yeah you right, it is interesting to see how the initial Empire video was a good reflection about how excited we all felt about the upcoming 'best Total War yet'. His criticisms are fair and balanced and show what most of us were thinking post release. Its hard to argue with most of his points, lets hope CA have taken into account the negative response the community has given a year post-Empire.

It takes a gamer to be a good reviewer in my opinion, that's why these big wigs in IGN and such that are only out for the money make such horrible reviews. Joe here is one of us, and that makes his reviews honest, fair, and we can all sympathize with his views.

So keep it up Joe, I hope you'll review NTW soon after its release.