My expierience of this game....

Hello guys, new here to this forum but been playing TW games casually since the Rome TW days. I'm 15 and got NTW on the day of my birthday(26th Feb) from Steam, so far enjoying it and here is a short summary of what I think of this game. So far I've finished the Italian campaign, tried out the Campaign of Coalition as GB and am trying to win the Egyptian Campaign. I play on H/H on my MacBook(Haven't had time to play it on my main PC at its full PC glory).

The Italian campaign was quite nice for starting the game and it didn't took me long to win over, it wasn't hard to get into this game since it was almost identical to Empire apart from a few new things such as Attrition and supply post which really add to the feel of realism. After that I tried the GC as Great Britain and I sort of lost it, but I was impressed by the AI's ability to surprise you. This shows how much the AI has been improved since ETW which is really great. Basically all of my forces were on mainland Europe and I was battling Austria and France, we are going equal. Now as a surprise France landed a full stack of army lead by Napoleon just at the side of London and took it over. I absolutely could do nothing, slowly it took over all the regions around there and I lost the campaign as I got weakened economically.

The current challenge for me is the Egyptian campaign, I lost badly on my first trial(Army and resources got too low, attack for all sides). On my second try I played more intelligently and aggressively while managing my units better and trying to recruit as less units as possible so that I will not cripple my economy. Around March of the last year of the campaign I had about all the regions owned by Mamluks and some owned by the green flag men. I knew I did not have time to go to the remaining 3 regions via land so I loaded a full stack of army on ship led by Napoleon and sneaked over to the top of the map. Landed my army there and captured one of the 3 regions which was very unguarded. Things were going quite stable around my main region but I was battling hard up there. I was attacked about 3 times with quite strong armies. So I collected another stack of army and sneaked them there to the top, this reinforced quite a bit and Ottomans did not attack for a while. Around October I made a full stack of the best of army I had up there led by Napoleon and attacked the biggest of the 3 regions, I took it over but things got worse at the other region I had. I had to call off my army so that I won't loose it but a rebellion struck in the bigger region due to lack of troops and I also lost my other region(I surrendered because Napoleon wasn't there yet), the retreated army was attacked and was weakened even though they won. Now at the end I had one stack of army left at the top without any regions and only 2 turns to do something. In one turn I managed to capture 2, I made a run for the 3rd. Now it was the last turn, I had an army with about 17 units which was quite weakened but I attacked the region, not to my surprise the chances were almost 50-50, buuutttt I lost only by a short margin. Really...I lost , I was expecting to win but oh well...I'll give the campaign another try later.

This was my short story, and I am very impressed by the game's AI behavior, it is much better than before. Diplomacy works better and AI actually surrenders/asks for surrendering now

thats pretty cool little story i enjoyed the read its always nice to hear how other players go through a game and the experiences they have.
in before the haters haha

Its good to read an unbiased readers review. Thanks a lot

Thanks , I'll post as I progress.

Thanks for sharing, I actually enjoyed the read and like someone said its unbiased. Almost like an AAR

Thanks, I wasn't expecting someone to actually enjoy it(Or atleast say that they enjoyed it...).

yeah keep it up!

Thanks for the share.

Napoleon landing on British soil...that's really impressive. Haven't tried Campaigns of the Coalition yet.
But if I were you I would totally blockade the French ports, destroying all her navy , leaving no French ship at sea just like the British did in history. That's what I did in ETW when playing as GB.

Originally Posted by Kurfuerst

Napoleon landing on British soil...that's really impressive. Haven't tried Campaigns of the Coalition yet.
But if I were you I would totally blockade the French ports, destroying all her navy , leaving no French ship at sea just like the British did in history. That's what I did in ETW when playing as GB.

Sounds very hot would love to see that.

Rule Britannia.

Originally Posted by GAS MASK

Sounds very hot would love to see that.

Rule Britannia.

Achieving that was not easy. It usually took dozens of turns, for I had to fight the French and the Spaniards at the same time. And Spanish territories (also ports) are spread everywhere!

Thanks guys

Originally Posted by Kurfuerst

Napoleon landing on British soil...that's really impressive. Haven't tried Campaigns of the Coalition yet.
But if I were you I would totally blockade the French ports, destroying all her navy , leaving no French ship at sea just like the British did in history. That's what I did in ETW when playing as GB.

In ETW naval landings were mostly bugged, so I really did not bother with messing up with their sea ports. I did the same in NTW, I totally forgot about sea ports(I did develop mine though, but those were mostly for transporting troops and fighting anyone who threatens my sea trade routes). I wasn't expecting for France to make a backflip and do a naval landing on London.

Originally Posted by Dragooon

Thanks guys


In ETW naval landings were mostly bugged, so I really did not bother with messing up with their sea ports. I did the same in NTW, I totally forgot about sea ports(I did develop mine though, but those were mostly for transporting troops and fighting anyone who threatens my sea trade routes). I wasn't expecting for France to make a backflip and do a naval landing on London.

In fact in ETW 1.4 and 1.5 patch AI shows much more aggressiveness in landing. They just never land in England.
I was once completely taken by surprise by the landing of Maratha confederacy, who sent one full stack after another to my West Indies territory!

Originally Posted by Kurfuerst

In fact in ETW 1.4 and 1.5 patch AI shows much more aggressiveness in landing. They just never land in England.
I was once completely taken by surprise by the landing of Maratha confederacy, who sent one full stack after another to my West Indies territory!

Really? I never played ETW much after the 1.4 and 1.5 patch, didn't get much time to play. How's the AI of those when compared to NTW(Mostly CAI)?

Originally Posted by Dragooon

Really? I never played ETW much after the 1.4 and 1.5 patch, didn't get much time to play. How's the AI of those when compared to NTW(Mostly CAI)?

I haven't played NTW much ,just finished Italian Camapign. Didn't have enough time. I don't see that CAI shows much improvement in Italian Campaign when compared to that of ETW 1.5. Perhaps in other campaigns it is better.

Hm, I guess I'll give ETW another chance, after finishing with NTW

Alright, I might as well give in some more interesting stories....

I gave the Egyptian campaign another shot, this time I was more aggressive and captured some prominent regions around there. Then at around the middle of 1799 I moved 2 full stacks of army to the Ottomans. At around mid 1850's I had 2 regions around the Ottomans and down the road I was pretty stable, until I was bombarded with armies from Ottomans and the green flag men. I kept fighting until I started loosing regions, not only that I was also financially crippled. I had negative income due to my army upkeep being quite great and me loosing some of my richest regions. So I made a cheap dash for rich and unprotected Ottoman's regions and looted them. This did give me some money to sustain myself and recruit some units. By now I had 2 and a half stack battling up there and 1 and a half stack down there. I had 5 regions around the northern Ottomans plains including the 3 required for victory(I managed to capture it in the meantime) and in the south I was short of 2 victory regions. I made a dash for Cairo with my full stack and won it. But was attacked by the Ottomans which snatched Cairo from me. On the north I was starting to get weak and lost a few battles. Ottomans took over a few regions and almost threw me out. I was left with 1 stack on the North and half a stack on the South during December 1800. And I pretty much lost the damn campaign. Yay I lost again.

So being tired of the Egyptian campaign, I started a Campaign of Coalition as Great Britain. Currently it is around May 1808, I have won over Spain and captured 4 regions from France including Paris. I have about 4 full stacks of army which are battling the Polish and French.

Dragoon, nice story.

If you are still playing Egypt on hard, beware of a possible British landing near Alexandria with a strong regular army (dragoons and fusiliers de line with bars) but they lack artillery.

And by the way, the green flag guys are Bedouins, a desert nomadic tribe. Legend says that they don't need a compass to navigate in the desert and they can actually "smell" where the water holes are.

Originally Posted by kokonut666

Dragoon, nice story.

If you are still playing Egypt on hard, beware of a possible British landing near Alexandria with a strong regular army (dragoons and fusiliers de line with bars) but they lack artillery.

And by the way, the green flag guys are Bedouins, a desert nomadic tribe. Legend says that they don't need a compass to navigate in the desert and they can actually "smell" where the water holes are.

Thanks, I keep forgetting their names. In both the campaigns I played, British did make a landing but it was only half a stack.

Originally Posted by Dragooon

Hello guys,

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new here to this forum but been playing TW games casually since the Rome TW days. I'm 15 and got NTW on the day of my birthday(26th Feb) from Steam, so far enjoying it and here is a short summary of what I think of this game. So far I've finished the Italian campaign, tried out the Campaign of Coalition as GB and am trying to win the Egyptian Campaign. I play on H/H on my MacBook(Haven't had time to play it on my main PC at its full PC glory).

The Italian campaign was quite nice for starting the game and it didn't took me long to win over, it wasn't hard to get into this game since it was almost identical to Empire apart from a few new things such as Attrition and supply post which really add to the feel of realism. After that I tried the GC as Great Britain and I sort of lost it, but I was impressed by the AI's ability to surprise you. This shows how much the AI has been improved since ETW which is really great. Basically all of my forces were on mainland Europe and I was battling Austria and France, we are going equal. Now as a surprise France landed a full stack of army lead by Napoleon just at the side of London and took it over. I absolutely could do nothing, slowly it took over all the regions around there and I lost the campaign as I got weakened economically.

The current challenge for me is the Egyptian campaign, I lost badly on my first trial(Army and resources got too low, attack for all sides). On my second try I played more intelligently and aggressively while managing my units better and trying to recruit as less units as possible so that I will not cripple my economy. Around March of the last year of the campaign I had about all the regions owned by Mamluks and some owned by the green flag men. I knew I did not have time to go to the remaining 3 regions via land so I loaded a full stack of army on ship led by Napoleon and sneaked over to the top of the map. Landed my army there and captured one of the 3 regions which was very unguarded. Things were going quite stable around my main region but I was battling hard up there. I was attacked about 3 times with quite strong armies. So I collected another stack of army and sneaked them there to the top, this reinforced quite a bit and Ottomans did not attack for a while. Around October I made a full stack of the best of army I had up there led by Napoleon and attacked the biggest of the 3 regions, I took it over but things got worse at the other region I had. I had to call off my army so that I won't loose it but a rebellion struck in the bigger region due to lack of troops and I also lost my other region(I surrendered because Napoleon wasn't there yet), the retreated army was attacked and was weakened even though they won. Now at the end I had one stack of army left at the top without any regions and only 2 turns to do something. In one turn I managed to capture 2, I made a run for the 3rd. Now it was the last turn, I had an army with about 17 units which was quite weakened but I attacked the region, not to my surprise the chances were almost 50-50, buuutttt I lost only by a short margin. Really...I lost , I was expecting to win but oh well...I'll give the campaign another try later.

This was my short story, and I am very impressed by the game's AI behavior, it is much better than before. Diplomacy works better and AI actually surrenders/asks for surrendering now

Thanks for sharing and Welcome to the Forums !