Patch Wish List!

CA has always been good about patching their games, I just wanted to post a wish list of things that would be nice if they were in the next update.

• Update naval crewmen models so they are not using the ETW clone sailors and marines. It would be nice if they were on par with the rest of the game.
  

• Add custom campaign and battle map models for Mikhail Kutuzov (Russia) and Archduke Charles (Austria). France has Napoleon, Britain has Wellington, and Prussia has Blucher, it would only be fair to give Austria and Russia custom campaign models for their major characters. Awesome feature btw!

• Change Karl von Österreich-Teschen's name to Archduke Charles (makes the character more unique with a title in their name)

• Make Moscow Musketeers recruit-able in the Grand Campaign.

• Fix the issue with armies losing their faction color during battle, it is reported numerous times in the bug thread.

• Continue to tweak CAI and BAI although it would be nice to see factions use their navies better and blockade trade when at war.

Keep up the good work CA and can't wait for the DLC and updates!

• Adjust 'charging general' behavior.
• Fix game options 'resetting' each time at startup (p in p, flags, advisor, etc.)
• Remove E:TW style unit cards from some minor factions.
• Lower assassination % of general officers
• Release uniform editor

Oh, well, same as I proposed for ETW. althou I know CA will never ever change anything, apart from, maybe, some numbers for units:
- Implement "attacker-defender" system with shorter battle durations. That should not replace "Normal battle" option, where everyone can attack or defend as they wish. Attacker could win only by capturing some area in defender's position. Defender should hold.
- Make gold amounts different for attacker and defender - more for attacker, less for defender, but with options for players to make it 50x50% or other(see below Handicap).
- Gain medals for N Ladder victories.
- implement 1x1 and 2x2 Ladder.
- Objectives - take certain areas. Ex. capture 2 out of 3 "capture zones" present on the battlefield. With possability of counterattacks to return theese zones.
Handicaps
Add option for players to implement handicaps for themselves. Ex. I am fighting standart battle where everyone can attack or defend each other with 100 x 100 gold. I decide to implement Handicap for myself and aspire to win battle with 100-n gold. Thus, should I win, I will recieve bonus Ladder Points. But only according to proportion, as enemy can switch his own handicap, for ex 50 x 75 gold should be calculated accordingly. Each era(late-early) should have it's own money limitation with certain minimax of gold.
Surely "No Handicap" option should be present and handicaps may be chosen only to weaken you, not your opponent.
- Add option to Quick Battle with preset Nation. Some people like to fight only with "their" nation.
- Add 2x2\3x3 quick battles.
- Implement options for games that may refer to the most popular demands, like "No artillery", "no howtisers", "no rockets", no more than X skirmishers etc.
- Implement tournaments. Plainly - just do as Blizzard done.
- Implement Clan system with option to arrange tournaments for players from different clans.
- Option to hide started games, passworded games, spectate only games.
- Make lobby remember settings - like "green dot" games first, red last.

Another thing to add Ai use of fleets:

• Ai is not repairing damaged fleets even when camping in ports.
• Ai is not effectively blockading enemy ports during war. Example would recruit a sloop or brig to blockade a port while the main fleet seeks engagement.
• Ai is not effectively defending their own ports. Example would be to send a land unit to the port to expel the enemy fleet then attack the fleet with their own fleet.
• Ai is not seeking naval superiority. This mainly has to due with GB not attacking enemy fleets even though they are inferior that are in the channel or very close to home ports.

. Please get rid of the reinforcements ''floating flags'' while having the main armys flags turned off!

Stop the Suicide General
Make defending units defend by retreating out of Artillery Range. If they must attack, have them roll up the flanks instead of Picketts Charging right into cannister.
Have defenders build Trenches instead of spiked logs.
Lower Assasination %.

Allow the choice of getting the Ai to run the re inforcements as a seperate army like in med2 its capable of doing it i mean i can set up a single player battle with multiple AI run armies why not have that option for campaigns??

better campaing and battle AI
more historical units.
the scoth greys avaiable in campaign not steam only
more battalion for 15 extra dcl units in imperial edition and standard edition,four for infantry unit and two for cavalry unit is a good limit of recruit.
more historical events in the campaing for not a boring campaing.
correct historical portraits for generals as bernadotte etc.
more historical generals in the campaing with his historical portraits.

enable moscow musketeers, razees, KGLs (different kinds) and brunswicks for campaign
free stuff
pre-order units for imperial edition owners
BAI and CAI improvements
stop drop-in quick battles
solve bugs
uniform editor
make other ntios playable
give Spain better art
make the game more historical accurate

Originally Posted by Soul Firez

Allow the choice of getting the Ai to run the re inforcements as a seperate army like in med2 its capable of doing it i mean i can set up a single player battle with multiple AI run armies why not have that option for campaigns??

This one.

It's the single biggest issue with N:TW right now, that battles are limited to 20v20.

Fix in Italian camp. Austria Citizanery Officer is ETW soldier.

Fix in Egypt Muhamed Al Jazer (or something) the general unit is ETW green line soldier.

Fix Napoleon portrait in MPC.
Fix diplomacy bugs in MPC.
Make DLC avalible in MPC if both players have it.

Cancel drop in in mp small unit size ranked battle. Nothing is better than that.

Make new crew and marines models.

Originally Posted by Reiksmarshal

CA has always been good about patching their games, I just wanted to post a wish list of things that would be nice if they were in the next update.

• Update naval crewmen models so they are not using the ETW clone sailors and marines. It would be nice if they were on par with the rest of the game.

• Add custom campaign and battle map models for Mikhail Kutuzov (Russia) and Archduke Charles (Austria). France has Napoleon, Britain has Wellington, and Prussia has Blucher, it would only be fair to give Austria and Russia custom campaign models for their major characters. Awesome feature btw!

• Change Karl von Österreich-Teschen's name to Archduke Charles (makes the character more unique with a title in their name)

• Make Moscow Musketeers recruit-able in the Grand Campaign.

• Fix the issue with armies losing their faction color during battle, it is reported numerous times in the bug thread.

• Continue to tweak CAI and BAI although it would be nice to see factions use their navies better and blockade trade when at war.

Keep up the good work CA and can't wait for the DLC and updates!

Make the "Rifled Cannons" technology give a + accuracy bonus, the 5% decreased reloading times doesn't actually make sense as rifling would make them harder to reload, but makes them more accurate.

I echo the sentiments above and add two more

1. Get rid of the french generals with mustaches! Make them clean shaven. The number of generals at the time from France who wore facial hair was very few.

2. Add more historical battles. Don't get me wrong, I love all the ones they have, but I remember how excited I was to find that the ETW patch included two more battles (Both of which were great-though I preferred Fontenoy to Rossabach) and I would love to have that same excitement again. I'd add Marengo, Jena-Auerstadt (Probably the latter part of that two part battle), Elyau, Friedland, Wagram or Leipzig. Some of the battles they picked (Lodi, Arcole and Ligny), while interesting battles, really don't compare to some of these. Maybe not all of them, but at least a few.

Originally Posted by Stress Case

• Lower assassination % of general officers

This is a must I lost three generals the other day to include Napoleon, Ney, and Massena when I invaded Austria. Of course napoleon was just wounded but this was very annoying.

If you are attacking, the AI sets up a defensive position and only goes on the offensive when it is viable, so a smaller force doesn't mass charge forward out into the open

stop the mass charging in general, but if you haven't done it for over a year.....
fix the mp menu so the ed lag stops

make protectorates immediately join your wars, and not make trade with the enemy at all, and first trade route should be offered to you first, not others ( just make the enemy not get the trade please, its common sense)

Spain should not be able to break away from France when it comes to entering/joining wars/break alliance and become independent

nerf the unicorn guns

maybe let spies do stuff to trade routes/roads so that the income is lessened-not raided so you get more money, but the other nations just get less

trade routes, if you have trade ports on the channel and the mediterranean, and a trade ships is sent from meditteranean port to mediterranean trade zone, the new trade route shouldn't go all the way to the channel

in coalition, make france godly so tht its not a cakewalk on vh vh to take over majority of nation, and so that allied nations dont start picking off liberated protectorates of yours

have allied nations actually send troops to the front

when a country is taken over ( for france) like austria-they must trade, give an army to you----if the army that invaded russia was made up of austrians, germans, and poles it would be nice if we actually saw it

there should be french fleet in the channel at beginning of campaign so that as britain I can't waltz right into the ports and shut france down- I want challenge

there should be a multiplayer campaign ability to fight as the coalition AGAINST france, so you aren't forced to fight off to begin with, of course this goes along with making france godly

Many important things are mentioned already.

Personally above all I would ask about fixing bug with white uniforms/loss of textures. (though I work around it going away from game to task manager and then coming back, this way game gets "reloaded" without actually reloading and textures appear back most of time)

PC should be able to fix his ships.

Would be wonderful to see more historical portaits of generals. There is no lack of that you know and no need to license them I guess.


PC should stop attacking from strong defensive position. I noticed only when there is a river between my force and his he stays at least on his bank, but in some hopeless city sieges that looks weird that he marches forward.

About spies I am really unsure. I find them finally useful for a first time in TW series, and its pretty easy to protect your generals by assigning a spy to walk with them, never had anybody killed with such "guard".

And about more than 20 units in a stack. Its not for everybody. I am happy with such amount and more would be hard to control and chaotic for me. So it can maybe be an option but definatelty not unchangable change. Though I doubt CA will do such, its too hardcore and also bad for game speed...

Originally Posted by pickelhaube

Many important things are mentioned already.

Personally above all I would ask about fixing bug with white uniforms/loss of textures. (though I work around it going away from game to task manager and then coming back, this way game gets "reloaded" without actually reloading and textures appear back most of time)

PC should be able to fix his ships.

Would be wonderful to see more historical portaits of generals. There is no lack of that you know and no need to license them I guess.


PC should stop attacking from strong defensive position. I noticed only when there is a river between my force and his he stays at least on his bank, but in some hopeless city sieges that looks weird that he marches forward.

About spies I am really unsure. I find them finally useful for a first time in TW series, and its pretty easy to protect your generals by assigning a spy to walk with them, never had anybody killed with such "guard".

And about more than 20 units in a stack. Its not for everybody. I am happy with such amount and more would be hard to control and chaotic for me. So it can maybe be an option but definatelty not unchangable change. Though I doubt CA will do such, its too hardcore and also bad for game speed...

for a veteran player of totalwar games and a modern computer not is a problem more units for armies.

MORE CUSTOM BATTLE MAPS!!!

Originally Posted by Anibal at portas

for a veteran player of totalwar games and a modern computer not is a problem more units for armies.

Ah i see you are a veteran player and a modern computer, not is your problem, you want more units?

Dont see why the amount of unitcards could vary depending on your computer. I'd so love to have more units.