Opinions about S2TW after 3 days of playing.

[Pavlik the Rus]

Hi, i am total war player since demo STW. Unfortunatly since M2TW series goes down, and not because some bugs or something like that - i think that total war game mechanism can not be implemented in games with huge gunpowder armies. Imo ETW and NTW are the worst games in series only because they have no right to be in this series. CA should create absolutly new multy level game mechanics
Now we have a S2TW. What can i say? I am 29 years old man with wife and small daughter, but again i am goimg to bed at 3 hours in late night. Interesting beautifull, very atmospheric game.

My first attempt was Uesugi clan at normal difficulty. Well, i leave my castle defenceless and nearby clan beat me.
Later i played as Mori, Tesukabe and again Uesugi. All at normal difficulty.
I will not write about positive aspects - i like all - diplomacy, goods sysytem, tactical AI and so on. Probably there something going wrong, but in general everything is quite positive.

There is one negative aspect - AI (at normal level) spends all money on endless ashigaru armies. I conquered 6 provinces as Uesugi. And i saw only 1 (!) yari dojo. I've heard that at hard level AI makes some iproovments, but syill. I hope that Ca will balance this aspect.
For now i can give mark 4.5 from 5 point scale to this game.

PS Sorry for bad English

[♔ brucedickenson♔]

Its good to see you enjoyed the game Pavlik

[Spaxspore]

wow i am playing on hard, and boy its alot harder...

[Raied]

I agree with your points pavlik.
PS: do you play XIII Century? Do you think the battle mechanism is better in Shogun2?

[Pavlik the Rus]

Thanks for replys
2Raeid
Well, our avatars tells that we have some XIII century experience

Hard to say, but in few aspects of S2 have huge advatage. For example - all cavalary have dismounting ability. It is logical, but extreemly rare feature in the games.