Bunch of things I wish CA had implemented in NTW

Here are a few things that I wish CA had given some thought to when programming Napoleon Total War. Maybe they can take these into consideration for their next game. None of the things I request are very unreasonable; CA should easily be able to implement these.

1. Ability to use allied ports to base / repair my fleets. Ditto for military access.
2. Ability to order artillery crews to abandon their pieces and seek safety behind friendly infantry (and this option should ALWAYS be available, not only when my army has the option to retreat).
3. Ability for artillery crews to use enemy artillery pieces captured on the battlefield (at least if they're not wildly different; I wouldn't necessarily expect a cannon crew to be any good with mortars, rockets or howitzers).
4. Ability to choose in which direction my army retreats on the campaign map. The options could well be restricted (based on whether there are other enemy forces or fortifications nearby and a bunch of other considerations), but I should get some say in it.
5. When making peace with a hostile power, I should have the option of requesting that they make peace with my protectorates as well. Similarily, there should be an option to ask another country to make peace with a third power.
6. Ability to install a government type of your choice when liberating countries. They might not last long (i.e. when forcing a monarchy unto a population that firmly believes in republican ideals), but the option should exist.
7. Ability to create countries from territories you presently own (i.e. without having to give them away and then retake them just so you can liberate them).
8. Ability to sign a __defensive__ alliance with another country. Unlike your vanilla alliance, this would only be effective in defensive wars but not in wars they started.
9. Ability to retrain existing units to gain higher experience levels. The present system allows you to raise entirely new units that have higher experience levels than troops you've already had since the beginning of the campaign. The system I have in mind would allow you to send existing units into a city that has an army staff college (or something similar) and train them up to the same level of experience that freshly recruited units get.
10. Experience levels for naval units should not be tied to their hulls but to their crews. It makes no sense for me to capture a 5-chevron frigate from the French and then get to keep those 5 chevrons even when it's crewed by my inexperienced Prussian sailors.
11. Normally field artillery shouldn't be able to completely demolish even a large star fort in less than 5 minutes. Make it so that forts can only be reduced by special heavy siege artillery.
12. Ability to order infantry, artillery and dismounted cavalry to LIE DOWN to make them tougher targets for enemy artillery.

I add more later as I remember more things.

Nice ideas, and similar thoughts that I've had! I just wish CA make another gunpowder game because melee games are dull, dull, dull!

Originally Posted by CarradiceFrench

Nice ideas, and similar thoughts that I've had! I just wish CA make another gunpowder game because melee games are dull, dull, dull!

I find them more fun than mindlessly lining up your troops placing some cannons and then just let the enemy walk towards you and get ripped apart (With the occasional cavalry charge).... Maybe it's only on the Maratha Confederacy that this happens though since I have unlimited resources (I have about 11 million right now having conquered all of America India and the British Isles not to mention some Italian cities)

seems like youve put a lot of thought into it. Great! I still think ntw was the best tw.

I can't say that I disagree with any of those. Nice points.

I had many of the thoughts you had... i hope we can get this into a signed petition and send it to CA

Unlikely sadly.... Unless we get another gun powder game

Well, maybe 5 years down the road CA will do Napoleon 2 Total War or something like that.

Originally Posted by antred

Well, maybe 5 years down the road CA will do Napoleon 2 Total War or something like that.

Napoleon again? I hope not. They've exhausted it in this game and after playing it for some time, you see the limits that come through making it such a specific time period. I think they should either do a 19th century campaign in which Africa should be exploited, or another Empire style, but having the entire world with completely overhauled diplomacy.

Originally Posted by antred

Well, maybe 5 years down the road CA will do Napoleon 2 Total War or something like that.

nah, I'd rather have EMPIRE 2 !!!

Originally Posted by Holman

nah, I'd rather have EMPIRE 2 !!!

Fine by me. Any game set in roughly the same epoche will do. A few of the suggestions I made could even be used in what I hope to be the next Total War game: Rome 2 Total War!

Originally Posted by Holman

nah, I'd rather have EMPIRE 2 !!!

2-3 years ago, that comment would have brought flames of hatred down upon you.

To be honest I've pretty much given up on CA, since they teamed up with SEGA they seem to have lost the plot as far as their fan-base is concerned. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that someone else will step up to the plate and take up the challenge.

Originally Posted by antred

Ability to use allied ports to base / repair my fleets. Ditto for military access.

I would reaally like this too.