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[Niesmiertelnik]

How about man to man fight?

Can You say You re satisfied?

What happens to soldiers reaction?

Slingers are being charged by Equites
Part of the unit is fighting, but hey - what happens to guys on the right wing of the Slingers unit?
They just stand still, look forward and try to hold formation.
Hey - their mates are just dying near by, but they prefere to clean nasal holes......

If that's the way unit cohesion has been changed - i dislike it.

I also see that there's absolutely no mass effect. Charging units are stopped like they have hitted stone wall, and back of the unit performs beautifull unit compression changing into perfect blob.
Why does this blob do not try to expand to the wings making more men involved in combat?

[alQamar]

How about man to man fight?

Can You say You re satisfied?

What happens to soldiers reaction?

Slingers are being charged by Equites
Part of the unit is fighting, but hey - what happens to guys on the right wing of the Slingers unit?
They just stand still, look forward and try to hold formation.
Hey - their mates are just dying near by, but they prefere to clean nasal holes......

If that's the way unit cohesion has been changed - i dislike it.

I also see that there's absolutely no mass effect. Charging units are stopped like they have hitted stone wall, and back of the unit performs beautifull unit compression changing into perfect blob.
Why does this blob do not try to expand to the wings making more men involved in combat?

Honestly I have to defend CA now.
Same behaviour since Rome 1 at least. We cannot expect a change unless they use the same engine.

[gstephenopolous]

How about man to man fight?

Can You say You re satisfied?

What happens to soldiers reaction?

Slingers are being charged by Equites
Part of the unit is fighting, but hey - what happens to guys on the right wing of the Slingers unit?
They just stand still, look forward and try to hold formation.
Hey - their mates are just dying near by, but they prefere to clean nasal holes......

If that's the way unit cohesion has been changed - i dislike it.

I also see that there's absolutely no mass effect. Charging units are stopped like they have hitted stone wall, and back of the unit performs beautifull unit compression changing into perfect blob.
Why does this blob do not try to expand to the wings making more men involved in combat?

I feel like it's been this way with the entire total war series. Because there is such a scale involved some things don't make logical sense at certain levels; you make every man behave like a man and then the unit no longer behaves as you want it to, you make the unit behave logically, and the individual men seem like idiots or robots. One thing I noticed in the video though was that hesitation in the charge on the part of the individual men. The front line will charge and the back line will do so, and then stop, and then rush in again. I've always thought that just looked bad on the unit scale and at the level of individual guys charging, I'd almost prefer instablob to that sort of "am I going to charge or not? maybe" behavior. It seems like this time around is not going to be revolutionary yet again in terms of unit behavior, but this is the game we've gotten used to.

[Niesmiertelnik]

So what sense makes declaration about introducing new damage system allowing multiple man damage to one opposing enemy?

Feature that makes no sense?

[johan_d]

doesnt the ballista seem much overpowered ? one hit and a giant wall comes down ?

[acm_no1]

Anyone thinks that casualities are a bit high? Principes armors are really good but they suffered so much losses (nearly a third of unit died) while being thrown stone, and those slingers are attacking frontal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuX0v_4yEOQ at 1:56, they only had 60/120 left

[craziii]

that first person siege mode is one of the best features I have seen so far!!! daaamn nice! I have always hated how inaccurate they were in TW games(non gun powder tw games).

[MANU56BZH]

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Czech hedgehog in antiquity... ... WHAT A BIG SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME C.A. What's happening with your devs CA ???

[Almogaver]

This video from HeirofCarthage is great. Naval landing, great battle. Loved it, at least he plays way better than that German dude with the annoying tone .

[Modestus]

@ Modestus are you really that dense?

just by looking at the arrow trails, (before CA toned them down) we all remember that? you can tell that this version in the videos are much earlier then where the game is at today.. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.. so stop your crying.

Old build that explains why it looked so bad thanks for pointed this out.

Everyone its a old build that is why I2ain_2_Battle thinks it looks crap.