Flags & secrets

[Valentin the II]

I think avrione knows that each tipe of unit gets its one flag.
But did you notice the little flags?
Do you know what they mean?
Well I just cheked and it seams that they reprisent the units expirirence, for instance:
a unit with 1 gold chevorn gets 7 flags but a unit with 2 gold chevorns gets 8 flags.
So now you can ditermin the expirience of anamy units just by looking at their flags!
How nifty.

[Spart]

Yes, didn't they have those little banners in Rome too? Well, they sure look nice this time. They aren't all exactly the same. I'm going to train my units just to get those flags!

[Swe_gamer]

I think they have had this since STW.

[Kanfoosh]

I think they have had this since STW.

Didn't they only have one flag, just so you can see where they are?

[John I Tzimisces]

Really? I had no idea! Now, of course, I am going to have to inspect this personally

(after my math quiz and greek history midterm though I just may be skipping History Lecture today, ahem...)

[Roman-Warrior]

I've never noticed these experience flags in past TW games, good discovery.

-Wes

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

I just thought those flags were just a nice visual effect.
Didn't know there was actually a meaning behind them.

[Tzif]

Wow, now I know what all those little flags are for in Rome... Thanks man.

Tzif

[Lusted]

Plus the main unit banners actually show what kind of unit it is: square one for a general, triangle for missile, rectangle for infantry, pendant for cavalry.

I really like the banners in the demo, i love how they move in the wind now and they add a nice graphical touch with the vriety of different banners you see above units.

[Ragss]

Yeah, too bad they take their toll on the FPS.

[Legione]

Yes, I've known about the little flag thing since RTW, also, and I'm not sure if this has been discovered, in the demo you could revert the camera controls back to the classic RTW way by going to game options and selecting "reset advisor" all of a sudden the camera controls like it did in RTW and not that new (to me) annoying way.

[Giurza]

guys don't tell me that you - DA HARDCORE fans - didn't know that... hmmm makes me wonder

[LoZz]

they where their in rome,however they would disapear when you got close to a unit, so most of the time no one noticed

[the Black Prince]

they were their in MTW as well as RTW...

the different types of flags for different types of units is new, but the experience flags have been around for the last couple of games


dug this screen up off IGN from MTW
see all those little black flags... looks like a unit of gothic knights, or maybe HRE General Bodyguard

[Elmar]

And here's the flags in STW.

MTW dinky little flags was a step backwards in this regard. I believe these are caled 'con'?

I'm more then a little surprise about the widespread ignorance about flags marking experience.

[napoleonic]

And here's the flags in STW.

MTW dinky little flags was a step backwards in this regard. I believe these are caled 'con'?

I'm more then a little surprise about the widespread ignorance about flags marking experience.

holy crap! that's why I felt weird while seeing MTW battle, I thought something had missed :tooth: now it's clear, can someone post those flags in RTW? because I never bother with flags as long as they meant my troops

and yeah, Kensai and Battlefield Ninja were rocks

[Invoker]

Wow, it's been a while since I've seen a screenshot from STW, brings back so many memories of that game. Is it sad that there's a large part of my memory that's devoted to video games. "Ah, I remember back when Shogun: Total War came out and I conquered Japan with my samurai armies...(goes into explicit detail)...yeah, that was probably one of the best times of my life." Well, now that I've made myself sad...

I never knew about the flags and experience correlation. None of my friends who play the games did either. Quite an interesting feature; was it mentioned in a manual, tutorial or advisor anywhere in the previous 3 games? Hmmm...I'm amazed I never noticed it during the year I've probably spent playing these games total in my life.

[smoke]

Lol guess it's now clear who the old farts are, eh?

[Kanfoosh]

All the time I spent playing MTW and I never actually noticed those tiny flags .

[Valentin the II]

Ok... Um, this is imberasing.
I'v been playing sins STW and never noticed them.
Its just that now when they are preaty they caught my attention (and they are beautifull).