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[Persus13]

Also TW:W did really well in sales, so I'm not surprised it won a bunch of community events.

[Tack]

Also it's easily the most modern of all of the games in the competition.

Really like the peasant economy mechanic though.
Makes it interesting though... so teching into peasants gives you more farming income, which you can sacrifice to raise peasant troops, or speccing into heraldry makes knights more powerful at the expense of farming income.
... Which could be a bit redundant IMO.

[Grim Portent]

It does basically sound like the ideal thing will be to power up knights and crush enemies underhoof.

[umiman]

The DLC update is coming out by the end of the month right?

Sweet, so we get Isabella and Betonnia for free. Not too bad.

[Teneb]

Found a video of the bretonnian campaign stream. Notable things include the bretonnian victory requiring 1000 chivalry, a quest battle and nothing else.

[Teneb]

Bretonnian Trailer

Also, one of CA's PR people said that the vampire counts FLC lord (in the FLC array) is Isabella (and that there was a shitstorm inside CA itself because of what would happen if they lost MWNL).

Finally, If you sign up to Total War's dashboard thingy you get Bretonnia 24 hours early.

[Tack]

Haha could've been hilarious if they did lose MWNL. They'd have this ready-made FLC that apparently isn't allowed to be released XD

[Persus13]

Thought that a horse kicked someone at 1:25 of the trailer. Then I realized it was a Grail Reliquary.

[Teneb]

Thought that a horse kicked someone at 1:25 of the trailer. Then I realized it was a Grail Reliquary.

The animations might be best in the game. The front peasant drops-kicks the enemy while the two in the back raise the knight as if it was a horse kicking with the front hooves.

EDIT: Hon hon hon (steam page link)

[Retropunch]

Haha could've been hilarious if they did lose MWNL. They'd have this ready-made FLC that apparently isn't allowed to be released XD

Yeah, I really feel they kinda fixed it a little bit - putting out a trailer and whatever for it then not to come out is a bit...well not going to happen really.

[Mech#4]

A nice trailer, I really like the glow effects of the Green Knight.

Reading through the steam page this caught my eye:
"Even today, The Lady will reward those who act with the greatest valour against the most terrible odds. Any Lord and his attendant army who achieve a Heroic Victory in battle will receive The Blessing of The Lady, and will thenceforth receive a Ward Save for future battles. If a unit routs in subsequent battles, it will lose the Blessing for the remainder of the fight, and if the army refuses a battle – choosing to retreat from an attack on the campaign map for example – the army will lose the Blessing. Certain high-tier units, such as Grail Knights, will have the Blessing as a unit trait by default."

Having blessings gained or lost due to winning heroic battles or retreating from battles is an interesting mechanic. It encourages the player to find tough enemies and try to beat them with minimal forces. Also, with all the penalties from fighting other Bretonnian factions, armies will need to be sent quite far away to find strong opponants. It'll also be nice for roleplaying purposes with on-the-wire battles resulting in characters gaining bonuses.

[Teneb]

A nice trailer, I really like the glow effects of the Green Knight.

Reading through the steam page this caught my eye:
"Even today, The Lady will reward those who act with the greatest valour against the most terrible odds. Any Lord and his attendant army who achieve a Heroic Victory in battle will receive The Blessing of The Lady, and will thenceforth receive a Ward Save for future battles. If a unit routs in subsequent battles, it will lose the Blessing for the remainder of the fight, and if the army refuses a battle – choosing to retreat from an attack on the campaign map for example – the army will lose the Blessing. Certain high-tier units, such as Grail Knights, will have the Blessing as a unit trait by default."

Having blessings gained or lost due to winning heroic battles or retreating from battles is an interesting mechanic. It encourages the player to find tough enemies and try to beat them with minimal forces. Also, with all the penalties from fighting other Bretonnian factions, armies will need to be sent quite far away to find strong opponants. It'll also be nice for roleplaying purposes with on-the-wire battles resulting in characters gaining bonuses.

In addition to this, the lack of territorial requirements for their victory means you can send armies all across the map to fight whatever you consider "bad guys" for honour and the Lady.

[Tack]

Which you'll need to when chaos comes a'knockin.

That mechanic really does put an end-timer on the game.

[Mech#4]

There's an awful lot of stuff coming out by the end of February. From what I remember, so far there's:

* Bretonnia with three lords and three starting positions.
* Isabella von Carstein in new starting position with Vlad.
* Old World Edition with patch
* Battle Map Maker update with campaign map tie in functionality.


There's also the "An Old Friend" thing which still hasn't been revealed. People seem to be assuming it'll be a lord, probably for the Empire so Boris Toddbringer or Ludwig Schwarzhelm.

[umiman]

I think the campaign map tie in thing is already out.

There are mods out there that replace maps with modded ones.