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[dogstile]

I envy your computer. Mine won't run it.

[Jackrabbit]

Well, it's not my computer, really, more a family one. Also, CanYouRunIt.com is a liar. The bar hovers just below 'fast', but it can only run it on low graphics and there's a one in five chance it's going to crash during a battle. I don't know what the problem is, it should run it perfectly.

[Neruz]

Empire is notorious for being a big wet dog. I don't know about Napoleon if they improved that or not, but Empire is crazy; sometimes it runs beautifully on max everything on my computer. Other times it crashes while loading graphics drivers.

[Jackrabbit]

Well I want it now. The AI retardation peaked with Medieval II, it can't have gotten worse.

Could it? Inability to make amphibious assaults notwithstanding, I hear it's been fixed.

[Neruz]

I havn't noticed much improvement in Empire's AI, mostly as far as i can see the main improvements were made by removing the map features that the AI kept getting stuck on; no cities etc.


The maps are alot more open, but alot more foresty and wild as well, this is probably to balance out the fact that the main soldiers have guns, expect to spend alot of time cowering in a chunk of open terrain while invisible natives dance around in the forest.




I have noticed the AI wubs garrisonable structures, probably because they force you into melee to invade. I had the AI fill up 3 native huts on the map, each seperate from each other, and just sit in them until i came over and bonked them on the head.

[Jackrabbit]

So, how do sieges work, exactly? Forts look as boring as all hell, but it looks like you can fight in and around the various towns in your province, which looks really cool. And when you attack the main city, do you just stand outside it until they give up?

[Neruz]

You fight in towns pretty much, rather than the huge fortified cities from Medieval with their windy streets. Everything is alot more open.

[Jackrabbit]

Awesome. I was sorta saddened to hear of the removal of major city battles. But I guess it makes sense, most cities by that point in history were enormous.

[Neruz]

Well to be fair, most cities in America weren't.

[Jackrabbit]

SO WHY CAN'T WE UTTERLY DESTROY THEM, EMPIRE? WHY?

I mean, even getting rid of the way you could destroy any building in a city was a step back for Medieval. Why? Because demolishing a city with rockets would have been the best thing ever. That's why.

[kalida99]

You can still demolish a city, and the building actually get blowed up. But if you want to do it with rockets your going to have to play for a while before you research rocketry.

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If it works on your computer I'd buy it, especially the DLC with all the unit goodness. I love the game dearly but have recently stopped because in my current game It's Me (Russia), Britain and The United Provinces. Any war is going to go across every theater, and hundreds of regions, and will require many years of military build up. 

Fort sieges are kinda boring until you hit the late period, and downright easy after mortars. Cities are more enjoyable with their open streets and cover. But the AI is downright stupidly in love with Garrisons(loving to sit in a building till it's about to fall down or they're all dead), except in forts i've never had them garrison a building in a fort. The naval battles on Very Hard, are pardon but OMGWTFBBQ (Tried one as USA and got raped by the British), land battles are still easy but the AI still has some troubles, Campaign is annoying on VH go to war with one guy, everyone goes to war with you.

[Jackrabbit]

But how, exactly, does a siege of a major city work? Is the battle fought in the countryside around the city, even if you're right next to the place?

[kalida99]

Usually for me siege maps have 1/2 to 1/4 of the map covered with houses and other structures, the other side has country, farmhouses, fields, stone walls. Some battles out in the middle of nowhere have farms and plantation houses, and mansions

[Rilder]

However if the city is fortified you have to storm a fort to conquer it.

Also I mayyyy start a AAR/LP of ETW...

[Smitehappy]

*Shudders* Don't remind me of Star-Fort sieges, I still have nightmares.