

I felt like I was rewriting my text books. The tech branches are much more expansive and really do progress as time goes on and the campaign was fantastic. In my opinion, this is the most playable of all the Total War games. There is NO bugs, some of these reviews are absolutely outdated and unreliable.

The tech branches are much more expansive and really do progress as time goes on and the Hey, how about a 2012 update, huh? I'm shocked at coming on Metacritic to see such low scores for a game I've owned for a long time now, that I adore.

The best options I find between letting them take it over or taking it over yourself is 1: To constantly feed tech, and hopefully money if you have it, to the Mughals to hopefully stalemate them if only just slow them down, possibly moving in and helping them out as an ally, or 2: Overrun the place and then sell regions to different powers to keep the region interesting and still remain outside of your control.Hey, how about a 2012 update, huh? I'm shocked at coming on Metacritic to see such low scores for a game I've owned for a long time now, that I adore. Sadly the Maratha can make the game become very monotonous since they'll do this every time you can't ever really leave India to it's own devices. Take Ceylon to use as a staging ground, then land, capture a city and pull out forcing them to either recapture either from you or rebels or another nation will run in and take it over once it's rebelled.īasically force them to fight elsewhere weaken the front line and push them into the Middle East and then India. Most of the continents regions are badly exposed to the ocean. If they're overrunning Europe target Constantinople and the Crimea to cut off their invasion routes and other territories like Mesopotamia and Sindh and defend long enough until you have to pull out.Īlso invade India itself. The other thing is to use your naval superiority to make amphibious landings. Those nodes are really screw the game up for the AI and I've wound up not using them in games to give myself a handicap unless I seriously run into money problems. Beat them back, blockade/raid their trade lanes and take every trade node. If you can't beat them on land then resort to a naval war. Either ally with the Mughals and help them dominate the continent, capture regions and sell them off to make India a crazy quilt or just focus on taking it over yourself (though it'll make the rest of the game a cakewalk from all the money you'll be bringing in). Quick thing you learn early is to never let the Maratha get big. So, forum, what is your favorite nation to play as? I'm open to checking out each one, and if you could include some advantages/disadvantages, I'd appreciate that to.Ĭlick to expand.Never found myself in a stalemate with the game, but I've played so much of it I know the nooks and cranny's of it.
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So yeah, good old nothing is getting accomplished feeling that I get from N:TW)Īnd the United Provinces (I haven't gone to far with this one, and I figure I'll return to it after I finish with the french)īut yeah, over all, I really like the game, but I'm not too sure how to avoid stalemate-like situations, I've found a way past it in Napoleon (Because the AI only defends it's border cities) but, this game being on a much more massive scale, I'm not entirely sure how defeat a nation 3 times the size of mine regions held wise. So, last week I got ETW, and I'm sort of having a love-hate relationship with it, as I have with both of the total war games I had been playing before it.īut sense I'm more or less used to only having france as a fun playable nation (Napoleon TW) I was looking for your guy's imput on your favorite countries to conquer with.įrance (I'm more than half way done with the campaign, and now I'm in a complete stalemate with the Martha Confederacy who have recently begun spreading like a cancer in Europe and control all but 4 regions in India, and somehow took 5 regions of Poland/prussia So, I've managed to take 2 regions in India, but I don't have artillery that can sucessfully break fortress walls, and I have no advanced artillery foundry, nor enough money to produce one. Meh, I would add a poll, but I think there are more playable nations than answers allowed.
