Scipii with some more Empire: Total War news again. This time the developer's at Creativy Assembly have updated the Total War blog with a new FAQ all about land battles in Empire: Total War. So sit back and enjoy as the developers reveal more about land battles in the upcoming Empire: Total War.
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Welcome to our sixth Empire: Total War FAQ, where this month we tackle even more of your Land Battle questions…Will guns be distinguishable by their appearance and smoke etc?
You will be able to tell the difference between very large, large, medium and small cannon, carronades, 8 and 10 inch mortars, rifles, carbines and muskets, I’m not sure you will get more granularity than that. We felt that anything more is unlikely to be noticed in the thick of battle.If artillery gun crew lines are broken, will they flee to safer ground until its safe to return, or will they route from the field?
This question is not easily answered as it depends on the situation. If the artillery is sufficiently spooked, they will flee. If not, they will route to a safer place until they can return to their guns or the situation turns so bad they have to run from the field of battle.Can we have the option to preview a battlefield before choosing battle?
Generals don’t always get to pick the ground that they fight on and great generals will even take the ground chosen by the enemy and make it their own. Or to put it another way: The current mechanism assumes that the battlefield chosen is the best that could be attained as a result of manoeuvre and counter manoeuvre of opposing forces and the limits of terrain in the area. We give the player time to review the battlefield in the deployment phase and there are a number of cues as to the likely composition of the battlefield obtainable by looking at the campaign map.