This whole settling the wildnerness of North America thing suggests that it might actually be possible to build cities from scratch. In which case, I imagine the newly-founded settlement would be a colony.

EoJ are you going to take that lying down? My solution, if I had your wise authority, and means of powers you know what I would do? Ban Him. Do it. You know you want to. Come on... your not abusing your powers... he's being abused by them.

That might come under 'misuse of powers'

Getting pwned by EoJ for spelling and grammar is the most shameful thing that can happen to you.

If we still had the hall of fame, I'd put that in

This whole settling the wildnerness of North America thing suggests that it might actually be possible to build cities from scratch. In which case, I imagine the newly-founded settlement would be a colony.

Could be very expensive...

If we still had the hall of fame, I'd put that in

Make a new one

Could be very expensive...

Hasn't stopped anyone yet

Just came across a painting slightly similar to an Empires screenshot.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Edouard_Manet_056.jpg/561px-Edouard_Manet_056.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Édouard_Manet-Kearsarge-Alabama2.jpg
http://www.totalwar.com/asset_library/Screenshots/ETW_announce_07.jpg

Know they're pretty different, but you have to wonder...

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Ok guys, I'm not sure if this is the right thread, and I'm sure a lot of this is regurgitation, but out of sheer curiosity, I had my Grandma, whose native language is German translate:
This is the information I gleaned:
Ships can be grouped together to execute formations, max 20 ships per fleet (we knew that) The ships will show status of what's going on, like firing, being fired upon, moving, on fire. Battle speed can be sped up. You have the battle balance meter telling you what the odds are. You can select what type of cannonshot to choose from, and this was vague, but the status of the body of ship is separate from that of sails, which is controlled by the winds.
The Sails can be adjusted to go in tune with the winds, or to resist the winds.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I thought I might as well post it here.

Also guys, there is a new interview going
Here's the link:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=171115

From CVG.

Any one have screenies of a Land Battle?

I believe there may have been early screens of land battles in the Gamestar preview (German gaming magazine), but they were very early builds and may have been concept renders, I'm not sure.

I have read some stuff about Empire TW in the UK PC Gamer which I posted in my blog in gamespot here:

http://www.gamespot.com/users/walrus8303/?tag=login;profile

If you like read it it is too big to post here I think

Haven't been here in yonks.

Empire Total War! Cool! It's time to fight against mother England!

This game is gonna rock, it looks very good.

CVG have re-published the PC Zone preview. See here for details.

WOW! I would love this! Although, my NEW laptop (PC replacer etc) won't even play MTW 1 and is really funky with RTW. Due to these issues I've not even bothered trying MTW2 so Empires is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of my reach.

I think my issues may be Vista related, as my MUCH worse XP PC plays both games ok. This really annoys me. Ah well. Maybe by 2008 I will be able to afford a new pc.

One thing I can say- WOOHOO!

I'm looking forward to it. I have been in to Rome total war since i saw grate Battles on the history channel. So after that I when out and bought the Game and since then i have been in to all the total war games. The new one looks grate and I cant Wate to play it. It looks grate guys see you all soon.

Well, I saw this in PCG recently (not this month's, mind), and it's shaping up to be the best TW yet - in my opinion. The naval battles are a godsend - how awful was it, having to quick battle your ships in R:TW?

Anyway, apart from the obvious factor of naval battles, the gridless campaign map is what is intriguing me most of all.

I almost start drooling every time I read these things...I can't wait for this game.

I just hope they would add more provinces...In RTW and M2TW, Europe is too dense, while the Middle East and Africa and practically empty, I dont like that.

That, and I need to buy a new comp.

Considering most of what they show of Africa is desert, that doesn't need too much more, but I agree about the Middle East. Hopefully they'll raise the province limit from 200 to 300, maybe 400.

Empire total war, Grtae I cnat wate to play. May be Ireland becomes a super power after all lol.

I don't know if people are illiterate, or only capable of writing their own hopes and not reading around, but there will be a no tile campaign, which *can* mean that there WON'T be PROVINCES, but cities--CA has suggested you can even build cities/colonies in the New World. So, we don't know if provinces are even coming back right now, which means wishing for it is useless.

Well lets hope we can have more cities then

Well, excuse me if I don't understand the full implications of "no tiles", right off the bat. I didn't think no tiles would mean no provinces, and as you said it only means, "can", not "will".

A well done no-province system, would be awesome, but if there are provinces, my statement stands.

Yes, but people keep harping on it, and yes I full heartedly agree, but I think we can move on with the discussion instead of dwelling on it for the last 5 pages.


but yes, you're right.

There's a new FAQ out. It's on

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