Empire Total War (PC Game)

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Originally Posted by Tartantyco

I was besieging Munich, Bavaria with a 18 unit 1650 army when Poland-Lithuania(My ally) came along with 4 units and assaulted it. We defeated the defenders easily, but when the battle was over Pol-Lith got the province

Whoever initiates the battle gets the province. I used to ninja my allies settlements like this in previous TW series, never heard of AI doing it though..

On gentlemen, how do I aquire these, from what I can gather they just appear randomly as in my 2 identical games some appeared in the first but none are appearing in this game. My researcher died 20 years ago. Also, do I need to upgrade a brand new town to be a College? I haven't had any pop up and haven't seen the option to build a new college anywhere.

[Rudd]

i think if u upgrade ur college its more likely a gentleman will spawn

[Tartantyco]

Originally Posted by H3eadshot

Whoever initiates the battle gets the province. I used to ninja my allies settlements like this in previous TW series, never heard of AI doing it though..

On gentlemen, how do I aquire these, from what I can gather they just appear randomly as in my 2 identical games some appeared in the first but none are appearing in this game. My researcher died 20 years ago. Also, do I need to upgrade a brand new town to be a College? I haven't had any pop up and haven't seen the option to build a new college anywhere.

-Schools spawn Gentlemen, Coaching Inns spawn Rakes(Assassins), Church Schools spawn Missionaries. As you upgrade these buildings the chance of spawning them increases. I think it's limited to three per building, so if you have 1 school you can have either 1 or 2 gentlemen, I can't remember exactly which. In my game I have three schools, two in Brandenburg and one in Bavaria. With the two in Brandenburg I have spawned a total of 5, all of which work in the schools(Upgraded to Mordern Universities or something), so techs take from 3-6 turns depending on the school. I think I can have a total of six at once with two Modern Universities though. I'll see what happens in the future with three schools, but right now I can research 3 techs at once. A note though; if you build two/three schools in one province then you'll have some pretty pissed of peasants as the Modern Universities increase unhappiness by 7 each. With Dragoons and a Church School I managed to calm them down, but the extensive garrison limits my field army size.

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Originally Posted by [R-MOD]dunehunter

Hm, have they improved the battle AI? So that there's no more standing back at extreme range and shooting half of them with the enemy just standing there?

From what i've seen on my campaign, VHVH, yes. Still the odd anoyance but the general level of AI is much improved. I've lost a couple of fairly even battles on paper to the Huron, in the previous games I rarely lost an even battle. May take a bit of time to get used to the new tactics.

Having said that the AI still has trouble understanding that attacking a fort with cavarly and one lot of cannon isn't going to work well when its full of infantry.

The NA indians are pissing me off, stand too far away and they make pincushion out of you with their arrows and get too close and they mob you with their melee units which seem to be more than a match for my colonial line of foot in close quarters. Have to get researching some decent bayonets, upgrade so i can build cannon and get fire by rank too. Maybe some proper cavarly would help too, native horse and dragoons aren't really 'cavalry'.

[Tartantyco]

-I'm at 1774 now and the AI takes 6 minutes per turn right now...

[DeePsix]

Originally Posted by Tartantyco

A note though; if you build two/three schools in one province then you'll have some pretty pissed of peasants as the Modern Universities increase unhappiness by 7 each. With Dragoons and a Church School I managed to calm them down, but the extensive garrison limits my field army size.

Those darn liberal hippy university students always start stuff! Just keep sending in the National Dragoon guards and keep them in their place. Stupid modern thought.

[Rudd]

I'm at 1741 now, and I'm getting crazy random lag in the campaign mode, especially when I select armies/navies, wasn't getting it at the start.

Its a great game...but these lag bugs etc are so annoying. (though previous titles suffered from the same pre1.1 problems)

on another note, I'm disappointed that all buildings aren't garrisonable, only the big ones. (though they make awesome suppressive fire positions)

at least in this game the AI can be brought on ur side with enough incentive (monies...)

[Tartantyco]

Originally Posted by Dr2B Rudd

on another note, I'm disappointed that all buildings aren't garrisonable, only the big ones. (though they make awesome suppressive fire positions)

-I love it when the enemy garrisons inside buildings, then I stay on the other side of the map and demolish it with my howitzers, effectively killing an entire unit without losing one man.

[Epim3theus]

Originally Posted by Dr2B Rudd

I'm at 1741 now, and I'm getting crazy random lag in the campaign mode, especially when I select armies/navies, wasn't getting it at the start.

Its a great game...but these lag bugs etc are so annoying. (though previous titles suffered from the same pre1.1 problems)

on another note, I'm disappointed that all buildings aren't garrisonable, only the big ones. (though they make awesome suppressive fire positions)

at least in this game the AI can be brought on ur side with enough incentive (monies...)

Yeah, got the same issues. Klicking on one unit to leave town and the whole garrison comes with
Has anyone been able to get the infantry to take cover either side of a low wall, normaly it will only let me set them on one side. Usually facing away from the enemy.

BTW did you make allies by giving them money? I'm a cheap bastard and AI doesn't seem to like payment in installments.

And has anybody been able to enter an enemy ship and take it? Normally i loose more ships trying to take one then i gain.

[Rico]

I was out last night with one of the QA team leads on Empires (Sega) perhaps I should have given him a punch for the bug issues? :P Slowly getting into it myself. Now I have fire by rank researched I'm happy!