* The core Empire: Total War game. The Creative Assembly introduces high seas battles to the award winning, multi-million unit selling Total War series in this action-packed epic set in the 18th Century.
* Special Forces Edition includes six additional Special Forces units include: HMS Victory, Rogers' Rangers, Ottoman Organ Gun, Ghoorkas, CorsoTerrestre Guerillas, Bulkeley's Regiment .
* Also includes an Intricate Campaign Map. Only in the Special Forces edition, players will receive a fold-out Campaign Map that they can use in the single-player campaign to help them strategize their world take-over.
* Includes The History Channel Revolution DVD. The award winning series tells of a remarkable group who transformed themselves into architects of the future and built a new nation unlike any that had come before
* Includes The Art of Empire: Total War art book. Complete with concept art, fans will love this behind-the-scenes look at the vision of Empire: Total War.
Maybe mentioned here somewhere, but why does the soldiers in the 1st line don't kneel for?, normally the 1st line would kneel to get the 2nd line a better line of fire. Not that it really matters, but looks sort a weird.
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Multiplayer comes in two forms in Empire: Total War. As with previous Total War titles, players can engage in real-time battles against each other either by creating the composition of their armies themselves, or reenacting historical battles. However, following a one-month delay of Empire: Total War in January 2009, the addition of a full campaign multiplayer mode was unveiled. The technology to create a multiplayer campaign game was not available in previous Total War games, and the extended development time allowed the Creative Assembly to implement the underlying technology for such a mode in Empire: Total War. The campaign multiplayer mode will first be tested in a two-player beta build, before eventually being made available in a post-release patch.
Maybe mentioned here somewhere, but why does the soldiers in the 1st line don't kneel for?, normally the 1st line would kneel to get the 2nd line a better line of fire. Not that it really matters, but looks sort a weird.
Once you research the "Rank Fire" ability - the first 3 rows of a formation will fire sequentially, one kneeling for the next to fire. Someone on the forums modded this ability into the demo and released a short 5 second clip of it. Needless to say, it looked badass.
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Actually found that it is not really true historically
Quote:
1st, 2nd and 3rd Rank During the Firefight.
Most experts considered kneeling 1st rank good only
for the infantry formed in square against cavalry.
Napoleonic infantry was formed on 3 ranks. A 600-men strong battalion had 200 men in the first, 200 in second and 200 men in the third rank. The first two ranks loaded and fired, while - theoretically - the 3rd rank had to load their muskets and then give them to those in 2nd rank.
In reality it was very difficult to keep them doing this under fire. They would become excited once the battle commenced and would blaze away through the first two ranks. Passing the barrels of their muskets over the shoulders of 2nd rank, the muzzles were very near the ears and heads of the first rank. The loud discharge, heat and powder so close to ears, head and eyes were quite disturbing for the first rank. Sometimes fingers and elbows were shot away, and if the bursting percussion caps were too close to the ears of 2nd and 1st rankers their eardrums could be damaged.
Gouvion St. Cyr claimed that 1 in 4 casualties were inflicted by own 3rd rank. For these reasons they not suppose to fire.
The Russian recruits were trained to fire by two ranks. The first and second rank fired their first shots, file-by-file and then loaded and fired as quickly as possible. Each man in the 2nd rank, having fired his musket, passed it to the man in the 3rd rank standing behind it, took his musket, fired, loaded it, fired again and then returned it to the man in the 3rd rank and took his own musket from him, and so on. Men in the 3rd rank did not fire at all. They only loaded muskets and passed them on to the second rank. This method was borrowed from the French and often caused confusion.
Theoretically the men of 1st rank would be kneeling and firing - it gave more space for those standing in the 2nd rank. Some veterans (for example Tanski) declared that they never saw among the French troops kneeling and firing soldiers as was prescribed by instructions. If they were kneeling and firing it was difficult to get them stand up and advance. Kneeling soldier presented a much smaller target for the enemy and he wanted to keep this advantage as long as he could.
Kneeling by the 1st rank when firing was abolished in the Austrian infantry already before the 1809 campaign.
By this time kneeling in the Russian infantry as considered as idiocy.
Most experts considered kneeling 1st rank good only for the infantry formed in square against cavalry.
Actually found that it is not really true historically
Hey, I never said it was true - just what was implemented in the game. That said, TW games always sacrifice historical accuracy for playability and panache - and in this case it seems a worthy tradeoff.
Sigh...where are those magical people when ya need em? All these shitty releases ahead of time and not even a whisper in regards to what EVERYONE is waiting for...hint hint nudge nudge...
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btw this game will benefit from games for windows ? will it come with g4wl key ?
It uses STEAM for multiplayer as well as patches, so no, no G4WL key included.
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Maybe mentioned here somewhere, but why does the soldiers in the 1st line don't kneel for?, normally the 1st line would kneel to get the 2nd line a better line of fire. Not that it really matters, but looks sort a weird.
Once you research the "Rank Fire" ability - the first 3 rows of a formation will fire sequentially, one kneeling for the next to fire. Someone on the forums modded this ability into the demo and released a short 5 second clip of it. Needless to say, it looked badass.
Indeed. It looks nice.
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Yea that is a good film. Stanley Kubrick FTW. The film was shot using only candle light (indoors scenes) to get the right sorta 17th century feel to it.
The Napoleon series with Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardeu, Isabella Rosselini and John Malkovich is simply brilliant. Alot of battles in that series and it's very well done when it comes to details
Barry Lyndon is one of my all time favourite movies.
My fav of the period must be Master and Commander but. The level of accurate historical detail in that film is absolutely incredible. Mind you, in the book they fought an American ship and not a French, and the film is sort of a miss match of at least 2-3 books (read them all 25 in total i think...as audio books of course)
My fav of the period must be Master and Commander but. The level of accurate historical detail in that film is absolutely incredible. Mind you, in the book they fought an American ship and not a French, and the film is sort of a miss match of at least 2-3 books (read them all 25 in total i think...as audio books of course)
totally agree. Fantastic movie with some brillirant acting by Crowe.
Just seen this upped on couple of forums now
Empire: Total War - Razor 1911
anyone know if this real? it contains 155 files 100mb each
post came with no nfo or anything just links
EDIT : ehhh, I assume its fake, it was same guy who posted all those links on different boards..I guess he wants more rapidshare points >>
Just seen this upped on couple of forums now
Empire: Total War - Razor 1911
anyone know if this real? it contains 155 files 100mb each
post came with no nfo or anything just links
EDIT : ehhh, I assume its fake, it was same guy who posted all those links on different boards..I guess he wants more rapidshare points >>
her 1 of them is me and i just coppied the post and added info that i just saw it dunno if it works
50€ and no preloading? wow that sucks...
I was thinking about getting it on steam so I can play it asap, but I think I'll just order a boxed copy from the UK instead, considering it's only like 32€ with shipping.
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