I haven’t played this in a while. Maybe my group missed something. It always seemed to me thought that France could easily hold its coast while running over Austria and even Prussia if necessary and then slowly over power Russia since they are making so much money at that point. I always found that Britain’s only chance was to try to run through Spain and hopefully do it faster than France gets through Prussia and Austria, then kill France from both sides. However, it has been a while and my opponents tended to also make major mistakes so that could have lead to me finding this game very one sided.
Rome Total war 2
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Maybe. I was happy playing Napoleon one on one battles with a friend. They worked well.
Need more confidence with the units in this one, but why not!
Will be weeks though, as I have a lot on with work at the moment. -
played a lot of single battles with a friend, too, was great fun and a challenge.
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The annoying thing was the aggressor usually lost. If it gave us good defensive ground, you wanted to sit and wait. Well you cannot both do that!
We had an understanding that meant we took it in turns to attack. -
you are right. Unless the combination of arms was perfectly fitting. But mostly I remember Roman artillerly killing my advancing hordes.
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I’ve played most of Total War games and was thoroughly disappointed with Napoleon Total War, I hope this one is nothing like it. I’m pleased that they have chosen to make another game about Rome. But Medieval TW 2 is my favourite of the franchise. I made wonders with cavalry in this game. By the way, that was a poor deployment of your troops, full of redundant actions.