Empire: Total War gameplay question

Ok I love Age of Empires games but problem is AO3 was released years ago and not very popular online anymore. So I was wondering if E:TW's gameplay was like AO3 with like resource collecting and base building. If not, can you give me like an idea of how the multiplayer skirmishes work? I've been looking online and all the videos I've seen are just random battles.. I'm looking for like how you get an army, etc.

Thanks guys! :D

Ok I love Age of Empires games but problem is AO3 was released years ago and not very popular online anymore. So I was wondering if E:TW's gameplay was like AO3 with like resource collecting and base building. If not, can you give me like an idea of how the multiplayer skirmishes work? I've been looking online and all the videos I've seen are just random battles.. I'm looking for like how you get an army, etc.

Thanks guys! :D

0Tyler0

Try downlaoding the demo... unfortunately I haven't bought the full game yet, so someone else will have to fill you in on details

The game is a mix of turn-based Civilization style empire building and real time strategy battles. It's quite a bit different than AoE3, but if you are into strategy games and like the time period I'd pick it up. Definitely try the demo out first, and see if you like the battles. And it's worth noting the game is more single player oriented. As of right now you can only play battles on multiplayer, but soon CA is going to release a patch that will make the Grand Campaign multiplayer.

the multiplayer has no resource gathering or base building. Multiplayer is strictly battles. I don't think E;TW is worth getting solely for multiplayer. All of the Total War games have epic singleplayer campaings.

But if you are interested in the multiplayer, try the demo. The sample battles (both water and land) will be just the same.

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Ok I love Age of Empires games but problem is AO3 was released years ago and not very popular online anymore. So I was wondering if E:TW's gameplay was like AO3 with like resource collecting and base building. If not, can you give me like an idea of how the multiplayer skirmishes work? I've been looking online and all the videos I've seen are just random battles.. I'm looking for like how you get an army, etc.

Thanks guys! :D

lundy86_4

Try downlaoding the demo... unfortunately I haven't bought the full game yet, so someone else will have to fill you in on details

Never understood why people panned the AI in Total War games.

ok your plans might not go to, well plan but in real combat they neverwill as there is a saying every plan goes to pieces with the first bullet.

it's clever in some parts like making you focus on one thing whiile they seek some boys onto your flanks.

Never understood why people panned the AI in Total War games.

ok your plans might not go to, well plan but in real combat they neverwill as there is a saying every plan goes to pieces with the first bullet.

it's clever in some parts like making you focus on one thing whiile they seek some boys onto your flanks.

Poshkidney

the multiplayer has no resource gathering or base building. Multiplayer is strictly battles. I don't think E;TW is worth getting solely for multiplayer. All of the Total War games have epic singleplayer campaings.

But if you are interested in the multiplayer, try the demo. The sample battles (both water and land) will be just the same.

XaosII

What I want to know if the combat AI isn't hilariously bad like it was in previous games in the series. Here's a brief summary of a battle I had in Medieval II: TW. I had a castle with just a few troops guarding the place. Up marches the enemy and they lay siege. (Unless you have artillery, you need to spend a turn building ladders, battering rams, and / or siege towers to assault an enemy stronghold.) So there is this moderately sized army outside of my castle, so I bring some other troops in next to it so that they can reinforce them when combat begins. Well, around comes the turn where the enemy begins their assault. They send some guys with a battering ram marching toward my gate. I send out my lone team of cavalry to harass them while my reinforcements are marching in from far across the battlefield. My troops in my castle are grossly outnumbered until help arrives, so the reinforcements had better hurry.... The enemy sends some more troops after my lone group of cavalry. My cavalry hightail it back into the castle and the gate slams shut behind them. Some of the enemy troops resume their approach formation. The men with the battering ram, however, are stuck there because a couple of THEIR OWN cavalry are standing in the way and won't move. All the while my archers and towers are firing down upon the small group still amassed right in front of the gate. However, my enemy is cunning! For while distracting me with their first battering ram which they oh-so-cleverly decide not to just move around their own cavalry standing in the way, a group of men manning a second battering ram try to move through the first battering ram group, after a bit of deliberation come to the conclusion that doesn't work after all, and they then maneuver around them to the gates of the castle. Such cunning! Such bravery! So, anyway, eventually the second battering ram manages to break through, and I hold them off with a decidedly small force until the reinforcements arrive and clean them out, which is pretty much business as usual against the silly AI. Had the roles been reversed, I would have had the castle wiped clean of the few troops already there long before the other men got there from clear across the battlefield. So, the AI is pretty bad, and the game (talking about Medieval II, the previous game in the series, remember) really does not lend itself well to multiplayer as the core game is a very long campaign. The game is great, except that once you figure out what you're doing it's easy to see that your computer opponents are utterly terrible at it. Pretty much any battle where the game has rated it an even match I will decimate the enemy by micromanaging cavalry and harassing basically any units except spearmen, which I leave to my melee troops on foot. I even win a lot of battles where the enemy is ostensibly a huge favorite to win. It's not that I'm great. It's just that the computer is so bad.SpaceMoose

It's far better than the other Total War games' AIs, but there are some glitches that can affect them occasionally. However, the enemy can easily defeat you if they have the right troops, etc. on the hard difficulty setting, and can annihilate you on the very hard difficulty setting, so it definately is better.