Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra

If you're steamrolling them, maybe up the difficulty a bit? by WITTGENSTEIN 05/25/2013, 12:15pm PDT Playing the Western Roman Empire in Barbarian Invasion is probably one of the most ridiculously difficult campaigns I can think of. Even by cheating with the bridge chokepoint over the Danube. The thing I like about Total War is that in a situation where the AI control might hand me a harsh defeat, I can either turn it into a close defeat or a narrow victory with good tactics. In Empire Total War I held off like 3000 Indians with just 300 European riflemen with the advantage of good positioning. Yes, I don't want to handle very 2000 of my guys vs 200 of theirs, but that's where the AI auto-resolve is a nice touch. If it's overreached in the latest iterations, it's probably because they took a very simple tier 1-5 building scheme and made real estate more important than development-in-depth. The person with the biggest empire wins.

Someone made Medieval 2: M&B Total Warband because they didn't know better by fucking newbie 05/21/2013, 9:51am PDT     What's wrong with Medieval 2 exactly? NT by WITTGENSTEIN 05/25/2013, 10:13am PDT         Thirty samey 3d battles a turn you either handle manually or let the AI lose? by fucking newbie 05/25/2013, 11:26am PDT             If you're steamrolling them, maybe up the difficulty a bit? by WITTGENSTEIN 05/25/2013, 12:15pm PDT                 And what in the world prevents that from becoming repetitive and boring? NT by fucking newbie 05/25/2013, 1:52pm PDT                     Because I...enjoy standard turn-based strategy gameplay? Help me out here. by WITTGENSTEIN 05/25/2013, 3:30pm PDT                         I don't know, without a decent story or other engaging content, things get dull by as soon as they get formulaic. 05/25/2013, 3:57pm PDT