Napoleon Total War 2023 Review: A MASTERCLASS In Gunpowder Strategy!
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Total War: Napoleon is a triumph in the Total War series, expertly capturing the essence of one of history's most brilliant military minds. Developed in 2010 as a kind of sequel to Empire Total War, this game offers players an immersive experience that combines strategic prowess with tactical finesse.
With a number of diverse campaigns, brilliant historical battles, and highly immersive visuals and sound effects, Napoleon is a standout title that leaves a lasting impression on fans of both history and strategy. And with Ridley Scott’s Napoleon movie coming out later this year now is an excellent time to check it out.
In today's video I run through all the major features of the game, the brilliant campaign strategy and the in depth tactical battles with all it's visual glory and engaging mechanics. And by the end I think you'll agree it's time to get back into it to experience Napoleon's epic campaigns!
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IMAGINE a Napoleon total war 2 made for modern hardware, 10's thousands of soldiers on the battlefield. Good lord
The FCN mod already allows it
I think the major issue for CA is that they want to have an average play session be a certain number of turns rather then a certain number of battles. Having larger and larger unit counts corresponds to longer and longer battles which just goes counter to how their games are designed.
Ca doesn't want to go that route. They're not interested in true strategic depth inside their battles unfortunately. And even with mods, the older games are handicapped by their tiny map sizes.
I recommend something like Grand Tactician: Civil War. No eye candy like Total war but at least you'll have real time battles with real strategic elements.
@@Ariaelyne I remember modifying my Medieval II Total War to maximum unit counts. 250 for infantry, 150 for cavalry, and 100 for artillery, bodyguards, and other small units. Every single siege battle took at least an hour. The campaign was moving too slowly because of that. I reinstalled the file and was happy about much faster gameplay with vanilla maximum unit size. I mean... yeah, it would be so cool to have two armies 100k men each fighting each other in the game, but... the gameplay would take too much time.
@@cpp3221 It is not perfect but it is a good first step. The game is unstable with FCN's unit numbers and Frame rate can tank, but it is one of the best mods out there for Napoleon
We live in a time when CA doesn't have the balls to make Napoleonic game, and Hollywood has the balls to make a movie about him...
Hahaha it's true
Hollywood has the balls? With all that has been going on for at least past 10 years at Disney I am not sure about that statement.
This is a strange statement cause it's not like CA has ever timed their games with big Hollywood productions (Rome came out 5 years after Gladiator for instance), and it's not like Hollywood is churning out historical epics on the regular. The only reason Napoleon's getting made is cause Apple has FU money to throw around as they're trying to break into a space usually held by the big studios.
We need an empire 2 that includes the conflicts of NA as well as depicting historical European conflicts in the later game. Was disappointed to get to 1805-1815 and have no Napoleon in sight. Also really pissed me off that as the US the AI won't do historically accurate trades and events for the US. I had all of Mexico, Canada, and South America before I actually got France to give up Louisiana by trading regions that were way in their favour.
@@tunemaki_izlasitrlv6835 Only balls hollywood has is the expired eggs of their female writing staff turning every male character into a evil asshole or a soy cuck
Back when Total War battles were about tactics and not shiny ultra mega brawls. Still were visually much better
Back when elite units had limited numbers and weren’t OP, as opposed to modern doomstacking strategies
Literally. Organising an Assault Column and breaking english center might be the best sight in the fictional world!
@@ilsignorsaruman2636 Aspetta, ma sei italiano? Con Napoleon si potrebbe fare qualcosa in multiplayer
If CA would invest in a new NTW instead of the Pharaoh thing, they could break the banks! Best battle experience around hands down. Thanks for reminding people the era!
Amen! Wish they would to be honest
Yes it could be the new empire 2 total war.
If only... it's a wonderful dream.
World War 1 Total war / total world war :D
i believe Pharaoh is being worked on by the Sofia team which has no huge bearing on the "main" titles.
I understand that there are people with various tastes, but it is kind of hard to understand why CA isn't making sequels of their most successful series.
why would you want them to? the people that work there now have no clue about any of the "older" total war games all they know how to do is cut up the game into tiny bits of DLC and somehow make the animations worse than a 19 year old game
a) They have a huge cash cow right now in the fantasy Warhammer games
b) As Buzzing said, the people running CA right now would probably eff up Medieval 3 or Empire 2 pretty bad. And they would make it $200 with all the damn DLC.
Modern CA does not know how to do the things Old CA used to do. They couldn't do gunpowder units right for TW:Warhammer III even. They couldn't animate gunpowder and artillery units correctly. They still can't do naval warfare. All the money they've milked from TW:WH with countless DLCs. They literally whored out Pirate Factions for TW:WH and "naval" battles magically turn into land battles. Gunpowder units in TW:WH have none of the firing drills such as done in Empire, Shogun 2, etc.
The last time CA did a good, well rounded TW game with all the features we've come to expect out of the franchise was Shogun 2. That game came out in 2011.
Modern CA doesn't know how to do this stuff anymore.
I've been playing TW since Medieval I and honestly I feel like these critiques are a little harsh. They've definitely gone hard on DLC and I can't honestly understand why we can just get a straight historical game out of them any more, but there's still some great games mechanically if you're willing to dig past some of the fluff of Three Kingdoms and Rome 2 etc.
I find it actually pretty good that they try to cover different time periods instead of taking the same setting over and over again. They just fail to deliver by taking away many things oldschool fans liked best about total war games.
I still remember 10 years ago.
My army was out numbered on top of a small hill.
I pushing a few units of line infantry out on a flank seemingly unsupported. The enemy lancers saw an easy meal and charged in.
Only for the infantry to take up square formation and route them.
Now having the cavalry advantage on the field I charged the enemy guns with my dragoons and then took out the enemy general.
My main body of line infantry then bayonet charged down the hill and routed the enemy army.
Epic battles. Even when your army was attacked by two fully stacked enemy armies. you knew if you played your cards right still had a chance.
i remember holding a small Russian town against Napoleons main army, critically fighting street to street, being far outnumbered by the French troops, and at the most critical moment by pure luck, napoleon himself stumbled upon a Landswehr regiment down one alley, and their volley wounded him, crushing the French morale and ultimately leading to a defensive victory!
That battle was probably a good 10 years ago, yet i still remember it. i miss the old CA days
Nice
Playing this made me understand why revolutionary war era battles were fought in the way they were. Long thin battle lines prevent flanks, decrease groupings for canons, and increase your firing cone. It’s pretty cool to learn while you play.
And tight formations reduced vulnerability to cavalry charges, which still represented a huge threat at this time. If it wasn't for cavalry, I'm sure they would have fought far more spaced out.
Its for sure the best game in total war. and has so many mechanics that should have stayed, from taking cover behing walls, to the dynamic nature of artilery not being OP but being devastating in the right setting, to having occupyable buildings, meaning that even militias could hold off elite troops. The battlefields were so dynamic because of this and totalwar has never gotten close since.
For those interested in the Napoleonic Wars, I highly recommend the channel Epic History TV.
Best channel about it. Their series about the battles are amazing.
Got disappointed on their Spanish war of independence videos tbh, Bailén and actions from Spanish guerrillas that caused 80% of french casualties are mere footnotes while british retreat battles are covered at length, doubt they sourced any spanish documents tbh.
@@maximipeWell the narrator does sound British so… 🤷♂️
There series is ok. The barely discuss the Haitian revolution and Charles leclercs expedition to Haiti(Napoleons brother in law) they denote the roles the Spanish forces played and chalk it up to the Brit’s.
I've always felt a little let down by the game, specifically the lack of campaigns. This could have been a great source of income for CA in DLCs. I mean imagine an 1812 DLC, an 1809 DLC, 1813 Battle of the Nations DLC. Opportunity wasted. The mod La Montee de L'Empire somewhat addressed this to a degree. However I do wish the mod Napoleonic Total war III would give us more options in that regard.
I really hope they make a sequel, I love this era and have been fascinated with this period for years. Keep up the good work :)
Agreed totally :) and thank you!
@@TheTerminatorGaming you're welcome. Cheers!
@@huckster7778Does LME work with Darthmod?
@michimatsch5862 no they are not compatible.
@@huckster7778 damn. I really like the ai to be a challenge.
This is my favorite because you don’t have to make your troops charge all the time. You can just focus on maneuvering and tactics.
Completely agree! Best follow up game in the series. And, back then at least, it seems CA listened to it's customers. Improvements over Empire TW: 1) France and Spain split into smaller provinces. 2) Superior historical accuracy re: Uniforms 3) Historical Generals (At least for the main factions) 4) The mechanic of switching ministers around, much smoother.
Man you just reminded me how epic the menu screen music was. It has no business slapping that hard.
The thing about naval combat, at least in my campaigns, was that there were a few really big important battles early on and then you'd blockade the enemy ports with a fleet just big enough to take on what they could build in one turn. Naval research then wasn't all that important as there would normally not be another big battle. The other trick was to use a tiny fast fleet to sneak a huge army to, for example, Cyprus or England.
So an incredibly accurate representation of the period?
@@benmackie8080 true enough, I don't remember there being major battles at see after Trafalgar. For a game it's a little sad that the single most important big sea battle tended to happen with starting fleets IIRC.
Imagine an Empire Total War 2 with Napoleon combined
Good to see you back making videos. Have only just recently released my Napoleon Total War overhaul myself, The Duke's Shilling, if you fancy checking out a different take on NTW
I’ll defo have a look mate :)
This is one of the best strategic games of history
Just remaster Empire and Napoleon already
Preach it!
+1
I honestly want this even more than an empire 2 or Napoleon 2. They'd mess up a sequel. But a remaster? I could see a remaster doing alright.
@@spiffygonzales5160You're absolutely right! We cannot be sure of anything with sequels, especially knowing how they're making the latest games. Remakes are way safer. (Napoleon is near perfect though, just needs bug fixes and a better campaign AI and it's just fine for me)
I can’t believe we had games like this 10 years ago and now we get games like Pharaoh.
"My enemies are many. But my equals are none!"
That's how you make an intro of Total War games.
This game nailed the battles right to the nail. An excellent game.
I have had so many memories of this game ❤
I will make my own video soon.
They really missed a Golden opportunity that when you play one of The Coalition country's and you defeat Napoleon,.. you should have to fight him one last Battle at Waterloo,. : (
That would have been Insane~
Just played this last night for the first time in ages, and it holds up beautifully. The historical battles are excellent and so atmospheric. Not to mention the multiple campaigns. This is a game that deserves a remaster if they don’t want to make an Empire 2.
1:36 "Help the spanish" 💀
I think a Napoleon 2 would be a missed opportunity, I'd personally want to see a game encompassing both empire and Napoleon in a new map. Though it would also be a miss to not recreate peninsular campaign and the Napoleon campaign and battles. Easily my favourite TW game genre, option to play both large or small maps for all levels of brain activity. Darthmod was great, it still works for empire at least. But I think a medieval 3 would be a great move for CA first, to draw more attention to historical games with a map comparable to the stainless steel mod for Medieval 2, or the 1212AD for atilla, I think it would capture some of the warhammer playerbase.
Played Warhammer 3 for an hour and began appreciating this game. Fighting against flying pink demons and other demons who spew colorful projectiles are not cup of my tea
to be fair thats the same as fighting against the french
To each their own. Some prefer the fantasy setting, whilst others do not. It’s clear however, that there is a market for both. Simples.
i’m begging for ca to make another gunpowder era game (revolutionary or civil war era would be epic)
They have the ability to make both eras playable in one game. They could cover the latter end of the medieval age all the way up to the late 19th century
Well... about the AI... I remember in Empire TW, I had a battleship and attacked a Pirate Frigate. She went into the aft blindspot and stayed there, using an advantage in speed, shooting salvos at BS's aft, until she was destroyed. I needed to reload and add another ship, so they could cover each other's backs.
Imagine a remade version of this, or hell even something like a US civil war, WWI, or another empire/revolutionary war game with modern tech. I would kill for something like that now, or a LotR one. I like 'em, but ther's been a lot of focus on fantasy titles, and niche ones like Pharaoh that don't end up doing as well.
One thing I never liked about ETW and NTW is the lack of fog of war on the battle maps. Without fog of war, you can see where all of your enemy's units are and vice versa, so it's practically impossible to achieve surprise.
Hey Terminator, long time fan here. Love to see your production wuality rising up, this one is one of your best imo. Great editing !
Hey man thank you! ❤️
I think Napoleon is my personal favourite - the design is fantastic with each faction having their own uniforms and troop rosters. The different ships were an awesome improvement too. This made each faction feel unique unlike in Empire which was pretty much "pick your colour" (aside from the Muslim and Maratha factions of course). I JUST wish the map could be imported from Empire with an ability to play all the factions and that would make it the perfect TW game for me. There is something glorious about conquering the world for Denmark or Oldenburg 😍🥰😂
still cant believe everyone and i mean everyone was asking for a new medieval total war or a pike and shot or even a new empire or napoleon. But no CA just did their own thing.....again. Im convinced they just hate us now. Either that or every single dev that made the games we love is no longer at the company
Oh shoot, I didn't even know about the Napoleon movie until now. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as the little general himself? This sounds amazing.
Always wanted the Empire Grand campaign to have been in Napoleon
CA should, if they care about their fanbase (esp. the old one), definitely make either Napoleon Total War 2 or Empire 2 Total War next. Why they chose to make a Pharaoh game is beyond me. Haven't bought a historical TW game since RTW2, which sadly itself was a let down and a sign of things to come. Hopefully they will at some point go back to their roots of making highly realistic historical titles, and focus on quality & realism rather than the increasingly arcade & fantasy route they've been pushing for the last decade.
Couldn't agree more!
Look up grand Tactician The Civil War.
Pharao exists because it uses the foundations of Troyes. It's basically a reskin + some new features, it's really cheap for them to make this game and buys them time to prepare for an other major title.
Also I think Pharao is a great choice. It's true that few people will be interested in this time period and I'm not particularly into it myself, but I understand that for others it's really nice to get a Total War covering this era as there isn't any yet. Empire and Medieval already have games. It's nice from CA to please everyone, at least with a large offer covering multiple time periods.
One of my favorite games. Definitely a top TW game. I’ll always remember an epic battle I won where I was outnumbered 3:1 and won because I moved my forces into a canyon and was able to bottle neck my enemy.
I sent two cavalry units to take out the enemy artillery, a crucial mission that they succeeded at great cost. Square formation in the canyon obliterated their cavalry. It was an amazing edge of my seat battle.
This is the latest Total War I can genuinely enjoy, and I’ve played it for about 2000 hours or so. It’s insane and probably somewhat unhealthy. But starting with Rome 2, the Total Wars fell tragically short for me from unit cards to diplomacy to… Everything. Not being able to split armies at will, is such a stupid move for example…
So to this day I replay Rome, Medieval and Napoleon, and it keeps being a blast. It truly was the golden age of Total War games.
Attila wasn’t bad either but I can see why it wasn’t as popular as Rome II.
To me map size was a MAJOR turn-off. So much that I've never really played it except for testing. I spent 10x more time in Empire.
I was playing with DarthMod (single player Italian campaign/40 units save) last week with no issue, actually.
Beside that 10/10 for the video and for the game, best TW ever played and such a shame we’re not getting a new one
Ah yeah others have been telling me. I haven’t gotten it to work yet so need to investigate
Great video as always. NTW is probably the oldest TW I return to frequently. Though I prefer playing as the Brit in Sandbox.
Aw man I’ve just finished my Napoleon playthrough, might have to do a Brits campaign stream!
@@TheTerminatorGaming if you've ever read the Bernard Cornwall Sharpe series, playing as the Brits is an especial blastm
GOOD OLD GAME! Hope CA will come back to masterpieces like this or Attila
Greatest game ever, truly amazing what they have achieved with this. Historically correct as well.
I love the sound of 12 pounders in the morning.
We need a game with Empire's scale, and Napoleon's gameplay.
I remember me on the first battle that i had in the austria-campaign: Ich let my infantry fix bajonets first but i forgot one crucial thing: There were no ring-bayonets that time so my infantry was meely only after that point. So i had no choice to charge the austrians. My troops were gunned down, it was a mess. I had not expected that CA was going that deep in the weaponry of that time.
This is the best total war game, and I love all of them having played each of them only 2-5 years after release + numerous patches and mods. Shogun 2 is awesome, but it isn't as good as NTW with NTW3 or DarthMod NTW/Field Command Napoleon mods for gunpowder gameplay or even just proper, tactical battles that take time and maneuvering to resolve. Just need NTW in a more stable/modern engine and overall tweaks/improvements across the board.
Partly due to the new movie I'm reading alot of napoleon wars and playing the Europe campaign. Having fun right now and wish we could get a new empire total war.
3,527 hrs in this game... still don't understand why CA hasn't givven us a sequel... by far my favorite in the franchise
I still played Darthmod on empire also Napoleon it’s still works
AI pb is solve by playing multiplayer. It's the real strength of this game as there is a pretty active multiplayer community, especially for playing land battles.
It's almost like this title was built for MP : it's balanced and simple, not an overwhelming quantity of unit types that make you wonder what your opponent has brought on the battlefield, battles more focused on moral and strategic placement than on micro management and unit quality, a smaller scale campaign map perfect for quick versus campaign that won't take you a month to finish.
(since there is no more chat in-game, rules are set in the game's name. Beginners be aware of this, and you can pass your mouse over the name to read it completely)
Great video mate. Be sure to check out the FCN mod for no particular reason ;)
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When seeing this I'm just sad modern historical TW games are about sticks & bows. Why can't we have nice things?
i just thought the attrition mechanics were badass. first tw game where you actually had to plan you campaign to the weather and geography.
The game is amazing and the Multi player is also amazing clan vs clan epic battles. I remeber very fondly playing this game in my youth and I look forward to playing it agian very soon.
Multiplayer in this game was amazing, i played for years since release
Imagine a new TW Napoleon game where you can have 10s of thousands of soldiers, hollyyyyyy what a game I would buy it for 200 Dollars
I remember recruiting the 95th Rifles in this game and thinking to myself "Sharpe!"
The first game I played, I was the English, and I invaded France with a big army. I took the western most province, and hunkered down waiting for huge Napoleonic armies to bear down on me. Napoleon, that crafty genius, did the one thing I didn't expect: he ignored me. Half of France gone, but he would rather invade Russia or something. I can't remember what happened next: I don't recall capturing Paris, but logically that should have come next to see if Nappy would continue his "Le Shrug" strategy. But it limited my interest in the game and I rarely played it over the years.
FYI Lme4 is a great single player mod for this one check it out if you haven’t already
LME?
Does it work after all the CA "patching"?
An important fact is that none of the major factions in the main campaign are locked behind DLC!
If only they made North Africa, with a strong Barbary states and finished playable ottomans. Also weird how the cut out so much of Northern Europe. Battles and empire managing are amazing and lot better then empire. Austria campaign on higher difficulty is a very interesting challenging 2 front war with unique Hungary units that are strong in melee so you have to take care to charge in too which is awesome, obviously
God damn it now I have to play a whole new campaign on Napoleon ;)
I still think the best gun TW game is Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai. Just because how realistic and staggering rifles can be.
I play as the British in the coalition campaign and omg it’s tough. Just stack after stack after stack. Like it’s broken.
Me and my friend just started playing a darthmod europe campaign the other day and honestly we have had basically no problems. Im not knocking what your saying but im curious as to why it still works for us. Keep in mind that we are both post ca update as well. Only thing i noticed was the muskets and cannon sounds were different.
Hmmm hasn’t been working for me. I’ll dig into it though good to hear it works for you :)
@@TheTerminatorGaming
Works perfect for me as well !
@@TheTerminatorGamingdamn I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't work for ya. But appreciate the happiness for me and my friend. 😊. I was curious btw if you ever plan to review la montee de lempire mod. I actually am quite curious about it but don't wanna sacrifice darthmod for it if it doesn't actually work or any of that stuff. Just a thought. Love the vids m8. Cheers.
LME is defo on the plans ❤️
@TheTerminatorGaming EXCELLENT. Very excited to see it when it comes out! But no rush man. Just glad to have you uploading bout mod news in general. Happy gaming dude.
Just bought it for $6 yesterday. Its 75% off on steam.
This game got me into Total War.
And it's still one of the best
NTW is still pretty much the only game I play. Nothing has topped it for me.
CA please make a Civil War Total War that would be so fun a full game teaching about the war
Love your videos! Glad you posted a new one. Random idea for a cool video or series of videos---what if you did a spotlight on a specific modder or modding team? Or an interview with one of them? You could even start with The Duke (currently my favorite modder and the friendliest one I've come across) He's cooked up a new mod for Napoleon in addition to his previous ones for Warhammer, Three Kingdoms, and others, and he may be starting to look into modding Rome 2. Just an idea :)
Thanks! Great idea :)
Napoleon is my favourite total war, side with Shogun 2. But even so, i would be more happy if they decided to make Empire 2 Total War, because i think that game had potential which was not fullified while Napoleon is good game.
Great review and video! Timing is good as well. I'm coming back to this game because of the Napoleon movie trailer and the video just highlights so many cool things about it. I wish we could get a remaster or NTW2 from CA. Tho I must say I'm happy with the NTW3 mod and darthmod :D
You get Darthmod to work?
And thank you! Appreciate the kind words ❤️
@@TheTerminatorGaming it depends. Sometimes it bugs out, glitches and other times it runs okay. NTW3 I had less problems with. Been a while since I've played them. Just installed and played vanilla NTW :)
@@TheTerminatorGaming I was completely unaware that Darthmod was not compatible with the latest NTW update and so i installed it because thats the one i used for ETW, and i havent had any issues, i was surprised when u said that it was incompatible, maybe thats only true for multiplayer? europe campaign runs fine for me, just some audio bugs here and there.
If you have any compatibility problems with a mod, as long as you don't have 12th gen+ cpu, you can revert to a mac beta on steam, which is a pre update version (it also still has chat)
For me, being old time player - actually playing TW series since first Shogun - and bit of the history fanatical, Napoleon is absolutely one of the top strategy games ever. And I guess it is one of the best of Total War series as well, at least for me, maybe together with Shogun 2... and maybe Rome 1 or 2 (hard to say). Im not touching new Pharaoh with the stick.
Funny you decided to make this video. Seeing the movie trailer inspired me to dust off total war Napoleon and am still happy with the game.
I know right! Same here and have been loving it
I dived into N:TW and try Darthmod because I keep hearing about it. Thanks for the info!
it works
@@1992zorro i actually tried it out myself and forgot to update the comment thanks!
@@spartnmarcen5110 How's your experience so far? Appreciate it if you would share what you liked and not liked most ?
@@1992zorro I never really played N:TW before so I'm not the best at comparing the original and the mod.
That said, I am enjoying it. The overhauled sounds (Darthmod incorporates a few other mods_) in particular make it stand out. The battles and atmosphere are great.
I really need to try the Europe campaign to get a feel for it overall. Some mechanics aren't used in the smaller campaign. As the tech tree in the Italian campaign doesn't matter.
The AI still has it's kinks (getting way too close before firing) and I'm only doing normal difficulty. Only tried the Italian campaign and they're winning. Mostly because I like to advance and build up and repeat but you have to move FAST in that one. I keep running out of time to win the campaign. I got just past Milan once. I know the Italian campaign is basically a blitz.
The AI has a lot of troops and you have to constantly recruit more because replenishment is oddly slow and it's easier to just recruit? But then you aren't building up. I hate Auto Resolve because you take far more casualties than you should.
I'm still not convinced. I never really played grand campaign (only 2 first Napoleonic). You get smaller map, basically same set of units (maybe even less as some fractions are missing), same gameplay, less technology. Only good thing is better graphics. Or maybe I'm missing something?
sadly it doesnt work on modern hardware anymore. on windows 11 and 11/12th gen cpus it just doesnt open:( they really must make a napoleon: total war 2
What is the best mod for this game? And could you provide a bit of a summary what makes it great. Please
I love the Napoleonic Era and i love this game
Have they fixed the issues that arose with ships not being able to “beach land” troops on campaign?
If they do a remaster version, I'm in.
ntw3 is the best mod for napoleon but sadly the recent CA updates with chat really hurt the gameplay
good video!
Thanks! And yeah its shameful display from CA
I could never get used to having only 2 gun batteries, so went back to Darthmod. Darthmod has some big question marks over it's rosters though, and would have liked to see historical generals for the minor factions too.
Playing this because of the hype for the upcoming Napoleon movie later this year, great game.
It's still the total war I enjoy the most! If they'd update empire to the polished state of napoleon, it might take its throne, and in fact every title between medieval 2 and rome 2 was pretty nice, but as highlighted in the video, the visuals and the gunpowder era are just amazing. Only the restricted map (at least north africa would have been nice) and the ai in siege battles are slight drawbacks.
Also wish it had blood and graphics. It does not and no mods for it that work well, that I know of.
Darthmod is still playable you just need to use the Mac version, i still play it to this day
I would sell a kidney for a empire total war remaster, included with napoleon.
Thanks you for giving this game the praises it deserves !
My dream game is napoleon with empire total war grand map.
But why did they removed the chat function? 😢😢😢😢
This makes me crave for a new total war in this age....
The loss of Darthmod is a huge hit, damn.
Ignore that mate they made it work apparently
Empire is better. The battle map terrain is way more varied on empire so you really have to watch line of sight. Also the napoleonic wars is the time period where the total war formula starts to not work. It’s a little immersion breaking when the entire mass levy of France is like 5k soldiers max and like 50 cannon max. It just can’t simulate the scale of hundreds of thousands of men clashing over many miles and throughout multiple villages
Yeah,.Playing Napoleon /France totally sucks and it's only fun to play Coalition countries~
Wrong. As a game napoleon shits on empire. Empire's only advantage is the scope. Other than that literally everything is better in napoleon. Also, your argument about battle size in NTW is mute. Firstly, every total war game has this problem where battles are too small. And secondly, there were many battles with +100 000 men per army during ETW time frame.
@@ivvan497 nah not really. In medieval time period the armies tended to be smaller than ancient times so some battles are probably able to be proper scale. Empire with DM can simulate most battles of the American Revolutionary War, for example, as those armies rarely exceeded 10k. Napoleon’s armies would be like many groups of 10k marching within supporting distance of each other. And I’m right about the flat, lifeless napoleon battle maps. Also the arty stinks and is too small in napoleon. It feels silly having 4 cannon only
@@tillercaesar-kq4ou you are once again wrong. Many medieval battles had 10s of thousands of men. And for empire, for example in early 1700s and during war of austrian succession armies had like 100 000 men. One of the most brutal battles in history was fought then in europe.
As for ntw campaign maps, I dont think they are any different from empires as they use the same engine. There are more diverse climates as it encompasses the whole world though.
As for artillery, napoleon himself wanted to have 3 guns per 1000 men in his army. If you take into account that ntw armies are on average between 1600-2400 men and have 2-4 arty units, thats way more than real life.
It looks to me like you have no clue about the period.
@@ivvan497 bro napoleon had like a million soldiers. The whole Roman Empire had like 500k at it’s height. That alone proves my point. But by your logic there’s no difference so go ahead and make total war WW2 or just play the WW1 mod and tell me that those battles are as good approximations as some smaller medieval battles can be on M2
I would love a mod where they make a Potsdam Giants unit. 👌
I think this one got it the most right of all the TW’s.
i was just wondering where you went
I'm back
He went to the store to buy milk
One thing i dont like is the latest patch broke my musket sound mod from working in darthmod