BF2S Forums [Empire Total War] The Discussion Thread

Flecco wrote:

200 turns is more than enough considering once you get a decent empire in the other ones you can take a settlement a turn if you have decent supply lines and a nice flow of cash along with a few massive armies laying siege to everything.

Last edited by DrunkFace (2009-03-10 05:51:49)

Flecco wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

The games fun and all but seems pretty easy.

It's 1716, I started as Prussia (2 starting prov) in a world Domination hard/hard. I'm already up to like 15 provinces (need 40 to win) and my 'prestige' is almost triple that of the next strongest faction, Britain.

The only 'difficult' thing is stopping the damn plebs from rioting and destroying my towns, but I'm making close to 8k (and thats with half the areas exempt from taxes) a turn so it's just constant repairs while the 'rebels' cool down.

I always had high taxes + large town garrisons in M:TW2.

The high taxes seemed to cover the increased expenditure from having so many troops about.

DrunkFace wrote:

Flecco wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

The games fun and all but seems pretty easy.

It's 1716, I started as Prussia (2 starting prov) in a world Domination hard/hard. I'm already up to like 15 provinces (need 40 to win) and my 'prestige' is almost triple that of the next strongest faction, Britain.

The only 'difficult' thing is stopping the damn plebs from rioting and destroying my towns, but I'm making close to 8k (and thats with half the areas exempt from taxes) a turn so it's just constant repairs while the 'rebels' cool down.

I always had high taxes + large town garrisons in M:TW2.

The high taxes seemed to cover the increased expenditure from having so many troops about.

Don't need any town garrisons to keep order anymore and high taxes reduces growth in both population and future income.
I have lowest tax on lower class and the middle tax on upper class.

Varegg wrote:

icecold2510 wrote:

I have 11 Indiamen on one trade spot
Would it give me a higher income if I split it up and put 6 on another trade spot?

I'm only 10 years into my GC and I haven't done a thing with taking over

Check your trade window, there you will find info on what your current tradespots yields and who you are trading with ... if you hover over the green line leading away from the tradespot you will find out how much gold is generated from that spot ... you will notice a difference between having one or two or three Indiamen there, more than two or three at the same spot is a waste me thinks ... spread them out to cover several types of goods ...

Flecco wrote:

icecold2510 wrote:

I have 11 Indiamen on one trade spot
Would it give me a higher income if I split it up and put 6 on another trade spot?

I'm only 10 years into my GC and I haven't done a thing with taking over

In all the other Total War games you should have a settlement or two by then.

Dunno what the grand campaign map is like in this one though.

Last edited by krazed (2009-03-10 21:52:04)

DrunkFace wrote:

Flecco wrote:

Aaaaaah. Fair enough. In the total war games I'm used to you start with, at max, 4 provinces (Holy Roman Empire), usually 1 or 2. No rebels/not many rebels in this then? I guess Europe wouldn't have any anyway.

No 'Rebels' just a shit load of single state factions.

You have your 12 'major' factions you can play, but another 40 or so single state ones you can interact with. The starting number of provinces varies from 2 with Prussia to something like 11 for the Ottoman empire.

icecold2510 wrote:

i keep losing my fleets wtf lol

my boats never want to reload when other ships come by them so i get owned then they just surrender

RavyGravy wrote:

anyone else just prefer having 1 powerful ship instead of many crappy ones?


i channel my full military genius when I'm focusing on just the one