Empire total war darthmod austria mod#

Walls would be worthless even if it wasn't for 0fps bug that makes people mod them out. Garrison troops are completely worthless and just 1-2 Line Infantry can crush every garrison except maybe capitals. Armies no longer need to wait a turn to build siege equipment before taking a province.

Empire Total War is an offense-only game, with no good defense options. Whoever you play as, your main concern should be safety of your country. Once you're safe and rich, getting any victory conditions is trivial. Also you shouldn't care the tiniest bit about your victory conditions. The stuff advisor says is mostly nonsense. They're not essential, but a few factions can really use techniques like ship switching and move after landing. I also wrote some general gameplay tips before ( one, two). I genuinely believe these are the best guides for pretty much every country, but I might have missed something big, so feedback is very welcome. It definitely applies on normal - on normal you can just play without much plan too and do fine. Most of the advice would still apply on very hard, but some fights I see as very winnable on hard might be pushing your luck a bit on very hard. I find it's an enjoyable balance of modest AI bonuses to be a bit more challenging without game being completely stupid they way very hard is. The guide mostly targets hard/hard campaign difficulty.

Empire total war darthmod austria mods#

Because Empire modding is rather limited, you can still mostly follow them even for big mods like Darthmod as long as they have start similar to 1700 vanilla start. The guides apply to unmodded campaigns, or lightly modded campaigns (things like removing forts, faction unlocks, additional units, graphics mods etc.). It's mostly based on campaigns I played before, but for factions I played less I did a lot of testing. So I decided to did some research and write my own guides. All advice was awful, or only applicable to outdated patches. It could be one of those game modifications overlooked by most reviewers that end up changing the release in a very significant way.As I got back to Empire Total War, somehow I couldn't find any good faction guides.

Empire total war darthmod austria series#

I am sufficiently change averse to see this as a detrimental modification to the series at the moment but the decision to take out initial rebel provinces might be a very interesting one for Empire: Total War. I feel a bit like playing the first few minutes of a game of Europa Universalis III, where the choice of alliances and enemies is crucial. So, I basically have two avenues of attack: to the South East, against the behemoth of the Ottoman Empire, or to the North East, against Polish-Lithuanian and Russian hordes. As Austria, I know I don't want to go against the Germanic minor nations, which quickly make alliances with one another. You can't spend all the initial funds on development, while getting a few provinces with your initial army. Now, with Empire: Total War, you're forced to make some rather tough decisions early on.

The Total War series allowed players to set up, develop a bit, pick and choose an enemy faction and then go.

Even those factions in the middle of Europe, like France, could expand a little in the first couple of turns at the expanse of the rebels, meaning that there were no big wars going on before you could consolidate your economy and your armies for a little while. In Medieval 2, Rome, the first Medieval and, if I remember correctly, in Shogun (which basically means all the Total War games until now), all the nations had one or two rebel provinces that were easily accessible and had manageable armies right at the beginning of the game. And then I asked myself вЂњWhere am I to expand?вЂќ The simple answer is: you have to declare war on someone rather quickly, before a complex web of alliances is formed and any war declaration means taking on half of the powers in Europe. It only made an impact in my mind when I took control of Austria and I saw that, all around me, there were fully formed nations, with national armies and the possibility of forming alliances. I hardly noticed this when I first looked at the game map in the nation selection screen. One of the biggest changes that Empire: Total War made to the gameplay experience was for me the complete and utter disappearance of the rebel-controlled territories.