Is it worth for a TW fan?
 

I have and played (and still play) every Total War games. Is it Real Warfare: 1242 or it will be like a Medieval II clone?

Hi,

I am a Total War player as well and these games can coexist next to each other well.
Total War has a great campaign mode, thats why I still play it, but Real Warfare has a much deeper battle engine and much more interesting maps. It also feels more balanced.
It has a way steeper learning curve then Total War battles and winning battles is therefor much more rewarding. The battle AI is far supreme than the Total War AI as well. Yet Total War has more diversity in terms of unit types and faction specific units.

Both games got there pro's and cons and to me, both games were well worth the purchase

Thanks. I'm thinking on giving it a try, especially now that Impulse has it on sale...

Hi all,
Im new here, I am Total War fan, and especially Medieval 2.
I purchased XIII Century: Blood for Europe last week, and it is good, different than total war games, more tactical needed and any small mistake can lead to certain defeat, thats why I like it about.

I see this forum is not active much, is there any other forums that more fans of the game keep posting, like tactics & strategy, units discussion & factions guides?

Thanks alot

There are Russian forums, but i'm not aware of another English forum dedicated to the series. Feel free to ask here, i'm sure experienced players will answer your questions.

Hi Rody we have open a XFire guild for Real Warfare\XIII century for make match in multi: http://www.xfire.com/communities/realwarfare1242

Thanks alot Sneaksie & mitra,
I will check the Xfire group.
We will keep in touch :)

I am a TW guy too. I just bought VIII Century yesterday because it looked pretty cool.

I think your going to see a lot more TW guys coming over here as time goes by.

I do think that 1C is making a marketing mistake by introducing Bordino and Napolean, they should be doing Rome or ancient if they want to make serious coin.

I hope I can see more guys from TW coming here, to shock CA :D and then we will have real competition.
I agree with you, Napoleaonic & Amreican Civil War wont be good, since alot of developers are doing RTS based on that era, sticking in medieval era (with different campaigns) will be the best, also 14th to 16th century will be great, no much games touched this era, also as you said Ancient will be good.

Uhm, what we are making? We didn't announce any games about Napoleonic era so far.

Yes you did, I know I read it.

I think it's in the pdf you guys have for download.

Thanks for replying too btw.

The pdf is not official but is mine (i'm not work for 1C). Many things regarding the game future you see here (the pdf is older than 1 year) are old info I derived unofficially by russian forums using google translator.

Personally I wouldn't mind if you did a Napoleonic era real time strategy game.. I would certainly be up to try it sir.:grin:

The series description speak of "from middles ages to modern time" so I suppose, if the series go well the last step can be the napoleonic ages. Personally I will prefer the pike and musket period: from Renaissance to 30 years war

Yes that what officialy is described in 1c page for the series.
But I hope they will release many games for middle ages before moving to next era.
I was thinking that if they make several expansions for Real Warfare 2, so first we will have Northern Crusade, other expansions will be Holy lands, next one will be Mongol Invasion and so on (all in 13th century) and multiplayer will be common for all those expansion means you can play all factions in multiplayer battles.
Next they can release RW 3 with renaissance era :cool: and so on

Just dreaming :-P

I would prefer Ancient China myself.

I have to say as a long time TW player (10 years from shogun to napoleon and everything in between ) i was amazed by this game. Med2 had always been my favorite TW due to the period but mostly it was the last truely modable tw game i know the brigadier there may argur that point but you cant do anything to the newer games like you could with med2 lol..

From what mitra showed me and from my own digging it seems the game is pretty open for modding and i am trying to talk some old school modders across from total war games to this.

I have done alot of modelling with 3dmax for med2 unit models( and texturing skins i just always hated uv mapping them lol ) and look forward to starting some for this game now if i could wrangle up a few more modders it wouldnt be to hard to apply this game to many different periods(sword and arrow periods due to animations.)

I cant wait to see how the campaigngame will run when number 2 comes out preying early next year i honestly believe you could win away many of the older TW players to this game which for my tastes takes a more serious and strategic look at warfare:!:

Developers are trying to meet your expectations:)
By the way, there was a wonderful feature in MTW, historical goals or something. For example, you needed to build a Grand cathedral in Paris before a certain year. Unfortunately, am i right that later games in the series don't have this feature?