Empire: Total War Trailer Fights on Land, Release Date Now February 3

Oh god oh god oh god - I can't wait for this game! I've been wanting a Total War game with real gunpowder warfare (beyond just canons and very very early guns) and naval battles for a long time now.....Buying this the first day it comes out!

Please have multiplayer AI please have multiplayer AI....

That hand to hand combat shown in near the end would look cool for an action game, for a RTS thats just woah.

I noticed that I tended to use the same strategies over several TW games so I'm hoping this will definatly shake it up a bit. Where do they go from here? Atomic Total War?

...and the trailer start sounds a bit like the start of the Battlestar Galactica TV show or is that me?

I just read how they will handle the campaign.

When a revolution occurs, you can side with either the revolutionaries or the loyalists. I suppose this was important for the American revolution section of the campaign.

Give me Ship Combat or Give me Death!

did i miss the point on the Total War series? the only thing you ever see about it is the giant battles going on... I played through the last one, and the expansion... but after the first few hours of playing i was spending 90% of my game time on the civilization-style map... doing the battles myself was cumbersome and annoying, and I ended up simming all of them from that point on. i would say when the plague showed up was the last time i actually fought a battle manually. It seemed like the cpu was infinitely more efficient the larger the armies got, and could wipe me out with much smaller resources or just run away like a b*tch. i would save and manually do battles, get embarassed, re-load and sim it... and lose practically no units.

Do I just suck at this game? or does everyone else just sim the battles after a point?

War elephants? In *my* colonial America? YES.

On a more serious note, I really really really hope they fix the unit AI - I loved me some Medieval 2 but the units were so annoying to manage, especially in close combat. Too many times have I seen a unit charge into another unit - oh wait, it wasn't the whole unit, just the first rank. Also, telling units to attack was pretty hit or miss if they were close to another unit - they might spread out, or half the people in a unit would rush by and then stand around watching their teammates get slaughtered. The trailer still has evidence of these flaws.

Fortunately, I'm pretty sure that Creative Assembly is well aware of these issues since they've been around since Rome: Total War at least. With a brand new engine I hope they have the resources they need to fix this problem this time.

4 months! Weeeeeee!

Looks fun, kinda lagged when he was selecting the units but still looks fun. Only thing I don't like and it seems to be happening a lot with the newer RTS's is that you don't build a base or you don't have to mine resources. You just capture a place and you get resources from it, kind of annoying and not very fun.

I saw this video the other day. As far as I'm concerned this proves the existence of god.

I can't wait for this.

i think i just filled the cup....

Can't wait, looks amazing. Think a replacement for my 8800U will be in order though.

Foxhawk.

When are you getting your desktop again?