Lets take the folowing map as an example of the major cities in the region at this time. Now Greece was quite densely populated with cities at this time. Lets take a piece of the map, southern Greece for example. In the era of Rome, that was not the case however. Since in that time, very few battles were fought inside settlements, especially unimportant ones. I did not like this in Empire, but I could understand it there. First of, either CA is going to zoom in massively compared to any previous Total War game, making a map of Europe on the scale of Napoleon TW's Italy campaign or smaller, wich I honestly doubt very much, or some historicly significant cities are going to be turned into farms or other resource buildings. While I do see the merit in the reduction of seige battles, reducing the grind and making the now more rare seige battles more epic, this also implies several other things. Now what I'm trying to say with this post is that I don't feel very comfortable with this proposed system. Secondly, I am not basing my assumptions on the artistic representations of the factions starting positions so far revealed, as I know they are purely artistic, and not based on the eventual ingame campaign map. Normal land battles tend to feel more dynamic, because you have allot more space, and flanking manoeuvres feel less forced do to the absence of streets and walls and such. first of all, I have no problem with fighting less seige battles. Now let me make two things clear from the start, since I suspect this is going to be quite a wall of text. I also think it presumable that the regions that will not have cities as their 'capture point', will be secondary settlements, as seen in earlier TW games, such as resource builings or culture buildings etc. This should result in roughly only 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 battles will be seige battles, the rest normal land battles, including the ones not about conquest of territory. Now since we know very little about this system, we don't know how many regions per province there will be, but I think it is save to say it will on average be somewhere between 3 to 5. The way they intend to do this is by dividing provinces into separate regions, presumably only one of wich will contain an actual city. With the wall of text below I am putting forward some of the gripes I have with the new system of provinces proposed by CA.įrom the information so far released CA has made it clear they intend to reduce the amount of seige battles to be fought, relative to the amount of normal land battles.
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