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Garret02:
I can't wait for Shougn 2 too. I love the first game. I really hope they won't fuck it up. I will have to upgrade my PC buy I hope it'll be worth it.

blo0d:
*bump* so everyone, how is your campaign getting along? I started with the Date on Legendary difficulty, expecting little resistance from my previous TW Games experience.. and boy did i get dismantled. I find it very difficult even on the Hard setting, which is actually quite nice if you ask me, finally a challenge. I really think they saved the franchise from the disaster that was Empire: Total War. Sometimes less is indeed more. Really digging it so far.  ;D

Sosseres:
I also like it a lot more. Legendary is sick. You pretty much have to advance instantly since you can't support as large stacks as the opponent can at the start. Then you have to manually win battles with pretty low losses.

The real problem with legendary is that pretty much everybody declares war on you in sequence. Once you get near their borders, bam, war. Makes it hard to expand since you can't match several factions worth of armies and navies.

I like that we are back at melee combat, TW is all about the melee combat with ranged support. Managing morale in the middle of a hectic brawl is part of what makes the combat fun. The new navy combat is somewhat fun as well, but not fun enough to want to play it.

Path:
I've been playing the game far too much, to the extent that I've barely done anything else outside of attending my classes. I have managed to complete two campaigns on legendary, however, so I feel reasonably confident that I have mastered the SP portion of the game.

The MP portion... needs work. It can be great fun, bugs notwithstanding, but the balance is lacking. Leadership builds with ashigaru loan sword swarms with the appropriate retainers are horribly overpowered, and cannon bunes need to be toned down to a level where whoever has them doesn't automatically win a naval engagement. Increasing the cost of the avatar is all well and good, but it leads to problems in games with small funds—especially in siege battles. Good luck defending a fort with 2500 funds when your general costs 1300.

JoonasTo:
Anyone here who is familiar with Europe Barbarorum?
How does this compare to it?
Worth getting?

Not being able to support large stacks and having to win with little losses sounds promising but the war crazy AI is still there? I've always hated that in the series, You've been allies for 100 years and you're currently in war against a common enemy(is) and the moment you get common borders, BAM! War!

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