Total War: Rule Britannia, literally.

[Zanera]

Which game?

Empire

That's awesome. I didn't know that.

[Post War America]

Empire

That's awesome. I didn't know that.

I didn't either until recently.

[Zanera]

That's awesome. I didn't know that.

I didn't either until recently.

Time to rename my Mounted Tribal Auxiliary unit to Bane of Prussia.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I'd rather they do historical settings.

[Impaled Nazarene]

I didn't either until recently.

Time to rename my Mounted Tribal Auxiliary unit to Bane of Prussia.

Generic Prussian line infantry disagrees.

[Zanera]

Time to rename my Mounted Tribal Auxiliary unit to Bane of Prussia.

Generic Prussian line infantry disagrees.

The MTA unit managed to make themselves useful in a defensive siege against relatively large enemy numbers. Last I remember they were running around wrecking some bitches while my Infantry remained on the walls repelling weak attempts by the enemy to capture them. Half the time the Infantry I had on the walls was just a tool for the Mounted Tribal Auxiliary to take out enemy cav that was chasing the MTA a little too far.

I don't even remember who the enemy was. It might have been the Polish. All I remember is a long-ass battle where howitzers constantly rained down upon the enemy whenever they put themselves in range.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Generic Prussian line infantry disagrees.

The MTA unit managed to make themselves useful in a defensive siege against relatively large enemy numbers. Last I remember they were running around wrecking some bitches while my Infantry remained on the walls repelling weak attempts by the enemy to capture them. Half the time the Infantry I had on the walls was just a tool for the Mounted Tribal Auxiliary to take out enemy cav that was chasing the MTA a little too far.

I don't even remember who the enemy was. It might have been the Polish. All I remember is a long-ass battle where howitzers constantly rained down upon the enemy whenever they put themselves in range.

Oh why didn't you say it was a seige battle. Isn't it impossible to lose those if you have like 5-7 militia/line units?

[Shanowinn]

The MTA unit managed to make themselves useful in a defensive siege against relatively large enemy numbers. Last I remember they were running around wrecking some bitches while my Infantry remained on the walls repelling weak attempts by the enemy to capture them. Half the time the Infantry I had on the walls was just a tool for the Mounted Tribal Auxiliary to take out enemy cav that was chasing the MTA a little too far.

I don't even remember who the enemy was. It might have been the Polish. All I remember is a long-ass battle where howitzers constantly rained down upon the enemy whenever they put themselves in range.

Isn't it impossible to lose those if you have like 5-7 militia/line units?

Probably. I've held forts with maybe 2 line and 1 militia or maybe even 1 line and 1 militia against larger armies because that larger army had a little more cavalry, but no artillery (or poorly placed arty--in one, they put it behind a hill so it couldn't really do anything!), so the only thing they could do was try to assault my walls with a bit of infantry. Of course they ate a couple volleys and then when they tried to get over the walls I just switched the unit on the wall to melee and swarmed where they were climbing over so they killed barely any of my guys.


Makes me think a little about my most insane Total War experience--my epic Frankish Thermopylae against the endless hordes of a Hunnic theatre of war (seriously calling it an army would be too lowly a number lol). They strolled across Europe and attacked a small blocking force I had at a bridge. I didn't expect to last so long but this little force--a few each of archers, spears, axe and sword infantry, one or two cav including a General--somehow managed to break the Huns' back through their sacrifice. Luckily no one showed them another path lol, so they were forced to try to go through my gauntlet of death or swim across a river full of their freinds' arrow-ridden corpses and blood...they eventually made it through but by that point it was a horrible Pyrrhic victory for them.

Dunno if that sounds too crazy though...probably had to be there

[British Prussia]

I find defensive battles a little too easy. Trying to take a well defended enemy fort, with half the amount of troops the enemy has, even though they're of poorer quality, is a proper challenge and quite stressy. To the point where you have to resort to having dismounted Dragoons to fire into your own, seriously depleted line infantry after a failed melee of attrition through a gap in the wall and eventually sending the general into battle.

[Czechanada]

Which game?

Empire

Imagine Creative Assembly making a baseball game called Umpire: Total War.

[Zanera]

The MTA unit managed to make themselves useful in a defensive siege against relatively large enemy numbers. Last I remember they were running around wrecking some bitches while my Infantry remained on the walls repelling weak attempts by the enemy to capture them. Half the time the Infantry I had on the walls was just a tool for the Mounted Tribal Auxiliary to take out enemy cav that was chasing the MTA a little too far.

I don't even remember who the enemy was. It might have been the Polish. All I remember is a long-ass battle where howitzers constantly rained down upon the enemy whenever they put themselves in range.

Oh why didn't you say it was a seige battle. Isn't it impossible to lose those if you have like 5-7 militia/line units?

I'd like to say I lost one or two defensive siege battles before (and I may have) but there was this one time
there was this one time
where I sent a couple Line to take a fort with a few defending militia. The militia spawned outside the walls and came to engage me, but I skirted around their firing range and went up the walls. My men got on the cannons and when their militia ran up to engage me, they just stood there firing at me while I pounded them with cannons and peppered them with musket fire. They tried climbing up and engaging me once but that failed. Siege battles are just about the walls, when you think about it. You take the walls, you've basically won the battle.

[Ontorisa]

I've just realized how much I love Narrative Let's Plays on Total War games.

[Genivaria]

I have a request.
Can ya'll try opening up your TW games?
I try to open Shogun 2 and it tells me the game is corrupted, I tried to open Napoleon and it won't open at all.

[Shanowinn]

I have a request.
Can ya'll try opening up your TW games?
I try to open Shogun 2 and it tells me the game is corrupted, I tried to open Napoleon and it won't open at all.

I just redownloaded Empire today and just got off playing it, no issues to report here. Mine's on Steam.

[Shanowinn]

Lol....Courland has been launching attacks against my Swedish fort in Estonia for years, but I was focused on Russia and Denmark. Now that Denmark's done, and I have Moscow firmly under my control, I finally got around to doing more than just replenishing my troops in Estonia for the next attack. After the last attack I expected them to attack fairly soon but they didn't attack for a few turns which gave my nearly full army a chance to replenish fully. I figured, let's solve this problem once and for all. I went on the attack and slaughtered almost all of Courland's army in the field, using just line infantry and militia (the fort garrison). Cav would've been useful for when I was advancing along the entire front and routing them, but hey.

I'm also happy that Denmark, for whatever reason, was only able to make a few Brigs up in Iceland. Usually they churn out a doombanner of Brigs which sits around Iceland. Maybe I cut off their money well enough earlier on so they couldn't afford much.

[Zanera]

Lol....Courland has been launching attacks against my Swedish fort in Estonia for years, but I was focused on Russia and Denmark. Now that Denmark's done, and I have Moscow firmly under my control, I finally got around to doing more than just replenishing my troops in Estonia for the next attack. After the last attack I expected them to attack fairly soon but they didn't attack for a few turns which gave my nearly full army a chance to replenish fully. I figured, let's solve this problem once and for all. I went on the attack and slaughtered almost all of Courland's army in the field, using just line infantry and militia (the fort garrison). Cav would've been useful for when I was advancing along the entire front and routing them, but hey.

I'm also happy that Denmark, for whatever reason, was only able to make a few Brigs up in Iceland. Usually they churn out a doombanner of Brigs which sits around Iceland. Maybe I cut off their money well enough earlier on so they couldn't afford much.

All I ever really use is Line Infantry, and just use artillery for fun. I've conquered entire nations and barely spent money on cav. Until I felt like making diverse armies later on with all the money I was starting to get.

The largest extent of my arty fun was having five units of Rockets and a Line Infantry unit in one army and taking a Prussian province with it, I think.

[Post War America]

Lol....Courland has been launching attacks against my Swedish fort in Estonia for years, but I was focused on Russia and Denmark. Now that Denmark's done, and I have Moscow firmly under my control, I finally got around to doing more than just replenishing my troops in Estonia for the next attack. After the last attack I expected them to attack fairly soon but they didn't attack for a few turns which gave my nearly full army a chance to replenish fully. I figured, let's solve this problem once and for all. I went on the attack and slaughtered almost all of Courland's army in the field, using just line infantry and militia (the fort garrison). Cav would've been useful for when I was advancing along the entire front and routing them, but hey.

I'm also happy that Denmark, for whatever reason, was only able to make a few Brigs up in Iceland. Usually they churn out a doombanner of Brigs which sits around Iceland. Maybe I cut off their money well enough earlier on so they couldn't afford much.

All I ever really use is Line Infantry, and just use artillery for fun. I've conquered entire nations and barely spent money on cav. Until I felt like making diverse armies later on with all the money I was starting to get.

The largest extent of my arty fun was having five units of Rockets and a Line Infantry unit in one army and taking a Prussian province with it, I think.

Arty is the one true unit type in Empire.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Lol....Courland has been launching attacks against my Swedish fort in Estonia for years, but I was focused on Russia and Denmark. Now that Denmark's done, and I have Moscow firmly under my control, I finally got around to doing more than just replenishing my troops in Estonia for the next attack. After the last attack I expected them to attack fairly soon but they didn't attack for a few turns which gave my nearly full army a chance to replenish fully. I figured, let's solve this problem once and for all. I went on the attack and slaughtered almost all of Courland's army in the field, using just line infantry and militia (the fort garrison). Cav would've been useful for when I was advancing along the entire front and routing them, but hey.

I'm also happy that Denmark, for whatever reason, was only able to make a few Brigs up in Iceland. Usually they churn out a doombanner of Brigs which sits around Iceland. Maybe I cut off their money well enough earlier on so they couldn't afford much.

All I ever really use is Line Infantry, and just use artillery for fun. I've conquered entire nations and barely spent money on cav. Until I felt like making diverse armies later on with all the money I was starting to get.

The largest extent of my arty fun was having five units of Rockets and a Line Infantry unit in one army and taking a Prussian province with it, I think.

Every conquer the world campaign I do I always make a point to recruit several doomstacks of nothing but 12lbers and bombard a capital city into submission.

[Shanowinn]

I stick to line infantry and militia the most personally, as they make up the bulk of my armies. Although both cross roles, I try to keep militia mostly in forts and cities to defend/keep order, and line infantry for field battles. Early on militia fires in the same pattern as line infantry so militia and line inf are less distinguishable, however IIRC militia don't get fire by rank or anything.

I will use grenadiers sometimes--they can be stupidly effective but it seems like they're best used in teams with line infantry. Have the line infantry engage the enemy line and lock them in, then have grenadiers throw grenades, follow up with a volley, and all advance. They require a bit more micro though.

One unit I rarely use is Dragoons. Anyone else?

[Seraven]

I'd rather they do historical settings.

In some way, Warhammer is historical. They use firearms and there are humans.

[Anywhere Else But Here]

I stick to line infantry and militia the most personally, as they make up the bulk of my armies. Although both cross roles, I try to keep militia mostly in forts and cities to defend/keep order, and line infantry for field battles. Early on militia fires in the same pattern as line infantry so militia and line inf are less distinguishable, however IIRC militia don't get fire by rank or anything.

I will use grenadiers sometimes--they can be stupidly effective but it seems like they're best used in teams with line infantry. Have the line infantry engage the enemy line and lock them in, then have grenadiers throw grenades, follow up with a volley, and all advance. They require a bit more micro though.

One unit I rarely use is Dragoons. Anyone else?

Dragoons are eww. Not as good as heavy cavalry or proper infantry.

[The Grene Knyght]

I only really played Rome, but in terms of tactics, I was basically Weiramon Saniago from Wheel of Time - Spam the cavalry

[The first Galactic Republic]

I'd rather they do historical settings.

In some way, Warhammer is historical. They use firearms and there are humans.

How does that make it historical?

[Shanowinn]

I stick to line infantry and militia the most personally, as they make up the bulk of my armies. Although both cross roles, I try to keep militia mostly in forts and cities to defend/keep order, and line infantry for field battles. Early on militia fires in the same pattern as line infantry so militia and line inf are less distinguishable, however IIRC militia don't get fire by rank or anything.

I will use grenadiers sometimes--they can be stupidly effective but it seems like they're best used in teams with line infantry. Have the line infantry engage the enemy line and lock them in, then have grenadiers throw grenades, follow up with a volley, and all advance. They require a bit more micro though.

One unit I rarely use is Dragoons. Anyone else?

Dragoons are eww. Not as good as heavy cavalry or proper infantry.

Yeah I guess they're supposed to be a rapidly deployable skirmish/harassment unit. Maybe in real life they were awesome but in Total War I'm not sure they work as well the way they are. Having to dismount to shoot means that you can't really use their guns that much if pursuing fleeing enemies; regular cav does that fine. You could maybe outflank an enemy line by popping in dragoons rapidly, however regular cav, again, is perfect for smashing into flanks and rears. Otherwise maybe you could plug any holes in your lines with them or guard a flank a little against enemy regiments returning to battle...other cav can do that.

[The Two Jerseys]

I stick to line infantry and militia the most personally, as they make up the bulk of my armies. Although both cross roles, I try to keep militia mostly in forts and cities to defend/keep order, and line infantry for field battles. Early on militia fires in the same pattern as line infantry so militia and line inf are less distinguishable, however IIRC militia don't get fire by rank or anything.

I will use grenadiers sometimes--they can be stupidly effective but it seems like they're best used in teams with line infantry. Have the line infantry engage the enemy line and lock them in, then have grenadiers throw grenades, follow up with a volley, and all advance. They require a bit more micro though.

One unit I rarely use is Dragoons. Anyone else?

(NTW viewpoint here, your results may vary)

I like to keep roughly a 2:1 ratio of line and light infantry, that way all my line units can have skirmishers screening them. I also prefer to keep militia on garrison duties, but if I have to take them into the field I'll hold them in reserve if possible.

I only use grenadiers if my army spawns with them at the start of the campaign, I don't actively recruit them because I don't find grenade attacks to be very effective, and I'd prefer to have the extra manpower of a regular infantry unit. If I do have grenadiers, I typically use them to reinforce my line if they become engaged in a melee, or to protect my batteries from being overrun by infantry.

I swear by artillery. There's nothing more satisfying then ripping gaping holes in the enemy infantry line as they march slowly across the entire battlefield.

As for dragoons (by which I mean mounted troops with carbines, because by the Napoleonic era some "dragoons" are dragoons in name only), I recruit them if I can because of the extra punch that they have from firing a volley before a charge, and by this era they're just as good with a sabre as other light cavalry units. I never have them dismount though, because they suck on foot.