What do you mean by skirmish? i said you could still play custom battles instead of avatar system its jsut not recorded o ntheladder.

You still saidf no so i said there are custom battles.

Frankly i can think of no other mode where you get to just pick an army o nthe fly.

eatpraylove

United States53 Posts

March 16 2011 20:13 GMT

#242

I haven't played it yet, but in Napoleon you could skirmish against the AI. I did it several times. It'd be nuts if they took that out of Shogun.

On cavalry charges in Napoleon, I've had cav run down infantry. And I've definitely had guys fly when their unit got charged. Kinda hokey, if you ask me. Then again, I wasn't around in 1800. Maybe guys did go 20 yards when horses ran into them.

I like Heir of Carthage's TW commentary videos. Looks like he put up a Shogun one yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/user/HeirofCarthage

Vipsanius

Netherlands708 Posts

March 16 2011 20:20 GMT

#243

You can skirmish vs AI, I think the guy meant skirmish against another player (pick your own units etc.), can't say much about that because I didn't explore that part of the game as of yet.

Shauni

4077 Posts

March 16 2011 21:05 GMT

#244

can someone help... I have two problems.

First the game loading screen never disappears after a battle and I'm unable to save, resulting in having to force the program down and replay the battle. Endlessly, because you can't save...

Also, after the recent 1.1 update, I can't even start the game. Steam gives me some kind of error - incomplete installation (15). Anyone with similar problems?
*edit* seems like everyone is have the last problem. Don't update to 1.1 it'll make the game unplayable.

TimeOut

Germany1277 Posts

March 16 2011 21:37 GMT

#245

On March 17 2011 06:05 Shauni wrote:
Also, after the recent 1.1 update, I can't even start the game. Steam gives me some kind of error - incomplete installation (15). Anyone with similar problems?

Everyone has the same problem, the update essentially broke the game. Wait for a patch for the patch. Don't try to delete and re-download the files, that doesn't work.

The official forums and the steam forums are boiling right now.

Disregard

China10252 Posts

March 16 2011 21:41 GMT

#246

Seems that the error is for players that got the digital version, my retail version works fine even after the steam update.

edit: Too bad I dont have time to dedicate myself to the game... Bah!

eatpraylove

United States53 Posts

March 16 2011 23:20 GMT

#247

Just noticed something if you haven't bought yet: Steam is selling it for $50 US while Amazon's download version is $40.

Disregard

China10252 Posts

March 16 2011 23:24 GMT

#248

Amazon had 5 USD off for the Limited Edition too.

Shauni

4077 Posts

March 17 2011 12:37 GMT

#249

On March 17 2011 06:41 Disregard wrote:
Seems that the error is for players that got the digital version, my retail version works fine even after the steam update.

edit: Too bad I dont have time to dedicate myself to the game... Bah!

Nah, I also got the retail, I think it was the same problem for everyone, but it was fixed by the time you wrote this. It took less than an hour for them so nice reactions at least.

Dismantlethethroat

114 Posts

March 17 2011 13:24 GMT

#250

dont like it. It lags and Medieval 2 total war didn't lag. Not to mention Medieval total war had better animations and the knights looks gorgeous.

Zhou

United States832 Posts

March 17 2011 14:02 GMT

#251

Does the game have any type of co-op at all? Because that's what I heard when they were going to release it. Some sort of Campaign Co-op and other things...

If not, looks like I have to start buckling down for the more competitive Multiplayer faster.

ilikeLIONZ

Germany427 Posts

March 17 2011 14:12 GMT

#252

yes there's a co-op campaign

Zhou

United States832 Posts

March 17 2011 14:17 GMT

#253

I'm going to need some friends to play with then. xD

dezi

Germany1536 Posts

March 17 2011 14:24 GMT

#254

Co-op is fun - played ~6h yesterday. On any fight we shared troops so the other one doesn't have to wait.

GGTeMpLaR

United States7226 Posts

March 18 2011 02:28 GMT

#255

so the Team Liquid clan is in 2nd place on the clan competition and I haven't even heard anyone mention it lol

are we organized on a steam group or something or is it just us stomping the ladder

edit: nvm i didn't see there are multiple maps separated into tiers

Darpa

Canada4413 Posts

March 18 2011 02:59 GMT

#256

Im going to pick this up this weekend. I am an absolute HUGE fan of the total war series, I own every game and have played all of them over a hundred hours. The question I have about this game, can you sit down and play and look at the clock 6 hours later and feel like an hour has gone by? because thats how great the other games were.

Doodsmack

United States7224 Posts

March 18 2011 06:23 GMT

#257

I picked this game up yesterday and am loving it. Only other Total War games I've played are Medieval 2 and Rome, and I have to say I'm very rusty when it comes to how to fight battles. Does anyone know of a good tutorial that goes over battles pretty comprehensively?

voy

Poland348 Posts

March 18 2011 07:25 GMT

#258

Sun Tzu - Art of war

Vequeth

United Kingdom1116 Posts

March 18 2011 10:43 GMT

#259

Siege AI is still really buggy im finding. Especially AI attacker reinforcements, they just seem to stand where they enter the field the whole fight.

Antisocialmunky

United States5913 Posts

March 18 2011 15:43 GMT

#260

I dunno, I managed to intercept a reinforcing AI since you always have a deployment arc If that's the only thing wrong with the AI, I'm not complaining.