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On November 19 2011 11:09 nanospartan wrote:
As a total noob at shogun 2 (i enjoyed screwing around in rome) do you guys have any tips for me in the game in terms of strategy?
Make use of your surroundings, go watch some youtube vids and read up on tactics.
Some other tips on the top of my head
Seige equipment may look op at first but they are really weak due to lack of mobility.
Yari cav is best cav (not familiar with dlc cav, should be good as well but I just do not have it)
Loanswords are amazing when veteran
Morale is the name of the game here so put many points into leadership so your troops do not break when the going gets tough.
Most of these are mechanics and units, for real strategy I would still reccomend The Art of War, just read up an Ebook on...the bay where pirates reside.
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So I decided to buy this game for $9.99 on today's steam sale...
rome total war was a lot of fun, but empire was pretty shitty. hopefully this will be worth it.
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On December 18 2011 13:22 Erik.TheRed wrote:
So I decided to buy this game for $9.99 on today's steam sale...
rome total war was a lot of fun, but empire was pretty shitty. hopefully this will be worth it.
Just did the same + bought a second copy for gifting.
Never played a Total War game before but I really like the setting plus it seems that it got coop so I can learn it together with a friend
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I found this game a lot more boring. There's almost no variety. All the factions have the same units. What I loved about Rome was the the crazy different factions and how you can abuse one unit. Yes the Egyptians were fantasy but they offered variety. Every corner of Rome TW had different opponents and armies to fight against.
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I found the fun part of this game was min/maxing your units. I had monk archers that fired bows off like machine guns.
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Just me or takes FOREVER to load the game = (
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A good friend of mine just bought this game for me. Have played every single release, but since Empire my laptop lacks the necessary hardware. Little does he know I won't be able to play it >.<
Happened just the same with SC. Fail laptop.
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This game is amazing. Got it during the holiday sales. Played a ton, completely my first campaign as the Hattori and I really, really highly recommend this game. It's not very micro intensive outside of multiplayer once you get used to the system but watching maxed out armies go at it is simply pleasurable.
Just started the Rise of the Samurai DLC and am slightly disappointed the map is the same (for obvious reasons) but there's plenty to keep me interested still.
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Fall of the Samurai will be a lot better, it's more like empire total war with a better melee focus (I felt melee was borked in ETW, I wished for swords and shields) - and with the amazing fluidity of constantly firing ranks of infantry that surpasses even NTW.
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Rise of the Samurai is freaking hard on legendary. Basically you can take 10 provinces and after that everybody starts attacking you T_T
easiest faction is probably the fujiwara because they are safe in the north but man the Minamoto are freaking impossible at least for me when I play on legendary. Even very hard which was a joke in the normal game is much harder.
I am happy about any advice to make it through a legendary campaign in Rise of the Samurai I just cant figure it out.
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Anyone wanna play some head-to-head campaign or duke it out in avatar conquest?
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Looks as though the gameplay is better, but is it just me or is the world map fairly small compared to Rome or Empire?
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On January 15 2012 01:27 IntoTheheart wrote:
Looks as though the gameplay is better, but is it just me or is the world map fairly small compared to Rome or Empire?
well think about it. I am sure you can figure it out 
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On January 15 2012 01:37 Skilledblob wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2012 01:27 IntoTheheart wrote:
Looks as though the gameplay is better, but is it just me or is the world map fairly small compared to Rome or Empire? well think about it. I am sure you can figure it out
Guessing that it'll be smaller from the trailer but I haven't a clue. They might've divided each of the provinces into subsections too.
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On January 15 2012 00:22 DarKcS wrote:
Fall of the Samurai will be a lot better, it's more like empire total war with a better melee focus (I felt melee was borked in ETW, I wished for swords and shields) - and with the amazing fluidity of constantly firing ranks of infantry that surpasses even NTW.
It definitely looks more exciting. Thinking about actually getting it when it comes out...
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On January 15 2012 01:27 IntoTheheart wrote:
Looks as though the gameplay is better, but is it just me or is the world map fairly small compared to Rome or Empire?
Yeah it is, and there are a lot more chokes and narrow paths. But the upside for this is that the campaign AI doesn't act like a complete retard anymore.
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The AI is pretty legit most of the time, even more so on higher difficulties. It still has some serious derp moments though.
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I'm always stuck while playing Tokugawa, am i suppose to attack Imagawa?
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I have not played Tokugawa but it seems you have good relations with the Shinano so you can focus on overtaking the Imagawa.
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god i want this game so bad. i just finished building my new computer. i have played every total war from the first shogun to empire. i loved playing rts games but i always wished to see battles on such a larger scale than those in age of empires etc. so when i found shogun total war 1 it was love at first sight.
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