The Road To Independance
The Creative Assembly is a British video game developer established in 1987… Read Full Bio ↴The Creative Assembly is a British video game developer established in 1987 by Tim Ansell. Although primarily based in the West Sussex town of Horsham, the Creative Assembly also operates an Australian branch in Fortitude Valley, Queensland. In its early years, the company worked on porting games to DOS from Amiga and ZX Spectrum platforms, later working with Electronic Arts to produce a variety of games under the EA Sports brand. In 1999, the company had sufficient resources to attempt a new and original project, proceeding to develop the strategy computer game Shogun: Total War. Shogun: Total War was highly successful for the Creative Assembly and is regarded as one of the benchmark strategy games. Subsequent titles in the Total War series built on the triumph of Shogun: Total War, increasing the company's critical and commercial success.
In March 2005, the Creative Assembly was acquired by Japanese giant Sega as a European subsidary. Under Sega, further Total War titles were developed, and the Creative Assembly entered the console market with action-adventure games such as Spartan: Total Warrior and Viking: Battle for Asgard. The company is currently working on two projects: Empire: Total War and the real-time strategy title Stormrise.
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Joshie Walker

didnt really like the pre-set campaigns in either Empire nor Napoleon game. prefer playing Grand Campaign (Long) so you have 100 years to play through, although Napoleon doesn't really have the Long Grand Campaign option.

i know these games have graphical limitations and all but would be awesome if the games featured the following

1. Army supply routes (in addition to trade routes) so you can not only upset the enemy's trade, but also upset the supplies getting to the Army (limiting ammunition for the enemy so that if you have superior numbers of infantry and cavalry, simply throw enough soldiers at the enemy to chew up their ammo and they will have no choice but to use bayonets and melee combat (which would be rather suicidal)
2. Being able to recruit a Forlorn Hope unit to storm the breeches of enemy forts just like the actual era. And the survivors of these units receive promotions
3. Instead of just having the option to retreat and then stop the retreat (which comes in handy in luring the enemy to your strong lines of infantry and cavalry), also have the option to surrender on the field. Would be mad if you could get the enemy to surrender some units and having the option of either capturing these soldiers to strength the army or mercilessly cutting them down while their hands are raised, thus I reckon a notoriety rating would be cool for this feature - certain units become notorious for not giving quarter to surrendering troops and then gain more hostility in future battles
4. Instead of just having only 20 units on the field at any given time and then as the first units retreat units from a second army appear on the field, you should be able to have perhaps two armies on at a time. Especially when you siege a fort and wait for the enemy to attack, you have two sides of a square sort of thing to position your army and more often than not you end up positioning the army in the wrong location (pain in the ass if you have set up defenses since they cant be disassembled) Either two armies at a time or make it you can have more units in a single army (25-30 units would be nice instead of just 20)
5. Victories and defeats abroad have an effect on the population
6. I remember from playing the earlier Cossacks games and both American Conquest games you could recruit peasants, train them into soldiers of different types and then put them in formations of a size of your choice. I'd like that feature but in addition to creating these formations, you could also disassemble these formations after battles and each individual soldier could be looked at for the amount of kills he'd made and all that and each kill was a point of experience (so for an individual soldier with 10 + kills, he was damn experienced, so I could then place these more experienced soldiers into separate units, thus better battle performance and morale - would of liked that in Empire too



FrAvatar

Hmm, let me see if I can find the official recommended system specs:

Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™)
Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory
Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels
Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card
Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS
Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard

So from what you stated, I'm not sure the Intel integrated GPU you have is good enough. They are good enough for general use, but struggle to render anything but the least demanding games, Graphically speaking.

It will maybe run but most likely not very well, I'd recommend getting a dedicated graphic card. Pretty much anything modern will be much better than an integrated Intel graphics solution.



FrAvatar

hmm, Napoleon Total war is the only one in the series that I have never played so I can't really compare the two.  But if I can only get one I'd go for Empire over Napoleon.  My favorite of all the Total War series would be Medieval 2 Total War.  The only thing that would make that game better is if it had the bigger map and naval battles of Empire, and better AI.  Sadly all Total War series suffers more or less from bad AI. 

I did a quick search and found this that pretty much summarizes what I heard about both.

 "Re: Napoleon Vs. Empire
Originally Posted by Celareon
Empire:

+Massive, 3 Theater World (Although crippled by small # of provinces)
+Many different nations to choose from (Sharing the same bland, cookie cutter format albeit)
+Fire by Rank
+Open Ended Campaign

-AI (Campaign and Battle)
-Bugs (Half finished on release and I'm being kind)
-Same units for each army mostly
-Same ships for each navy
-Doesn't feel polished (Wonder why)

Napoleon:

+Better AI
+More army differentiation
+Attrition and Supply System
+More, smaller regions
+Better art design (completely subjective, but the 'portraits' in ETW were horrible)
+Physically larger campaign map
+Enhanced GFX engine

-Smaller scope
-Cost high for what is essentially a glorified expansion
-little, if any integration or enhancement with/for its parent game, ETW
-Only 4 nations to choose from in GC
-was developed and released during a time when CA should have been focusing all its energy on repairing and upgrading Empire

"


You can read 7 pages of forum discussion here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?335599-Napoleon-Vs-Empire



FrAvatar

EchoToEarth !!!! from steam site for this game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/10500/

System Requirements: Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux


Supported OS:Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ 
Processor:2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU 
Memory:1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™) 
Graphics:100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory 
Display:Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels 
Sound:Directx9.0c compatible sound card 
Hard Drive:15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS 
Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard 



All comments from YouTube:

Ches

I remember watching this series two years ago and how you'd say run when you moved your troops and I just remembered it haha. Oh the memories

FrAvatar

I'll keep that in mind, but just so you know this playthrough is already completed so it's basically impossible to change anything on it. I will probably eventually do another playthrough of the Grand Campaign, but I need people to vote on which faction to play. ( that and I'm currently working on a playthrough of Medieval 2: Total War, amongst other games)

Damien May

So far you have been playing all of my All-Time favourite games. :D

Roath

I knew when I first saw that intro that this game would be AWESOME

Luke Johns

You were darn right. Empire total war is amazing

Joshie Walker

didnt really like the pre-set campaigns in either Empire nor Napoleon game. prefer playing Grand Campaign (Long) so you have 100 years to play through, although Napoleon doesn't really have the Long Grand Campaign option.

i know these games have graphical limitations and all but would be awesome if the games featured the following

1. Army supply routes (in addition to trade routes) so you can not only upset the enemy's trade, but also upset the supplies getting to the Army (limiting ammunition for the enemy so that if you have superior numbers of infantry and cavalry, simply throw enough soldiers at the enemy to chew up their ammo and they will have no choice but to use bayonets and melee combat (which would be rather suicidal)
2. Being able to recruit a Forlorn Hope unit to storm the breeches of enemy forts just like the actual era. And the survivors of these units receive promotions
3. Instead of just having the option to retreat and then stop the retreat (which comes in handy in luring the enemy to your strong lines of infantry and cavalry), also have the option to surrender on the field. Would be mad if you could get the enemy to surrender some units and having the option of either capturing these soldiers to strength the army or mercilessly cutting them down while their hands are raised, thus I reckon a notoriety rating would be cool for this feature - certain units become notorious for not giving quarter to surrendering troops and then gain more hostility in future battles
4. Instead of just having only 20 units on the field at any given time and then as the first units retreat units from a second army appear on the field, you should be able to have perhaps two armies on at a time. Especially when you siege a fort and wait for the enemy to attack, you have two sides of a square sort of thing to position your army and more often than not you end up positioning the army in the wrong location (pain in the ass if you have set up defenses since they cant be disassembled) Either two armies at a time or make it you can have more units in a single army (25-30 units would be nice instead of just 20)
5. Victories and defeats abroad have an effect on the population
6. I remember from playing the earlier Cossacks games and both American Conquest games you could recruit peasants, train them into soldiers of different types and then put them in formations of a size of your choice. I'd like that feature but in addition to creating these formations, you could also disassemble these formations after battles and each individual soldier could be looked at for the amount of kills he'd made and all that and each kill was a point of experience (so for an individual soldier with 10 + kills, he was damn experienced, so I could then place these more experienced soldiers into separate units, thus better battle performance and morale - would of liked that in Empire too

Joshie Walker

would of also liked to have started as 13 Colonies and then start a rebellion against Britain and form the United States (instead of playing as US in pre-made campaign)

GMak81

I loved (!!!) Medieval 2, but with this one...I've heard a lot about bugs etc.  But surely most have been patched by now?
Also my PC specs - not great with this stuff - I have Intel Core i5-4440 @ 3.1Ghz, quad core, and Intel HD Graphics 4600 1Gb : do you think I can run it?  Thanks to anyone who replies!

FrAvatar

Hmm, let me see if I can find the official recommended system specs:

Supported OS: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® or greater or AMD® Athlon® equivalent CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP,) 2 GB RAM (Vista™)
Graphics: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible hardware accelerated video card with shader version 2.0 support, 256 MB video memory
Display: Minimum screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels
Sound: Directx9.0c compatible sound card
Hard Drive: 15 GB free hard disk space formatted as NTFS
Peripherals: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard

So from what you stated, I'm not sure the Intel integrated GPU you have is good enough. They are good enough for general use, but struggle to render anything but the least demanding games, Graphically speaking.

It will maybe run but most likely not very well, I'd recommend getting a dedicated graphic card. Pretty much anything modern will be much better than an integrated Intel graphics solution.

GMak81

Aha, thank you for taking the time to reply.  It looks like I'd be best to hold off then, as it is very frustrating to get a game that you can't play.  Kind regards, Glenn

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