Shogun Total War : budget release

[Swither]

Bought this a week or so ago and am really enjoying it so far.

Is anyone else playing this?

I think it's amazing to see hundreds of figures on a battlefield where terrain, weather and morale all count in the battle, not just overwhelming odds and technology level.
Real tactics at last......shame I'm rubbish tho'.


Well worth a tenner.

 

[Emmon]

Eep a tenner.. might be worth taking a look into.. thanks for the tip

 

[Artanix]

i played it at a friends house, v. good game, but he said it does get tedious, cos you can win the game just by assasinating the king and his sons

 

[Guy]

What about Medieval: Total War - gonna be a goody

 

[Swither]

Yeah, but they will have cannons in it which I can't get my head round.
Historically accurate apparently (after 100yrs war so I'm told), but I prefer plain ole catapults and ballistas myself.

Still sounds great anyway and I don't use guns in Shogun anyway.

 

[Guy]

Cannon, Catapults, Trebuchet, Ballista, Mortars - they're all in there. You NEED em to be in there so you can assault castles, mate. Would be impossible without em.

 

[Vicslav]

Hows about this info i found , its a fascinating era i think .

The earliest employment of gunpowder weapons may not have been recorded, as such incidents in battle were most likely experiments. The first few reports of guns in chronicles are often questioned. Modern scholars distinguish between combustible objects being hurled from non-gunpowder machines, and the actual use of gunpowder as an explosive to propel objects from a gun. Many of the early accounts lack sufficient precision to make a reliable determination if a 'true' gunpowder weapon were being described. The earliest reliable reports of guns suggest that their use had been ongoing. Initially guns were most used in sieges, in which they did not become decisive until the late part of the Hundred Years' War. Early gunpowder weapons were awkward in open battles. They were first effectively used during the battles of The Hussite Wars (1419-34). Though they were present on many battlefields, beginning in the late fourteenth century, guns' first effective employment [distinctly contributing to the conduct of the battle] in the Hundred Years' War was at Formigny (1450). At Castillon (1453) guns were a major factor in deciding the outcome of the battle.

 

[Darkmoor Dragon]

Cannon, Catapults, Trebuchet, Ballista, Mortars - they're all in there. You NEED em to be in there so you can assault castles, mate. Would be impossible without em.

bollox - just make a game where you sit outside a castle for 5 years starving the poor sods out - that'd work also...


so - ya see - it aint impossible!

(Ya didn't say anything aboot it being fun mind you....)

Alternatively use particularly vicious taunting...

or tempt them out with nubile virgins (apparently)

or - even - cheese... cheese was a delicacy back then u see....


as were sparrows..

hmm....

 

[Cullhaven]

Cannons were used at Crecy, if i remember rightly. (And were bloody useless except as horse scarers)