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, then I'm still getting it, I know a lot more about medieval combat than bronze age tactics (Short swords aside).
So, my wishlist- this is aside from the obvious continued graphical improvements.
1. Improved unit sizes. Even if you cranked up the unit size to huge on Rome, a full stack army was still, depending on the historical time period, far smaller than real-life legions. Make the options big enough so that you can emulate the amounts of men that took place in typical battles exactly rather than being a maybe faithful, maybe not representation.
2. Retain the family tree from Rome: Total War. It works perfectly for the Kings, Sultans and Emperors of the time period.
3. Improve the Roman Empire's (Eastern) unit options in the late game. You had very few options in the late game as the Byzantine Greeks because of the historical of Byzantine's decline by the "Late" Age or whatever it was called (I can't remember). This is perfectly fine if you're starting a game in the "Late" Age, but if you're playing a full game from 1087 all the way to 1453, then there is an overwhelming liklihood that decline of Constantinople in the face of the Ottoman Turks (and the sacking of Constantinople by Crusaders, for that matter) simply will not happen. It sucked in Medieval having to stick with obsolete Kataphraktoi and similar units when everyone else gets some improved options.
I don't care- speculate!
4. Add some blood splatter and other gory effects to the battles. Make it look like a scene out of Braveheart or something. The addition of wounded men crawling around after the fighting between two units is over would be awesome.
5. Bring back the rousing speeches from the original Rome. They really cheaped out on BI by not giving you the same quality of speeches that depended on the enemy you were fighting and the traits of the general.
6. Improve marching speeds to be more in line with what troops were actually capable of. It shouldn't take several years to get from one city to another.
Anyone got some other ideas?
Personally, I would like that they bring back something alike Medival's system - especialy Princesses being an actual unit to be used for your nefarious political schemes. However some additions from Rome would come in handy. One of those is the family tree screen. Unlike Rome however, you should be rather bound in your choice of sucsessors since the entire concept of adopted sons being equal to natural ones has fallen out of favor (or there should be family-wide loyality penalties if you do things that go against custom). Toning down the negative trait gaining would also be nice (in Rome, by the time they get older, almost all generals aquire at least some crippleing negative traits and a lot are totaly ruined by near-random negative ones). Trait generation should also be tied to genetics somewhat stronger then in Rome, but less then in original Medival.Vympel wrote:2. Retain the family tree from Rome: Total War. It works perfectly for the Kings, Sultans and Emperors of the time period.
Agreed. Overall balancing of units should happen, however more by addition of units to certain Kingdoms then by removing. One of the good examples is the above, another would be the total lack of even decent infantry for Russia (except Druzina Cavalry which can dismount into Feudal Knights, but even then they are obsoleted - can not be built any more - by mid game, plus since they are dual use they are far more expensive then usual) which is painful if you manage to expand beyond adverseries with similar cavalry heavy armies. Real armies adapt at least somewhat to such situations and would never have such large gaps in unit capabilities.3. Improve the Roman Empire's (Eastern) unit options in the late game. You had very few options in the late game as the Byzantine Greeks because of the historical of Byzantine's decline by the "Late" Age or whatever it was called (I can't remember). This is perfectly fine if you're starting a game in the "Late" Age, but if you're playing a full game from 1087 all the way to 1453, then there is an overwhelming liklihood that decline of Constantinople in the face of the Ottoman Turks (and the sacking of Constantinople by Crusaders, for that matter) simply will not happen. It sucked in Medieval having to stick with obsolete Kataphraktoi and similar units when everyone else gets some improved options.
I don't care- speculate!
Too much graphicly expensive for now4. Add some blood splatter and other gory effects to the battles. Make it look like a scene out of Braveheart or something. The addition of wounded men crawling around after the fighting between two units is over would be awesome.
Agreed!5. Bring back the rousing speeches from the original Rome. They really cheaped out on BI by not giving you the same quality of speeches that depended on the enemy you were fighting and the traits of the general.
Moving to season/turn should be enough while maintaining current marching speed.6. Improve marching speeds to be more in line with what troops were actually capable of. It shouldn't take several years to get from one city to another.
Not really, you can easily create small prescripted animations, and if its after the fighting, the graphics card can have a little break running those low detail animations.mmar wrote:Too much graphicly expensive for now4. Add some blood splatter and other gory effects to the battles. Make it look like a scene out of Braveheart or something. The addition of wounded men crawling around after the fighting between two units is over would be awesome.
Its the explanations developers used in their FAQ where a similar question was asked about Rome. I think it has more to do with them wanting to have relativly modest requirements then top-of-the-line computers not being able to handle it. I don't think that will change unless Medival II is planned to come out something stupid in the future, like late 2008 or later.Ace Pace wrote:Nitpick
Not really, you can easily create small prescripted animations, and if its after the fighting, the graphics card can have a little break running those low detail animations.mmar wrote:Too much graphicly expensive for now4. Add some blood splatter and other gory effects to the battles. Make it look like a scene out of Braveheart or something. The addition of wounded men crawling around after the fighting between two units is over would be awesome.
I liked the es'ploding zombies...Vympel wrote:Good old Myth. Man that series ruled ...... what I loved most about it was keeping your individual men alive so they became veterans. Hella fun to have the same men you started with (since they all had individual names) by the end of the game.
