Recent content by TheArsenal

Yes. My capital. And that was game over for me. I thought I had a spy stationed in the city, but perhaps not - I will have to go back and check the save. I usually don't quit over set backs, but this was such a fundamental oversight of major and powerful mechanic, that I had to.

I’ve played all the Total War games, including expansions, since Rome. I enjoy them quite a bit. But if I have learned a single thing from the launch of these products (particularly Empire: Total War) it is to wait until it is patched. Empire Total war was the most broken game I’ve...

B. I like it enough. Not as much as BTS, but well enough – although, apparently, not enough to make me stop playing other games to pick this one up again. Considering the thousands of hours I plugged into the previous versions - the sleepless nights, the weekend marathons - I have to say...

In the games I’ve played so far the rival nations are running such incredibly high deficit numbers it is no wonder they come to me hat in hand. Most always they beg for gold, but on occasion resources. The certainly are fickle. In my current campaign, the garnering too many wonders soured a...

A case of the cure being far worse than the disease. With the happiness mechanics in the game, this is a game breaking bug. I was forced to start over as my campaign was basically crippled beyond repair. Hopefully this fix is prioritized.

Playing as China I sued the Ottomans for peace was given three cities which were made into puppets. The Puppet Cities production queues remained empty, and the game would not advance the turn giving me the “City Needs Production” message (or whatever the exact wording is). Using...

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB dedicated video memory Intel Core(TM)2 Extreme 2.66GHz 4GB Huge Map, just entering the industrial age, 8 major Empires left, with I'm guessing 5 to 8city states remaining. Each turn takes about 90 seconds to 2.5 minutes.

... and I find Paradox games to be overly complex. Language removed. Inappropriate language is still inappropriate regardless of quotes.

It's not just removal the SOD which is good, but additionally, the sheer reduction in the number of units on the map. I like to play on Huge Maps. Building and moving unit after unit, particularly for something like prepping SODs for a full scale cross continent invasion to meet the AIs SODs...

[Game #] [Empire][Date] GM 1 Eng 3025 BC Edit: and its a bit crazy that the latest save doesn't automatically sort to the top of the list.

Holding more than one unit might make it a bit tricky, and kind of goes against the spirit of, 1UP. I haven't used this embark method much, in one battle to flank an army on the same land mass, but I like it quite a bit.

Yep. Or the Total War series for that matter (which had some admittedly buggy releases). The most amusing/interesting times to hang around any game forum is right before/after a launch because one could almost take posts from other forums during game releases, change a few words, and they would...

After thinking about it: Random.

Shout "Hold all my calls" to no one in particular, roll up my sleeves, fire up the game, and see what is what.

Slowly, as I have a tendency to read and look at everything first few times through. More specifically: Continents. Huge Map. Marathon. Random Civ.