If Empire's expansion pack is going to have scenarios...

[LightSpectra]

... then what scenarios would you expect (or hope) to see?

The obvious ones are the Napoleonic Wars and Simon Bolívar's independence wars in South America. No other blatant ones come to my head. Maybe they could specifically set up the Seven Years' War, but that wouldn't be too interesting, I'd say. Or, if they wanted to wind the clock back a bit, the Thirty Years' War (though wasn't warfare a bit different in the early 17th century?).

More American centric ones could be the War of 1812, Texas Revolution & Mexican-American War, or Indian Wars. The Civil War could also work, maybe, but I don't know if the late 1800s would be pushing it in terms of warfare.

 

[Yui108]

You missed a big one- American Revolution

Also, a special conquerors pack including Frederick the Great, Louis the 14th and Napoleons campaign would be awesome.

 

[LightSpectra]

You missed a big one- American Revolution

That's going to be in the main game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D_T2H0ccl0

Also, a special conquerors pack including Frederick the Great, Louis the 14th and Napoleons campaign would be awesome.

Well, the thing about the first two is that they might be too "generic" to be their own scenarios. That is to say, you could basically imitate them just by playing the main campaign.

 

[Yui108]

That's going to be in the main game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D_T2H0ccl0



Well, the thing about the first two is that they might be too "generic" to be their own scenarios. That is to say, you could basically imitate them just by playing the main campaign.

Yes, and so where all of the scenario's except the Teutonic one in MTW: 2. I think the whole purpose of scenarios is to go more in depth-

And I suppose, but they could run like 4 months a turn, and have a map confined to Europe or so.

 

[Icaria909]

I would hope that they would add a scenario with the great indian rebellion of 1857. The British get a third of India, a united rebellion group gets another third, with the last third a few indepenent or rebel groups. Indians get traditional warefare soldiers and sepoys while the Brits get elite units that cost more to produce. On a whole, the game would be great if it progressed on a week by week basis for a few years.

 

[Maniacal]

More of India would be interesting.

Napoleonic Wars of course.

I hope they make the maps larger for the scenarios though, I find the ones for M2 and Rome to be too small for the most part and I fear it's going to be the same thing again with ETW.

 

[Longus]

If we're going to the late 1800s (& I'm not sure we are!) then what about Crimea? There'd be room for a 'Charge of the Light Brigade' moment in there somewhere.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I would hope that they would add a scenario with the great indian rebellion of 1857. The British get a third of India, a united rebellion group gets another third, with the last third a few indepenent or rebel groups. Indians get traditional warefare soldiers and sepoys while the Brits get elite units that cost more to produce. On a whole, the game would be great if it progressed on a week by week basis for a few years.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that's how the Mutiny went down?

 

[Dachs]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that's how the Mutiny went down?

With CA's track record on historical accuracy I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Icaria909]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if that's how the Mutiny went down?

I know, I was just trying to fit it into a TW scenario.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

With CA's track record on historical accuracy I wouldn't be surprised.

I think we should divide the Sepoys into three factions, who all respond to the central faction which only controls Lucknow. That'll be about up to speed with Activision's accuracy litmus test.

 

[Maniacal]

The game goes 1700-1799, however as with other total war games you will probably get to keep playing but NOTHING NEW happens after 1799 (although you can keep researching/building).

 

[Dachs]

The game goes 1700-1799, however as with other total war games you will probably get to keep playing but NOTHING NEW happens after 1799 (although you can keep researching/building).

Last I heard on TWC was that the main game was going to cover the Napoleonic Wars as well.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The game goes 1700-1799, however as with other total war games you will probably get to keep playing but NOTHING NEW happens after 1799 (although you can keep researching/building).

AFAIK the first MTW ended at 1453.

 

[Maniacal]

The main game afaik is not covering the napoleanic wars.

 

[Dachs]

The main game afaik is not covering the napoleanic wars.

Wouldn't make sense to stop in the middle of Napoleon's career and only give us the first half of the War of the Second Coalition, now would it?

 

[LightSpectra]

Wouldn't make sense to stop in the middle of Napoleon's career and only give us the first half of the War of the Second Coalition, now would it?

I'm actually a little confused on this. They said that Wellington "might" appear in the game, which probably indicates the Napoleonic Wars in the game, but they also said that the game cuts off at 1800. Maybe that was just a round-off, though.

 

[Dachs]

I'm actually a little confused on this. They said that Wellington "might" appear in the game, which probably indicates the Napoleonic Wars in the game, but they also said that the game cuts off at 1800. Maybe that was just a round-off, though.

Yeah, they are being pretty confusing on that. 1815 is still a pretty bloody good cutoff date though and they would have to be lunatics not to make use of it.

 

[Maniacal]

CA has said that the Napoleonic wars are not in the main game. They will most likely be in the expansion.

 

[Dachs]

I guess they're lunatics, unless the entire Revolution is absent from the game. (Which, IIRC, it's not.)