win the land battle, almost lost coz the US hold more strategic landscape

tonight test naval battle

Interesting, but I am a bit surprised big countries like France or Spain were not cut down in smaller provinces, or is there another additional "layer" under the big block we see in the picture? Or maybe this is not the final cut yet?

Yar, I read about the smaller towns in the regions (which is one of the biggest change in the Campain mode apparently).

I just though what they now called "regions" would not be equal to countries because otherwise it does not change much (ie: having one big region for france with smaller cities in it is sounds equal to the old system in Medival where France was cut in smaller part each with its city). But maybe I need to see more how it works in the game exactly to get a better idea, I admit I am still not clear on the exact changes they did since the old TW on the general mode.

One stuff that crossed my mind was how it works to know who "control" france for example then, if one other country manage to take some of the smaller cities. Some regions like the eastern border of France changed owner so many times during that period...

note: I am not being negative, just that I was surprised by the size of some of the so-called "regions". Let's see how the game works at release anyway, I trust the TW team to make things great 

Actually if you test out the land scape more, and place your artillery in a good position they will be just sitting ducks for you but you have to be fast.

i did put the cannon on good position (near the river bank hill) but it take too long time to scare them off.
My horse try to flank them and get ambush (coz i was organizing attack for my main troop and wasnt looking at the flank troop supposed to flank them).

to be frank i love cossack firing type than Empire total war, u can command 1st 2nd or 3rd row fire 1 row by row or u can fire sekali gus. Empire total war "Fire at will look" terrible ><

Actually if you test out the land scape more, and place your artillery in a good position they will be just sitting ducks for you but you have to be fast.

A few hints and tips for those playing the demo.

Groups

Grouping ships or units is very useful in Empire, and groups work different in naval and land battles.

Naval battles - at sea when you group units they will try to maintain relative positions an also follow the lead ship around. So if you group your ships in a line they will then move in a line around the map enabling you to more easily control large number of ships. Also using alt + giving attack orders will have your ships in a group prioritise firing on the target ship and not break out of the group formation like a normal attack order.

Land battles - when you group units the group remembers the relative position of each unit so when you give a move order to a group they will end up in the same relative positions as when you grouped them. This, in combination with the new rotate/move buttons on the HUD allow you to quickly and easily move groups around, and even to break off parts of a formation into a new group.

Timing Volleys

You can time when your infantry fires in land battles. Simply turn fire at will off, units will reload even with it off as long as enemies are not too close, and then click fire at will back on and your unit will fire at any enemies in front of them.

Camera Changes

I've seen several people asking what happened to double right click zoom-to camera functionality, this has now moved to double mouse wheel click.

I hope these tips help with your enjoyment of the demo.

i did put the cannon on good position (near the river bank hill) but it take too long time to scare them off.
My horse try to flank them and get ambush (coz i was organizing attack for my main troop and wasnt looking at the flank troop supposed to flank them).

to be frank i love cossack firing type than Empire total war, u can command 1st 2nd or 3rd row fire 1 row by row or u can fire sekali gus. Empire total war "Fire at will "look terrible ><

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Added on February 25, 2009, 10:48 pmWow, i tried the naval battle is hard win on 3rd try

the key is just to make use both side of ur ship canon.i surround them with my ship and take them out

I did the same thing. Stuck them on the the hill to the left, let them take the brunt of the enemy heavy arty while i shifted my infantry into position at the river crossing.

One thing i dislike though, only the front rank of infantry will fire. Haven't found the button for rank-fire yet, or is it not in the demo? And i think you mean Cossacks: Battle for Europe and Napoleonic Wars. I have BoE installed, gonna play tonight.

First impression: Really good. I'm very impressed, they've actually raised the bar yet again since M2TW. Graphics are top-notch, though i be running at all low, it's still very impressive.

The fall: Extremely EXTREMELY SLOW loading times. I could actually go off, brew myself a cup of tea and come back for the time it actually takes to load. I heard this will be fixed in the full release. Unit commands still slightly flunky. Was hoping it would be fixed since M2TW. Gunpowder units in M2TW were rather annoying to use.

That requires a tech research in firing drill...in the campaign mode...you will get the second line firing as the first line crouches.

The tech tree in empire is actually rather good i heard