Yep, that one was REALLY long to load for me too.

But even others loading do take a bit of time and it can just become a bit irritating.

i see, i haven't played the road to independence scenario yet,
i just play the grand campaign

Playing the English of course. I'd suggest you start off with the Brits or Russia as if you take France, Austrai Prussia or the any other major nation, you're in stuck between a rock and a hard place if you get attacked. Mind you, teching up in the beginning is really slow if you're Russia.

Spain would also be a good starting choice. If you're going to play the French, i suggest building up alliances ASAP. The alliances will be beneficial to you as the AI in my game only had Spain for an ally.

I instigated a war against Prussia and squashed them till they currently have one territory left. The minor nations are way small and you can crush them at your leisure. Just make full use of the Diplomacy Menu as you'll be depending on it a lot for tech exchanges, trade and war/peace.

Most definitely... the AI honours the Alliance in this game more than they do in RTW or M2TW.

yeah, i'm was reluctant to attack a nation which have 5-6 allied,
afraid later get gangbang.....

Damn the scenario 3 of the US campain is tough (the one with Bunker Hill battle). Opponents really have way more troops than you and are not scared to use them!

I think I am gonna start the great campain, might go for UK as the geographic position will definitely be better. I wanted to go for France since I am French
But think it will wait until I get a better grasp of the game, there are indeed quite a fair bit of difference with the pervious TW in how to manage your empire.

So far I quite enjoy the navy battles, it's pretty fun and tactical but I can see it becoming hard if you have a lot of ships on each side.

You will lose Bunker Hill. When things were about to go, i quit the battle and it went straight to the campaign map.

Nar, I managed to win Bunker Hills (lost the first time I did it though), but after that it's kinda tough, the UK has lot of troops.

Now I am doing the grand campain though, quite fun

LOL just managed to win the Battle of Bunker Hill, wasn't easy. Still need more practices.

Also CA really simplifies the campaign map. Probably to make it "easier" for colonization.

so... which region gave you the best DL speed?

I am shocked that Indonesia is on the list....

u can try north US or australia, just test 1 by 1 til u get acceptable speed

i just started using Steam

whats your acceptable DL speed?

I don't know if it's an ingame bug but...


I HAVE TWO CITIES LEFT TO RETAKE AND I CAN'T GODDAMMITTTTT!!! STUPID GAME CRASHES AFTER THE BRITISH ATTACK ME!!

ALL I HAVE IS TWO CITIES LEFT TO RETAKE OUT OF 15!!!!!

EMOOOO RAAAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

PS - Playing the Road to Independence.

*Rant over*

This post has been edited by Aoshi_88: Mar 8 2009, 06:30 PM

i average speed usually above 100kbps, fastest max at 200kbps

I'M STILL EMOOOO!!! *RAAAGEEEEE*

Going out for dinner... Will try again when i get home.

hi guys.. i wanna ask if there is any extra online contents? Gonna buy the game but dunno if its worth the ori price.

The Special Forces edition has extra units.

Oh... and i fixed the crash. I just retreated my units, marched forward and attacked them and the problem didn't occur. LOLWUT!

woot~~
i managed to destroy austria
stupid austria declare war on me

Guys new patch is out.

Hi everyone,

Is the sound finally fixed in the retail version? I am getting this from Garage Sales soon enough.

Thank you.

Not sure what you mean exactly by "extra online contents" but if you were talking about mods TW series is by "tradition" quite open to modding if I remember well. The previous TW had some excellent mods created by fans to improve AI, balance, add units etc.

I am not sure but I think I remember in an interview that they said ETW will also be open to modding, but it might be a bit too early yet