Here...

Me using Polska as usual. Started out with this fancy echelon formation



Warthog using the Americans. Pretty standard line formation



The Polish army moved forward...moving cannon to its position.



Americans came with more cavalry...charging the rear in wedge formation...Poles were prepared.



Americans removed the polish cannons early on..a cav charge right down the center...Poles didn't react fast...But the Americans lost their General



Winged Hussars charged the left flank of the Americans



Americans start charging infantry...Poles send Winged Hussars for support.



The melee scrap...desperate men in a last desperate charge



VICTORY! Poland is victorious. The use of the funny looking formation managed to work. There was enough back up to cover the flanks and rear for any cav charges. American forces spread too thin...no reinforcement to help bolster their morale plus loosing the general....fatal. Of course the poles had the advantage of higher ground GG

only rm 30 diff between collectors and normal ed?

collectors got 6 special units ingame ..for what faction/nation? if normal version can't unlock or download the extra units?

everytime i quit the game it crasher wtf

No normal version don't get the six special forces unit. For information on the exclusive units you can see the details here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/10600/

You can post your issue at the official support forum. They can help you out.

HMS special unit battleship...emm how many cannon it got? bigger than heavy 1st rate ship or same size as 1st rate or 2nd rate ship?

Its the same as any 1st rate just looks diff, I still have no time to tech till those level to unlock the special units and my USS constitution.

Tonight Multiplayer Marathon...please everyone try to make it...community chat room as usual..

I wont be around tonight sorry guys, as for next friday too.

Personally I have more or less shelved ETW until they improve it so I won't be joining.

AI too shitty, performance issues and I am still getting some "new" CTDs during battles (like happened in the last time) which I was not getting before.

For now I am back to Civ4, way less eye candy, but at least the AI is worth it, does naval invasion and do not bother me every two turn for one of my city.

The next gameplay patch is supposed to have "Rare naval invasion" according from one developer on official forum, for me it just show they really rushed the game out with a sucky AI and now they have to rework the whole thing to make it better than a guinea pig's intelligence. CA for me focused way too much on nice graphisms and did a step backward on gameplay and AI from previous TW games.

The multiplayer games were nice and fun with you guys, but too unstable on my machine (I realised I usually managed to finish only 2/3 of my battles as average, the rest ended up as CTD and co)

I think ETW will be good in few months when CA will have worked on it, I will wait for patches and mods to be out before starting again, right now I have a bitter taste in the mouth each time I think of the solo campain.

Awww man sorry to hear that...maybe I'll have to shelve the weekly multiplayer idea as well...since there is not many people who are interested in joining in...which is to be expected for a total war game...I guess I'll just go back to finishing my Marathas campaign.

I hope you will be able to play the game better with the future updates.

Yar, I actually hope so too, I really did not disliked the game, I was just kinda "disapointed" by it. After they fixed the game a bit so I could actually play campains more than few turns I really realised the AI was pretty dumb (I am not Napoleon either as you guys saw during the online matches, I am not pretending to be modest but more realistic, my "skill" is normal). The starts are a little bit tough, but once you settle down your economy you can just steamroll the AI and pwn any theaters very quickly.

The only ones that usually cause issues are the American's natives and small countries like Courland, the rest of the countries wait for destruction doing nothing much.

I for sure won't buy another CA product on release if I am honest, they do good games.... after many patches and once the mods are out.

today we have a great games....me , koc , jack , fluffy panda

guys, I have problem to launch Steam, so I uinstall it. after reinstall Steam, I have to reinstall back the games (duh!)

so, my question is what happen to the saved games ?
do I have to play back from the start?

Xp or Vista?

Basically the saved games are in the AppData folder if you know what I am talking about.

Under XP just do Start -> Run

Type %appdata% (with the two % signs), type Enter

You should see a "The Creative Assembly" folder in it, the saves are in it.

No idea for Vista but it's something very similar (just the AppData folder is located somewhere else)

You should be fine after reinstalling, I would think since the folder is not under the Steam main folder it should not overwrite them.

Not sure if you can have Steam "search" the games you had installed previously and thus avoid to have to reinstall them, I am still quite noob in Steam...

Also don't forget to backup your steamapps folder...when you reinstall just overwrite this folder in the new install and you will have all your games install on your hard disk.

Ha alright, I did not know you could do that with Steam, good to know.

Gormaz you miss yesterday Multiplayer marathon and France big war.....french win all the way

This post has been edited by RegentCid: Apr 11 2009, 05:40 PM

Dear Empire Total War community,

I am currently having a shit load of problem trying to run my copy of Empire Total War.

I have reinstalled both steam and Empire Total War more than 3 times, unfortunately the problematic message "This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time." keeps reoccurring, it's seriously very annoying not being able to play a game i paid so much money for.

I've tried everything that was stated in this website. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article...=4595-WEXN-6831
Yet to no avail.

I seriously don't really mind not being able to play in multilayer, all i want to do is play the god damn game!! Yet it doesn't let me do it.

Any solutions or help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Time to play back Medieval 2 anyone?

Turn Steam to offline mode if you dont want to play multiplayer.



Sorry I couldn't attach any screenshots of the previous multiplayer marathon but...

Regentcid is the player of the week for a good display of finesse in the land battle and aggressive naval manoeuvring. COngratulations...I promise screenshots in the next multiplayer marathon.

This post has been edited by frags: Apr 14 2009, 03:02 AM