Okey, interesting. Would have been good if we could see these radius in some way though. CA can say they want to keep a "realism" of it though... both ways have pro/cons

LOL yeah...I don't know if you remember but CA OZ introduced special powers in Kingdoms for the Crusades campaign lol

The radius is about the width of 2 line infantry(horizontally) on every side. Sometimes units that are in serious condition can't be saved by the general.

Hi guys,

I have tried running the game in Vista and for some reasons, I think there are several Ultra settings for some options.

I can't remember whether these settings were in the XP version or not.

I would like to double confirm if possible.

Thanks.

The settings are dynamic in that it depends on your system. It gets info from a dx query function and bases available setting on that.

There is no dx10 specific setting.

Finally I have my internuts back at home prolly can join you all some time.

Turn off Hardware Shadows eliminates these shadow artifacts, it could be driver issue but already using 182.50

Nvidia release new Driver alreaedy 185.85 Driver.

This Driver will making Empire Total War become SLI enable game.

hahaha now my 9800GX2 going into full performance already.

Tip of The Week 3

Achievement Hunting

This weeks so called tip isn't so much a tip but a discussion on something(with the dawn of digital platforms) we call achievements. Many people these days play this meta game of hunting (or farming) achievements. It really bears no real material reward but just imparts a sense of accomplishment.

I don't want to debate about whether farming/hunting achievements is right. But some achievements(in some game) cannot be gained without farming. Thankfully Empire: Total Wars achievements are a lot more basic and requires playing the game normally for a long time. Lets have a look at the 30 achievements available.


The super easy achievements(free gifts):

Everyone, EVERYONE should have these...These achievements are the I pity you here is a bone achievement.

Easy Achievements:

You can get raw recruit without even playing a proper multiplayer match. You can host a multiplayer game(unranked match) and choose to battle with AI. Easy one...For a whiff of grapeshot, just get a friend to help you...you don't even have to win.

Intermediate achievements:

All the multiplayer battles can be farmed. It doesn't have to be ranked and you can get them by hosting matches and playing against AI. You wont earn rank point but you will earn these achievements. For the siege achievements(one for attacking and the other for defending), I suggest when attacking the use of mass mortar(late preiod) with lime shot against one militia. For siege defence, I suggest 3 heavy cavalry against a militia unit. Place your cavalry outside the fortification and just charge. Do this 10 times and voila!

Hard achievements:

The achievements that use your gentlemen, rake, assassin, diplomacy will require grinding or just extended play. The one that requires completing the tech tree will require probably one long campaign to gain. If you want to farm the completing main game achievement...just do a short campaign.

Super Hard:

These are really difficult to farm unless you are extremely patient. With the latest patch, the new rome achievement is a lot harder to achieve now. Too bad if you didn't get it before the patch.

Insanely difficult:

You are a Total War God!

The how the hell do you get this achievement:

Ummm....What missions? Possibly grinding the Road to Independence campaign might get you this achievement but I'm not really sure myself what the hell this means. just double checked. it does look like mission are awarded in the RTI campaign. you will need to play through this more than once to earn this.


So what achievements have you got? Do you know about the last wth achievement? Happy achievement hunting!

This post has been edited by frags: May 9 2009, 01:02 AM

I am kind of a completionist myself so enjoy going after achievement. While I did not manage to get many in ETW yet I did not know you could farm lots of them by hosting a "multiplayer" game against a AI, good to know

About the mission one, I feel all nations were actually supposed to get missions during the grand campain like in the previous TW (from the Roman Senat, from the Pope etc) and it was kinda cut by CA before launch without taking out the achievement. I guess doing the RTI first few scenarios few times would be enough.

Oh well, I will do these when I get myself to reinstalle TW (might be soon, seems patching made the game better)

Thanks for the tips frags, good post as usual from you

Yeap...i think you will enjoy the updated game..

If you noticed...only one achievement requires playing on a ranked match. Whiff of grapeshot is probably one we all got in the first day of doing the multiplayer marathon ..the rest are all achievable with unranked hosted matches which you can assign AI.

Oh and the one that requires you to be a douchebag...back stab 5 allies I won't like playing that campaign A lot of pissed off people...

PS : I already got all the multiplayer battle achievements ....except the Marshall's Baton(achieve 50 multiplayer victories)

Ah crap...i never get Drumbeat to Victory also...never used quick match...such an easy achievement...

This post has been edited by frags: May 9 2009, 01:14 AM

LOL...I very less Achievements only...kekeke...Frags so many achievements already...very pro already.....

i still noobie

This post has been edited by RegentCid: May 9 2009, 01:31 AM

One precision also that I noticed about the "kill X people" achievement, it does not count if you auto-resolve the battles during the campain, you have to really fight the battles to have the counter goes up. Well, in a way it's logical for it to work this way but for someone like me who do end up auto-resolving quite often during campain, it's going to be tough

I personally managed to get the "American Hero" one which is actually "bugged" (or at least was when I did it) and you need to do some stupid steps to unlock it. I got the steps from the twcenter forum and do not remember them right now. You won't get it by doing the RTI in a normal way.

You noobie eh? You already got the Bloody Madmen Achievement I haven't got that yet...

Yeah haven't got American Hero...I thought have to finish A United States Campaign..

BTW I already got the Only Obeying Orders achievement...What you need to do is restart a new RTI campaign from Episode 1...After the scripted battle(fighting the natives), you are given a mission to build peasant farm..Just save the game there...do all the first few missions from there...reload...redo...reload...LOL

Yesterday Wesak celebration on Seremban...i go join the parade so mis the yesterday Empire maraton.....haiz

I want to get ''Command of Ocean'' LOL

I so good in naval also cannot get it....haiz....Fraps u already got it

Found back how to get the American Hero:

1. Play through the Road To Independence campaign until you have all eight required regions and in total one less region than you need to win.
2. Do not take the last region or the campaign will end!
3. Maintain this number of regions until the Winter of the final year of the campaign.
4. Take the final region and watch the victory video.
5. Click 'Continue' and end the turn one more time.
6. Congratulations, you are an American Hero!


Steam forum

Pain in the butt but it works, I got that achievement this way

Any idea on how my friend get this ??

I think its a graphical issue.

Tip of The Week 4 - Grenadiers

Grenadiers were often looked upon as an inspiration during the Napoleanic period. The British even has a famous march music for the Grenadiers called "The British Grenadiers".



This tune is played to this day by the British Royal Guards(I don't know what you call them).

Grenadiers are basically men that carry muskets and grenades. They throw thing which go kaboom and tear the enemy in pieces. Grenades are very powerful and can route an enemy unit pretty fast with about 2 lobs of grenades.


Grenadiers are pretty good shots and are pretty accurate. They however cannot withstand a volley head on and are quite fragile.



Their throw grenade range is pretty short distance so you don't want to go head on to an enemy. A head on volley at that range will decimate them.



Grenadiers are used just like support troops and should never be placed in the front lines. You should never do this UNLESS you time it perfectly right and rush out to throw your grenade when your enemy have fired all their volley's and are reloading. While you maximise the damage your grenade does when you throw them head on as most of them will drop in front of all the enemy unit, it is pretty risky especially if the enemy has one rank reloaded and fires at that distance.


This is the preferable position for grenadiers. After throwing their grenades, they can give supporting fire from the flanks. They are very accurate and use platoon firing.


Grenades are risky stuff. Some of the clumsy grenadiers can drop their grenades and take down your own guys. Just normal work hazard!

Additional NOTES: It takes grenadiers roughly 6 seconds for them to throw their grenades and for them to explode. This would mean you have 6 seconds for you to get the hell away if you are defending against them. Grenadiers are useless against charging units since they the charging units will run past the grenades. Use your grenades on line infantry that are standing their ground and move from the flank to avoid their field of fire.

In multiplayer it is to your advantage to use the busy battlefield to mask your grenade throws because an enemy that is aware of them will probably re position their troops quickly. Use diversions with cavalry to mask your grenadiers move elsewhere.

This post has been edited by frags: May 20 2009, 09:11 PM

The best genadiers country is not france....is Ottoman country that hand carry small small cannon ball.....the effect same as genediers

Yeah you are right...it is one of the janissary unit that holds something that looks like a grenade launcher.





BTW new goodies...




New free units!