the demo is hot! go grab it at Steam!

Wow! this game is fantastic! it totally didnt fall short of my expectation! The battle is huge, the animation is very lifelike, great graphics AND performance. Grasses, trees, soldiers' uniforms, the sea and most importantly the ships are so incredibly detailed. Its so cool watching ship cannons fire different kind of projectiles and ripping enemy ships apart.

I mean this is RTS at its finest. Except the loading time.

Anyway i have a question: Is there any friendly fire in the game? will i accidentally killed my soldiers when i order my rifleman firing into a group of meleeing mess?

+RM30 for an insanely long campaigns (conquer the world as realistic as possible) and singleplayer replayability is quite worth it imo. The multiplayer part too is huge like the singleplayer mode.

But two of em are difficult to compare. One is superfast action and one is slow marching.

And i heard from gamefaq's forum that the load time in the demo is sooo long because everytime you play the game it need to unzip all the data to load. So in retail the load time should be much faster. Wonder if it is true or not?

tell your dad you are buying a interactive history media lol. I learn more about the 18th century in this game than my history text books.

ahahaha thanks for the tip im downloading from shanghai apparently.

hmm...wont friendly fire kill your men as well?

hai guise i have some noobie questions about Empire:

1. I saw my horsemen trampled over some of my line infantry when i ask them to charge a group of enemies in front of them. but most of the time i am certain my horsemen just ghost pass my infantry line when they gallope...so is it horsemen only run down friendlys when they charge?

2. Is it safe to fire to a group of infantry in a melee fight? will i shoot my own men?

3. Is the infantry getting any bonus for using bayonet against cavalry?

4. How do i recruit those cool mounted native Americans who can fire their musket on horsebacks.

5. How do i capture an enemy ship? win the battle while it's fleeing?

that's all in the mean time

There's something im not sure, can you unplug the plug bayonet after you put them on? After i click plug bayonet on my line infantry they are stuck using melee for the rest of the battle, which is not cool. I havent research the ring bayonet technology yet, obviously.

how do i make my country spawn more building grounds so i can build schools?

more questions

Facing bayonet infantry, does that mean a direct cavalry charge into a line of infantry(with infantry facing the cavalry) will not be good for the cavalry? Or line infantry can only brace for impact in the box formation?

I also find difficult for my cavalry to enter prolonged fight with bayonet infantry. If they dont rout after my initial charge, they will slowly witter down my cavalry. Then i have no choice but pull out my cavalry and charge again. Then this bring to my first question again :/

What will happen if i let enemy nation's gentlemen stay in my school? will they steal my technology or something?

I am thinking of burning my schools and universities as i cannot keep my people happy even i dont collect tax from them. Garrisoning more soldiers is breaking my budget =.=

Revolution? so far i only got armed rebellion on isolated city. I blast them away with my 4 inch mortars then everything settles. Also after i upgraded some farms my ppl now hate me less. I guess i can still hold on to my absolute power. I also notice some of my advisers are contributing to the reformation. Its time to fire them.

Im not sure how the carcass shot works? it says that it burns stuff but i dont see it?

And what's the outcome if i finish a short/long/prestige/world domination campaign?

hey since this thread been bumped to first page i wanna know where can i get some more senarios for the "play battle" section. I browsed total war center but all are those grand campaign projects but all i want is some historic battle senarios.

After all these years? Insanity!