I have been a loyal fan of Total War series for years since the release of Total War Medieval in year 2002. I was hooked with the game once i started play it and it was also the first Ori. game that i bought. I used to play alot of their online battle and participate in many of the tourneys with my clan mates but i have stopped that for almost a year now. Why? becoz the game is still buggy (you will know it if you are a serious Total War's fan) i.e unit imbalance, louzy Ai, laggy online play etc, and all these didnt give you a great playing experience. And i can tell u, they (CA/Sega) dont really offer good after sales service to their fan and always not interact enough with the community to find out issues/bugs that arises along the way.

But Yes, I must admit that there are no other games could offer you such an epic large battle scene that you could ever imagine but however what i'm dissapointing are almost every of their release is bound to have lots of ingame bugs and product always get released before those problems are fixed. And CA/Sega will normally release a few major patches to rectfiy the game only few months after the game being released...you have to endure and compromise your self to those bugs for at least 3 months.

I really hope that this round they can really get their act right, i dont mind to wait but please only release when you feel that it is good enought to do so, dont launch it when the product isnt complete yet.

I Believe they purposely nerd the Cannon, which i feel it is for the better of the game. In reality, ofcoz Cannon is way powerful and probably will kill 20+ people in one volley if it is a direct hit at an infantry. But, in this game, u can only bring 1000-1500 men to war... and if ur enemy has 4-5 units of cannon, i guess before your unit even march near enemies for gun fight, ur armies will probably be reduced to half, which will reap away the real fun. In the previous TW series, many are banning Cannon/Artilery unit to be brought to battlefield during M/P games coz its too powerful.

This post has been edited by akin: Mar 23 2009, 05:25 PM

I am very sure its becoz of some sound coding issue... after the latest patch 100% crash after mannual Naval Battle. I disable the sound (master) in option just after the naval battle ended and it runs smoothly. Havent try any land battle yet.. but i believe doing this to certain extend will prevent CTD.