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Robbie.Price
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Reply #26 September 13, 2009 11:52:41 AM
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Goodmoring all

Most of the reports from Frogboy and company have suggested a 'real time' battle scape with a pause and direct funciton, all units have orders they all act at the same time. But at any time you can stop all the action and give whole new sets of orders to all your troops.

In multplayer this may become that the game auto stopps every 7 seconds, and both(all, battle of 5 armies anybody) players can give new orders. or something like that.


Take care all

Robbie

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Kefka 101
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Reply #27 September 14, 2009 8:46:44 PM
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Just a note, people talk about how easy the Total War games are in battle and how it's possible to take on much larger armies with minimal casualties.

However, the AI is actually a lot smarter than most games with turn based battles. The easiness of the game is largely due to the morale system. If units fought to the death, then Total War would be a much, much more difficult game.

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Reply #28 September 15, 2009 1:53:57 AM
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Translation, the AI would murder us all in our sleep because it cheats like a bitch and produces more troops than reasonable.

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lwarmonger
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Reply #29 September 16, 2009 11:24:08 AM
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Personally, in terms of how mechanics play out for execution, I think something like a controllable dominions meets total war style would be awsome (obviously it would have to look closer to total war).  Removing the morale and fatigue (especially the morale) mechanics are NOT, I say again, NOT the answer.

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Reply #30 September 20, 2009 4:27:56 PM
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A big part of WoM will (I hope) be insanely powerful heros who can zap a enemy unit with a single thunderbolt. So even if they tried to make battles like in Total War, it wouldn't play out that way. I agree with what pigeon said about the emotional involvement we might feel in TW-like combat with any enemy dragon bearing down on us. But I really, really agree with what others said about TW battles taking too long and getting boring. And I agree with Demiansky that MOM battles are still fun after all these years. Maybe if they make autoresolve NOT be "auto-lose", and made the AI less stupid, battles might be more fun and more possible to avoid, so they could do anything they want with the details of the battle system without ruining the game. Meanwhile, the dev journal said back in July that battles would be "continuous turns", not RTW. I *guess* that would fit better into some sort of grid.
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