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Ya, I haven't experienced any (noticable) bugs so far in my Russian campaign, currently about 50 turns in. Just avoid forts at all cost. The AI will make you want to murder it if you try to tell them to do things near forts walls. I think the biggest thing is finding the starting nation that works for you. I couldn't stand the British or French as well as certain aspects of the Marathas (slow fence crossing GRRRRR), but Russia really seems to be fun for me. I also have heard about random cras

Remember everyone, pirates are good for society as a whole. They counteract global warming for one.

I found the nation which works best for me! Russia! No annoying overseas colonies to deal with. Fast expansion is possible. And a large starting area (unlike the Marathas). And most importantly of all THEY DON'T USE CAMALS OR ELEPHANTS! Those thing just take way to long to cross fences... I also discovered the true usefulness of canister shot. I was in a town defending against enemies coming at me. 2 units of horsemen charged at me down an alley, so I flanked down

[quote who="Mythor" reply="4" id="2110605"]What was the engine for Empire: Total War made for, if not specifically for a strategy game? [/quote] It was made for a loading screen game! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote who="NelsMonsterX" reply="8" id="2109726"]I second the motion for a podcast or transcript! [/quote] Thirded. Is that even a word?

Well its a browser game... I can't imagine there being much to see.

[quote who="SlyDrivel" reply="3" id="2108842"] Ah, this is a good point. I should have refered to this. Scientists have been rapidly working around the necessity of using embyronic stem cells. I think some wicked smart Japanese scientist almost hit the nail on the head last time I checked, generations ahead of his time. But these methods are not as good, and even more recently, Obama signed a bill allowing the use of IVF embryonic stem cell lines for research. [/quote] first

[quote who="Excalpius" reply="11" id="2108449"]They just released 16 gb DDR3 Ram sticks, so in a 12 slot motherboard...192 gb of RAM. [/quote] 192 gb of RAM... all you need is... about 15,999,999,818 gb more RAM and you will be at the limit for what your Elemental 64 bit version can use!

[quote who="piderman" reply="3" id="2107855"]Or maybe... they mean Australian spring [/quote] *cry*

I like Chrome myself due to it not freezing if some part of the site fails to load correctly (as IE does at least twice a day). However, I usually use IE since all my frequented sites are currently handy in the pulldown URL [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Or at least... They want you to think it is spring. *goes off on long conspiracy theory ending with 'and that is the real reason why Roanoke was abandoned.'*

EA = zombie, your computer = brains. Once they get in there, your pretty much screwed.

Uh... tactical combat has been part of Elemental since production began (or at least since before it was announced).

Here is one from the comments section of this article talking about Discovery's bat stowaway: "It never bodes well when Systems Engineering and Integration performs a debris analysis on you..." That has got to be the funniest comment I have seen all week.

"1:In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2:And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3:And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5: And God called the light Day, and the darkess he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 6: And God said let there be a

I would personally like to be able to do this . (skip to around 1:40) Multimillion dollar computer graphics optional. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

*drool*

[quote who="b0rsuk" reply="8" id="2104526"] Contrary to popular belief, you can't out-ninja all arrows being shot at you. Even if you tried, it doesn't matter.[/quote] Just cut them out of the air with your katana! [e digicons]:grin:[/e] But yes, the HP system is getting a bit dated. However, it will be a little while still until is it possible to make an accurate simulation of how a soldier's bodily functions are affected by a sharp metal object entering. Until we

Paintball is fun... Just don't make the mistake of making one person on each team a 'medic,' in which they can get people in again who got shot. I got pinned in a small bunker with the medic, got shot at least 20 times before I just gave up. On another note, paintball is hard to play for those of us with glasses. The glasses will fog up almost immediately in the paint ball helmets and you won't be able to see anything. Oh, and remember to always wear a neck gaurd and a cup if your a g

[quote quoting="post"] There aren’t cities where you get to crank out armies of Unicorns and dragons or goblins. There are dragons and trolls and other such creatures in the game. But they are rare, special and have to be recruited. Your units start out as peasants. And you can train them (which gives them more HP) and you can arm them (which gives them more attack) and you can give them armor (which increase their defense). [/quote] Aw...

Nom nom nom nom nom! -Zombie, upon being introduced to a human

[quote who="Ryat" reply="12" id="2101590"] Science has proven that the water content in the atmosphere was much greater many years ago than today, especially when the earth was still in its formative years. He change the languages because they were voilating his command to spread out over the earth, not settle in one massed area. The building of towers was for their own glory as one united people. [/quote] I don't care how great the 'w

[quote who="Varsi1" reply="9" id="2101441"] the bible says that god is perfect, we are not. [/quote] It also says there is a big layer of water above the atmosphere. And that the reason we speak different langauges is because some people decided to build tall building. Tall meaning as tall as one can get with 'mud bricks,' since they will collapse under their own weight fairly quickly; a new york city skyscraper would be taller. Oops! I guess god failed on that

I don't think I will be playing much more ETW until they patch the AI on units. Tactical battles, especially seiges, are just silly. Any movement or attack order involving going anywhere near a wall, fence, or other building, especially when it involves moving over/through something makes the AI go nuts. For example, in one seige I was playing, I told my soldiers to attack enemies on the other side of a wall which had been breached. Rather than going through the breach and firing like I had e

The biggest problem I have encountered in ETW is the AI of soldiers in tactical battles. I had one battle where I marched my army into their blasted apart fort, expecting heavy resistance from the occupants (about 4 groups of units), only to find the enemy not fighting back. Not just not firing, but totally not acknowledging my troops presence. I marched my units within about 4 feet of theirs and they still just stood there. They even had their backs turned. It was more of a firing squad than