Yah, cannons reallt stink. I tried them out in the custom mode, amassing my own grande batterie a la Napoleon, and they couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn, or a bunch of tightly packed cavalry. They’re ok for bombarding stationary, packed formations of troops though at long range.

What’s really effective are the naptha throwers- their ancient grenades can really deal a wallop to any attacking close packed infantry formations. They take out probably 50-60 men in one throw. Can cause any formation, no matter how elite, to rout usually in one or two throws.

Managing everything can be a real pain in MTW, especially when your empire gets very large, but nothing can beat MTW in terms of RTS and real-time battles. I think they address that problem in rome:total war.

The historical battles are fantastic. Playing the Battle of Stirling Bridge was awesome, just trying to hold off the English on the bridge. Bannockburn, don’t know how the English managed to lose there with the vastly superior forces.

As a General in the Koaladian Army I must disagree with you, we are koala warriors. The only urine sniffing that is going to happen are when we pee on the faces of the Australian aggressors! VIVA KOALALANDIA!!!!! 🙂

Yes, but these are the 20,000 sickly koalas that are too skinny to make good warriors. Why not sell them to the Americans, and use the generated cash to finance the Royal Koalandian Army?

I am sitting here wondering what he has been sniffing…

Flood.

who, clifford?

No these topics are in general good humoured and help to while away the time.

Every threads doesn’t have to be serious or factual, and as has been said before if you doen’t like the subject don’t read it, it’s as simple as that.

Hey hey, no need to get all defensive and huffy. You can see that my original post was not intended to be taken seriously anyhow. :rolleyes: