Imbalances

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Imbalances

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This is kind of a development of a discussion in another thread, but which is more valuable...historical accuracy or empires being equal from the player's perspective?

Judging from the Demo, we can already see that the British Troops were much better than the Austro-Hungarian, and will this be the case in the final game?

Sadly, I have seen a tendency on the part of RTW developers to unwittingly or wittingly make one faction superior e.g English and TUrks in MTW, Romans/Egyptians in RTW.

As I've said before, I think there's going to be a clear Anglo-French biased to this game. As well as this I don't think there's a wide enough variety of troops and they really really need a stand ground/skirmish setting
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I like accurately, but I want an equality too, ie the Austrian troops shouldn't die like flies against the Brits, but they shouldn't be able to go toe-to-toe with them either. But I dont want a game like Sudden Strike II, where the Werhmacht was the worst army out of Russia, US, Britain, and Japan......that was sad.....I want historical accuracy, not the same unit in each army with the EXACT same stats.....
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It wasn't even realistic though! Austrian Cavalry was historically superior to British and the british cavalry won the battles. i agree, i think the game needs more balance from what I've seen- Britain had pretty crap cavalry at the time, and austria didn't have outstanding military...how cdan the game seriously hope to maintain realism with british armies as large as their continental counterparts for example? Why aren't russian and austrian units larger etc?
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True, Britain had a much smaller population, so France, and Russia at least, should have units with 80 guys, or something like that. And it seems like England will dominate Seas and be second on land only to France probably, and France will be 1st onland and second on seas to Britain, and they will both be far better than any of the others, and that's a true shame.
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Post by Hurricane »

It is just a game an d game needs to well balnced, then you cant get that much historical accuratly. That you are talking about!
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You seem to forget that the English infantary were the best on land. But the ammount of troops by giving other countries more troops. But I think the British infantary can never be balenced properly , if your to be historically accurate. You have to chose playablility or historical accuracy.
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Wow, wow, settle down about this Austria sucking business. It was a demo and it was a fixed game where Austria was meant to suck for the demo.

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No the troops Austria got were their best.
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You don't know that. And most were not. They had one group that was good, the other groups were the worst of the worst for Austria.
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No they had some of the best , not their worst.They had their best light inf best foot soldiers medium foot and rubbish foot. And prussia got identical units.
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They do not have identical troops. The only thing we have seen is what they look like and their names; we don't know the states. You don't know that those were their worst troops.
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You do. It says on the imperial glory the units. And says the royal guard the best you can get, yet they suck. Point proven.
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What site says that? When I see it I'll believe it. But even if somewhere it says they are the best units that doesn't mean that they won't be stronger in the game. I believe you can buy or advance to get better equipment and what not.
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God is not on the side of the big battalions but of the best shots.
A hero is a man that is afraid to run away.

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Lol, that's what I thought you would tell me! Just so you know you can't even choose to look at Austria yet. That site has not been updated in a long time. Lol!
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Lol look at Prussia. Identical to troops u get in demo.Case closed.
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Yeah but I agree with Jrdrums that we know now how the best austrian units look like but their stats could change in few seconds before release and I dont think they would be so easy to beat by English of French.
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I believe all of the countries have the normal troops; Line infantry, Grenadiers, and Musketeers. Most, if not all of the countries, had those same troops, perhpas with a differnt name. But we don't know their states. They may be very different. We don't know how much they will cost for each country. It may be different depending on what type of economy a country has. We just don't know!
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I have heard that the reason the Austria profile on the IG website is so faded is that the IG developers have already received complaints that the Prussian/A-H factions were too similar and were looking at an overhaul, word is that it might not even end up being playable.

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It was never up so how could we know if they are too similar. A-H has never been up at that site! And you are the very first one to complain about this, and I have heard a lot of complaining from people who seemed to expect too much. there are a few things that need to be changed but overall it is great!
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Post by ToXiC_WoLf »

Ima go out on a limb 'ere and say that may be why the game was delayed, so Pyro could give Prussia and A-H different units.
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Yes I hope so. How long does this game go on for. Will the weapons change to rifles and 6 shooters.Or will it end just before.
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