Civilian Target

Was trying out the demo of this last night, on the back of some good
recommendations. It's kinda like Civ, but with less economic
micro-management and more bashing stuff. It's pretty impressive that you
can go from a whole empire view right the way down to the individual
soldiers in battle.

Computer kicked my ass of course, but I'm still tempted to buy it. Are
there any experienced players with opinions here?

Civilian_Target

Phat_Jethro

On 4/5/2011 3:32 PM, Civilian Target wrote:
> Was trying out the demo of this last night, on the back of some good
> recommendations. It's kinda like Civ, but with less economic
> micro-management and more bashing stuff. It's pretty impressive that you
> can go from a whole empire view right the way down to the individual
> soldiers in battle.
>
> Computer kicked my ass of course, but I'm still tempted to buy it. Are
> there any experienced players with opinions here?
>
> Civilian_Target

All I can say is that my 16 year old who really loved the Rome Total War
series also really likes the Shogun 2 game now as well.
As you said the zoom right down to the individual soldiers and
one-on-one fights was a large draw.
Game play wise I haven't heard any complaints recommendations. I can ask
further.

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> On 4/5/2011 3:32 PM, Civilian Target wrote:
>> Was trying out the demo of this last night, on the back of some good
>> recommendations. It's kinda like Civ, but with less economic
>> micro-management and more bashing stuff. It's pretty impressive that you
>> can go from a whole empire view right the way down to the individual
>> soldiers in battle.
>>
>> Computer kicked my ass of course, but I'm still tempted to buy it. Are
>> there any experienced players with opinions here?
>>
>> Civilian_Target
>
> All I can say is that my 16 year old who really loved the Rome Total War
> series also really likes the Shogun 2 game now as well.
> As you said the zoom right down to the individual soldiers and one-on-one
> fights was a large draw.
> Game play wise I haven't heard any complaints recommendations. I can ask
> further.
>
> --
> Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro
> Reply Email: jethro86 (at) gmail (dot) com

Played the demo part way through (will complete it when I get the time), and
liked it.

Good series since the start (Shogun 1 iirc about 10 years ago now) but they
are a massive time sink, even more than civ, as for any major/key battles
you have to fight them yourself.

You can (or used to!) be able to let the computer resolve the battle for
you, which it did quite well. The problem was you would win with numbers,
but the casualties were bad if you let the computer do the fighting (you
could lose a lot of prime troops).

I found if I played the battle out myself you could swamp the AI with waves
of cheap troops, waste all their arrows then mop up.