Empire: Total War Screenshot Thread

[Havok]

Those of you who play, post screenshots to show off.

I'll start taking decent ones now - I've only really bothered saving the replays of battles.

Anyway, this is after an insanely difficult battle against the Dutch. It was to defend Cologne which I'd taken a turn earlier (and I wasn't able to have replenished the forces).



Will take some of the campaign to post later on.

[Havok]

Ran a mop-up battle on very high graphics settings.

[Jaffa]

Nice capture on last shot! cannon ball is right in the camera

is there an inbuilt screenshot function on empire (like in cs:s)?

[Havok]

is there an inbuilt screenshot function on empire (like in cs:s)?

A whatnow?

I had to put it in slow speed and print screen them, them minimize and open in GIMP.

I wish they'd save them to a folder or something like s.t.a.l.k.e.r.

[Jaffa]

These were taken during a battle i fought in my Spain campaign against the Morccan faction (campaign on very hard, battles on hard). i also use this (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1138) mod to increase AI intelligence and balance the game a bit.

A quick view of both armies lining up. Notice on the radar how massivly they outnumber me, although my units are better luckily.



FUCK YEAH





My horse got a lot of kills as they ran down the fleeing enemy, but my Irish brigade was the key unit of my battle, holding my position of honour on the right and holding off abou 5 enemy units





Its been a fun campaign so far as Spain. I have it set so there are no protectorates (part of the mod), which means Spain starts out even more spread out. Having the Spainish Americas actually makes it harder, as the provinces have no improvements, armies or navies. I ended up doing a lot of first turn province trading. I gave Flanders to the dutch in exchange for Sri Lanka, Florida to the Brits in exchange for Jamaica, and Lombardy to France for a tech (the one which lets you improve plantations). Its important to do this as Spain on v.hard campaign, as otherwise you end up at war with a LOT of nations (and you can't defend the isolated provinces at all).

[Havok]

I just had a successful revolution, so Prussia is a republic now - the empire was too big to stay an absolute monarchy and what with my Napoleon Campaign into Russia I couldn't keep the plebs happy.

I'll post some pictures of the empire tomorrow.

[Jaffa]

Is there much difference between the two governments?

[Havok]

Is there much difference between the two governments?

Plebs are happy with a republic (so you can tax them more) and aristocracy are happy with absolute monarchy (so you can tax them more).

And obviously the other class dislikes the government.

But with a Republic you can only get rid of 1 minister per turn, whereas with an absolute monarchy you can get rid of as many as needed.

Constitutional monarchy is a sort of middle ground.

[Jaffa]

I do enjoy continually sacking ministers till i get good ones spawning

I know with some governments you actually have elections, which is quite cool

[Dracula]

This game loves to randomly crash for me =/