Napoleon is, to me, an expansion of Empire, with a much more humble campaign but polish that shows something was learned from a prior campaign. What it lacks can (and, I believe, should) be compensated with mods.
If you enjoy wide scopes and sweeping games, Empire is your take.
Napoleon is better polished, smaller scope, shogun level diversity, slightly more competent AI, and a more narrative, local scope.īattles are comparable, with Napoleon taking the edge in polish and Empire for more things to see and thus less redundant warfare. Empire have some bugs and Napoleon is quite good still the campaign map is probably the biggest pro for me.ĮDIT: and yeah for example Empire´s siege bug/slowdown is quite horendous con.Įmpire offers wider scope, more diversity in content, less competent AI (if total war is a game of beating up a toddler's worth of intelligence in its better entries, this game is like beating up a newborn), and a more sandboxy scope. Or different combination,variation with different focus on land/naval action.ĭon´t get me wrong. You can start game by focusing on Naval power/trade or send expedition into India, or capture Gibraltar and fight Spain oooor you can expand North America colonies vs Indian oooooooor fight pirates in Carribean. Major advantage is the much bigger campaign map. There is no sense of new technologies, in Empire I feel it.new formations, new infantry tech especially.Įmpire. Once in time once model/sub unit gets destroyed. You cannot as well use terrain for multiple bounces and artillery pieces are not being destroyed by parts. Land battle maps have very very often some middle map hill that´s is very very often limiting proper artillery usage
All waters feells just like coastal/shallow waters, there is no feel of high sea action like in Empire when your fleets are half world away especially in trading theatres.
Naval while superior is simple not there. AI is not building forts so I cannot enjoy proper sieges And Ottomans are simply sick man of Europe -) Always. You can just there is no holy grail there. England is always this island nation sending invasion after invasion, Russia is always the map border faction and there is usually no good reason to expand to Italy and Balkan. Doesn´t matter which side you pick you are pretty quickly ending in center of map somewhere between Fr-Austria. Napoleon brings improvement in many areas especially battles but there are a few major downsides for me.
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