

No politics allowedĭon't derail threads with off-topic memes or controversy.

Hell, even if you play the same one, you could follow completely different tactical routes.

On your first time through it you're going to have significantly different experiences from your friends, assuming you play different countries. So when I said that I didn't even touch India, I mean that I didn't even send troops to a third of the map. In practice, when you start to play, you don't worry about the world stage. While the number of actual territories are reduced from the number that would be crammed into the same geographical area in another Total War game, that's a dizzying amount of space to consider. Rather than a single world map, the game is divided into three military theatres: Europe, North and Central America, and the Indian Subcontinent. Empire's Grand Campaign is the grandest of all the Total Wars'. And in both campaigns, I didn't even get within sniffing distance of India. They were experiences so divorced from one another they may as well have been different games - different games that would take tens of hours each to complete. The vast majority of my land battles for the first 25 years or so were against the Native Americans, which turned increasingly bloody when they got their hands on gunpowder.Ĭonversely, playing as the Prussians, with a scant two areas of control separated from each other in central Europe, led immediately to a classical European battle of muskets and battle-lines, and a rapid pursuit of ever-more-punishing gunfire drills.
#Empire total war map of india free#
When I played as the British (as well as whistling a lot of patriotic jingles in seeming sincerity - I totally went native) my game centred on the sea-lanes, trying to maximise the amount of trade and keep them free of pirates, while alternating between industrialisation, dabbling in proto-Republicanist philosophy, and stomping around fighting the Cherokee in North America. Well, that's one option - more likely you'll choose a short 50-year game to begin, with some more achievable goals which vary from nation to nation. Playing as any of the major nations, you set off to conquer the world.

The Grand Campaign is the centrepiece of Empire - when people say Total War, this is what they mean.
