Spectacles on sea
During sea battles it's necessary to out-manoeuvre the enemy fleet, your ships are faster downwind. Then you try to land as many hits with your canons as possible, preferably to the damageable stern. You may trigger broadsides manually or let your ships fire automatically.
In addition to normal cannon balls for hull damage, there are chain shots for sail damage and lead shots to decimate the crew. Damaged ships can be boarded and included into your fleet after the battle. In terms of staging, the sea battles don't rank behind the battles on land, quite the contrary: realistic waves hit hulls, planks shatter when hit by broadsides, sailors climb masts, reload cannons or board the enemy ships, pull sabre in hand. The ships themselves are moving quite slowly, but time acceleration can be used to help.
The balance between the sea units is not perfect either. Swift sloops may out-manoeuvre sluggish huge ships, but due to their low firepower they don't really matter much. Path-finding has its problems here, too, sometimes ships are wedged into each other and can only be separated after much fiddling around. To avoid this, you should make sure your ships always keep some distance. AI opponents will act smart and pass your fleet in a line formation, firing one broadside after the other.
» Video: Sea battles in Empire
Again and again
Land and sea battles can be fought over the internet or over a local network. As always, the battles are tactically challenging, but take a long time to finish - something for fans. Creative Assembly wants to add a multiplayer mode for the turn based campaign later, for free.
At the moment, the strong point of Empire is the magnificent single player campaign, which has huge replay value due to its variety, teething problems or not. To lead all nations to victory will take months. And then? Creative Assembly is already planning an add-on, which will probably involve Napoleon. The small Corsican may still get his big entrance.
Nur angemeldete Benutzer können kommentieren und bewerten.
Dein Kommentar wurde nicht gespeichert. Dies kann folgende Ursachen haben:
1. Der Kommentar ist länger als 4000 Zeichen.
2. Du hast versucht, einen Kommentar innerhalb der 10-Sekunden-Schreibsperre zu senden.
3. Dein Kommentar wurde als Spam identifiziert. Bitte beachte unsere Richtlinien zum Erstellen von Kommentaren.
4. Du verfügst nicht über die nötigen Schreibrechte bzw. wurdest gebannt.
Bei Fragen oder Problemen nutze bitte das Kontakt-Formular.
Nur angemeldete Benutzer können kommentieren und bewerten.
Nur angemeldete Plus-Mitglieder können Plus-Inhalte kommentieren und bewerten.