Histwar or NTW?

[Gunner24]

Well, NTW arrives and confirms what many thought - stunning to look at but totaly UNplayable in SP mode, and maybe MP as well untill the first mods arrive.......the buildings look great, the few maps included look good but are way to over complicated and the overall graphics brillent, but game play is at the normal TW million miles per hour all over in 15 minutes.

I don't have much interest in SP, but for those that do there is a very simple choice, LG is very playable in SP mode, compared to NTW not being....I installed it and had two quick SP games to check it out, they will be the first and last !. 

I will wait for mod that slows it down (one out already I believe) and makes MP games well worth while taking part in. 

For me it will now be :
LG for as many PBEM as I can fit in and "arranged" MP games - with those who have time for it.
NTW(mod) for MP most evenings, where a game can be found without advanced booking.

Only my humble opinion, many die hard TW fans might well think it's the best so far, and it could well be so.

[Lancier]

Both good games, enter our lives at the same time 
Histwar for pbem, NTW for MP clan games for me.

[parmenio]

In a moment of weakness it's turned out to be both.... 

...bought NTW today  at GameStation (had a £10 gift card to use).

Not yet installed so we will see.

If the game play's like Rome Total War (which I bought yesterday - Asda £6.99 IIRC) even with the RTR mod then it won't be a patch on HWLG but it will look very pretty (and I suspect that stakes are an as yet unexplored aspect of Napoleonic warfare we should all be aware of going forward)

I've had a bit of purchase fest in the last couple of days since I also bought TCM2 online.

[Cyrano]

NTW is better than empire...more stable, more focused, and (this is a bias) in my favorite period of warfare.

As history is is unfettered rubbish, especially on the battlefield.  That said, it's FUN unfettered rubbish.

As history, it is unworthy to unloose HWLG shoes.

If you can, by the both, they serve very different needs.

If I could only have one, of course, there would be NO decision:  HW!!

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

[parmenio]

but game play is at the normal TW million miles per hour all over in 15 minutes.

Yep. Only played a couple of SPs but definitely needs slowing down.

Anyway, patch is out as is a Marengo scenario (thanks EylauHurricane) so that's enough NTW for the moment.

[AJ]

Guys, read this thread for the latest "Official" bad revue of NTW

http://www.histwar.org/forum/index.php/topic,4449.0.html

[Montecuccoli]

Guys, read this thread for the latest "Official" bad revue of NTW

http://www.histwar.org/forum/index.php/topic,4449.0.html

Only Grenadiers will see that post  ... you can post the gameinformer link if you want 

[AJ]

Good point, I'll post it in "general discussions"  In all language zones

[AJ]

Sorry Monte, I put it in "Announcements"

[AnkLrd]

Yesterday i had my second 3v3 ntw battle. After the game (we won in 10 mins  ) i decided i am ready for the world mouse clicking championship. http://www.urban75.com/Mag/java7.html . I see CA improved etw too much, he must got beat up. 

[mhlarsen]

The Total War series is the Fast food of strategy games.

Nice look and taste, but always leaves you hungry for more substantial meals and makes you promise yourself never to eat junk again  

Michael

[crazy canuck]

Well I broke down and bought NTW

And I am not disappointed with my choice .

Will I ever buy HLG? Maybe . . . but not for a while.

[Jcedwerds]

I used to play MTW and RTW when I was a kid but now that I really started to read about all these battles I like to play real games about them. So I found Histwar and It's great. I like that you take your time like the real generals did. I can't play the NTW games anymore the servers are full of baby kids that argue all the time and don't know anything aboiut the wars.

And NTw is too much to pay for a game now that I will be finished with in a month. I will stick to games like Histwar that I can keep for a year before I'm done.

[AJ]

Well said that man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gunner24]

I will stick to games like Histwar that I can keep for a year before I'm done.

I'm sure it will last a lot longer than a year.

The only way I can see HWLG not being on our pc's for ever is if a major games company does a LG "copy" and I don't expect that will ever happen.