Which is your favourite Total War game for naval battles?

[HistoryPlayer]

I have and played Empire, Napoleon, Shogun 2 + Fall of the Samurai, Rome 2 and Attila (this one can only play up to quality settings) and honestly, I feel I am a freak of naval battles, I have 3 books about naval battles of 17th century and 18th century and I just purchased a book that is like an introduction to naval warfare from Ancient era to naval modern warfare all in paperback and some of them downloaded from archive.org in pdf. For that reason I give a fair importance of naval battles in every Total War game.

In terms of only naval battles, which is your favourite Total War game?

[Lee Enfield]

Good question. I love my Napoleonic naval battles, the sight of those first rate sail ships certainly shivers my timbers. But in Total War games I think Shogun 2 is the one that really rocks my socks. The long range salvos with rifled cannon and the fun of launching torpedoes in the hope of a strike. Add to that the effect of damage and the violent explosions yep that does it for me, simple carnage

[Horcerer]

Gameplay wise, ETW is likely the best.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Overall ETW would be my choice as all the age of discovery and sail naval warfare is awsoeme (Plus nothing beats a couple galleons retking some 1st rates :D). NTW is also nice and fells faster,more fluid in a way and has some interesting features like repairing a ship etc.

Normal shogun 2 Naval sucks as 97% of the ships you will find are bunes with some cannon bunes etc,the exception being the Portuguese Caravels and Galleons.
Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai However as my friend Tasunke said has some amazing Naval combat with ironclads,frigates and torpedo boats.

[Lee Enfield]

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Overall ETW would be my choice as all the age of discovery and sail naval warfare is awsoeme (Plus nothing beats a couple galleons retking some 1st rates :D). NTW is also nice and fells faster,more fluid in a way and has some interesting features like repairing a ship etc.

Normal shogun 2 Naval sucks as 97% of the ships you will find are bunes with some cannon bunes etc,the exception being the Portuguese Caravels and Galleons.
Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai However as my friend Tasunke said has some amazing Naval combat with ironclads,frigates and torpedo boats.

Thanks mate, I didn't state I was talking about FOTS but you obviously new what I meant. From waht you said I'm glad I jumped straight on FOTS and not the base version

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Tasunke Witko:

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Overall ETW would be my choice as all the age of discovery and sail naval warfare is awsoeme (Plus nothing beats a couple galleons retking some 1st rates :D). NTW is also nice and fells faster,more fluid in a way and has some interesting features like repairing a ship etc.

Normal shogun 2 Naval sucks as 97% of the ships you will find are bunes with some cannon bunes etc,the exception being the Portuguese Caravels and Galleons.
Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai However as my friend Tasunke said has some amazing Naval combat with ironclads,frigates and torpedo boats.

Thanks mate, I didn't state I was talking about FOTS but you obviously new what I meant. From waht you said I'm glad I jumped straight on FOTS and not the base version

:D the base version is nice really nice but not for naval. In FOTS Navy plays a bigger role wich should be also present in empire and napoleon for example shore bombardements and coastal sieges etc.

[Lee Enfield]

Ah OK, maybe one day I'll give it a look also :) can't argue with your point about naval battles in Empire and Napoleon, that would be awesome Coastal defences attacked by land and sea would be oooh la la

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Tasunke Witko:

Ah OK, maybe one day I'll give it a look also :) can't argue with your point about naval battles in Empire and Napoleon, that would be awesome Coastal defences attacked by land and sea would be oooh la la

Yes a kinda rome 2 TW system but im guessing CA wont bother updating older games with stuff like that.

[Lee Enfield]

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Originally posted by Tasunke Witko:

Ah OK, maybe one day I'll give it a look also :) can't argue with your point about naval battles in Empire and Napoleon, that would be awesome Coastal defences attacked by land and sea would be oooh la la

Yes a kinda rome 2 TW system but im guessing CA wont bother updating older games with stuff like that.

Yeh and yeh, maybe in Napoleon 2 they have unveiled to be released in 2119 I doubt it's something modders could achieve either, shame

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Tasunke Witko:

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Yes a kinda rome 2 TW system but im guessing CA wont bother updating older games with stuff like that.

Yeh and yeh, maybe in Napoleon 2 they have unveiled to be released in 2119 I doubt it's something modders could achieve either, shame

Sadly. Honestly deep down i hope they someday make an Empire total war 2 with the entire globe and all factions but even if they do it (a miracle would be needed xD) we would have 5 nations and had to pay for the rest or rely on the moders (our saviors) to get a more complete game.

[Lee Enfield]

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Originally posted by Tasunke Witko:

Yeh and yeh, maybe in Napoleon 2 they have unveiled to be released in 2119 I doubt it's something modders could achieve either, shame

Sadly. Honestly deep down i hope they someday make an Empire total war 2 with the entire globe and all factions but even if they do it (a miracle would be needed xD) we would have 5 nations and had to pay for the rest or rely on the moders (our saviors) to get a more complete game.

Very very true, I think I'd wait for the modders version though, it's always more impressive I'm a bit pig sick of dlc, I've been waiting months for a games dlc to go on sale and still I wait, excruciatingly lol

[Lee Enfield]

I hope you don't mind us hijacking your discussion thread HistoryPlayer

[Cpt. Kid]

I still havent played enough of naval battles in NTW and when I do naval battles its usually late game when I have all the tech researched. For this era when gunpowder was around I like this style. I do naval battles too I just focus on land first before spending money on a giant fleet.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Cpt. Kid:

I still havent played enough of naval battles in NTW and when I do naval battles its usually late game when I have all the tech researched. For this era when gunpowder was around I like this style. I do naval battles too I just focus on land first before spending money on a giant fleet.

Yes off course not all nations are naval oriented and specially in Napoleon they are less useful than in empire,still for Portugal,Spain,UK and France they can be crucial in campaign.

[Cpt. Kid]

Originally posted by Levi o Lusitano|3FJR|:

Originally posted by Cpt. Kid:

I still havent played enough of naval battles in NTW and when I do naval battles its usually late game when I have all the tech researched. For this era when gunpowder was around I like this style. I do naval battles too I just focus on land first before spending money on a giant fleet.

Yes off course not all nations are naval oriented and specially in Napoleon they are less useful than in empire,still for Portugal,Spain,UK and France they can be crucial in campaign.

I mean like in Shogun 2 Total War or Rome 2 Total War.

Everyone likes using Ironclad shooting cannons instead of ramming with infantry and archers?

[Severus]

FOTS also have naval support for land battles if you had friendly ships close enough , something i dearly miss in Empire when fighting in the carribean and other coastal areas for that matter