Total War on the Apple Ipad

Has anyone played any of the Total War games on the Apple Ipad? How was it? I’m thinking of buying a copy on Apple Store.

Empire Total War - 2017-03-26

I am at the point of conquering all of the Indian subcontinent but in Europe Hungary has declared war on me.  So I have to divert troops to deal with them from my war with Poland/Lithuania and Russia.

Empire Total War 2017-03-11

Tonight I have achieved a significant milestone on my campaign as I have just captured Warsaw.  My next target is Moscow therefore going one better than Napoleon and Hitler.

Empire Total War - 2017-02-12

I've have been rather quiet on the ETW over the past weeks due to the Chinese New Year and various other family commitments.  I have moved on to 1824 on my game calendar and the conquest of Poland-Lithuania and the Maratha Confederacy is in full steam.  The Marathas should capitulate in a few more turns and one of its regions(Punjab) has already rebelled against its rule.  However I have lost a region, Wurtenburg, to a rebellion but I shall get that back in due course.  Once Poland-Lithuania has fallen I am considering a campaign against Russia.

Empire Total War 2017-01-08

I've had enough of the Maratha confederacy and I started my invasion of India yesterday. This region will be the hardest to conquer.

Empire Total War 2017-01-07 possible glitch

One of my favourite artillery weapons is the howitzer.  Unlike a cannon it fires a projectile up into the air which then falls down on the enemy, particularly useful is the carcass shot option where the projectile explodes over the enemy and rains burning shrapnel and quicklime over them.  This is particularly useful when besieging fortifications, where it is possible to kill the defenders of the walls without destroy the walls.  However therein lies the problem, if it was me defending I would move my troops off the walls to a position out of range of the howitzer.  However when the computer unit is defending it refuses to move its troops off the walls and if an unit is destroyed it moves another one in to replace it.  So after I have destroyed enough defending units I will move my infantry to scale the walls and take the citadel with minimal loss of life.  I wonder if other players have come across this.

Empire Total War 2016-12-30

The Maratha Confederacy unit has this annoying habit of appearing from nowhere to invade your regions, and this happened again when it decided to attack my Spanish region.  Luckily I had my army stationed in the fortress in Madrid.  After losing my first siege battle to them, I reloaded the save file and took them on again but this time using different tactics.  My failed tactic involved placing my troops on the walls which does not work well when the enemy has artillery of any sort even light cannons.  The destruction of the walls led to the destruction of army units and once the artillery was done the Indian infantry moved in to destroy my remaining troops.

On my second attempt, I placed my army on the ground inside the walls and placed my cannons at the points where the cannons were likely to breach the walls.  My infantry would be placed behind my cannons.  Sure enough the Indian artillery created breaches but failed to kill any of my soldiers.  However, when the Maratha infantry attacked the fortifications they were mown down by cannon and gunfire. Although I won, my army still suffered a 35% casualty rate, this was victory Stalingrad style.

Empire Total War 2016-12-14

My Grand Campaign has now reached year 1782, it is still a challenge and I still enjoy the game despite work and home priorities have often kept me away from playing it.  Conquering more regions does not translate into greater tax revenue.  In fact it brings in more costs such as construction projects, replenishment of armies, and also the cost of putting done rebellions that always occur early on.  The trick is find the right balance without over-stretching resources, on that note the Total War franchise has mapped historical realities very well.  The only immediate gain from capturing regions is that you can have a quick technological advance by capturing universities.

Empire Total War 2016-11-17

Since the French faction has delcared war on me I have repaid the favour by besieging Paris.  In order to prevent the Maratha Confederacy from invading my Portugal region I sold it to the Huron-Wyandot native American faction. This means that Portugal is now occupied by native Americans whilst Spain is occupied by the Maratha Confederacy who successfully took it from me over the weekend.  ETW does come up with some strange scenarios.

Empire total war 2016-11-11

I have been playing ETW now since July 2016 and I am still on my grand campaign as the British.  It is still a very addictive game, to an event that I have been neglecting my Sony PSP.  My British empire as it currently stands consists of :-

Europe

• Great Britain and Ireland
• Spain
• Portugal
• Alsace-Lorraine
• Bavaria
• Wurtemburg
• Norway

the Americas 

• New York
• New France(Quebec)
• Maine
• Virginia
• Carolina
• Florida
• Louisana

I did have Flanders(Belgium) but somehow the Maratha Confederacy(India) managed to take it off me by sailing all the way from India.  The Maratha also took Jamaica and Bahamas off me as well. I don't recall learning that from history but it makes things more challenging.

My favourite weapon is the carcass shot mortar, it is a shell that bursts mid air and spreads lime or other burning substances over the enemy, as demonstrated below.  

Empire Total War - 2016-09-19 - Grand Campaign

After winning the American revolutionary, I started the Grand Campaign on Empire Total War this weekend.  I selected the British as my faction and it gives me a series of missions to complete within a set date(or number of turns).  This campaign takes place over Europe, the Americas and India so basically it spans the European age of colonization.  So far I have conquered France and what is now Belgium.  In the Americas I took Hispaniola(modern day Cuba and Dominica) off the Spanish. Whilst it's very challenging the annoying thing is that countries or quasi-nation states declare war on you at a will. Also regardless how well you treat the population, it will always rebel against you.  Meaning that resources need to be spent putting down these rebellions rather than conquering your enemies.

Empire total war 2016-09-15

Last night I finally won the American revolutionary war and managed to repeat history.  It was a surprise how it happened because I had to put down a local rebellion in Maine and then both the Spanish and French decided to declare war on me.  So it would have been me against an allied coalition of Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and France.  The later three had powerful navies to deal with.  But before I had a chance to tackle the challenge the game announced that I had achieved my objectives and the USA was born.  Very strange ending.

Empire Total War - update 2016-09-12

After the my debacle last week and the fact that I failed to save the game on a regular basis, I went back to American revolutionary war campaign after having to defeat the French in the seven years war again.  This time, the Spanish did not declare war on me and in fact they offered me a military alliance which was accepted.  It was the Dutch (then called the United Provinces) that declared war on my and after dealing with their raids, I got my revenge by successfully invading their colony on Curacao.

I've managed to all but defeat the British forces on the American mainland but I am leaving their last region, Quebec to remain British for now because I want to see if I can take Jamaica off the British and Suriname off the Dutch.  Well I do have a powerful navy after all.   One thing I noticed about the AI on the realtime battles is that the CPU's forces do not co-ordinate well with each other especially when it is on the attack.

Empire Total War - defeat

After a month on the campaign, my US colonials faction was beaten by the British last night.  So therefore American independence and the real historical timeline have to wait.  Unfortunately since I did not make any recent implicit game saves, I have to go all the way back to my last save which was during the Anglo-French wars in America (which was the setting of the book/film 'Last of the mohicans'). I have to say that the British army definitely fight better than the French.

Empire Total War

In the past few weeks I have been playing the Empire Total War strategy game on my PC.  It is not the latest output on the franchise but it is definitely a step up from Rome Total War 2 and Medieval Total War 2.  There are now advanced real time naval battles that uses the available naval warfare techniques at the time and when you play in campaign mode, there is more than the upkeep of your armed forces to monitor.  I am playing the "Road to Independence" campaign which is about the creation of the USA from being a small group of settlers fighting and trading with the native Americans. Then it moves to the Anglo-French American war and then onto the American War of independence which is the stage I am at right now.  Basically you are trying to emulate George Washington.  My only complaint is the quality of the enemy forces during the real time battles, they seem to lack co-ordination or co-operation, meaning that the battles I have fought so far have been easily won unless I am vastly outnumbered.