Empire Total War

[wickedtribe]

Actually it turns out that map issue is due to using a 1gb video card on a 32 bit os and this impacts your ram mapping and is actually a problem on your computers side that can be solved by using 64bit or reprograming your ram to allocate 2.5gb instead of just 2gb to non hardware data.

All the other crashes I had were the result of corrupt files and that was steams fault and fixed after verifying them.

I do not understand what you are saying about the buildings but will all the grafix settings maxed the game looks very good for me.

Currently I have started as england and taken France in the first 5 turns. It is now 1705 and I have 11+ territories 3 in america including Quebec that I just took (yea I still got the starting places), I also have taken the main pirate island this past turn.
Current battle fronts:
Caribbean - island hopping with a small ground army taking pirate bases and soon an old french territory that has gold and close access to Brazil currently all pirate ports are under my control. By Florida I am holding off fleets from Louisiana and plan to keep that front in a defensive position.
African - Naval force is a few turns away from removing pirates and setting up 4 trade ships
Europe - A missive military force is being built up in pairs for an attack on the heart of spain, while I am at war with them we have yet to have any conflicts. I hope to take Spain in 3-5 turns from the first move of my army thus crushing the Spanish empire. My agents are already in Spain killing gentlemen and causing economic damage to help set up the invasion.
America - An invasion force has taken all territories previously held by France except the one below Quebec. The last french based outpost will fall within 3 moves. From here the Inuit Indians and the united states will be invaded. Also the Indians are sending a small army to try to take my northern settlement in main. When they are crushed troops from that position will leave in time to meet up with forces attacking NY in 5 turns. Force will split into two divisions to take the rest of the indian and the northern territory of Louisiana within 15 turns.
Will be opening up to 5-6 fronts in the next 20 moves.

Dude why you going to invade america? if you take the cherokee territory and already have the french ones, as well as geogia... you are given the 13 colonies... as per the mission given at turn one... to check your missions select the prestige button and click the second tab... you can be saved alot of troops and wages but just taking out the cherokee.

[maynard]

where exactly do I find my boot.ini file. ive searched all over, and have show hidden files on... and I still can't find the damn thing.

[ZERO]

That is what I am going to do but I do not have any standing armies on the southern part and so I am working along the back and will take Georgia last. The real problem is there is no financial gain in taking Georgia first but only cost as the territory is a net loss. Instead I will be moving from most profitable to least profitable so that I can sustain my military and economic growth. There is no point in warring down my economy to fight a enemy early on that will not ever be of much threat. Instead it is more important for me to allocate resources toward areas that not only have higher financial gain but also pose bigger risk to my long term goals like Spain. For example my military dispersion right now is:
Europe - 12 divisions of the good infantry 6 of them are upgraded, 6 divisions of the cheaper infantry 4 upgraded and 3 triple upgraded 3 cannons in europ one double upgraded 3 divisions of carvery one triple upgraded. Only one sloop monitoring for enemy ships in the Europe theater. One rake running around in spain.
Caribbean - 2 fleets dispersed thought the eastern and western sides with the largest protecting 5 tradeships that will be on the way to africa once the pirates are taken care of along with the old french outpost. Two divisions of the good infantry type and one regual type are taking the pirate bases and being reinforced with more of the regulars. The other territories are protected by two divisions of the good infantry, pickemen and a cannon.
America - 3 divisions of good infantry and 2 of the ones that are almost as good make up the force that took quebec with a general and dragoons. A force of 3 divisions of malllisha hold main. A fleet with a five star admiral along with fifth raths and brigs is heading south from main to take the us navy out. (note that 50%+ of my navy is from captured ships, taking ships has been my preference rather than building to focus for the land armies in Europe and to have max econ.

So as you see the forces to take Georgia simply do not exist and with the territory taking 3+ turns before I can even make it worth something let along get tax does not warrant the 3 divisions of good infinity 2 carvery divisions and 1 cannon needed to take it. That army would cost more per turn than could be gained from the land taken for at least 15 turns. There is no point to do it when I could spend less money and take out them from the top. Also in mine Georgia is the most defended city in America, 80% maxed out on the power bar.

[ZERO]

Do not do that, what os are you using!? I fixed mine using only the console command.

[maynard]

Do not do that, what os are you using!? I fixed mine using only the console command.

pirated version of xp

[wickedtribe]

So as you see the forces to take Georgia simply do not exist and with the territory taking 3+ turns before I can even make it worth something let along get tax does not warrant the 3 divisions of good infinity 2 carvery divisions and 1 cannon needed to take it. That army would cost more per turn than could be gained from the land taken for at least 15 turns. There is no point to do it when I could spend less money and take out them from the top. Also in mine Georgia is the most defended city in America, 80% maxed out on the power bar.

So you dont care at all about diplomatic relations? Constant massive expansion will cause all nations to begin to HATE you, and unless your on easy (highly doubtful) they will cancle trade with you. And will lead to the second you capture a territory, all nations bordering that territory will attack you, in less than a few turns. Of course having friends in the game doesnt really matter if you are already have the ability to anihilate all of them, but based on how you asses your situations, you shouldnt be playing on anything less than very hard. And failure to uphold treaties will litteraly BUTCHER your reputation... as in attacking a protectorcrate. Also you have to repair the buildings you damage on your way through the colonies... not like the colonies ever build up a military though so you could probably take all of them with like one army.

Also food for thought... the maratha NEVER lose india... they capture the entire thing and again if your on very hard they will become very difficult to stop. Unless taken early on.

[ZERO]

I am not attacking the 13 colonies. I thought I needed to only in the first 2 turns before the mission was assigned. Also I have kept good relations with the nations that I trade with and have not done anything in Europe besides take france and I am already at war with spain because of an alliance with the united provinces. Currently I trade with the marathaand am going to attack their enemies there and build up a military force until I have the advantage and then kill them in a quick and calculated move.

Once I take Spain I may invade northern Africa but I am avoiding war with anyone who I am not already at war with. I do not want to have the others attack me. Also b/c this is my first time paying the game outside of the road to independence i just have it on normal or what ever b/c I am playing for the 50 territories by 1800 although I am personally trying to see if I can get over 100 by then. I do not want to play on max difficulty until after I have beaten it on normal. What is funny though is that I did have a trade agreement with Quebec until they declared war on me, why the hate after I threaten them to get the agreement in the first place rofl! The only ally I tuned by back on was Norway b.c they are of no profit to be and being at war with Sweden is a death trap right now.

Also the maratha will fall, b/c I would rather run though there than start WWI in eurpoe lol. I really have no interest in moving east of France although I will take what I can get away with in north Africa. I mean I start off already at war with those one guys there.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

but...it's sweeden.

what are they going to do?

yodel down some avalanches? death by chocolate?

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[wickedtribe]

but...it's sweeden.

what are they going to do?

yodel down some avalanches? death by chocolate?

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Now playing: Muse - Take a Bow
via FoxyTunes

Suprisingly enough, the way they design territories in this game sweeden is like the second hardest nation to take out swiftly, hardest to take out quick is Russia... just because of how large it is. and the Sweeden is all coastal cities but their territory is so large its hard to police. and for some reason they always have troops scatterd around.

[maynard]

yea... I deff need 2 get this game fixed and give it another shot.

if you got any ideas for me zero, as 2 fixing it plz let me know.