Napoleon: Total War - A Retrospective Review 

My first Total War,the Italian Campaign will always have a place in my heart! I remember going to the CiberCafe with my friends and playing it while they played CounterStrike(i guess i have to thank my terrible shooter abilities for my love of TW)

Love these! You can understand CA going from Medieval 2 to Empire (head of AI left and no one knew what was going on, new Engine, new style of warfare, and huge scale). However, how CA went from Shogun 2 (imo the pinnacle of combat and solid fundamentals in TW) to Rome 2 is beyond me. Reminds me of when DICE went from BF3 to BF4 (dont know if youve played those games).

I think they should've added the ability to add ntw options to etw. Diplomacy and new ship models especially.

I really enjoyed the overarching focus that the 'character' style total war games brought. Sometimes in other TW games, you just go through the motions of that classic empire builder and it can feel all a bit the same. Having an objective other than the classic empire-building was a refreshing change in my view. Making choices to deliberately stop Napoleon, or conversely making choices to follow in his footsteps, gave the game an extra layer of depth. Good work on the reviews though! Really bringing up some nostalgic memories for me

I love this game, I only play Darthmod version though. It's fantastic

I yet have to see a tw where the ia doesn't use their generals as cannon fodder

Thank you Bran for improving the Battle AI 🙏

I really enjoy the Napoleon's campaigns side of the game, it really feels different, narrative driven and such. Napoleon and shogun 2 are by far my favorite tw games.

I'm still Waiting for Total War: A House Divided, or Total War : Brother against Brother or whatever title they want to give to an American Civil War TW, title.

Napoleon was a step up from Empire in some respects: More regions in France and Spain, Historical accuracy in Uniforms, Easier to move Ministers around, and being able to repair your ships in the midst of battle.

the main issue i had with empire was the small font , my eyes arent bad but man did i have to strain them in order to read

Hey hey, I've got a question - I'm doing a personal project right now where I'm playing through all sorts of games I was interested in, but passed up on in the past when they originally released and I just got around to finishing what I missed in the Total War series - I wanted to ask which one people would recommend more: Medieval 2, or Napoleon?

I just started playing a few days ago and I like it so far

Useful observations which I generally agree with. It is after all called NapoleonTW, so unsurprisingly this is THE faction with the most satisfying single player campaign play. A pity there is no way to turn off the historical diplomacy but I suppose *sigh* that's what the ghastly unoptimized ETW is for.

Bit of an odd question but do you still have the X-Factor Sound mod and could possibly upload it somewhere? When I go to the twcenter link in your description the actual download links are all dead.

I'm surprised you haven't made a mod review of NTW3.

One of my favourites ,the multiplayer is still active,mechically its the favoured for PvP. Wider unit varitarion and later period ,it basicailly was upgraded,but now its needs darhmod for amazing musket blast sounds,and up to 400 men a unit.and many other improvements

How was napoleon a titular general he held real power??

What really infuriates me about vanilla Napoleon is the cheating campaign AI...or maybe I'm just bad at the game:P But I was playing as Prussia on hard difficulty and France is just spawning armies and farting out super experience units out of nowhere. I have been fighting in Germany and liberating the Netherlands and Belgium. And have currently defeated two large french armies in Bavaria. All my armies are exhausted and my economy is pushed to the max supporing 3 huge armies. But out of nowhere on the french border 2 brand new super experienced fully stacked french armies suddenly appear. Either the AI must be drowning in debt or they can't go bankrupt at all. Or are simply spawing armies out of nowhere.