Empire: Total War Heaven

Have you recently consumed any LSD?

[This message has been edited by xXDerToteRabeXx (edited 04-04-2009 @ 09:36 PM).]

No, but I'm beginning to suspect my computer has.

I think it's because the game only records actions, not actual events. For this reason you can get results which didn't happen. Hope you get what I mean.

I think this is what happens too. A huge video file or whatever would be to large and unwieldy, so the save replay just saves where you moved, when you fired, etc. The computer still simulates how many die after a volley, etc. So this time, you might have gotten unlucky. I wonder how the people on youtube get it right everytime...

Hi wyzr
The guys above have it right. Replays only save decisions made during the battle. The actual outcomes can vary. For instance, a general could get killed by a lucky cannon shot in the original battle but not in the replay. What will be the same is the actual orders given to the units.

Yeah, that makes sense. You know what, now that you mention it, I think in my game a lucky cannon shot killed the Venetian general early in the battle (was aiming for their line inf, a lucky bounce brought it right into the ranks of his bodyguards), in the game that I actually played. That might have been a significant factor in my unlikely win.

Still. Not a very efficient way to make reliable replays, though, what with so many random factors that can drastically alter the battle outcome.

I've tried replaying the battle over and over, in hopes that the outcome will eventually simulate in my favor, but it hasn't, in all six replays I've viewed so far. So I must've been extremely lucky in that fight (irregulars, some linemen and militia and 1 cav vs a whole mob of firelock citizenry, linemen, and four cavalry units)

It kind of threw me off the whole AAR thing, so I think I'll just play this one through (it's a short campaign anyway) and make a new game- most people are playing Austria and Prussia, for some reason, so maybe next campaign I'll try out an AAR of something more exotic, like the Ottoman Turks or the Marathas. Or anyone else suggest what AAR campign they'd like to see?

Thanks for the feedback.

[This message has been edited by wyzr (edited 04-06-2009 @ 04:00 AM).]

I thought there should be an option to sync the records? I had this problem in RTW, but got it fixed later as well as in M2TW. It's definitely rectifiable in ETW. Can't tell much as I don't have the game, though.