New Total War title

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I will most definetely get it...

I am an avid TW player, all eras and was there when the first Shogun came out in 2001..

About historical research. Do not forget that for the first Shogun game the Historical consultant was dr. Stephen Turnbull, one of the major and leading scholars on Samurai warfare. The only silly things were the battlefield ninjas and the Kenshin mega fighters...

Also for this new game, they have used period correct armour, units and ways of fighting. The Samurai clans are historically correct for the period, as are their KaMon clan badges. There is not much in the game which is not historically correct, as far as Samurai warfare goes, maybe, except for the use of fire to burn castles down.
Further it irritates me that the units on the battlefield wear their daisho without sheaths, which in real life would lead to many accidents, let alone the total cutting through the belt and sageo...

Not having played it yet i cannot comment though about the entire game.
The Ninja video they put on was nice, but had a little bit too much humor for my liking in it.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXw-Qlp8P3k&NR=1

The old TW videos of the Ninja and Geisha assassinations were also very accurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gim3Jb8XsLM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFUkLOiMDFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibAdi-q_EHA&

But if this is any indication....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfviAcCeMxY

I will spend many many hours playing it....


M.VIB.M.