Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)

Caribbean losses require new preparations against the pirates, while Portsmouth supplies replacements for the home fleet.

Wind, formation handling, and the desire to capture a third rate shape a manually controlled naval engagement.

The game's ships are compared to cavalry: their decisive effect comes from the opening movement and volley, with little staying power afterward.

Keeping prizes would strengthen the fleet directly, but an apparent sale shifts attention back to building ships and financing the next operation.

Guns covering different approaches catch advancing pirate troops in overlapping fire, while fences and a wall provide protection.

A captured pirate position supports an army base and a forward fleet intended to threaten Martinique if France declares war.

Napoleon develops Empire's systems further. The preference here is for Empire because Napoleon feels too focused on its central figure and his mythology.

An enemy general advances separately from his infantry, while British infantry and woodland sharpshooters protect the gun positions.

Clothing and unit choices make the game's Inuit faction look like a recycled version of other Indigenous peoples instead of a distinct society.

Planning an offensive against Spain leads to a critique of the campaign map's compressed and sometimes misplaced representation of the Americas.

A proposed move to deny Russia a northern foothold encounters Denmark's Russian alliance and the risk of a wider war.

A missionary's reconnaissance role in the game leads to an analogy about sponsors benefiting from the knowledge travellers bring home.

British shipbuilding, army reconstruction, farms, logging, and channel defence are coordinated during a pause before further offensives.

The game's compressed coastline and separate port lose some of Gibraltar's defensive geography.

Comparing the strength of British squadrons leads to a redistribution of ships ahead of operations against Spain.

Spain's request for peace becomes an opportunity to demand technology and concessions within the campaign's diplomacy system.

Several British armies are positioned to support threatened regions before advancing on separate objectives across North America.

An expectation that Russia will attempt an invasion makes Britain's thin home garrison a concern.

Visible cavalry repeatedly draws the Spanish formation toward new threats while concealed British troops move elsewhere at New Orleans.

Losses among Spanish cavalry and artillery could decide the next siege battle even if the immediate fight goes badly for Britain.

Covered movement and a cavalry threat let British guns reach a position from which they can rake the Spanish line at New Orleans.

In this game attack, concentrated support is judged to outweigh the friendly-fire risk to infantry expected to hold its position.

Artillery disrupts a square, infantry attacks the broken formation, and cavalry pursues once it runs.

A Leman Russ example illustrates how anger and fixation on one opponent can conceal a surrounding force.

A fictional leadership dispute leads to an explanation of 'father' as deference to an elder's authoritative wisdom rather than a literal family claim.

Local raid damage is accepted so an enemy force leaves woodland suited to ambushes and advances onto less favorable ground.

Not necessarily: large commands assign objectives and coordinate activity without giving every subordinate the leader's complete information.

Some of the Imperium's leaders were suddenly given roles for which they had not been trained. That lack of preparation is treated as an institutional problem.

A leader can lack both necessary information and awareness of what is missing, yet still face a decision that requires risk.

Russian expansion makes a future war with Britain appear likely while a quick operation against Denmark and Iceland is still being considered.

Spanish raids leave time to enlarge the defending army and prepare an offensive intended to stop further incursions.

An outnumbered defending army abandons useful high ground and advances, allowing the nominal attacker to dictate the battle's pace.

The planned attack uses infantry to hold the enemy's attention while cavalry descends on its rear from a hill.

Britain's campaign income is treated as the resource that could let it match Russia's expanding armies.

Losing a general exposes the tradeoff between another mounted fighting unit and the command abilities that general provides.

Guns need a clear view of the enemy, but reaching the right ridge also requires an escort and supporting troops.

Random runs of capable digital generals and unexpected events can make empires rise or fall without any contact with the player.

Jealousy over Granby's potential credit is offered as an explanation for Germain's refusal to permit a charge, followed by criticism of his later direction of the war in America.

Breaking one formation can start a wider collapse when its flight carries disorder through the rest of the line.

A map check corrects the assumption that Poland-Lithuania has disappeared and identifies the powers still resisting Russia.

The campaign's closing review turns Ceylon into a strategic foothold for checking the Maratha Confederacy without abandoning naval options elsewhere.

A low ridge gives troops some protection by increasing the risk that enemy cannon fire will fall short or overshoot.

A recalled Maratha playthrough carries expansion from India into Europe and the Americas, prompting a reflection on alternative historical outcomes.

Successive game attacks prompt an Agincourt analogy: early failures leave disorder that makes each later wave harder to organize and advance.