It’s been a while coming but with the latest patches and new content I’ve decided to get working on a big update.

After finishing the ship roster I admit taking some time out and actually playing the game. I continued to play a game as United Provinces before somehow getting bored and trying the game on hard and very hard difficulty. Not happy with that I played quite a few hours using the Ottoman Empire. Well playing the Turks is quite a bit trickier since their early troops are pretty bad. It was a relief to get my twitchy trigger finger on some rather neat looking Beylick Janissary Musketeers (also see pic below if you haven’t already seen these guys).

I’ve been writing up articles on each faction with eventually some useful strategies. It’s still early stages so far. See Faction Reviews and Strategy Guides also on the right column.

Oh yeah, I’ve started reading Sharpe’s books by Bernard Cornwell. A mate of mine recommended the books to me after I told him about Empire Total War. Ok, so I’ve known about these books for a while but sometimes I’m a bit lazy as reading can be hard work. Since I spend 2 hours a day traveling to and from work on the train. That’s a lot of time to cast my mind back to the times of flinklocks, sabres and nasty bouncing cannon balls.

Ships now included and that means every unit available to playable factions that is recruit-able can be viewed by using the browser on the right-hand menu.

Also, am writing a guide for each faction which is a work-in-progress as I play through the various playable factions with the game on very difficult settin (naturally).