Empire Total War: Naval Tactics (HD)(ep. 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2009
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These are just some naval tactics for you guys who don't really have an idea of what to do in naval battles. These are basic tactics, usually the best bet if u dont want to take any risks.
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After 5 minutes, all my naval engagements look like a gigantic clusterfuck.
The best way to do all your Naval battles is to have one Admiral flagship V rate and send him in to disable the sails of the whole Fleet by doing flanking maneuver at max range, you keep the enemy at max range until his sails are disabled and work your way down this whole Fleet and then come up from behind and attack each ship making them surrender. This way you can sell off all of his combat ships in repair all of his trade ships and use those to make money and more than one way
That takes ages though
In Empire total war Navies are extremely useful for transport, blockading trade routes which gives your foe less income and thus a smaller army, and they are needed to protect trade convoys that are going to places like the Ivory coast.
naval battles are a bitch but they're SOOO important ><
capturing ships (galleons NOM), maintaining trade, etc
Actually, If you disable "Fire at will" then you can still move but you cant return fire since your crew is putting out the fire aboard.
one question...
i've tried this famed tactic known as "crossing the T" made famous by Nelson...
but when i try it it works for a while but then one of my ships rams an enemy ship and then the formation goes all to hell...
i found a tactic where if you put ur armada into two lines and have them run parallel to each other with the enemy line in the middle works effectively in surrounding and annihilating the enemy...
your thoughts?
The United Provences! :D (you start in all theaters of the game)
Nice video man, I've been too used to hand to hand land battles form the older total war series and couldn't quite get naval battles but this really helped!
British/French or Prussian campaigns would be unreal, love your vids man can't wait to see the campaign, no matter what it turns out to be!
nice one dude well helpful to me. naval battles i have not really played in any other games so i had no real clue what to do with my ship till now so again big thumbs up
Great vid man, many thanks. I just got ETW after playing Shogun 2 and it seems the battles are a bit more interesting here :)
Thanks a lot for this little tut :D very needed
This is an excellent video for us beginners in the naval battle portion!
good video keep em coming
as a suggestion maybe you could do reviews of some kind on the best units or factions
I live for ship combat in these games. I should've been Admiral Nelsons first mate lol Using the wind is very important also. The heavy first rate ships are so fucking powerful. Love watching them fire volleys and then watch them hit the enemy ship. Just ripping chunks of wood out and splintering pieces off left and right. That rocket ship is very nice. If you had 2 in this battle it would've been over 50% faster I bet. Since the AI is just ridiculous lol and got tangled up. Anybody ever use the carronades? Small ships with huge guns and short range? Hit and run attacks with it maybe? A good early ship maybe?
Carronades are pretty good
Thank you for this video. My naval battles used to be like the guys below me
So basically just go in a circle? I am guessing your certainly not a teacher at the Royal Naval academy or the Naval School in Virginia right?
Lmao XD
ahahaha that was exactly what I thought by watching this video XD
A tactic I tried when my (AI) opponent was using the standard line astern/column formation was to form my fleet (about 3 3rd or 4th rates and several brigs) into a crescent (envelop) and I sailed them right at the enemy. At the last minute I got them to break formation and do a 90 degree turn all at once, allowing them all to fire broadsides at once, devestating the lead ship in the enemy formation.
The stern is the back of the ship, the bow is the front.
Just a question, have you played Napoleon Total War? It was on sale a while ago and got it, but the range of my ships is nowhere near this huge. Was it patched in both games or is this some historical thing?
i would like to see the faction that challenges u the most!
Vid TOPIC= How to overcome 15k or less in the hole. I dont have this total war YET but i have med2 and i love ur vids!!!!!
keep up the good work & i look forward to watching ur other vids!!!!!!!!!! thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
hey do you move the mas a team?I kinda don't get that, do when you group them, do you still need to select all of them to move? or just select the 1st ship and the rest will follow?
nice vid btw. /no1
Thanks for the naval battles!
Helpful video...I am absolutely dreadful at naval battles
Would you ever do a video of the sort of tactic Nelson used at Trafalgar? Sorry if it's already been mentioned...
@ Junkiddo: you need to select them all to move them as a group. Handy to short-key them (ctrl+ number). Makes selecting them all a bit easier, especially in the heat of battle.
line of stern is a sound tactic but an experienced player can easily smash up a line of stern. the best thing to do wen an enemy deploys in a line is to intersect his line perpendicularly at more than one point. your ships will be firing both their broadsides along the length of the enemy's ships (a raking shot). if u have the wind guage this tactic works every single time.
thanks for the tips. i'll try it tonight
k thanks man thats awesome news the computer is just in my budjet. by the way i watch all ur tactic vids theyre great.
What formations/tactics do you recomend with a full fleet of ships? I mean 14 ships seems like alot to put into one line. I have already tried spliting them into three lines and was thinking if 2 lines would be better at all?
Sweeden!!!!!!!!
If not then maybe the Dutch because, I havnt seen them.
Great vid
well lets admit it. The French are great at land, but the Brits crush them at sea. Great vid!!
i would have positioned slightly differently, i like 2 columns one far right one far left, if they had their fleet as they were i could have gotten them in the middle. then just fire from both sides destroying them. the rocket ship was a very good idea though very useful as long as they are out of range of the enemy. also i was wondering what computer do you have? ive been allowed to buy one computer by my parents and i want to make sure ETW wil work on it. how much it costs and wher i can buy.
It would be great if you could do Sweden, thats where my vote is going. Thanks for the vids.
Naval battle depends who fight it will go during battle ,i see that things can change fast depending on the situation,the best way its be simple tatics,and who plays this kind of games like medieval totar war,can use some tatics here!
yea ramming is common... thats where your micromanagement kicks in. and that's exactly what Lord Neslon did at Trafalgar anyway, he crossed the Franco-Spanish fleet with 2 lines. but one thing everyone should keep in mind is that crossing the T is useless when your fleet is sailing downwind (i.e against the wind).
@TheEpicBrit
But not during the Netherlands' Golden Age ;)
Britain's rise to power was basically slightly after the starting date of Empire - Total War, when the Dutch naval supremacy was slowly taken over by the Brits in a series of wars and political events.
good video, thanks man
owki thanx! love the game! hope there's kinda update for improving the AI in diplomacy.
I guess in some ways. It's not supposed to be all Assassins creed 3 with unrealistic reload times and the magical ability to sail against the wind. Some things suck like how the ships have magical turning brakes and suck but other things I liked a lot.
@mastermalpass
the pause button is a god send lol.
It's all about more guns! More guns mean more damage! As Britain get a lot of forth rates and engage the enemy in pairs of 2 during battle ( one boards and one pounds the other side) you win easily the way he does it means lot of money wasted ( in game) with poor results
thanks man i suck at navel battles! great help
i vote brittish, or if not the netherlands or spain. just cuse of spains big fleet.
thanks im not very good at sea battles, but i love em. get 2 massive ships (admrials 1st and heavy first) vrs as many little sloops n brigs as the enemy can get, thats fun.
so, did you pound them from every direction? bow chickabowow
Fabulous
Wind was fine for AI at 2:50 AI is just bad. When you were on a beam reach initially (wind at a 90 deg angle) it would have been beneficial to 'try' to put the enemy on your port (downwind) side. Being upwind of your opponents gives you a maneuverability advantage.
how do u move ur ships so seamlessly? wen i play they always slow down if there is a ship in front of them. Do i have to move them all individually?
@TheHenk92 maybe it wanst in the french time but it wasnt changed in 1648 but in 1795 and changed in
the Bataafse Republiek that stands on wikipedia
Ottomans if you can. They have crazy ships i would like to see in a naval battle(s).
In real life the navy is a vital part of any war, WW2 for example. My main issue with total war is that the navy doesn't do all it can do and as a result people neglect it. You will find most you tubers neglecting a navy but if they did this irl they would lose the war.
@cubosensaj no the Dutch flag was actually first orange white blue
until the Napoleonic period, it was changes by napoleon to red white blue
(holland was a part of france the bastards)
it was stupid of creativity that they made it red white blue
Would be fun to see you do a full campaign with an underdog, like the Dutch :)
And a stern is not the front of the ship, that the bow. Stern is the rear part of a ship ;)
Thanks for teh vid, btw! :)
This applies to Napoleon Total War aswell?
Still the most accurate I've seen
I would ask to see a Russian campaign since really I've seen only a select few Russian players here and there, but never the Russian campaign (heard it was exceptionally tough).
Anyhow, hope to see more soon ^_^
Once i had a bunch of admerals and third rate, third v. third and second, and my 4 admerals v. their last admeral. I boxed him in, and i swear he (the admeral) saluted me and was then epicly pwned with 1 chain, one ball, and two grape. But it ruined the moment, the balls that missed kinda blasted each other and i nearly lost an admeral
stern is back lol :P
No, French running away is the BIG surprise ;)
when i play with this amount of fleets i see the traffic of L.A lol
I used is, but I think after flanking round behind them I had my line break off in to 2 then go back round, had 2 lines on either side and perform a double broadside
did you use chain shot at all? you were saying their sails were down...
How do i command my ships so they moove in a line like your ships did?
Great game really.
how did he get his ships to sail in a circle like that in a line? I just can't do it, does he tell each ship separately?
The Dutch or Great Britain for the awesome ships that they have and because they have many colonies.
Nice naveltour have you made
are the enemys italian or mexican? ps. have you thought about my suggestion?
The bow is the front you plonker
Is it not better to make them surrender as opposed to sinking them? more loot/ships in the campaign at the least
How do you keep your boat in a perfect line like this?!?
The Dutch flag is older (first seen in the late 1500s) than the French
I got 1 question, when should i enter a ship?
Thanks
Guys, listen up, JUST GET DARTHMOD!
I tried this tactic it pretty much pays off.
How can you keep that nice circle around the enemy?
Any faction that can make heavy first rates is a good faction.
Man, I have watched these over and over again and I still feel like a complete incompetent in Naval battles. Does not make any sense to me. Keep watching them and hopefully someday these will click. Plus Auto on VH/VH is hugely costly to me, which is the reason I keep watching these.
how are your ships able to shoot so far?
Can't you do americans for Road to Independence? I dont have the game so if you cant use the Americans, then the British
thats funny "screw the flagship out of them"
It's United Provinces vs France after the Revolution with Blue-White-Red flag.
prussia definitely. I love playing as them
i find that before you board, use a grapeshot broadsidethen imediatly board
Did they even have steamships back then I didn't think they used steam until the 1800's during the Civil War
steam ships! fucking cool
how many cannons?
is the lesser firepower the only catch?
How does he keep the ships in formation so well ?
guys, questions u are asking are noob questions, just try out the us navy and se how good they are, and try boarding ships as well, it depends on how much u want it :P
i vote for sweden as well
Did he say the stern is the front of the ship? because the Stern is the back of a ship.
wil this work on a decend desktop computer?
what botten shuld i press so my ship dont burn down?
@CraigDirty I'm gonna guess your counter attack for this is similar to mine. Turn side on to the opponents who are coming at you with full sail. Then fire broadsides of chain-shot at them. When all sails are out chain-shot is most effective. and at about a 5 first rate's distance, you can take out two masts in one broadside shot - Every effective!
Though I must add I've only done this in a 1 on 1 battle. I'm shit at using more than two ships.
You may try to play in "slow motion", thus you can oversee the battlefield and can do plans for wide timeline, you shouldn't hesitate to break formation if something unexpected happens :) I reply you 11 years later :)
@@yakamoooo God I used to let a lot of typos out back then haha! I did eventually devise a strategy for a 6 v 6 first rate battle. Get my fleet in a big bracket that the enemy like to approach in single file. All my ships shoot the hell out of the first enemy in the row - that first enemy takes on too much damage at the start and routes - now it's already 6 v 5. From there I kept my ships moving in pairs. If a ship's starboard takes a lot of damage, turn around and fight with the port side. etc... I basically found I could just keep shuffling my fleet to keep them all on top. Of course, this is playing against a computer, doubt I'd do so well against another player! lol
@@mastermalpass actually sometimes computer can dominate the battleground better than a human, it can calculate and replace the ships more efficient and effective :) so I think it's possible to have a good strategy and gameplay with some practice :) and keeping firing on same side of the ship make it disabled more quickly too..it's good to see you here after 11 years :) I hope you will have a very long life, thanks for reply :)
Do great britain their home position is invincible and they have good all round units
can we have more naval battles plz
@medival888
so is the dutch naval admiral Michiel de Ruyter
what if you are outgunned and outnummbered????
There are already two prussian youtube campaigns going. Please do Spain. or
UP
i wold like you to be Great Britan cos u get more naval battles os its an island and the only way the enimy is by ship Great Britan =-)
How do you circle like that?
i find it funny how the ship rockets are alot more usefull than land rockets.
the land rockets are almost completely useless.
plz play as the americans in the road to independence campaign plz