Hyrule Conquest - A First Look

Looks dank! I hope to get a build of this in my hands soon!!! :D

I have mixed opinions on this; on one hand your ambitions had clearly outgrown what the old engine was capable of doing, and it has become a hinderance on attaining your vision. And the Total War style of gameplay, WarhammerTW aside, never was a good mesh with heros, one of the resons that people would play a zelda game. Takeing a step back it really is the right way to go. On the otherhand I really will miss the free-form campaign. It was fascinating seeing how history would unfold as the game progressed, and for me that is a big loss. But in the end if it comes down to game or no game, I will pick game, usually.

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These are some very good ideas. One of 0 a.d's biggest flaws right now are the map sizes. 1v1 maps are so small, one base expansion and your now neighbouring the enemy. With the whole bulk train, there is an option to do that, it takes 5 times as long to do it but it is possible. When playing around I found it fiddly to control multiple formations (same as in aoe). At least in age of mythology you could assign units to group's, making them easier to reselect and micro. I'm hearing lots of mentions about variation between factions which is promising to hear; I can only assume how hard it would have been to try and do that in medieval.

Looks promising. But lets see a battle first. I also have 2 ideas you could use. 1) Since you can have single troops move in formations. Maybe have certain units Build/train in bulk. Like you get 5 town guards at once. Even if they are not in a Single unit all the time. You can still have Formation battles. XD At least that's the hope. Also we can still have Massive battles. Make a Game mode where their is no buildings or just buildings at start Pre-provided. And you have a set time to pick what troops to use, and move them to locations on your side of the map. Then after a set time. All buildings are destroyed Leaving the armies to duke it out. And you can now go any where on the map. We can even have a siege version of this Game mode where 1 side keeps their buildings.. Though if the game provide the ability to pick your Starting troops before The game starts. then we can just have Custom battles just like we did in Hyrule Total War. And maybe we can set limits like "eras" for example. Also, If we can have a Over world Map with Set Territories/regions. then we can Have single decisive battles for each Region, Like how they do it for "Rise of Legends" or even how they do it "Star Wars Empires at war". :)

Edwin Walter Gibson