Empire Total War is better than Napoleon Total War (the computer games)

I have no idea if this is a new argument or a refutation. If it is a new argument, then my opponent dropped his argument that ETW's larger map is better. If it is a refutation then, my refutation that NTW is easier still stands. New players, or ones that want less of a complex game can pick NTW over the more complex ETW. In addition, NTW has a longer weather period than ETW does. " ETW has a larger map. In other words there are more places in which to expand, explore, and conquer. This however does not make the game harder, it just makes it more fun. Weather period is minor. "You are trying to make a game more easy over being more realitistic. In Egypt, the French had to deal with a highly hostile environment so they needed to keep garrisons at all cities. You must play as the French did in their Egyptian campaign. " However how do rebels get hold of artillery? All of the artillery should be with your army. The rebels sometimes even had line infantry. The real rebellions were mostly peasant hordes, armed militia. However your dealing with more of an army, not a rebellion in NTW. When playing the Egyptian Campaign, it is about as hard to defeat a rebel army as it is to defeat a Mameluke army. And there are so many rebellions that in the end you spend less time fighting the enemy. When I played the Egyptian campaign It took me a few times to beat, even on easiest because of the unreasonable size and number of rebellions. In the end I just had to forget about conquering and holding any significant amount of territory and just go through and quickly take all the victory conditions. My point is that why not just have an entire country called "rebels" in Egypt. The rebellions are very annoying since they can just take cities while my army is fighting the Mamelukes. "You are trying to make a game more easy over being more realitistic. " The Egyptian campaign is not as realistic as you make it seem. How is it that it is possible to build French line infantry in Egypt? Napoleon had 40,000 men and that was it. Yet you can train French soldiers in Egypt. "Incorrect. Italy and Spain both have their own campaign maps. I mentioned the Peninsular campaign earlier, which only takes place in Spain and Portugal. The first campaign you will play in NTW is Napoleon's campaign in Italy, which enlarges Italy with more territories and is not part of Europe. " What I meant was that Spain and Italy are both in Europe, only Egypt is in Africa. And in Napoleon's European Campaign Turkey and the middle east are completely off limits. "Finally on the coalition doing nothing:" I would agree with the first one. However you talk all about NTW being "realistic". First of all, I never declared war on France, France declared war on me. I did not even want to fight France and did nothing to threaten France. And the historical inaccuracy is that Napoleon focused on defeating me first. In real life, Napoleon fought and defeated Austria first which is what you do when playing as France in the European Campaign. "Austria was scared that France would be too powerful when they invaded. " Doesn't make sense. If both me and Austria had invaded France, then France would surely have been defeated. "Russia was busy in a war with the Ottomans as you say. " Another reason why NTW is unrealistic. Russia can't be fighting the Ottomans all games; in real life Russia played perhaps the most important role in defeating Napoleon. "Britain focuses on the naval war. " And in real life Britain took over Copenhagen and invaded Spain. . http://en.wikipedia.org... . http://en.wikipedia.org...(1807) . http://en.wikipedia.org... Why does Britain only focus on the naval war in NTW? And in real life Spain never sent soldiers to fight Prussia. NTW is completely unrealistic. ETW, although it may not be entirely unrealistic also at least gets the main ideas of the 1700's down. The goal of ETW is to build an empire, colonize, and explore. The goal of NTW on the other hand is much more limited to building a European empire. Your arguments are basically that NTW has more historical battles and that NTW has somewhat better graphics than ETW. I would like to point out that there are several episodes which you can play in ETW which follow the colonization of the Americas, the French and Indian war, and the American Revolution. Graphics do not necessarily make a game better. As you pointed out the difference between NTE and ETW infantry. However graphics do not make the game any better. And you can only really how the infantry looks when you bother to zoom in. Conclusion: ETW gives players a sense of a global empire. NTW gives the players a sense of an unrealistic war between Napoleon and Europe.