Empire Total War - Artillery - Mortars

[TacTeppo]

This is the first time I've seen mortars used successfully in an open field fight. Well done sir

[dcsmith5100]

Cool battle

[masterco93]

what program did u use to record?

[cristianesza]

I used Fraps

[masterco93]

@cristianesza

fraps makes the game lag, did u change any setting in fraps so it doesn't lag?

[cristianesza]

Fraps didn't lag on my machine, it works normally. I'm using a Core2Duo 2.5ghz, 3GB Ram, a GTX285 graphics card and a 10000rpm WD velociraptor disk.

[ifartinurdirection1]

I like the 24 pounder and 12 pounders the 24 shoots far and the 12 is great for holding hills and tearing enemy up with shrapnel

[Rucksify]

I just use 4 inch mortars as my main artillary.. with an occasional 12 lber and 24 lb howitzer but 4 inch mortar batteries with percussion shells are awesome. just make sure you don't shell your own men. : )

[cristianesza]

Mortars used to have much better accuracy but CA in the last few patches dumbed them down to make the battles more balanced. Now mortars are pretty much useless unless you place 6 or 7 of them to make a barrage.

I usually play more with howitzers because you can limber/unlimber them and move them around the battlefield after deployment time.

[Ghostsofthefuture]

Wow. Your graphics are almost orgasmic.

[MrEmpireTheKing]

How can I draw such lines with the soldiers? with the mouse ???

[Unknown2370]

If you had this army and got into close combat with the enemy... Ouch... They will over run you. But those mortars just blast them before they got close. Mortars are pretty accurate to. Good tactic by the way :)

[cristianesza]

That's true, but when I recorded this I was still playing version 1.0 of the game. Now CA introduced balance changes that make mortars more inaccurate and doing this is quite impossible. It also becomes boring to win battles only with artillery after some time :)

[Unknown2370]

I agree. Mortars have become a little bit more inaccurate then before. But still effective on mass :)

[Albanis2]

thats a perfect tactic. when the enemy reach your frontline, they're almost all dead and their moral is near zero lmfao

[Oneandoneself]

Thats the way to do it give him a WWI British style bombardment, should have dug a trench

[fishface2408]

rofl u evil bastard the ai were just runing around the battle field like scared children!

[Darthpathfinder]

LOL how evil is that tactic....Not got motar units yet what range do they have?

[cristianesza]

Mortars are the unit with longest range in the game, however in the beginning they are useless, you can start getting good results when you research Percussive Shells.

[NLFonsseals]

quicklime alsoi helps

[Benzo0117]

awesome video

love the tactic

[frozencanadian]

poor AI, if only they had given it a brain.