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All right so here's something we miss.

We could use a save feature for the army deployments so that you can load a pre built setup with formations and individual stances we previously ... and sweating so much... built manually. What I mean is to design new overlays like we do now, but also save them so we can reuse them in the future.
Another thing we could use is a reverse button both for the inbuilt army layouts and for the ones we design manually.

Isn't there a merge button for armies? Say what do I do with 2 armies in the same castle, need to disband one and then re recruit them into the already existing army?

Need a reverse option for panning with middle mouse button. Something like the X Y Z axis reverse we use in flight sims. Pull back means nose up but if i like pull back can also mean nose down. That's just about it... and in a full day of playing i'd say it's really silly things, i'm so happy! :-)

It's ok Minglee7 all in due time. I've been a beta for 19 yrs and counting, it's a natural attitude to spot problems and report them be in a dev team or not... then it's up to you to take notes and discuss among yourselves on how and when to best improve your lovely product.

Meanwhile i am sad to report that in 2 consecutive tests my takeda army moved into 2 different enemy villages (and in 2 different games) to pillage for supply, 2 CTD took place so it's confirmed, whenever I move into a village, a CTD happens. Urgent fix required (if you need crashlogs you need to tell me where they are and IF they are generated). I basically manage to see the flame icon on the village but the game immediately freezes and I see the app has crashed only by alt-tabbing.

The 3d sprites are so nice and the engine is really good at its job, however I have problems with controls. To begin with, I am used (like everyone else) to give move orders (or attack orders) with the right mouse button while i select combat groups with the left one. This means, in T3, that most of the times I have to give orders twice for i left click somewhere to select another group and the previously selected group instead of carrying out its orders, actually MOVES to the second group i was trying to select. This is pretty messed up... what I'm trying to do is select a second group, what happens instead is that the first group takes a move order i dont want it to take. Perhaps it would be best to use the left mouse button on the 3d world to select (or drag-select) only. Move orders with changes of facing should also be done with the right mouse button held. In other words, Total War style. We're all familiar with that system, it has proven successful (and leading actually) so I don't understand why you used a different one.

However... I am still in the learning process so it's me who might be doing something wrong. Now... knowing what I was trying to do, how do you do it in this engine? Give me a tip on that pls.

Similarly, the somehow simplified 3d engine doesnt seem to really give clues on what's really happening on the battlefield due to the extreme complexity of the formations, manouvers, special abilities and so on. Selecting a group is difficult without unwanted effects (as i explained) but if you select it through the general banners, the 3d view changes and you basically get lost.
Indicators on what each group is doing on the banners would be cool and yet again it's a feature of the TW engine (which you can beat anytime if you manage to simply improve yours which i think is really up for the job). I am talking about status icons inside (or on top) of the general's banner to depict what's happening to the unit. I do love you can see if it's regrouping, holding, routing attacking or defending but the banner doesn't say if the troopers are shooting or being shot at (arrow icon), moving ( > icon) charging (>> icon) and so on.

In the heat of battle and with multiple soldiers from different groups intermixed with one another these indicators would be handy (they ARE invaluable in the TW environment) because thanks to them you will know exactly WHICH 3d group is the one that needs your attentions and you can easily identify it by watching the 3d and cross connecting with the icons on the banners.

I do not know if this engine correctly calculates friendly fire, i really hope it does and if it does, we need a function to tell the archers to hold their fire.

Another interesting thing missing in this 3d engine (it's as you see a list of improvements that mostly regard interface) is the NAME of the generals when their portrait pops up to give you a message. An example? When a general takes the head of an enemy general, his portrait pops up and he tells you "I have taken a general's head" (i think he says he puts it in his pockets or something like that). Now... with some portraits we know who and where but with ANY of the fictional generals (the ones with the ashigaru hat) there's no way to tell WHO took this head and WHERE he is because the name in the pop up portrait is not displayed and no indicator flashes on the 3d battlefield or on the standards in the bottom of the screen.
See if Shingen captures a head you can see it easily since he's the marshall and you must ALWAYS keep an eye on him... but even if you didn't, his portrait is unique... this can't be said for the other generals, and especially the aforementioned ashigaru ones which are very numerous. Just a tip.

A final thing (totally unimportant at the moment) i have spotted and would like for it to be changed is the lone general riders on horse running around the battlefield in dismay once their army has called for the retreat. I happen to have surrounded them 50 vs 1 and this one was also being rained with arrows. This is something to fix... due to japanese psychology, a surrounded general must be instantly killed or captured if he doesn't willingly and *immediately* perform a seppuku. I don't wanna see 50 vs 1 battles where the lone general actually even manages to escape. Seen plenty in the numerous mods of TW (and not only) i played.

That being said, i urge to focus on the village burning ctd, that's a critical issue the rest are just suggestions for the future. For the rest I wanted to say a final note on the 3d engine:

Before seeing TC2M I wouldn't have bet a penny on the capabilities of a sprite engine when compared to the TW 3d model engine. NSD with its War3D engine has proved me wrong and Magitech has proved me wrong again. Contrary to everyone else in this world, i LOVE being wrong.
You may take a glance at what NSD is doing here: http://www.scourgeofwar.com/

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