Empire Total War Puckle Gun
- Organ Gun is a type of artillery in Empire: Total War. It is available with the Special Edition of the game and the Special Forces & Bonus Content DLC. Description Edit. Thanks to its multiple barrels, an organ gun can fire devastating volleys all on its own.
- The Puckle gun is a tripod-mounted repeating heavy musket or small cannon, capable of rapid fire. It achieves this by using pre-loaded breech chambers that are rotated into line with the barrel, fired and then a new chamber is positioned for the next shot.
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The sea battles in Empire's demo seemed somewhat arbitrary in terms of the chances of victory; however, the land battles were pure, unadulterated total war addictiveness. Dawn of Discovery was less frenetic yet far more relaxing and satisfying to behold as my small hamlet grew easily to dizzying heights of economic dominance.
Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27' Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset. And a big coffee maker!Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.Inline advert (2nd and 3rd post)- 03/03/14 08:54 PM Re: Empire: Total WarJoined: Jan 2010Posts: 8,700HotshotHotshotJoined: Jan 2010Posts: 8,700. Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27' Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset.
And a big coffee maker!Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.- 03/04/14 01:41 AM Re: Empire: Total WarJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866Senior MemberSenior MemberJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866. Gigabyte Z87P-D3 - CPU I5 4670 Haswell @ 3.6Ghz - 8 Go Ram - GPU HD 7850 2Go OC - SSD Samsung 128Go - HD 2 x WD Black 1 To - 27' Iiyama Pro Lite - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro - Saitek Pro Flight Yoke - Rudder Pedals - Quadrant - Cessna Trim Wheel - Track IR 5 - Logitech G35 headset. And a big coffee maker!Flying in FSX/Air Hauler, Wings over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight, IL2 1946 Hsfx, Condor soaring.- 03/04/14 10:25 PM Re: Empire: Total WarJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866Senior MemberSenior MemberJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866.
I recently finished a grand campaign (finally)Master of the Americas, India, and 100+ regions in the glorious British Empire.I've always liked Empire. Graphics wise, I think it holds up well, I'll post up my screenies when I get a chance. I really enjoy the combat, India gave me a run for my money, and some of the later units are superb (Puckle guns and percussion cap arty)- 03/12/14 08:56 AM Re: Empire: Total WarJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866Senior MemberSenior MemberJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866. I recently finished a grand campaign.India gave me a run for my moneyNice, I've only ever finished one campaign, played as Prussia and managed a near world conquest. Oddly America was the toughest theatre for me. Also had fun playing as the Natives, well until I ended up trying to fight a three front war against Spain-Britain-Iroquois.As for graphics, I liked Napoleon's extra features such as cannonballs leaving holes in the ground but I hated how the lighting was always so gloomy, like some sort of goth music video. Give me bright sunny days please.
One of the highlights of my campaign was one warship in particular, the Dunbarton Castle. She was a 2nd rate ship of the line, and I used her in every theatre and she always seemed to be at the right place a the right time in many battles.During one engagement, she was sitting next to an enemy ship, which blew up and took the Dunbarton castle out as well, along with a number of ships.Years later, my first steamship happened to be named Dunbarton Castle in her memoryLittle touches like this make me love PC gaming- 03/16/14 12:07 PM Re: Empire: Total WarJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866Senior MemberSenior MemberJoined: Nov 2011Posts: 2,866.
Click to expand.Howitzers are very effective once you get explosive shells. Put them a good distance behind your lines so when the enemy closes, they're not hobbled by their minimum range. They actually do a lot more to anything than conventional guns outside of canister range before shrapnel shells. They're especially good against cavalry-with 3 or 4 batteries, you can easily route a single cavalry unit instantly.Mortars were recently patched to be less accurate. They are still used similarly to howitzers, but on the whole aren't as good due to their now abysmal accuracy; their extra range doesn't make up for it.Rockets are pretty much for people who like sparkly things.No, mortars and howitzers don't get shrapnel shells, they get percussian shells, which are better than normal explosive shells but not quite as good as shrapnel shells. Click to expand.Line infantry are pretty much the upgradeable bread-and-butter-with-jam that never really go obsolete and are always something to strive toward being able to build. But if you have more than 12 in a battle line, and none in reserve behind it, they get packed in enough that they can't deliver a better volume of fire, and that's where 2-3 howitzer units to thin out enemies comes in handy.Really, what they're especially useful for is when the enemy tries that early-battle cavalry rush; you can take out about a 3rd of them with a couple volleys, and then the cavalry is too lily-livered from casualties to do anything other than route when facing squared infantry on the flanks.
Also, if you're facing a huge mob of low-quality shooting units like militia, the howitzers firing on them at the same time as the line infantry routes them dramatically quicker than just the line infantry would, and saves you the casualties of a drawn-out firefight.Plus, artillery in general make good cavalry magnets. Click to expand.Usually the early cav rush hits a squared line unit anyway (AI being the predictable thing that it is, I plan for this event) and normally the cav unit gets wiped or shattered without too much cas on my side. I'm generally more concerned with reducing casualties in line-on-line fights, or persuading melee infantry to run away before they reach my lines because melee gets messy. It's not usually a huge problem, but it can get that way when you're facing large melee mobs, especially in North America or the East. Click to expand.Yeah, I tend to avoid going after France now just because its so draining to hold. I find it more profitable to lap up her colonies and then force a trade deal down her throat.Major powers are always more reliable trading partners - minor powers have this spontaneous habit of suddenly throwing all deals out the window and suicidally declaring war.And I'm really fond of Howitzers. My problem with normal cannon is they do more damage with canister and shrapnel, but you have to find lines of sight for them.
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And they have this annoying habit of forgetting what their arcs are, tracking over too far, and blasting my infantry in the back. Howitzers are much easier to position - just march them along behind your infantry. They don't do as much damage, but they often force the computer into action, like marching out from its defences to avoid being slowly reduced. Also they're great for annihilating early cavalry charges.I tend to only use howitzers in my line armies. The only armies I have that use cannon are my roving cavalry armies which are relatively small, fast groups I use for taking out those annoying small armies the computer always spawns, and knocking over poorly defended towns, which make heavy use of horse artillery.