By Kieron Gillen on August 9th, 2010 at 6:00 pm.
We follow any lead if it’ll take us to a story, including our own comment threads where Creative Assembly’s Craig Laycock writes to say that they’ve launched their new Total War Forum. “I couldn’t/could care less!” depending on what side of the pacific you’re on, you may say. But if you do, says Creative Assembly, you get a personalised War Room where you can see stats from your campaigns, battles, achievements and HOW MANY YOU HAVE KILLED. “Pah!” someone will say, inevitably. All right, says Creative Assembly, if you do, you get a free unit for play in Napoleon. “Is it a Hussar? I love Hussars” says the Hussar fanciers. “It’s the 10th Hussars!” says Creative. “Huzzah! Hussars!” they say, and rush off. “What’s a Hussar?” says John Walker before resuming weeping.
Craig! Mail us next time! In other notes – er – I have a Creative Interview I really should transcribe. Soon! Honest!
09/08/2010 at 18:07 Heliocentric says:
Okay, thats nice. But you know what I’d really like
?!09/08/2010 at 18:08 Nick says:
a hug?
09/08/2010 at 18:11 Emphursis says:
To find out who won that Starcraft comp!
09/08/2010 at 18:18 Unaco says:
Two front teeth?
09/08/2010 at 18:30 Heliocentric says:
First correct entry wins a hug from Nick.
09/08/2010 at 18:57 Vinraith says:
@Helio
Ditto. And as an added bonus. it’s the only reason I ever went to the Total War forums in the first place.
09/08/2010 at 18:57 Unaco says:
I’m not really too keen on the Hug… but, I’m going to go for the correct answer being some sort of pun or joke, bringing together Hussar, and the Chorus of The Spice Girl’s breakout debut “Wannabe”… something along the lines of “I really, really, really want to suck a Hussar”.
Close?
09/08/2010 at 19:02 Jimbo says:
A Dragoon?
09/08/2010 at 19:03 Heliocentric says:
I will accept either a 3,4 12 or 13 letter answer.
09/08/2010 at 19:09 Chris Hansen says:
I just want the hug.
09/08/2010 at 19:10 Vinraith says:
@Helio
You forgot the 10 letter version ending in “or gtfo.”
09/08/2010 at 20:41 Heliocentric says:
@V You forget I am an english gentlemen.
10/08/2010 at 01:06 Fumarole says:
mods
10/08/2010 at 13:36 Guesser says:
Attention.
Next!
11/08/2010 at 00:07 Heliocentric says:
For historical reasons:
Fumarole was the winner.
09/08/2010 at 18:19 SF Legend says:
Surely instead of depending what side of the pacific you’re on it should instead say “depending on your capacity to think about what you say”?
09/08/2010 at 18:20 Rich says:
Hear, hear.
09/08/2010 at 18:26 westyfield says:
It doesn’t matter how American you are, “I could care less” is wrong and stupid.
09/08/2010 at 18:31 Heliocentric says:
Unless you are actually stating a capacity to be even more indifferent.
09/08/2010 at 19:05 Novotny says:
I keep noticing more and more errors of this nature creeping into the language as the bewling bastards of the last 20 years somehow manage to attain ‘adulthood’ without having actually read anything.
Get them off my lawn.
09/08/2010 at 22:18 Web Cole says:
Verily dost thy young scoundrels corrupt our mother tongue in ways so cruel and unfounded!
For shame. Why, in my youth a man could earn tuppence a week labouring in ye olde coal mines, and never be happier for it! It’s a travesty and etc etc, get over yourselfs. ;-)
09/08/2010 at 18:19 Rich says:
“I have a Creative Interview I really should transcribe.”
I hope you shouted at them to stop being such silly buggers.
09/08/2010 at 18:24 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:
Boo Hiss.
For signing up to the forum, they could, instead, give you the promised multiplayer campaign for Empire!
Or, prefearbly, my money back.
09/08/2010 at 18:34 SF Legend says:
Can you still get the code for the beta of it from this link? (clicking accept just tells me that I’ve already requested my code, so I don’t know for sure if they’ll still hand them out)
09/08/2010 at 18:35 Chris Hansen says:
@Emphursis
Damn right
09/08/2010 at 18:46 Mad Doc MacRae says:
I hope there are DLC forum skins.
09/08/2010 at 19:03 Heliosicle says:
I have killed 50,000 mens.
And yet I feel nothing.
09/08/2010 at 19:15 Ricc says:
Would somebody please give John a hug?
09/08/2010 at 19:34 Xercies says:
I would so love to give john a hug, but everytime i want to he seems to run away from me. i tried knocking on his house door but nothing…after awhile some man forcibly put handcuffs on me and gave me something called a restraining order.
Why don’t you love me john walker? :(
09/08/2010 at 19:35 Jeffthewonderbadger says:
Ummm. Didn’t this happen a month ago? I’ve had the free unit at least that long…
09/08/2010 at 19:54 zakkmiester says:
I just have to say, I found the curfew game through kotaku.
But when I saw the intro credits… :D
Haven’t played yet, but it better be good, Kieron!
09/08/2010 at 20:21 mlaskus says:
There were quite a few types of cavalry named Hussars in Europe. After a quick Google search I have found out that the Hussars they are giving away are some British light cavalry with rifles.
Which makes me sad, because like with Space Marines, there is one proper, most badass type of Hussars. They had wings and pretty much steamrolled over anything else on the battlefield.
I would link to a picture but I have to find a properly badass one first. ;)
09/08/2010 at 20:37 Bhazor says:
You mean something like… this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKkc1CVSAc&feature=player_embedded#!
09/08/2010 at 20:47 Alex Bakke says:
Polish hussars, innit?
But yeah, they weren’t *that* great. Great, but not the bestest.
09/08/2010 at 20:57 mlaskus says:
Yeah, I was talking about Polish Hussars. I found a badass picture to link to.
http://olesinskiart.blox.pl/resource/husaria_mn.jpg
@Alex Bakke
Not the bestest? I’m sure they were beterer than what you are thinking about :P
09/08/2010 at 20:45 deanimate says:
John Walker: I ask of you, what are these Hussars?
09/08/2010 at 21:12 jalf says:
I got an email a week or so ago telling me that I’d got a private message from a CA person on their new site, where I logged in to get a message that was pure gibberish, telling me that they had a new forum and if I did……. something…. I’d get a free unit.
I’m still not sure if I was supposed to reactivate my original forum login somehow, or create a new one, or how it gets me a free unit. When I tried to sign up, I got “Forum registration has been disabled by the administrators”.
Then I tried again a few days later, and apparently ended up creating a SEGA PASS. I have no clue if that is what they wanted, but it doesn’t seem to have magically granted unto me any hussars, free or otherwise.
So I gave up, and loaded up ETW sans free unit instead.
So, what am I supposed to do again to get the free unit?
09/08/2010 at 21:19 jalf says:
Here’s the email I got:
Now, I have no clue who yuku.com are, or what they’ve got to do with anything, but apparently I’ve got a message. Let’s check it out.
Apparently I’ve got a login on this Yuku.com thing, so I managed to log in after a few guesses at my password, and here is the infamous message:
So, they have new forums, and they even gave me the link (although as plain text, not a hyperlink, so I had to copy it into the browser’s address bar manually)
I tried going to that page and sign up, and first, got the “registration disabled” message, and was then taken to this Sega Pass thing… Now where are my hussars?
Why do I get the impression that this message was fired off in approximately 3 minutes, before the coffee break? Someone sure was in a hurry to get it out the door, without stopping to actually consider whether it contained all the relevant information.
09/08/2010 at 22:16 SF Legend says:
You need to sign in to the actual war room (and maybe link your steamid).
09/08/2010 at 22:47 jalf says:
and where is the war room? ;)
10/08/2010 at 00:28 SF Legend says:
It’s linked right up there in the article.
10/08/2010 at 10:03 Gothnak says:
I’ve just come back to E:TW after a long abscence due to huge amounts of work… I also installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 to speed it up… It crashes every time i have a battle… I’m not happy……
10/08/2010 at 13:26 Total War player says:
Yea, Hussar in my rear end! Cheap crap! The new forum that Creative Assembly created doesn’t even work. I can’t even register on it and they are nowhere to assist. They should be working to improve the GAME ITSELF. The game is not finished and is long overdue for updates and improvements. Lazy bastards and liers!
10/08/2010 at 16:21 PiP says:
if you want those bestest hussars you can try and get this
http://www.cdprojekt.pl/game/2949/Mount___Blade_Ogniem_i_Mieczem
special ed of Mount & Blade
10/08/2010 at 17:33 Rob says:
Oh lordy.
I have all the things ever for Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War.
But I never, EVER EVER EVER EVER play either.
Conceptually, they’re amazing things to me. Then I boot those games up and have my nose broken by the cold fist of “YOU BEEN PLAYING TOO MANY DAMN FPSES HONKY. YOUR FEEBLE ATTENTION SPAN CAN’T DEAL. GO BACK TO YOUR LEFT 4 DEAD 2 AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID.”
Anyways. I have Hussars now. So whenever I can get past a tutorial, I’m sure I’ll build a shit ton of them.
11/08/2010 at 12:32 MattO says:
how do you play as Ottamans in Egypt Campaign …i can’t seem to work in out
12/08/2010 at 00:32 ninjafoot says:
Awesome! Hussars! Now all they have to do ist to fix multiplayer games >1v1 and it was worth the money!
21/08/2010 at 18:53 Craig Laycock says:
“Craig! Mail us next time!”
Alright, it’s a deal :)
31/08/2010 at 10:43 Koldunas says:
any news on that interview?