OT: Mediaval - Total War

Growltigga · #1 October 23rd, 2002, 05:05 PM

I have just had one of those beautiful moments that make playing wargames worthwhile.

Kiev is one of my provinces and is garrisoned by 3 units of Trebizond archers, 1 unit of Byzantine infantry, 1 unit of naptha throwers, 1 unit of Kataphraktoi (under Prince Andronicus, the adulterer and coward) and 1 unit of Alan cavalry.

The sneaky wretch of the King of Hungary (who is a right aggressive toe rag I can tell you) invades with a very large force indeed (about 850 men).

The battlefield is a river with 2 bridges, my infantry blocks one, the cavalry rides over the other. Mr Hungary sends his cavalry over the bridge to be slaughtered by my archers and under the swords of my infantry. The cavalry blocks each other and it is such a pleasant sight to watch the rain of arrows decimating him (I play with unlimited ammo). Having lost the bulk of his cavalry, Il Duce of Hungary sends in his infantry who frankly gets slaughtered by the arrow storm before it even reaches my troops.. in disarray, he cant do much as my katapraktoi hit him from behind and roll up what is left of his forces, he flees and the alans just run him down..

total loss to me 14 men. Total loss to him 798.

Marvellous (and this is on the hard setting)

solops · #2 October 23rd, 2002, 05:31 PM

Hmmm...the "official" MTW board is still down. Rumor on an old board is that it was hacked.

If they can get a few bugs out and get the AI to play a better strategic game this one is going to be an all-time classic.The blend of a turn-based strategic level and the variable-speed continuous time tactical level is a delight. Has anyone found any historical battles for the game posted around the net?

mac5732 · #3 October 23rd, 2002, 06:09 PM

Sachmo, go to www.Totalwar.com at bottom of page is Medevil War Demo download

just some ideas mac

sachmo · #4 October 23rd, 2002, 06:26 PM

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Originally posted by mac5732:
Sachmo, go to www.Totalwar.com at bottom of page is Medevil War Demo download

just some ideas mac

Thank, Mac, I may do that. However, I am really not a fan of RTS at all, and I'm getting the impression that this is what I would find with M:TW. I'll probably stick with EU, then.

mac5732 · #5 October 23rd, 2002, 06:59 PM

Sachmo, I think if you download the demo you'll like it, its not all rts, battles yes, but you can stop/pause, its worth a look....

I'm not a real fan of RTS, however, Shogun and Medevil are different and enjoyable compared to most

I have both EU and EUII, like them both, but Medevil takes that style game up a notch, someday if your ever on trillian in the se4 chat maybe we can hash over EU & EUII,

mac

[ October 23, 2002, 18:03: Message edited by: mac5732 ]

Mephisto · #6 October 23rd, 2002, 08:27 PM

Of course not. I can read forums were people like, well, you know, have tried it.

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
Mephisto, thanks for that but I could point out (only if I was being difficult you realise) that you must have tried this option for you to know what happens if you do it!!

solops · #7 October 24th, 2002, 03:48 PM

I wrote the webmaster of the MTW website about the forum access problem. He replied that the forums were down and that they would be back up "soon". He also told me to direct all questions to the forum, not the webmaster....

Also, I own EUI, EUII and MTW. MTW wins, hands down, though its AI may not play the strategic game as well as EUII does. I do NOT generally like RTS. However, in MTW the battles are the only things that are RTS. The speed is totally controllable, even pausable. And orders can be given during pauses as well as while the battle is moving.

Don't get me wrong, EUII is a great game. I still play it, too, but for a different "twist."

[ October 24, 2002, 14:49: Message edited by: solops ]