OT: Mediaval - Total War

Growltigger · #1 February 26th, 2003, 07:51 PM

Mephisto, you remembered, awwww, next time I am at Frankfurt airport, I shall look for my little ezel......

Mac, the chances of you breaking an English square only arise if you eat your damn chilli, sidle up to the square, turn round, drop your kacks and proceed to break wind at the poor English chaps!!

As the donkey says, you can invade a province which doesnt have a port, but after a castle and watchtowers to boost up loyalty, you better build one or your prize army of longbowmen are stuck in said province!!

Hey, has anyone got to the late era, the fun you can have with a couple of demi-culverin!!! really makes battles fun with some of those bLasting for Britain

mac5732 · #2 February 27th, 2003, 05:18 AM

I tried landing on Ireland without it having a port and it wouldn't let me, hmm, must be doing something wrong, have to go back make sure ship in each zone, hmm the sneaky alahmods might have taken one out.

GT, a secret weapon is a secret weapon

So far I've played the Egyptians, Danes and now the English, which ones have you guys played?

eating some chili Mac

Growltigger · #3 February 27th, 2003, 12:24 PM

Byzantines are a personal favourite, as are the Spanish.

The Byzantines have some whacky units of their own which are great fun (given that you fight lots of horse archers and camel warriors). The empire is also big and rich so with Constantinople being a Keep as at day 1, you can ramp up.

No infantry kicks the stuffing out of people like the Varangian Guard (except longbows!!)

I also like playing the Spanish - quickly grab Valencia, Portugal and Navarre, launch the reconquista against the Almohads and in the meantime, lauch crusades against the Holy Land (with only a few of your troops, direct the crusades through France and Germany and you will pick up lots of troops) and against any catholic kingdom that gets excommunicated. Battles galore and the Jinetes are great light cavalry.

I also like the Italians, weak militarily (aren't they always) but you can really build up the trade and generate thousands of florins that way...

solops · #4 February 27th, 2003, 05:23 PM

I have crushed the Samnites and the Etruscans. The Gauls have 4 stacks of troops per province across northern Italia. Hastatii and Triarii forward! Roma victis! (or something like that....)

Growltigger · #5 February 28th, 2003, 03:51 PM

Eh? Salops, my Mediaval-Total War doesn't have Gauls, Samnites and Etruscans, I thought the Rome-Total War game was not out until later this year!

How on earth are you commanding legions at this stage?

solops · #6 February 28th, 2003, 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by growltigger:
Eh? Salops, my Mediaval-Total War doesn't have Gauls, Samnites and Etruscans, I thought the Rome-Total War game was not out until later this year!

How on earth are you commanding legions at this stage?

Oh, well, Its all very technical and so on, don't you know :-)

And...I installed the new Patrician 1.2 mod. I think I posted a link to the forum with the Mod link in it below.

Edit: Yes , here: Patrician 1.2 and Med Mod 1.71. Links to them can be found in their own threads in the Dungeon forum of the Guild website at http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi

[ February 28, 2003, 15:20: Message edited by: solops ]

solops · #7 February 28th, 2003, 05:22 PM

BTW Early on my Romans are crushing the barbarians such as the Gauls. However, a few skirmishes lead me to conclude that war with the Macedonians and with higher tech barbarians is going to be unpleasant as they develop. The Roman legions are hard to match in the early game.

[ February 28, 2003, 15:24: Message edited by: solops ]