Total War Megathread V.2: "All of Christendom Will be Awed by this Megathread!" - Games

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39520643]I won't be shocked at all if they tell us that the absolute maximum amount of troops is one hundred thousand. I believe Shogun II can hit something like seventy-thousand maximum?[/QUOTE] Unless you take into account tech limitations, having 8 armies composed entirely of 20 ultra size line infantry gives you 32,000 men on the battlefield in total.

[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;39523687]Unless you take into account tech limitations, having 8 armies composed entirely of 20 ultra size line infantry gives you 32,000 men on the battlefield in total.[/QUOTE] You can adjust unit size quite easily. Using 2400 man companies, this guy got 48,000 on one field. And I know I've seen it stated that the engine can go up to 60,000, perhaps more. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ5V42zI9Xc[/media] [editline]8th February 2013[/editline] I guess the max is 56,000. So, not 70,000, and it casts my hopes of 100,000 into doubt, but it's certainly something. And to think that Medieval II kills itself at 4000 troops.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39523743]You can adjust unit size quite easily. Using 2400 man companies, this guy got 48,000 on one field. And I know I've seen it stated that the engine can go up to 60,000, perhaps more. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ5V42zI9Xc[/media] [editline]8th February 2013[/editline] I guess the max is 56,000. So, not 70,000, and it casts my hopes of 100,000 into doubt, but it's certainly something. [B]And to think that Medieval II kills itself at 4000 troops.[/B][/QUOTE] That is, of course, until Medieval III comes out :quagmire:

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;39524014]That is, of course, until Medieval III comes out :quagmire:[/QUOTE] Hopefully. Until then I'll have to deal with a ten FPS drop when I have the nerve to bring three stacks into the same fight. Then I can go into Shogun II and fight with twice that number and have a smooth sixty FPS. Medieval II only uses one core, sadly.

[QUOTE=VOSK;39523027]What Difficulty? and i'm guessing it's Darthmod?[/QUOTE] Campaign at Hard and battles as Very Hard (or whatever that difficulty after hard is). And yes, I'm using Darthmod to be able to play with emergent nations. [editline]9th February 2013[/editline] Right. My great Savoyan empire is now composed of... Two measly territories which are pretty much identical to one-another. Single building space, single gold mine, single port. This time I [I]could[/I] actually build a courtroom which made my citizens happy (and repressed). A defense fort was also built just to make sure nobody got any bright ideas. I also made a shipyard with the false hopes that maybe one day I'll have some 150 gun ships to roam the seas with. About 10 turns in, I realized that I don't actually have an university, which meant that I was living in a technological stagnation. I quickly contacted the French and asked them if they'd trade me some technologies for money. They wouldn't. So, I went to the Prussians which were happy to oblige. Sure, spending 25,000 gold on stuff you usually get for free isn't very cool, but otherwise, I would've been unable to do anything! I looked around to see what I could maybe conquer next. The Papal States? Too many allies, some of them on my doorstep. Milan? Still ridiculously strong for me. Sicily? Allied with only one nation... The French. With my country bordering France, I really couldn't afford a war with them, less I wanted to be wiped out in 5 turns. Ah! Corsica! Yes, it's a French territory I thought, but I can [I]buy[/I] it off of them. I whipped up the diplomacy screen and offered them 10,000 golden coins in exchange for their island. They said something about wines and time which pretty much amounted to 'no'. I wasn't ready to give up on my brilliant plan though. I made a new offer - 30,000. They again said something about wine and time, but I guess this time it was a 'yes', because my flag was hoisted over Corsica. Now we're talking - I'm an actual nation! Sure, if I'm invaded, it'll probably take me months to assemble an army in one location, but it's still something. In Corsica, I built a cannon foundry and again, a star fort. In the meantime, I was conquering every sea trading route I could get my hands on. Everything to the south barring those near Gibraltar and Russia was mine. My income was soaring and with no army and no navy to support, I made about 15000/turn. This meant that I could lower taxes on the poor (which were already annoyed at my attempts at repression and industrialization). I was still heavily in my "no war" stance, because any sea-worthy nation would probably decimate my trading fleets or even worse, blockade my port, which would've starved me in a couple of weeks. I had a couple of other problems as well. I was quickly running out of small islands to add to my pseudo-empire and the bigger problem (this one was on a pretty much world-scale) - the French Empire was gaining momentum - it's Eastern border was already heavily in ex-Prussian and ex-Austrian territories. Apparently they were unable to stop them as effectively as the could in real-life. Seeing small countries liberated by the Coalition and then destroyed and conquered by the French made me think about joining an alliance to make sure I didn't get wiped out. A couple of turns later, I thought I would be proven right - the French army was advancing on-to Milan, who were at the time busy invading my ally - Venice. I decided against intervening and just let events play out. Milan conquered Venice. France conquered Milan. France conquered Venice. Fuck. Surrounded on two sides by the blue empire wasn't really a nice position, so I pulled all of my armies back to my capital. The destruction I expected never came. Their armies just continued advancing East, leaving me alone. I celebrated shortly and decided to buy off the Belearic Islands of off Spain. They weren't too happy about that and after my offer reached 45,000, I decided against it. My only other option was war...

Conquering gerade routes withouz being at war?

[QUOTE=Killuah;39527383]Conquering gerade routes withouz being at war?[/QUOTE] I'm assuming you meant trade routes? Yeah, they weren't taken by anyone yet.

[QUOTE=ForgotPassword;39546851]Got a bit of an issue here with Shogun 2. Cant seem to move my campaign camera with the wasd keys. Anyone know what the deal is?[/QUOTE] Reload a save before that, or there should be some sort of registry fix. Just google it

Mouse only. Hardcoooore. [editline]11th February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Stopper;39527463]I'm assuming you meant trade routes? Yeah, they weren't taken by anyone yet.[/QUOTE] Oh you mean trade places, not routes.

Uh so I'm having some trouble with Shogun II. When the bow levies fire it sounds like Civil War rifle fire and they constantly sound Confederate trumpets before charging. Um

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39552020]Uh so I'm having some trouble with Shogun II. When the bow levies fire it sounds like Civil War rifle fire and they constantly sound Confederate trumpets before charging. Um[/QUOTE] Are you running something like Darthmod? It would require that you download a sound patch for that.

[QUOTE=lilguy;39554029]Are you running something like Darthmod? It would require that you download a sound patch for that.[/QUOTE] That's probably it. I just don't get why Darthmod for Shogun II would have Confederate trumpets.

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;39554157]That's probably it. I just don't get why Darthmod for Shogun II would have Confederate trumpets.[/QUOTE] They're sounds from Fall of the Samurai. Your bows sound like cannon shots and you get constant attack bugles playing if you charge. Here's the fix: [url]http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=565439[/url]

Started a british campaign on Napoleon total war with Darthmod. [B]First 10 turns in[/B] Campaign started off pretty well. My Navy kicked French ass as they were attempting to blockade my ports. The war with Spain in the Iberian Peninusler wasnt going too well though. I lost Gibralter to a Large Spanish army of mostly Veteran Regiments, and all that stood up against them were a few of my "Conscript" Fencible Regiments and some Garrison Guards (1 foot and 1 Kings). The battle started off with my troops deploying stakes/barricades in the city. My troops actually were deployed in the middle of the city maps with the buildings Sheltering the units from Constant Artillery barrages and the Stakes/Blockades deployed around the city practicly locking down the city from Horsmen. As the spanish Infantry and Cavalry started to close in on the small British Guard (They had around 5000 men and I had around 3500) My men were starting to take cover behind the barricades and in the small building we were all positioned around. as the first shots were fired the spanish started to push up towards the british units. Taking most of the hits they then charged at the Kings Line Infantry. Moral among the British Conscripts started to drop as the Spanish Cavalry started to push in to the city. jumping over barricades and although suffering from stakes. still managed to charge into the fray of Spanish and British Melee fighting. at the final moments of the battle, the Spanish swarmed into the the british garrison and fought brutally in the occupied buildings. my units started to retreat after holding Gibralter for around 10 minutes. Although losing the fight the british conscripts killed around 2000 spaniards. but suffered heavily. As Gibralter was lost. My nation did not have a Foothold in Spain. And Portugal was not willing to agree to the "Military access" Treaty I had proposed to them. ....I might start writing a diary of what happens in this game. I might post extracts here just to keep people updated. alongside pictures (gonna take a break and watch Sharpe. I would reccomend watching this to anyone interested in the Napoleonic War.)

Conquering North Africa(sub Morocco/Egypt) as the Italian States cause fuck you for spamming light galleys to raid my ivory routes. Meanwhile the Austrian-Prussian super alliance is fucking Poland up which is most likely going to piss off the Russians and British. Luckily Spain and France are just buttfucking the United Provinces financially and I'm 98% sure they aren't going to jump into the massive fray that's looming.(but hey its ETW, the AI is batshit crazy and will wage wars with anyone and everyone for no fucking reason) All my Italian State playthroughs essentially turn into World War 2: 1725 Edition :v:

[img]http://www7.pic-upload.de/13.02.13/tw2nw7lrfo4.jpg[/img] [img]http://www10.pic-upload.de/13.02.13/4j1lh2zk5u3k.jpg[/img] Battle of the Teutoburger Wald, also called Battle of Varus. That landscape.

Fucking Awesome!

Oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh-ohhhhh-OHHH-OHHHH-OHHHHHH!!!!! Holy fuck I can't wait until October!

also a new rally point, with a bit of the soundtrack in it [video=youtube;-27_7ZxauL4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27_7ZxauL4[/video]

That's where I got the screens from :) Got it in Facebook.

So much Rome II info these past few weeks <3 Creative Assembly

I am stunned by the landscape. Actual streets and all that stuff. Trees that are somewhat PROPORTIONAL to the humans. Hell must be freezing.

Soundtrack sounds way to much like NapoleonTW, that was ok for 19th century warfare but come on, it's not going to be as good as Rome's soundtrack.

[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/dfVv2HB.jpg[/thumb] This is what happens when barbarians fight barbarians.

How do you guys do 30k men battles? I'm on Darthmod for Shogun 2 and it's choppy enough with 24k men. Deployment phase's fine, but once battle starts units skip battle animations/refuse to follow move commands.

Scotland playthrough on M2:TW is a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

[QUOTE=mookie;39584334]How do you guys do 30k men battles? I'm on Darthmod for Shogun 2 and it's choppy enough with 24k men. Deployment phase's fine, but once battle starts units skip battle animations/refuse to follow move commands.[/QUOTE] Usually reducing to 1/2 speed makes things a lot smoother.

is there really only going to be 8 factions in the new rome?

[QUOTE=mookie;39584334]How do you guys do 30k men battles? I'm on Darthmod for Shogun 2 and it's choppy enough with 24k men. Deployment phase's fine, but once battle starts units skip battle animations/refuse to follow move commands.[/QUOTE]I bumped down Unit sizes from Ultra to Large and I get a significant boost in performance when there's lots of units. also this [url]http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=486474[/url]

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;39594834]is there really only going to be 8 factions in the new rome?[/QUOTE] I'm sure there'll be more, smaller minor factions that either we can unlock or they'll sell as DLC (sigh)