Total War Megathread V.2: "All of Christendom Will be Awed by this Megathread!"
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[QUOTE=Kommodore;39258363]A propos minor factions and playability, all the unit dialogue is perfectly voiced in the native language. It's so bizarre that half the mechanics are fucked when you play a minor nation but for some reason all the units have multiple lines and multiple dedicated VAs.
"Si, signore!"
[editline]17th January 2013[/editline]
Then again all the linguistic options are shared between major and minor factions besides the Italian states which leads me to believe that at least one of them was intended to be a playable faction at some point.[/QUOTE]
You can hear the audio of opposing troops if you hang the camera over them, I suspect thats the main reason they have a variety of dialogue.
[QUOTE=metallics;39258547]You can hear the audio of opposing troops if you hang the camera over them, I suspect thats the main reason they have a variety of dialogue.[/QUOTE]
But it's true for campaign map as well. Italian agents and armies have full dialogue.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;39259628]But it's true for campaign map as well. Italian agents and armies have full dialogue.[/QUOTE]
I'm fairly sure Venice was intended to be a major faction. They have their own unique line infantry.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;39258425]I dream of an ai that is tough to beat without cheating so much
maybe one day[/QUOTE]
In Medieval II Denmark has been a bitch for over 50 turns.
They keep coming in and taking my shit while actually having a lot of land to support what they front.
[QUOTE=Zarjk;39260795]In Medieval II Denmark has been a bitch for over 50 turns.
They keep coming in and taking my shit while actually having a lot of land to support what they front.[/QUOTE]
Denmark is awesome. They start out with fucking vikings man. You only need like a stack of them and maybe some cav, and you can just wreck your way through anything.
[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;39258023]should I get darthmod for ETW?[/QUOTE]
Yes. It turns ETW into a playable game.
Not when your France..
I left Paris unguarded and with a stack of spear militia.
My king with 8 stars of command and I could not even attack back, only protect myself.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;39260838]Denmark is awesome. They start out with fucking vikings man. You only need like a stack of them and maybe some cav, and you can just wreck your way through anything.[/QUOTE]
This is what I did in both RTW as Germania, BI as the Saxons, and Medieval II, as Denmark.
I would train this huge badass army of the best cav, and the strongest warrior axemen and my best general, and just go on a rampage raiding all the way to the black sea, then get on ships and raid along the mediterranean, just as real vikings did. I would end up with obscene amounts of booty, and the whole army at highest rank.
Is Carthage considered to be the hardest faction to play as in RTW?
yes
Carthage is far from the hardest to play as. Numidia is probably the hardest to play in vanilla RTW.
Just built a new rig. My god does Shogun 2 look beautiful on Ultra.
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egypt are u even trying
To be fair Knights of Jerusalem are horrifically overpowered. And that looks fairly early into the campaign so you were probably against shitty, early units. I've done much better than that.
Reminds me of my unbreakable spear wall camping i did in Medieval 2 campaign with the Timuads, Dismounted lancers behind them my dismounted horse archers, and then Cannon and gun elephants, I managed to destroy massive armies like that, while taking little casualties, twas beautiful
[QUOTE=Another Hater;39309459]Reminds me of my unbreakable spear wall camping i did in Medieval 2 campaign with the Timuads, Dismounted lancers behind them my dismounted horse archers, and then Cannon and gun elephants, I managed to destroy massive armies like that, while taking little casualties, twas beautiful[/QUOTE]
Timurids are a force to be reckoned with. I know, because I reckoned with them as the Byzantines and many of my armies were destroyed, two for every army of theirs.
You guys are using the wrong strategies. Just camp the fuck out of your cities with heavy infantry and spears/pikes at the gate. Have cavalry in reserve to flank them and destroy their artillery.
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egypt are u even trying[/QUOTE]
If I hadn't just freshly reinstalled Steam and lost my Steam screenshot directory location I'd show you the time I slaughtered a 1000-1500 man French vanguard invasion force composed of well armed infantry ranging up to Armoured Sergeants and Feudal Knights attacking one of my castles by just sallying out with about 200-250 Knights and the HRE Emperor in a heroic charge that shattered the entire army in minutes. Maybe the French were so confident they would win they decided a long column saved the effort of setting up a battle line. Instead I crashed into the first group, retreated, slammed into the second group from all sides and repeated this a few times until all their men were retreating. I had about 2-3 Feudal Knight units, 2 Mailed Knight units and the Emperor iirc.
My HRE game had loads of heroic generals, my favourite one began his career defending Italy, invading Milan and Venice, and then defending Genoa against the French, in one battle even stabbing the French Prince in a one on one duel in the crotch (it got so close the armies were literally one man general units and a handful of Spearmen) ending the only threatening siege they ever undertook. He then went North and killed a bunch of Poles but somehow his loyalty skydived (or maybe it was always poor) as I noticed he'd reached almost full command stars. I had to leave him inside a fort for the rest of his days.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;39309416]To be fair Knights of Jerusalem are horrifically overpowered. And that looks fairly early into the campaign so you were probably against shitty, early units. I've done much better than that.[/QUOTE]
come at me
[QUOTE=shrektheturd2;39310083]come at me[/QUOTE]
dost thou even hoist, peasant?
Some more Napoleon.
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Wow that's just gorgeous
Fired up an Ikko Ikki campagin. Had everyone declare war in the first 10 turns.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;39250798]Playing FotS. Very hard difficulty, Aizu, 15th turn. Two full stack gunpowder armies march straight into the town I was given the quest to attack.
I assume this is that bullshit AI cheating everyone is talking about.[/QUOTE]
I keep saying it and i will say it again.
Darthmod fixes shit like that.
When i meet a big enemy army, it's usually because they AI has spent loadsa turns to make one.
Wow the yari units in FOTS are total monsters. I had a all line infantry army with an single saber unit versus a equivalently sized army with a bunch of yari and levy infantry. The damn yari soaked up all the bullets like they were nothing and killed everything in their wake. :I
The trick to FOTS with firearm infantry, is to use layers.
Like, instead of having 6 units out in a line. Have a tiered systemwith like 3 in the front, 3 in the back.
Kneel fire is also absolutely amazing at hammering down melee units in FotS.
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