Medieval: Total War Thread

[metalhead]

I spent several hours playing as the Sicilians, only to lose because my king died with no heirs

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19
Its on Hard and we are playing as the Byzantines. Although at the moment the difficulty level has been bumbed up to very hard as we are having a huge war with the Spanish and the Mongols although progress has been made in reducing their armies.

Sounds great. I usually play on hard, but I could give very hard a try. Byzantines are alright. Which age?

 

[Dell19]

Well we started in the Early age but the Mongols have appeared so we are around 1250. If you want you can be the next player then the saved game is on the bottom of the page and remember that you need the 1.1 patch.

Also with the Sicilians I have managed to take over all the Russian provinces and began a war against the Polish.

 

[Dell19]

A Sicilian screenshot. As a little background only the Germans and Hungarians are actually at war and the Germany and Byzantine are my allies but it is quite a nice standoff, although I am worried that the date is getting closer to Mongol invasion time and I own Khazar.

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19
Well we started in the Early age but the Mongols have appeared so we are around 1250. If you want you can be the next player then the saved game is on the bottom of the page and remember that you need the 1.1 patch.

Also with the Sicilians I have managed to take over all the Russian provinces and began a war against the Polish.

where can I get the patch? Sure, I'll play if I have the time. How in the hell did the Sicilians get from Italy all the way over to Russia and Scandinavia?

 

[Bacon King]

I just got MTW, but for some reason every time I try to start a campaign, it exits out to desktop. When I just do the battles, it's fine, its only when I start a campaign it messes up. any ideas on what I should do?

 

[tctatheel7]

Try patching it bacon king. You can patch here

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Bacon King
I just got MTW, but for some reason every time I try to start a campaign, it exits out to desktop. When I just do the battles, it's fine, its only when I start a campaign it messes up. any ideas on what I should do?

that sucks. Good luck fixing it. I have a problem too. when I beat the campaign the screen turns white and I hear a voice that describes the powerful nation I just won as. Am I supposed to see anything too, or just hear the voice? It seemed like there should be pictures or a movie or something

What are your thoughts?

 

[Bacon King]

tctatheel7, you're link for the patch doesnt work.

edit: ok, I did, a google search and I'm downloading the patch now. 46% complete

 

[Bacon King]

Ok.... it still won't work....
the only thing I can think of is to reinstall it, I'll try that now.

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Benderino


where can I get the patch? Sure, I'll play if I have the time. How in the hell did the Sicilians get from Italy all the way over to Russia and Scandinavia?

1) Google + Medieval Total war + patch

2) I'm the Sicilians so I thought I would try bribing the main rebel lands so thats why they are in Russia.

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19


1) Google + Medieval Total war + patch

2) I'm the Sicilians so I thought I would try bribing the main rebel lands so thats why they are in Russia.

Alright, I downloaded it. What kinds of new stuff is on it?

 

[tctatheel7]

crap... sorry my link didn't work

 

[Dell19]

There is a list somewhere of about 100 changes but most of them are minor. An example is that Kings are no longer invincible when they are on their own and surrounded by the entire enemy army.

 

[Dell19]

Thats still probably less than half my total amount of troops as I had to leave troops to defend my borders as at some point everyone is going to attack me.

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19




Thats still probably less than half my total amount of troops as I had to leave troops to defend my borders as at some point everyone is going to attack me.

That's in a campaign/main game thing? How did you get to see the enemies exact units?

 

[Dell19]

It always does when you are about to have a battle. A box appears displaying the amount of forces each army has.

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19
It always does when you are about to have a battle. A box appears displaying the amount of forces each army has.

Oh, is that for the expansion? In the regular one it only tells how many troops, not which ones.

 

[tctatheel7]

i just had an idea. what if, in conquests, they allow it so that units could require buildings and/or a technology, and we create an MTW scenario for civ! we could just throw technology out and require every building to require another building(s) and every unit to require a building(s). if we got some custom and vanilla civ unit designs, and named them after MTW units, and name some custom and vanilla civ buildings, we could have a MTW scenario, with cities representing territories (example: a city where switzerland would be on a europe map would be named "switzerland", and represent the entire swiss teritory). of course, this all depends on whether or not firaxis has even THOUGHT about making buildings allow units and other buildings for conquests. knowing firaxis, they probably didn't, but who knows, maybe they'll include it in the next expnasion, or perhaps civ4

 

[Dell19]

An interesting idea but I have no experience in making scenarios.