Medieval: Total War Thread

[Dell19]

The Aragonese are fun to play as at the moment as I'm just waiting for the right moment to start some new wars against Spain, Germany or Italy.

 

[tctatheel7]

i really enjoy being the spainish. i just send one crusade through north africa, and it wipes out the whole almonhad empire

 

[Benderino]

I hate those Almohads!

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by tctatheel7
i really enjoy being the spainish. i just send one crusade through north africa, and it wipes out the whole almonhad empire

Depends on the difficulty level. Plus its usually possible to drive them out of Spain in 5 years simply by hiring mercenaries and new units and then attacking.

 

[Alex the Great]

I have MTW(great game,by the way ) and I figured this is the best place to ask this so... do the AI's get unlimited money? I mean as the Italians the Pope attacks me in Naples, I win, take Rome and the Papal States. Naturally, a few years later he rebels, I plunder Rome leaving it with nothing. It is down to earning under 500 florins, yet the Pope's rebellion armies cost 1845 (yes, I calculated) florins. So how come, a few years later he has not disbanded his armies and given me mercs

 

[Dell19]

You are never forced to disband armies, it just means that he would no longer be able to build new units so he would be stuck with those units for the rest of the game. In a succession game this happened to the Italians as they were left with huge armies in Corsica and Sardinia but the armies were too large for them to support so they were stuck on those two islands as they couldn't afford to build a dock.

 

[tctatheel7]

yeah, unlike civ, when you get into negative money, you don't have to disband any units or destroy any buildings in MTW. I think what it means is that you have a loan from the bank. right now my brother is at -5,500 florins (gold)

 

[Dell19]

The odd thing about medieval is that for most of the games that I play I will be struggling for money and then there is usually a period where my treasury just expands rapidly, usually when I've completed my shipping empire. The the other coincidence is that when I reach 200000 florins I end up fighting lots of people.

Right now in my game as the Aragonese, the Italians and Spanish are both now at war with me even though I had never attacked either of them and had not even been attacking Christian empires for quite some time. Now I've been excommunicated so I am planning on a massive rampage.

 

[Benderino]

How do you succession games work, exactly? Are there more than one player?

 

[Dell19]

With the MTW games the actual Kings are more important than in Civ and after so many years the current King will die and then his heir will take over. So its possible to save the game when the current king dies and then pass on the succession game to someone else to play. So we only control one empire and take it in turns to be the King.

 

[Benderino]

Oh that's awesome. Yet, how does one transfer the game on? Just because you saved it, how do I get to carry on the legacy?

 

[Dell19]

Well it would be possible to just email it to the next player but at the moment we just zip the saved game file and the upload it using the CFC upload file function and then post the link to the file in the correct MTW thread and then the next player downloads it.

 

[Benderino]

Can I join...even though I have no idea what you just said

 

[Dell19]

Of course you can join! Do you have Viking Invasion and Medieval Total war as we have two succession games, one based on each of them and you can join either or both.

Oh and a screenshot from one of my own games:

Europe in Pink

 

[tctatheel7]

lol, the mighty armies of aragon!!!

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19
Of course you can join! Do you have Viking Invasion and Medieval Total war as we have two succession games, one based on each of them and you can join either or both.

I only have MTW, as of now...what difficulty level do you guys play at?

I'd love to join!

 

[Alex the Great]

That is quite amazing dell. I never knew anyone, on any difficulty level could win with the Aragonese. Bravo!

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Alex the Great
That is quite amazing dell. I never knew anyone, on any difficulty level could win with the Aragonese. Bravo!

It was on easy And I had one huge slice of luck early in the game when the French were winning a war against the English and then they capitulated into rebels so I managed to take about 4 provinces in the west of France which allowed me to destroy the Frenchwhen they reappeared and carry on playing the game as normal.

@Benderino Yep you can join and you can play next after Bob who I think is playing next although I'm not sure.

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Dell19



@Benderino Yep you can join and you can play next after Bob who I think is playing next although I'm not sure.

What difficulty level do you play on? What nation are we? It better not be the Almohads!

 

[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.

Oh and I've started a new single player game as the Sicilians and this time I decided to bribe the armies in Russia and have 8 provinces now (5 in Russia).