The Screenshots Thread

[cardgame]

Be careful, they're quite vulnerable to cavalry and archers

Yeah, orcs pretty much suck on their own, you have to support them with some regular troops. I find a combo of 3-4 Orc Raiders and 4-5 Snaga Hunters plus some cavalry works well for my play style. Orc Raiders have surprisingly decent morale, they can hold the line against militia and swordsmen long enough to encircle it from behind with either cavalry or another unit of orcs.

 

[LightSpectra]

British naval abilities rapidly declined once the French invented the "pause" button. (Though to be fair, the French were ambushed at Aboukir Bay in real life, whereas N:TW has it with the French as the aggressors, oddly enough,)

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Urban warfare! Running battles in the streets of Kermanshah!

 

[Phrossack]

Dare I say friendly fire wiped out your front battery.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

No, carelessly placing my cannon too far away from help left them open to a charge by Militia Cavalry upon being fired at. Notice the proximity of musketeer to cannon this time.

 

[LightSpectra]

The final battle of Napoleon: Total War for me:

Spoiler :

I invaded Russia with four stacks: Napoleon/Murat, Ney, Massena and Davout. Ney and Massena went for St. Petersburg and Davout went for the Crimea, which left the Napoleon/Murat army to face the final Russian army before occupying Moscow. The Russian stack, appropriately enough, had 1812 soldiers.

I took 800 casualties, including Murat, while the Russian army took 1,400 and retreated back to Moscow before surrendering.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

How do I get around really hating Empire Total War?

Simple: create it in another game.

Behold, Gunpowder, Total War!

 

[Traitorfish]

Interesting. How well does that army actually do in the field? I would've thought that, given the Total War timespan, a missile army lacking some sort of melee backup was asking to be butchered.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Concentrate fire and your only real danger is large numbers of melee cavalry. Most units go completely nuts when confronted with that many morale-reducing missiles at once. And, of course, the insane damage that guns do compared to arrows and bolts.

 

[LightSpectra]

I can never get musketeers to work correctly in Medieval 2. Even in custom battles where I use maxed out Janissary corps, they seem useless to me. The only time they've ever been useful is when I can put them on a relatively steep hill and then surround the base of it with infantry, but that's a very rare occasion.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

They won't fire through friendly lines (which is understandable). In this battle they were on a hillside, so both lines could fire together. Needless to say, devastatingly effective. Several units of Druzhina charged my lines, but half were cut down by gunfire before they made contact, and were so demoralized that they routed seconds later anyway.

Also, I those Cossack Gunners; the only gun cavalry in the game! Truly spectacular units all around.

 

[kibbles]

They won't fire through friendly lines (which is understandable). In this battle they were on a hillside, so both lines could fire together. Needless to say, devastatingly effective. Several units of Druzhina charged my lines, but half were cut down by gunfire before they made contact, and were so demoralized that they routed seconds later anyway.

Also, I those Cossack Gunners; the only gun cavalry in the game! Truly spectacular units all around.

Cossack cavalry, are you playing stainless steel? This is going to shock everyone, but I haven't tried stainless steel yet.

 

[Phrossack]

Me neither. It changes too much.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Yes its SS. I can't go back to vanilla M2TW, it just sucks too much.

And it doesn't change THAT much, but it does change things. For one, the map is much bigger, so most battles aren't sieges. And cool stuff like army supplies are added, along with more unit and building depth.

 

[LightSpectra]

They won't fire through friendly lines (which is understandable). In this battle they were on a hillside, so both lines could fire together. Needless to say, devastatingly effective. Several units of Druzhina charged my lines, but half were cut down by gunfire before they made contact, and were so demoralized that they routed seconds later anyway.

Oh, I'm aware that they don't shoot through friendly lines. My problem is that when they do shoot, it seems to be utterly ineffective. It'll kill two or three men, and it'll only route the receiver if they're simultaneously being engaged by another unit.

 

[Daftpanzer]

ULTIMATE POWER!

From my days of modding RTW:BI for fun and giggles

 

[cardgame]

Space Hamsters?

 

[Maniacal]

They go for the eyes!

 

[Daftpanzer]

EDIT: moved to non-TW screenshots thread, oops!

 

[cardgame]

wrong thread XD but nice screenshots!