I’m game. What is everyone’s thought on either Milan or Venice? Those are both interesting nations with decent units.
-XT
How about alphabetical order for the Portugese?
Yeah, I think we were going to do Portugal.
Alphabetical is fine unless someone can think of a better way to come up with an order.
Works for me.
-XT
Heh. I’m doing Portugal now, having been inspired to dust off the game again by this thread and the new patch. It is just a little too easy to make florins hand over fist if you give in to temptation and start trading all those gold and ivory resources down in Mali and Senegal.
I’d consider joining your merry crew, but I’m afraid that I use so many little house rules and am inclined to being such a turtler, that it might not be much fun for anyone involved. I can just imagine the guy getting the save game after me - “Hey! Tamerlane didn’t do anything! Oh, wait…yes, he did…he gave one of our cities to Spain as a gift. WTF!?!” 
- Tamerlane
lol…well, normally I’m a bit of a turtler myself. This time however I didn’t have much of a choice. When you have a bunch of regiments that are all beat up, negative gold in the treasury and negative income you either go out and try and capture cities just to sack or pack up and go home.
BTW, not that its related to this thread, but I heard that Sega is planning an expansion for this game some time late summer. Also, a friend told me she heard that the TR version of this game should be out some time in July (in theory).
-XT
Yeah, I was just checking out some of the details on the expansion (called “Kingdoms”) while I was waiting for the patch to download. They’re adding three (IIRC) new campaigns, and an expanded New World element that allows you to play as native American nations. It’s supposed to be the biggest TW expansion they’ve done to date.
I’ve played through my first 5 turns and here’s a summary of events:
King Ingesborg, succeeded his fouly murdered father, King Thorgils to inherit a huge kingdom spanning most of Eastern Europe with provinces as far as the holy lands!
The first order of business was to send Lord Gunnar Of Bogense, a capable commander on a crusade to Toledo. A pang of guilt was felt as our people, not beloved by the pope, risked the same fate should toledo fall and the pope’s gaze then turn to us.
The second order of business was to push back against the Germans, they are almost beaten and now is not the time to grant them quarter. I beseiged their capital north east Milan and settled down for what is likely to be a long seige. With no reinforcements nearby, I am in no hurry. Let them starve.
Milan is another story. It is beseiged by a very large, very angry army of milanese. I bite my thumb in their general direction. I am confident we can repell them. Once their armies are beaten back, the two nearby provinces, poorly garrisoned should be ripe of the picking.
It was at around this time than the Bizantines attacked Adana, one of our provinces in the middle east. They attacked with sucha number of siege machines as I have never seen before. Our walls stood no chance, and so I gambled on my knights, fighting in “the english style” they charged on foot and defeated nearly all of their siege engines. Alas, not before opening several large holes in our walls. I retreated to the fortified interior keep where we traded attacks for counter attacks for several long hours. Finally, on a final charge by the bizantines, I managed to kill their commander and the remnants of their army broke and fled, but not without taking their toll. Only a handful of knights and peasant archers remain to garrison the province, reinforments from Antioch may be called for.
The last important event i was witness to was the death of Pope Phonellus. The old goat, cursed the name of denmark with his last breath, I hear.
Unfortunately his successor Pope Accattus hails from Milan, our hated enemy. He claims to have pardoned our past “misdeeds”, but my diplomats and spies tell me otherwise. Not to self: kill the bastard and take the papacy with one of our bishops.
I rounded out my time by building several watch towers to better keep an eye on enemy troop movements, and by building cities in our northern most provinces in order to consolidate our revenue producing assets.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to continue the reign of King Ingesborg as last minute plans came through and I’ll be busy most of the weekend.
I’ll be sending the save file to Alessan in a few minutes.
the king is… still alive! Long live the king!
Yeah, the expansion is due relatively soon. Please, keep us posted on the Total Realism patch. That was like getting a brand new game for Rome.
This says that the expansion is in autumn (late summer…autumn…toe-may-to, tah-mah-to)
I don’t think it’ll be a problem, at least not as long as you’re not turtling too much in the beginning. If we do it in alphabetical order that won’t even be an issue, and it won’t if you join this campaign either.
It really wouldn’t have been a problem waiting during the weekend, but I guess it’s too late now. I’ll just bump you down to the next free turn.
- Alessan
- Ludovic (if he’s ready)
- Kinthalis
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Talon Karrde
LOUNE
xtisme
Miller
Not to nag, but as they say around here… nu?
Any possibility of a late player joining in? (Or even just getting a copy of the savegame for myself, I kinda fancy seeing what the strategic minds of the Dope can cobble together out of Denmark :p)
Alessan, sorry, outlook wasn’t done sending it friday before I closed it! When I opened the app this morning, it completed the upload. You should have it soon.
Well, I successfully installed 1.2 this weekend! So I am ready to be the next contributor to the [del]downfall[/del] greatness of the Danish Empire!
Could I ask for a spot in the campaign after this?
Gukumatz, Rev Thresh, as far as we’re concerned, you’re in the queue for Denmark after Kinthalis.
Bah! I installed 1.2 and it crashes when I try to run it. I’ll uninstall, reinstall, and reapply the patch. Let’s see if that does it.
Did you patch from a fresh install of the game? I didn’t have any trouble at all…in fact, just the reverse. My game was constantly crashing in the tactical battles if there were every any elephants on the enemy side…and randomly regardless of elephants or lack there of. Since the patch I haven’t had a single crash (though I did have a wierd episode where the game seemed to run REALLY slow for an entire tactical battle…couldn’t even move the mouse. But it cleared up when the battle ended and haven’t had a repeat).
-XT
Got it.
I’ve only played a couple of rounds so far - mainly getting the lay of the land, shifting forces around, setting priorities. I’ve chosen two castles and one cities as production centers, and I’m stripping my garrisons to a bare minimum to form a bunch of full-stack elite-troop field armies.
Oh, and I broke the seige of Milan, just to see if I could do it. It worked… barely. I beat three armies (equaling over twice my numbers) at the cost of half my men, including most of my infantry and all of my cavalry. As a result, Northern Italy is wide open. This is going to be fun.