I’m sick and tired of those motherfucking monks on the motherfucking battlefield!
You said it!
They are nasty customers, but gunfire is their weakness. I like to play Shimazu and take Christianity at the first opportunity. I get mucho moolah and quick access to gunners, and can establish total dominance long before anyone can get to the Monks.
Amen. Gunpowder is key in that game. Don’t even let them get to monks if you can help it.
Fortunately, by the time anyone gets to monks, you can either be getting to Heavy Cavalry or just spamming gunners by the thousands.
That heavy cavalry was pretty badass, too. I was also a big fan of those heavy shock troops, too.
Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I made the Hungarians my vassal when I was seiging their first settlement after they got excommunicated.
Second one EVER!
Every time I played that game, all the other families would be wiped out really earlyby revolts or events or bad luck or whatever, and so I’d always find myself as the only organized group on the map, having to take over unclaimed province after unclaimed province.
That did seem to happen rather a lot, didn’t it?
Still, it worked for me, since it meant that I wasn’t at risk of being back-stabbed by “allies” randomly deciding they wanted one of my provinces for no apparent reason…
There’s a trick to it, but it’s almost cheating. They’re awesome when you’re on the defensive against an opponent without artillery and/or you attack an opponent who’ll bring the fight to you and doesn’t have artillery.
In those cases… you just stick your pikemen in a straight line, diagonally across one of the corners of the map. Put them on “guard”, and stick archers behind them. Without enemy artillery fighting you, you can win against 10:1 odds, no problem.
I’m trying to upload the Stainless Steel Mod for Medieval 2: Total War. I’ve downloaded and installed everything, but whenever I launch the Mod I keep getting an error message that says an unhandled exception has occurred in my application.
I was looking for the mod but couldn’t find it. Link?
“No thread specified”. Fail.
Yeah, I think several mods take away the pikemens’ ability to switch to swords, forcing the to stick with the pike, which helps a bit. The Turks have some pretty badass spearmen, though, which are really easy to work with, compared to pikemen, if not quite so devastating against charges.
Here is a video on the land battles of Empire: Total War and I’m being stupid because the more I read about it the more I’m getting excited, and getting excited over a game is bad because it usually means it’s going to suck.
I played “Imperial Glory” in the past and while a substandard game I did like how on the tactical map units could occupy the buildings and the attackers had to fight hand-to-hand for it. I’m glad to see they’ve incorporated that. Basically, it has everything I wanted.
And I need to start reading up on 18th century warfare in order to have a basis to base my tactics on.
So…um…
Am I going to need a new video card?
Yeah, I have the very same thought.
Shit. I may need a new motherboard as well, then.
I fucking hate PC games. Release this game on the consoles and be done with it.
I can’t imagine how this game would work on a console, unless they import a keyboard and mouse type thingy for it.