Medieval 2 total war thread

I got the rig in my sig, will it run this game any good?

pleased be honest as I dont want to waste my money tbh :)
 
I would be surprised if it didn't. Besides, you should be looking up the games Minimum and Recommended Specs anyway before you buy.

SiriusB
 
Gahh, my Faction Leader got called to a crusade, i made a brand spanking new army full of the best units I had and some of my first gunpowder units, I assigned the stack to the crusade and then sent them on their way.

Now I keep getting desertion messages, half my units are gone and im in no shape for a crusade anywhere.

Why are they running :( Im getting there as fast as I can.
 
philstanbridge said:
For sure! You need to be patient though. The real time battles are easy enough to deal with, but the best part is the tactical game - this takes time to master, as does everything that is worth while in life. ;)
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Well mate, the only games I have really played in FPS :s
 
gr1mey said:
I got the rig in my sig, will it run this game any good?

pleased be honest as I dont want to waste my money tbh :)
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I've got a Conroe 6400, X1800XT 256mb and 2gigs of RAM with nothing overclocked and I can run it on full settings at 1440x900 with no slowdown at all.

I think you'll be ok.
 
me227 said:
When building towns and cities and it asks you to convert to a castle does that mean a settlement can only be one or the other. With towns making more money from trade but yet have less defenses while castles make less money but have better defences.
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Yep, that's right. There are certain units you can only build in one or the other as well.

For those wondering about Free Upkeep Units, right click on the first item in your city tab - that should tell you.
 
Nieldo said:
Gahh, my Faction Leader got called to a crusade, i made a brand spanking new army full of the best units I had and some of my first gunpowder units, I assigned the stack to the crusade and then sent them on their way.

Now I keep getting desertion messages, half my units are gone and im in no shape for a crusade anywhere.

Why are they running :( Im getting there as fast as I can.
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There's a few ways to combat this if you are certain you want to crusade. You can place a General(s) closer to Jersualem and have him camp and wait it out; building your army as you go - build a fort or sack a settlement nearby. Or you need to make sure the General has good enough traits and virtues that prevent all his men from running (piety?) - at the end of the day I think you will get a number of deserters regardless, so prepare for it in advance. Send several armies, and have spies and priests amongst them. It's a costly affair.
 
Screw that for now, Ive been pumping out the armys and decided to screw it and attacked Paris, full stack vs full stack :) Now I cant retrain but I have Paris at least :). DEATH TO THE FRENCH!
 
Nieldo said:
Screw that for now, Ive been pumping out the armys and decided to screw it and attacked Paris, full stack vs full stack :) Now I cant retrain but I have Paris at least :). DEATH TO THE FRENCH!
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LOL.. I managed to sack Paris a while back - leaving the Frenchies with a few settlements spread over the map. Cant be doing their trade any good.

I'm struggling against the Milanese however - they have steam rollered Northern Italy and South Western France and have started to venture North towards my safe houses. I have just lost 2 heavily defended settlements in succession :( I even set up a fort at a choice location and they simply attacked me from both sides. I didnt stand a chance. I can see that they have been busy.. My fault for leaving little or no garrisons to protect (partially due to the plague killing them off!) The AI is quite smart at times, and at others it leaves me bemused with it's inefficiency. Hopefully the patch wil sort a lot of the problems out.
 
If it is anything like civ, and it sounds it during the turn-based bit, then you need to simultaneously advance and fortify. If you don't advance you dont reach your goals, if you don't fortify you leave yourself open to get hammered!

Can't wait for it to arrive :D

SiriusB
 
gr1mey said:
I got the rig in my sig, will it run this game any good?

pleased be honest as I dont want to waste my money tbh :)
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I can 110% guarantee that you will be able to play it fine :)
 
The Byzantines started getting on my nerves, so I restarted as the Egyptians. I'm actually looking forward to someone starting a crusade! Well, my relations with the Papal States are perfect after I spent six turns amassing 10k and just gave them to him. Went from Poor to Perfect in one fell swoop :)
 
Darth Revan said:
damn the mongols!!! had jeruslalem and antioch after crusade as england. Then the mongol hordes batter them both. Just you wait till I get gunpowder..
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You could wait until about 30 turns from the end and call a crusade - with any luck everyone else will send troops too and make it easier for you :)

Bit of a risky prospect though!

I decided to move away from the Christian nations for my second run through.....I'm hoping to get to the Aleppo, Damascus, Acre, Antioch and Jerusalem regions early doors and fortify them to the hilt with a load of reinforcements in the Gaza region. Looking enviously on the Turkish lands, though, as I hope to grab that whole region and try to make it as difficult as possible for both the Mongols and the Timurids when they turn up.

And if you though the Mongols were bad......the Timurids are really going to mess up your day!
 
I am playing the moors and I have an uber faction leader, who sacked England, sacked France and Spain, the Milan lot are giving me some hassle though. The french decided to poke my captured Spain and well my young faction heir took a jihad on the french, basically by the time this Heir became leader he had concquered france and england was a holy warriror, maxxed out general the other thing not too good was his piety (he would execute the English as they kept breaking ceasefires so that didn't help my stats). The king had the ability to charge and after 2 or 3 units were down in a stack they would flee.

I conquered the Papal States and struck an alliance with the Pope now how cool is that :D
 
Spacky said:
I am playing the moors and I have an uber faction leader, who sacked England, sacked France and Spain, the Milan lot are giving me some hassle though. The french decided to poke my captured Spain and well my young faction heir took a jihad on the french, basically by the time this Heir became leader he had concquered france and england was a holy warriror, maxxed out general the other thing not too good was his piety (he would execute the English as they kept breaking ceasefires so that didn't help my stats). The king had the ability to charge and after 2 or 3 units were down in a stack they would flee.

I conquered the Papal States and struck an alliance with the Pope now how cool is that :D
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When you say you sacked all them guys, did u just take the settlement and then sack it, then go and do the same to another leaving the settlement empty for the french/english to recapture?
 
I FOUND A FRUSTRATING BUG!! WHO DO I TELL!!!

Well what happens is this.

Im sieging the last Settlement that Scotland has(Dublin) and they decide to attack me with everything they have while it is there turn.
I end up killing out all but 100 killing 2 generals of there people and capturing about 400 Prisoners and the Faction Leader(Worth 10 Grand :D )

Then it comes to the screen that asks you if you want to release, Ransom and Execute them all.
I click Execute just because the Scots have given me hell i and i want every last remnant of them gone.
But after that You here the Screaming of the people dieing and then it just locks up and to music starts to loop and my General that is laying siege just sits there looking with the action they do once they win or when they are attacking and shakes his sword.

It wont do anything and i cant save it because its in there turn and not mine :(

I made sure it wasnt just a lock up so i played it again and got the same outcome and caught the Faction leader and killed the 2 general it locked up again the second time :(

Who do i report this bug to? :confused:
 
It has been a bloody day indeed for both the French and the English empires.

Now in all out war with the French I lay seige to Bordeaux, full stack vs full stack, this was going to be hard.

I stood off at the start and destroyed their walls, towers and gate on the first wall, I sent in my Dismounted knights, one unit on the left wall, one unit on the right wall and one into the gate. I moved my general to hug the wall and rally the troops incase some of them were wavering, it wasnt going well so i moved my second line (Dismounted English knights) up to the action, two units on the left and right, one down the centre.

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(Look on the minimap for a better overview)

Very hard fighting, proper meat grinder battle but eventually we broke them and forced them to retreat to the second wall and town centre.

I regrouped, I had lost a lot of men at the point and was going to loose a lot more at the second gate :)

I moved up and got my artillery units in place to blow open the gate and destroy the towers, no real stratagy on this one, just group all my remaining melee units and charge thru the gate. I moved up my archers to target the units that were behind the enemy and after a hell of a lot of fighting I retreated some exhausted units and charged with my remaining cavelry, eventually even my general got stuck in.

It must have taken 1 and a half hours but eventually, England came out on top but at great cost, I need to get these troops retained and ready to go again :P

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Keep in mind that at the start of the battle these were full units (120 in the melee, 80 in the caverly - one of which was totaly wiped out fighting for the centre).

And I can see more battles like this, what with me spotting at least 3 more big stacks like this around france.
 
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