Medieval II - Just got it and it's ace!

vincent1989 · 12 Aug 2007 at 18:01

Sinque said:
I'm handling it fine it's just a inconvenience.

Thinking of attacking an enemy with a crap load of siege, totally knacking as many buildings in their base as possible then just routing myself? Would I lose my men or would it be just like a retreat?

Thankfully I started a crusade against the Egyptians a while ago and now the Danish have just brought two full armies which should stop Egypt attacking me for about 2 turns. The Danish appear and I was all happy then the next turn both their armies were practically gone

Edit:

zomg They came from nowhere

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hahahaha pwnage, fortunatly i havent had to experience the horrors of a mongol attack (furthest west i have played is poland)

although i do have an egyptian game on the go i edited the game turn length, and now i have 8000 turns to play (didnt want that many...i put .05 instead of .5 :eek: ) through, i figure i have 1000+ before i have to worry about the mongols :D

Sinque · 12 Aug 2007 at 18:15

bringerofdecay said:
hahahaha pwnage, fortunatly i havent had to experience the horrors of a mongol attack (furthest west i have played is poland)

although i do have an egyptian game on the go i edited the game turn length, and now i have 8000 turns to play (didnt want that many...i put .05 instead of .5 ) through, i figure i have 1000+ before i have to worry about the mongols

I lost every single town. They're totally over powered. I've tried reloading the game multiple times to try win but it's totally impossible. Time to start a new campaign...

vincent1989 · 12 Aug 2007 at 19:00

Sinque said:
I lost every single town. They're totally over powered. I've tried reloading the game multiple times to try win but it's totally impossible. Time to start a new campaign...

tried pushing all your troops to your boarder towns?

i'm in a pickle with my poland campaign :/ i may have accidentaly killed the hungarian king and captured their capital and now they are baying for my blood, unfortunatly their holy roman alies are also trying to kill me, and they have masses of troops

LabR@t · 12 Aug 2007 at 19:23

my campaign gets to turn 16-17 and then in the middle of the cpu having its turn it kinda hangs, I mean I can open up info windows but lose mouse pointer and it never gets to next turn

doing my head in can't play this awsome game ¬!

vincent1989 · 12 Aug 2007 at 21:47

LabR@t said:
my campaign gets to turn 16-17 and then in the middle of the cpu having its turn it kinda hangs, I mean I can open up info windows but lose mouse pointer and it never gets to next turn

doing my head in can't play this awsome game ¬!

on a side note, i just beat around 600 rebels with 500 of my own troops, i lost 50, they lost all but the quickest

(i would upload a screenie, but for some reason it can't be put into paint

philstanbridge · 12 Aug 2007 at 22:14

LabR@t said:
my campaign gets to turn 16-17 and then in the middle of the cpu having its turn it kinda hangs, I mean I can open up info windows but lose mouse pointer and it never gets to next turn

doing my head in can't play this awsome game ¬!

That happened to me, I had to stop using the no-cd fix. Also, sometimes the turn just takes ages, and you have to wait. it does eventually finish.

LabR@t · 12 Aug 2007 at 22:34

philstanbridge said:
That happened to me, I had to stop using the no-cd fix. Also, sometimes the turn just takes ages, and you have to wait. it does eventually finish.

yer i am using a no cd thingy as its less hassle but if thats the reason I will dump it thx for the heads up

Sinque · 12 Aug 2007 at 22:34

LabR@t said:
my campaign gets to turn 16-17 and then in the middle of the cpu having its turn it kinda hangs, I mean I can open up info windows but lose mouse pointer and it never gets to next turn

doing my head in can't play this awsome game ¬!

If you want I can send you my no-cd to see if that works? Works fine for me.

LabR@t · 12 Aug 2007 at 22:35

Sinque said:
If you want I can send you my no-cd to see if that works? Works fine for me.

ok, cool polarjadie :at: msn.com

Sinque · 12 Aug 2007 at 22:37

LabR@t said:
ok, cool polarjadie :at: msn.com

Added.

It's around 20mb so I hope it'll be fast enough.

Edit: Just emailed it to you.

LabR@t · 12 Aug 2007 at 23:13

Sinque said:
Added. It's around 20mb so I hope it'll be fast enough.

Edit: Just emailed it to you.

oops msn has 5mb limit

Sinque · 13 Aug 2007 at 01:08

Just started as Denmark for a change, because the Mongols totally raped my Templar Knights campaing, and already Rome is all over me. My main huge army, full 20 slots, is surrounded by 4 full armies, 20 slots, of Romans

Fanatic · 13 Aug 2007 at 01:38

Playing as Turks at the moment, corners of my empire are: Gaza, Tiblisi and Durazzo. So I own the SE. About to take Egypt.

Mongols arrived on the 69th turn, took a while but I defeated them, they only have their Faction leader left all on his own. Just about to kill him and now another 4 full stacks of level 6 experience Mongol armies with their awesome Generals appeared.

Considering it is now turn 110 I had thought that once I had killed all the mongols that appeared on turn 69 I would have killed them all

God help me when the Timurids arrive with their Elephant Artillery.

Sinque · 13 Aug 2007 at 02:37

Well after running around with my army from the stash loads of Romans they finally cornered me and attacked from all directions...

So I pwned them all. Man I love fire archers. Enemies routing all over the place!

Edit: Oh yeah, I also captured 4000 golds worth of enemies including one of their faction family members and removed them all from existence.

Kheldar · 13 Aug 2007 at 10:56

well after this thread i finally had to buy this yesterday.

gonna get it up and running tonite with any necessary patches etc.

Shicky · 13 Aug 2007 at 11:05

yea im definately buying it again now! See when you talk of 4000golds worth of enemies and randsoming them, are you taking the gold off them then just executing them? Or is it just u check how much they're worth before you slay them? ...because well ** just evil!

tomanders91 · 13 Aug 2007 at 11:15

What do people think is the most fun nation to play as? I want to play as something challenging, ive been scotland, england, egpyt, denmark and they have all been ok but very boring after a while.

Plus does anyone find it hard when you have taken over too many cities? All the managing you have to do its annoying, i find myself not wanting to take over towns and stuff and just sit back with a small group as its easier to manage.

philstanbridge · 13 Aug 2007 at 12:07

Play with the modification - do not play with the standard game.

Funky nations - talking from the Long Road perspective, Denmark are excellent all round. They have strong cavalry and field a variety of powerful units

HRE are awesome - probably the best faction in the game, but they start out weak. Strong heavy cavalry and strong two handed units.

France - best cavalry in the west, but weaker infantry especially earlier on.

Poland, fantastic knights and a nice variety in medium cavalry. Horrible starting location.

I think the Mongols and Timurs are probably the best nations, but they are unplayable!

As for spreading your nation too wide too fast, slow it down. Dont worry about the goals of the game in the first instance.

Kheldar · 13 Aug 2007 at 12:23

whats wrong with the standard game to start / learn with ?

you mean play with a mod /mods from beginning playing ?

carlazai · 13 Aug 2007 at 13:20

The standard game was a little unfinished and is very easy to win on. You need the modifcations to slow the game down and make it more tactical. A game on stainless steel can take 3 times as long as a vanilla game, making the planning all more important.