Medieval Total War III ?

yantorsen said:
the hardest AI isn't really much harder than the easiest I found, there all rubbish, they never seem to use any tactics other than flanking your sides sometimes.

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It really does Bore me when they have a huge army and just stand out side the walls of your town and let the Cannon towers wipe them out.

All you need to do is tripple the speed and then wait while they happily all die by the cannon towers.:(

DO SOMETHING YOU AI NOOBS!!!!:mad:
 
Zip said:
It really does Bore me when they have a huge army and just stand out side the walls of your town and let the Cannon towers wipe them out.

All you need to do is tripple the speed and then wait while they happily all die by the cannon towers.:(

DO SOMETHING YOU AI NOOBS!!!!:mad:
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lol.. I love that about the canon towers. That's the whole point of the tremendously costly defence after all. ;) What mod do you play? Canon towers in Darth Ages might be a completely different affair to the same towers in SS though!
 
Ive played a few mods, I cant remember my last one i had though, My PC died at the start of the year and i havnt got a new one:(

I dont think ive seen anyone attack cannon towers in any mod though
 
yantorsen said:
the hardest AI isn't really much harder than the easiest I found, there all rubbish, they never seem to use any tactics other than flanking your sides sometimes.

Also billmen are fine if used properly against heavy cavalry. I use sherwood archers and longbowmen as much as possible.

sherwood archers pwn there excellent as archers, and can fight hand to hand well as well, they just lack a bit in defence, but there attach rivals most heavy infantry.
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Well the hardest ai just means they do more damage then you do really.

As for good against cav. So what game are you playing? MTW they were good against cav because they had bonuses suited too it. Now the billmen suck to it, do they even have a bonus against cav now? I didn't think they did anymore. Maybe they patched it back in perhaps.

They are useless, their defence is too poor even when armoured and when armoured there is just something better instead by that period.
 
Zip said:
It really does Bore me when they have a huge army and just stand out side the walls of your town and let the Cannon towers wipe them out.

All you need to do is tripple the speed and then wait while they happily all die by the cannon towers.:(

DO SOMETHING YOU AI NOOBS!!!!:mad:
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And it's even worse if you have longbowmen with steaks infront of them (or even without sometimes) they'll just stand there taking all the arrows until you run out of ammo, but if you have unlimited ammo on, they'll all just let themselves be killed then runaway when there about 50 of them left.
 
8igdave said:
Well the hardest ai just means they do more damage then you do really.

As for good against cav. So what game are you playing? MTW they were good against cav because they had bonuses suited too it. Now the billmen suck to it, do they even have a bonus against cav now? I didn't think they did anymore. Maybe they patched it back in perhaps.

They are useless, their defence is too poor even when armoured and when armoured there is just something better instead by that period.
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Yeah the patched I mentioned patches them back in. But if you don't have the patch then they are totally useless.
 
yantorsen said:
Yeah the patched I mentioned patches them back in. But if you don't have the patch then they are totally useless.
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well ive got the latest version but im not convinced they have the anti cav bonus. I shall check it later, but even so their defence of like 3 is it? sucks so bad. I know tehy are shock troops and u charge them in the back and that, but the point is that their armour is so low you must wait till all the enermys units are fully engadged. Which a decent player wont do, eg online, and then they become useless as they cannot hold their ground unless attacking the back of a unit without other units attacking them.

For their price in the earlyer game this is not worth it, in the mid-later game there is significantly better units for the job so they just instead become useless.

Tbh in the campange i dont really find i need anything more then spearmen, dfk and body guards. The ai is too incompetent to be able to field an army i cant beat with theese free. I put in archors if the faction has good archors like the brits, milan etc.

And whats with pikemen? They were so incredibley useful in rome. What went wrong lol.
 
Pikemen are useful, if you just have a crap load of pikemen, and one unit of archers, you ill absolutley porn any army that is largely made up of horses, becase the horses wont attack and will just get shot down for a bit then run away.
 
E:TW is also the game that I've been waiting for. Those naval battles look incredible on the demos I've seen. Roll on next year I say. :)
 
yantorsen said:
Pikemen are useful, if you just have a crap load of pikemen, and one unit of archers, you ill absolutley porn any army that is largely made up of horses, becase the horses wont attack and will just get shot down for a bit then run away.
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untill the enermy runs into them and they draw out their ruber swords. if u can manage to just clip the side of a pike formation or charge a unit straight into it, which is possible, then they all drop tehir pikes and once the unit in the pike wall does this u can just run rampage thro them all and they wont be able to fix their formation after that. They are far more sensitve to this then rome:tw.
 
8igdave said:
untill the enermy runs into them and they draw out their ruber swords. if u can manage to just clip the side of a pike formation or charge a unit straight into it, which is possible, then they all drop tehir pikes and once the unit in the pike wall does this u can just run rampage thro them all and they wont be able to fix their formation after that. They are far more sensitve to this then rome:tw.
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thats why you have to guard there flanks either by having them in a U formation, or buying placing cavalry for example on there flanks to guard.
 
I really wished Creative Assembly could created another Shogun: Total War, since it was my personal best out of the lot.

I would like to see a "China: Total War", and maybe perhaps have it set during the Three Kingdoms period. I mean sure, there is already the long running Romance of the Three Kingdom strategy games, but to have this era in Total War style would be awesome.
 
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