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SubRosa |
Apr 27 2016, 01:25 AM
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Here is a topic for the Total War games by the Creative Assembly. I own Shogun 1, Medieval 1 & 2, and Rome 1. I never played much of Shogun 1. In fact when I first tried the demo for it many years ago when it first came out, I was go creamed by the AI. It wasn't until I tried Rome years later that I was able to get the knack of playing a TW game. I never liked Real Time Strategy games, because you can never control all of your units. But I found that by pausing constantly I was able to make it essentially a turn-based game. After that I got really good. Especially in RTW. In fact, I created the Amazon Total War mod for RTW. When I finally got burned out on RTW and stopped updating it, other people even picked up the torch and went on with it. It was my first foray into modding games, and was very rewarding. I put Amazon Total War up on Dropbox for anyone who wants to try it out, since I don't think my old versions are still around on the web anymore. This version requires the Barbarian Invasion expansion, as it uses the BI executable to make use of new things added by it, like night battles. Here is a map of all the regions in Rome Total WarA map of Barbarian InvasionAn Amazon Total War mapA Medieval 2 Total War mapFroggbeastegg has an excellent guide to Rome Total War and Barbarian Invasion here. There is even a link to a pdf version of it on the same page. Froggbeastegg has another guide for MTW1In any case, I bought Shogun 2 a few days ago. Which makes it the most recent TW game I own. So far I am liking it. Though some of the changes are taking a while to get used to. I miss having the population of every province clearly listed, and being able to change my tax rate for each individual province, and being able to replace my losses in one turn. I can see why they got rid of a lot of these old things. By the mid-game of RTW you spend more time administering your empire than actually going around conquering. By the late game it takes forever to get through one turn because of the micro-managing required. Obviously the Creative Assembly worked on finding ways to streamline all the management overhead, which is a good thing in general. One thing I really miss in Shogun 2 is a proper manual though. The other games all came with an in-depth manual that told you exactly what everything did, what every little symbol on the maps meant, and so forth. The manual for this game is really shallow, and doesn't explain any of the real nuts and bolts of the interface. Some things I have figured out on my own, some I had to do forum searches to find out. Playing the past TW games helps of course. But there are changes with every game, and Shogun 2 is several generations ahead of my last TW experience with M2TW. On the plus side, the graphics are incredible compared to RTW or M2TW, and it runs flawless even on Ultra settings. It is really nice to finally be able to fight out my sea battles on the tactical map as well. I am having a lot of fun with the Japanese setting too. I stared a Shimazu campaign, but gave up after a day when I got over-extended. I started again two days ago, and have concentrated on my economy first, and conquering second. Now I am the sole ruler of Kyushu. The latter half of the conquest was really difficult because my main rivals - the Otomo - were Christian. That make keeping order in every province I took from them a struggle. I have been knocking down all the Christian buildings, and construction Buddhist temples in their places, recruiting monks, and even a secret policeman (metsuke) to keep a lid on things. Right now I am taking a breather to rebuild my army's losses and getting my economy back on track after the rebuilding. I have a ninja out scouting my neighbors to see who I should strike next. There is a land bridge to Honshu which I could take next. That would put me into the lands of the Ouchi clan, and the Amako after them. However, my ninja discovered an army of the Chosokabe clan that crossed over from their island of Shikoku into Honshu and took one of the Ouchi's cities. So those two clans are now at war. I am thinking this might be an excellent time to invade Shikoku and go after the Chosokabe homeland, They will have to divide their attention between islands and myself and the Ouchi. The only problem is that the Chosokabe have a powerful fleet. But one of the provinces I took from the Otomo has a pirate lair, which gives a +3 to experience to all ships recruited there. So I think I will be building a pirate fleet... I even got tempted to fire up Shogun 1 and try it again. But it won't run on my Windows 7 computer. Still, I might try putting it on my old Windows XP box. One of my Kobaya - the smallest ship in the Samurai arsenalA medium Bune (which is technically a Seki-Bune) probably the workhorse of a Japanese fleetA trading shipMy Seki Bune grapples a Wako (pirate) trading shipGreat plan! Banzai!My Katana Samurai (in green) battle Otomo clan Yari Ashigaru (peasant spearmen)Slaughtering an Otomo generalScaling the walls of a fortressThis post has been edited by SubRosa: May 30 2017, 12:35 AM
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hazmick |
May 18 2017, 03:01 AM
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Joined: 28-July 10
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Update on today's Western Roman Empire:
The day started on a sad note, with the death of the Ebdanian high king, who was our ally. His son (who is married to my Emperor's niece) then took the throne, and wasted no time starting wars with the Picts, Geats, Jutes, and Danes. They all then decided to declare war on me in return, so I was forced to abandon my alliance with the Ebdanians and spend way more time than I'd like convincing the Picts and Northerners to agree to peace.
At the same time, my 4th Legion moved south to attack Carthago and the surrounding towns in the African province. Poor Carthago was all but ruined when I arrived, after changing hands a few times before the Garamantians took it. I swiftly claimed the region and began the long and costly repairs process, before reinforcing the area with the newly formed 7th and 8th Legions.
The 7th moved to attack the neighbouring province of Tripolitana, while the 8th headed south to claim the Sahara. I was expecting a weak force of Garamantians at every town, but instead each town had been claimed by individual groups who had all their units stationed there for defense. Pretty tough work, especially since my soldiers suffer attrition when travelling in the desert.
In political news, I adopted one of my generals into the family. My Emperor is only 26 years old, but has already lost 5 children (none of whom reached 5 years old). Kind of odd to adopt someone your own age as your son, but by doing so I can assign this general to be a retainer for the Emperor's brother (our best general) and learn from him.
I also changed my faction's religion from the unpopular Latin Christianity to Roman Paganism. Paganism is quite popular with northern factions, who I spend a lot more time dealing with. I want to make an alliance with the Danes, who have quite a strong position up north, before taking some land in Belgica to start linking my main forces in Italia with my Britannian outpost. I still have to finish my Africa conquest though, which should take quite a while.
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TheCheshireKhajiit |
May 18 2017, 06:01 AM
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Joined: 28-September 16
From: Sheogorath's shrine talking to myselves!
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QUOTE(hazmick @ May 17 2017, 09:01 PM) Update on today's Western Roman Empire:
The day started on a sad note, with the death of the Ebdanian high king, who was our ally. His son (who is married to my Emperor's niece) then took the throne, and wasted no time starting wars with the Picts, Geats, Jutes, and Danes. They all then decided to declare war on me in return, so I was forced to abandon my alliance with the Ebdanians and spend way more time than I'd like convincing the Picts and Northerners to agree to peace.
At the same time, my 4th Legion moved south to attack Carthago and the surrounding towns in the African province. Poor Carthago was all but ruined when I arrived, after changing hands a few times before the Garamantians took it. I swiftly claimed the region and began the long and costly repairs process, before reinforcing the area with the newly formed 7th and 8th Legions.
The 7th moved to attack the neighbouring province of Tripolitana, while the 8th headed south to claim the Sahara. I was expecting a weak force of Garamantians at every town, but instead each town had been claimed by individual groups who had all their units stationed there for defense. Pretty tough work, especially since my soldiers suffer attrition when travelling in the desert.
In political news, I adopted one of my generals into the family. My Emperor is only 26 years old, but has already lost 5 children (none of whom reached 5 years old). Kind of odd to adopt someone your own age as your son, but by doing so I can assign this general to be a retainer for the Emperor's brother (our best general) and learn from him.
I also changed my faction's religion from the unpopular Latin Christianity to Roman Paganism. Paganism is quite popular with northern factions, who I spend a lot more time dealing with. I want to make an alliance with the Danes, who have quite a strong position up north, before taking some land in Belgica to start linking my main forces in Italia with my Britannian outpost. I still have to finish my Africa conquest though, which should take quite a while.
Give'em hell, Haz! Roma invicta!
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SubRosa Total War Series Apr 27 2016, 01:25 AM Acadian Cool pix!
I especially like the 'My Kat... Apr 27 2016, 03:06 AM SubRosa I am still continuing with my Shimazu campaign. Be... Apr 29 2016, 05:23 PM Acadian Thanks for sharing! I’m glad you... Apr 29 2016, 06:06 PM SubRosa I am still continuing on with my Shimazu campaign.... May 2 2016, 09:21 PM Acadian Empress SubRosa. In the end there can be only one... May 3 2016, 03:38 AM SubRosa Last night I continued on with the conquest of Shi... May 3 2016, 08:25 PM hazmick That bridge battle looks pretty intense!
Sho... May 4 2016, 08:59 AM Acadian Wow, great actions shots! Curious that the la... May 4 2016, 01:04 PM SubRosa I was able to beat off the first sea borne assault... May 4 2016, 07:58 PM Acadian Looks like General SubRosa is relentlessly sweepin... May 4 2016, 09:33 PM SubRosa Acadian: Bring out the brooms, Japan has been swep... May 4 2016, 10:08 PM hazmick 'Shogun SubRosa' has a nice ring to it :D... May 5 2016, 02:36 AM Acadian Congratulations to Shogun SubRosa! Thanks for... May 5 2016, 04:29 PM hazmick I posted about the start of a new Total War: Attil... May 17 2017, 01:21 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Man this game series sounds awesome! Reading a... May 17 2017, 04:42 PM hazmick Honestly just go with whichever title you like the... May 17 2017, 06:35 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Honestly just go with whichever title you like th... May 17 2017, 06:52 PM Callidus Thorn I gotta agree, these games do sound interesting. I... May 17 2017, 08:49 PM SubRosa RTW 1 is a fantastic game! I still play it eve... May 17 2017, 09:44 PM hazmick I really like Attila, it's got a lot of depth ... May 17 2017, 10:23 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
I really like Attila, it's got a lot of depth... May 17 2017, 11:37 PM SubRosa How easy is it to mod? Creating new units, things ... May 17 2017, 11:47 PM hazmick Not 100% sure on making mods, but I believe the as... May 18 2017, 02:16 AM TheCheshireKhajiit Really starting to get a better feel for the game.... May 18 2017, 04:59 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Disaster! We went to take a city in the heel o... May 18 2017, 09:23 PM SubRosa hazmick: Hail Caesar!
It sounds like the dip... May 18 2017, 10:27 PM hazmick
hazmick: Hail Caesar!
It sounds like the di... May 18 2017, 10:58 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
hazmick: Hail Caesar!
It sounds like the di... May 19 2017, 02:32 AM hazmick Well, in any case, the town was easily taken sinc... May 19 2017, 04:19 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
Well, in any case, the town was easily taken sin... May 19 2017, 04:29 AM hazmick
So is there a way to do campaigns with nationalit... May 19 2017, 12:24 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
So is there a way to do campaigns with nationali... May 19 2017, 05:57 PM hazmick Update: Brought the campaign to a close today.
My... May 19 2017, 01:08 AM SubRosa Was there a time limit that ended the game? Or did... May 19 2017, 01:26 AM hazmick I just decided to end it. I'd achieved all vic... May 19 2017, 01:45 AM SubRosa CondateFeles: I have forgotten what the Senate mis... May 19 2017, 10:35 PM TheCheshireKhajiit it is hard to keep track of everything going on a... May 20 2017, 12:49 AM hazmick Update: Had a pretty eventful evening tonight.
I... May 20 2017, 01:06 AM SubRosa I say exterminate the Alamanni with fire and sword... May 20 2017, 01:21 AM hazmick
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Update: Had a pretty eventful evening tonight.
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Update. Year 401AD:
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That is a tight fix you are in! I recall play... May 21 2017, 02:39 AM hazmick It's definitely not going to be easy. I'm ... May 21 2017, 03:04 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
It's definitely not going to be easy. I'm... May 21 2017, 03:37 AM SubRosa I did fire up Barbarian Invasion. I decided to giv... May 21 2017, 04:54 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
I did fire up Barbarian Invasion. I decided to gi... May 21 2017, 05:00 AM SubRosa It is something they added with Barbarian Invasion... May 21 2017, 05:27 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
It is something they added with Barbarian Invasio... May 21 2017, 11:56 AM hazmick Quite a stroll you took your horde on, but definit... May 21 2017, 05:36 AM hazmick Update, 404AD:
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Update, 404AD:
My earlier desire to see the Lugi... May 21 2017, 03:22 PM SubRosa Very cool that you were able to team up with the J... May 21 2017, 05:31 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Hey Haz, who has control of the British Isles in y... May 21 2017, 06:00 PM hazmick Britannia starts off split between WRE, Picts, Cal... May 21 2017, 06:44 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Britannia starts off split between WRE, Picts, Ca... May 21 2017, 11:32 PM SubRosa My Sarmatian horde has wiped out the Sassanids.
... May 21 2017, 11:34 PM hazmick Sounds like everyone's doing well! Or at l... May 22 2017, 12:57 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
Sounds like everyone's doing well! Or at ... May 22 2017, 02:39 AM SubRosa I love horse archers. They require a lot of micro-... May 22 2017, 02:32 AM TheCheshireKhajiit Welp, it wasn't pretty but Khajiit finally met... May 22 2017, 08:33 AM hazmick
Welp, it wasn't pretty but Khajiit finally me... May 22 2017, 12:12 PM hazmick Update. 408AD.
I began by sacking the Gaul-contro... May 22 2017, 01:17 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Update. 408AD.
I began by sacking the Gaul-contr... May 22 2017, 04:19 PM hazmick
So you sacked a Gaulish city, the Picts moved in,... May 22 2017, 04:45 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
So you sacked a Gaulish city, the Picts moved in... May 22 2017, 05:01 PM hazmick
So if you attacked it again would the Jutes get m... May 22 2017, 10:41 PM SubRosa The diplomacy sounds a lot more complicated than i... May 22 2017, 04:54 PM SubRosa I played a little more, and now I have collected a... May 22 2017, 11:44 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
I played a little more, and now I have collected ... May 23 2017, 02:30 AM SubRosa
So now that you are a settled barbarian tribe, is... May 23 2017, 02:55 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
So now that you are a settled barbarian tribe, i... May 23 2017, 03:05 AM hazmick I had a much slower day today - no fighting, no bo... May 23 2017, 03:58 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
I had a much slower day today - no fighting, no b... May 23 2017, 06:04 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Started a new campaign. Since the Julii campaign t... May 23 2017, 06:38 PM SubRosa Egypt is a strong faction. Those Nubian Spearmen a... May 23 2017, 09:29 PM SubRosa Both Ctesphion and Hatra have fallen to me, withou... May 24 2017, 12:09 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
Both Ctesphion and Hatra have fallen to me, witho... May 24 2017, 03:36 AM TheCheshireKhajiit WAR WITH SELEUCIA!
Khajiit decided that he co... May 24 2017, 04:39 PM hazmick 410 AD.
My forces in Tuesis pushed south and capt... May 24 2017, 07:26 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
410 AD.
My forces in Tuesis pushed south and cap... May 24 2017, 08:22 PM hazmick Yes, the Danes used to be good friends. Unfortunat... May 24 2017, 08:54 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Yes, the Danes used to be good friends. Unfortuna... May 24 2017, 10:00 PM SubRosa Does Attila have Angles? Or is it just the Jutes a... May 24 2017, 09:29 PM hazmick SubRosa - There are Angles, they start in the town... May 24 2017, 10:12 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Cheshire - The Danes? Definitely. They keep send... May 24 2017, 11:27 PM hazmick I plan to take 2 of the 3 Danish settlements, but ... May 25 2017, 12:12 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
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The Geats, who hav... May 25 2017, 01:01 AM
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