OT: Mediaval - Total War

Growltigga · #1 November 6th, 2002, 10:50 AM

Yeah but beating the heck out of Athens or Sparta would only be part of the fun.

I would like to be Etruscans taking on the fledgling Roman empire. I would love to be the Carthaginians duking it out with the Romans (I wonder if they could a Total War engine style ship game), imagine being the sarmation and palmyran hordes scrapping with all and sundry...

ooh, I get all excited just thinking about it

solops · #2 November 6th, 2002, 09:26 PM

The patch is out! Yeeeehaaah!!!

solops · #3 February 20th, 2003, 10:14 PM

You MTW fans have got to try two mods: Patrician 1.2 and Med Mod 1.6. They completely rejuvenate an already great game. Links to them can be found in their own threads in the Dungeon forum of the Guild website at http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi

Aloofi · #4 February 20th, 2003, 10:50 PM

I think Medieval sucks big time. For me it was a waste of money. The map sucks, with regions as provinces instead of real provinces like in Shogun, they didn't fix the problem of the AI reinforcing the provinces the player attack and the player not able of doing the same, thus making any strategy worthless. Diplomacy its nothing more than Non agression treaties, though I found the marriage thing to be kind of cool.
The real time battles are the best ever, but that doesn't fill the cup for me. If the Strategy game were as good as the tactical game I would had embraced Medieval as one of the best games ever, but the way it is it doesn't even make it to my top ten. Hopefully the next Total War game will be as good Strategically as Tactically.

solops · #5 February 20th, 2003, 11:12 PM

Sorry you don't care for it. It is one of my all time Favorites. If the AI does not give what you want (and it is a bit weak, just like SEIV, Stars, Civ III, TOAW or most others) try multiplayer. For those who DO like it, single or multiplayer, the mods below are good.

solops · #6 February 20th, 2003, 11:14 PM

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Originally posted by Growltigga:

I would like to be Etruscans taking on the fledgling Roman empire. I would love to be the Carthaginians duking it out with the Romans (snip)ooh, I get all excited just thinking about it

The Patrician mod lets you do this.

Graeme Dice · #7 February 22nd, 2003, 06:07 AM

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Originally posted by Aloofy:
The map sucks, with regions as provinces instead of real provinces like in Shogun,

So you want a map with several thousand provinces then? Otherwise you can't portray all of eastern and western Europe and the scale is completely ruined.

Quote:

they didn't fix the problem of the AI reinforcing the provinces the player attack and the player not able of doing the same, thus making any strategy worthless.

I have never seen a convincing argument against CA's statement that the AI does not take your current turns moves into account when moving its own troops.