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But are armies not attacking you constantly? For some reason Milan is trying to annihilate me. France tried and i capture almost all of their cities. Are you taking most of these by conquest?
Originally posted by: Heen05
But are armies not attacking you constantly? For some reason Milan is trying to annihilate me. France tried and i capture almost all of their cities. Are you taking most of these by conquest?
Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
Originally posted by: Heen05
can your own archers' arrows hurt your own soldiers?
Yes. See the number in the ( ) next to the casualty counts on the post-battle page... that's the number killed by friendly fire.
Originally posted by: Regs
Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
Originally posted by: Heen05
can your own archers' arrows hurt your own soldiers?
Yes. See the number in the ( ) next to the casualty counts on the post-battle page... that's the number killed by friendly fire.
That's actually how many enemy men you've captured.
Originally posted by: Turkish
Has anyone played with the Turks in this game? I am looking into finding a cheat to unlock and play with the Turks .
Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Originally posted by: Turkish
Has anyone played with the Turks in this game? I am looking into finding a cheat to unlock and play with the Turks .
You can search the forums at totalwar.com to find a posting on how to unlock factions. I played & won as the Turks!
omgwtf, I have the same exact rig as you, and I max everything out! Everything is maxed off the roof, and I hardly get lag. I only get lag actually, when I'm in the battle map, and I have the unit movement speed at 3x. Basically, if you have a good rig, run the game maxed out, its pretty well optimized, and its kick ass. It doesn't take advantage of dual core though.Originally posted by: Bateluer
My system is an X2 4200(AM2) with 2GB of DDR2-800 and a Radeon X1900XT. I run the game at 1680x1050, with every setting at max, cept for AF and AA, which I keep at 4x and 8x, respectively. Though the frame rate can chug a little in large battles, its usually very playable.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: flashbacck
Besides graphics, is there really anything new in MTW2? I mean, is this just a mash up of RTW and MTW?
Merchants, Princesses, more units, larger map, more playable factions, etc. Core gameplay is very similar to RTW though, its just focused on a different time period.
Personally, I'm a bigger fan of the Greek/Roman era of the ancient world than I am of the cluster-fvck that was the middle ages, but M2TW is very fun to play.![]()
Originally posted by: Heen05
thanks a lot man!
should i build any buildings before going to a castle though? or should i build anything before going to a city? can i only make cities and castles, or is there another upgradeable path too?
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: jrphoenix
Originally posted by: Turkish
Has anyone played with the Turks in this game? I am looking into finding a cheat to unlock and play with the Turks .
You can search the forums at totalwar.com to find a posting on how to unlock factions. I played & won as the Turks!
I may be wrong about this, but you can unlock factions by defeating them in game? Also, beating the game unlocks all the factions.
I like to play as the smallest factions, or those that have the odds stacked against them. The Turks I think would be fun, as they would have to deal with the brunt of the Mongol and Timurid invasions.
What I have found hard about doing what you did is the fact that money gets drained away when you build up huge armies. Did you use cheat codes or something?Originally posted by: Azndude2190
Originally posted by: Heen05
But are armies not attacking you constantly? For some reason Milan is trying to annihilate me. France tried and i capture almost all of their cities. Are you taking most of these by conquest?
Well by the 60ish turns(in my Scilian campaign) I had already mobilized and built up 3 full armies consisting of Italian Militia(VERY cheap cost AND upkeep)...with my best generals leading them on my border with Milan/HRE/Venice.I was fortunate that all three of those countries decided to fight each other(thus weakening each other)...while the Papacy(I continued to have a strong alliance with them) excommunicated them.(not all at once...but pretty much in the same span of 3-5 turns)That gave me the green light to launch a full scale invasion of Northern Italy. I took advantage of the Crusade option and launched one on Venice while my 3 full armies took Genoa and Milan(Milan and Venice were to busy with each other and weak to do anything).While I waited to regroup a couple of more turns before a sent a army to take Bologna from the HRE(by this time they were excommunicated too).
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Heen05
Originally posted by: Dacalo
I think I will bump the difficulty up to hard. My treasury is swelling (over 500k florins), most of Europe is under my control and my humongous army is full of upper tier veteran units waiting to crush any opposition. Ho-hum.
any tips? lol...as the English, the french and scotts are again overwhelming me.
Secure the British Isles first. The Scots have 1 city there, and you can easily take a couple, 2 I think rebel cities right away. There's also a city in Ireland thats rebel. Or, you could simply combine your forces into a single army and take out the scots right away.
Also, build a lot of financial buildings in your cities/castles. These will generate cash. The more florins you have, the better you will be. No money, no armies.
