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[Jackrabbit]

So, we've had a few Medieval II threads, but I really wanted to start one that was focused around a moment I've just had, and ones like it.

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So, I played started a campaign game as Scotland because the sublime Let's Play sorta fixed it in my mind and also Scotland rocks.

Hard.

So, playing as Scotland I made the decision to go for the short campaign just to unlock everything. Eventually England is subjugated and France is my wine eating, funny accented, Auld Alliance breaking bitch. I win! Yay. I decided to carry on.

Jump forward 230 turns (I play slooooooow).

Western Europe is mine, with Sicily, Venice and Hungary existing simply because I'm nice and they're all whittled down to between ten to one regions and don't pose a threat. Venice and Hungary also form a buffer between the Timurid's, who haven't dared move against me. America is mine and making me money, the Iberian Peninsula is conquered and I'm currently happily smashing my way through Africa, merrily making Muslims mad (and then dead).

I have something around 200, 000 florins in the coffers and counting all my troops would drive me insane and take the better part of three hours. What I'm saying here is I'm basically unstoppable. A God. All of Western Europe is speaking incomprehensibly, drinking ale and getting into barfights.

It was at this point I stopped and thought, 'this is going to get boring now'.

In an effort to reveal the map, without the whole 'effort' part, I spend a while getting other factions maps of their territory and it's when I pay the Timurid's a pittance for a glance at theirs when I stop.

For your convenience:



Everything to the right of the red line, is the Timurid's.

A-yep. I stared at the screen for a while. Then I uttered the following words:

"Holy shit. That's awesome."

Here we goooooooo.

tl;dr please share with us your most 'Oh man, that's so damn awesome' moments in Medieval II.

[Gunner-Chan]

Not to bee too off topic, but I always wanted to play this game but my shitty laptop can't run it... So do some acts of random cruelty for me jack. Ill have to stick with nerve gassing citys in Alpha Centauri for now.

[Jackrabbit]

Just for you, I walk into Moscow and kill 16000 people to prove how much I love vodka.

Also, my laptop can't run it. I'm so glad I'm young enough to have parents to take advantage of.

[Gunner-Chan]

Oh if this was a month earlier, or if I was a little drunker... The things I would say... XD

[TheNewerMartianEmperor]

Oh, I had this. Man, I remember uniting the isle, and eventually the known world under the glorious banner of the English Crown! Good times.

[Jackrabbit]

I tried England, but then I realized they suck because they're not Scotland.

[Jreengus]

I like playing Venice and Milan so that I can have glorious last stands defending the banner. In fact I love them so much I have glorious last stands when I outnumber the enemy 5:1 and they don't even have enough men to surround me.

[Jackrabbit]

Oh yes, not to go off topic, but has anyone noticed Milan tends to siege with something like 20 units? And they're all Milanese crossbowmen? I can break them with three knight companies.

[Neruz]

The AI in the Total War series has always been, shall we say questionable.


I remember the Greeks in Rome:TW spent the entire game dancing a unit of Hoplites back and forth between two of my cities.

That was all they ever did for that entire game, i never saw them train any other unit or build any town, they just danced that unit of hoplites back and forth, back and forth. They never took any territories, just the one unit of hoplites, dancing forever.

In the end i decided to kill them out of mercy, poor bastards had clearly been lobotomized.

[Jackrabbit]

Ah hell, I say we also discuss Total War in the thread too. Why I don't consider this beforehand in these situations is beyond me.

Greeks in Rome were probably my favorite to play as because... I'm cheap. To break through a phalanx, you have to rush it with elephants, chariots or several thousand people. Spam hoplites and you will never ever ever ever ever lose a city, ever, unless large quantities of elephants are involved. I'm simultaneously happy and sad this is not the case in Medieval II, and whilst my nobles are devastating, infantry can pick them apart.

Of course, I've never played Rome online, and considering how I beat phalanxes when I go up against Greeks, I imagine the other side will invest heavily in cavalry, no? The ability to zip around behind and mulch the bastards inside out means the Greeks are also my favorite enemy.

Then, there's sieges. Shudder.

[Neruz]

Actually a really easy way to break a Phalanx is to get beside or behind it with Light Cavalry and watch them hack it to pieces.

Archers work well too, since Phalanx's are too damn slow to get anywhere useful. Or you can kill two birds with one stone and use Cavalry Archers; a Phalanx's worst nightmare.


Egypt is the 'best', because Chariots are seriously imba. Like, really imba.

[Jackrabbit]

Actually a really easy way to break a Phalanx is to get beside or behind it with Light Cavalry and watch them hack it to pieces.

Of course, I've never played Rome online, and considering how I beat phalanxes when I go up against Greeks, I imagine the other side will invest heavily in cavalry, no? The ability to zip around behind and mulch the bastards inside out means the Greeks are also my favorite enemy.

As for arrows, makes sure to support them with cavalry and the AI won't know what the hell.

[Heron TSG]

Well, Jack, my favorite campaign right now is involving myself as the Byzantines, and my friends as the Muslims.

Death to the infidels!

[andrea]

Usually, when i play on easy, the game goes like this: I am peacefully building my economy as france. I get lots of allies, like milan, venice, some of east europe and some muslim maybe. England declares war. Uh... ok. historical reasons and stuff. HRE declares war. Spain declares war. Wait, what?
Milan declares war, all other allies declares war . STOP! You are too many!!.Denmark declares war.

then it goes on , with me on the brink of bankrupt and military defeat for some years, in which to survive i have to pillage enmy cities and then abandon them, since i can't afford conquest. After a long period, I finally get a nice economy and an advanced and big enough army to slowly defeat my enemies. Of course, at this point whenever i share a border with a nation, that nation decides to attack.

Sometime i wonder if AI in that game goes beyond :" He is player! WAAAAR!"

[Jreengus]

I am peacefully building my economy

I found your problem. Warring is the only to effectively build your economy.