The Amusing Screenshots Thread [56kers beware!]

[Bugout]

Welcome children to the Acre Zoo today. And what do we see in the first cage? That's right they are Mongols! Don't get too close now! These ferocious and clever creatures are from the far-off steppes of Central Asia, and it is highly unusual to find them so far from their native range. It takes great skill to capture such wild animals. You must place battering rams at a precise distance and then trick the Mongols into turning the trebuchets in opposite directions. What's that? Oh they are constantly running in their box, that's how they stay fit. Oh no, Mongols are known to be very dangerous to Danes so you must stay out of the cage or your battle might finish early. Thanks for visiting today, come back any time you want to see our fine example of Mongols In a Box.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

https://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8167/mongolsinaboxpw5.jpg

[ByzantineKnight]

Welcome children to the Acre Zoo today. And what do we see in the first cage? That's right they are Mongols! Don't get too close now! These ferocious and clever creatures are from the far-off steppes of Central Asia, and it is highly unusual to find them so far from their native range. It takes great skill to capture such wild animals. You must place battering rams at a precise distance and then trick the Mongols into turning the trebuchets in opposite directions. What's that? Oh they are constantly running in their box, that's how they stay fit. Oh no, Mongols are known to be very dangerous to Danes so you must stay out of the cage or your battle might finish early. Thanks for visiting today, come back any time you want to see our fine example of Mongols In a Box.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

https://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8167/mongolsinaboxpw5.jpg

[dph948]

Is there a free program that I can download to display the screenshots, they wont open on my computer. I had a shot of some Spainiards trying to push a destroyed catapault.

[ByzantineKnight]

Is there a free program that I can download to display the screenshots, they wont open on my computer. I had a shot of some Spainiards trying to push a destroyed catapault.

IrfanView, its freeware

www.irfanview.com

[dumas]

"Aztec monks protest the European occupation by setting themselves on fire"




"It's raining men... or something..."

[KHPike]

Whoa, where'd that Aztec general in your army come from?

[dumas]

Whoa, where'd that Aztec general in your army come from?

Bribe of course. He cost me an arm and a leg but hit was worth it. The very same turn I converted him, I sent him off to kill a stranded unit--and to my surprise, he spoke perfect English during the battle speech! Not only that, he came to battle in full metal armor on a horse even! I'm beginning to suspect that he wasn't an Aztec but a Portuguese pretending to be an Aztec waiting for the bribe money. But then, it brings to question how a Portuguese spoke perfect English...

[Atalus]

Those Portuguese are sneaky like that.

[pike master]

[M_is_D]

Roflmao

[Dan.o6]

Lmao! Nice Paint work.

[Dan.o6]

Leave me be! The city inevitably fell after 3 consecutive assaults, although we fought down to the last man.



Have no idea how this happened.

[pike master]

i tend to believe those egyptians will defeat that crusade

[uanime5]

Something I found while modding.

[Vlad Tzepes]

No way... this is for April Fools Day, right? Are they planning... Oh, no! Not a Fantasy Total War, please SEGA don't...

[alpaca]

I had this weird bug where my faction leader suddenly looked like the Pope.
He decided he should ambush his alter ego so he could take his place, and this is what happened:





Well kind of bug - you know me ;)

[Xehh II]

That is cool, any idea how it happened(apart from a bug)?

[TevashSzat]

Both alpaca and uamine are using mods.

Alpaca has a wierd minimap that doesn't have usual colors.

Uamine has "dragon breeders" listed as one of the possible buildings which is not true for vanilla M2TW

[Afro Thunder]

Either that, or Uamine photoshopped his picture.

[FactionHeir]

alpaca's is a stripped down mod, lacking most files and for testing purposes. Maybe the pope is in by default for a general's model.

uanime has that from his own mod (probably a plug for it judging from his sig)

[Agent Smith]

Attempting to lead the way in siege innovation, here is the Polish Siege Ladder! No ladder required!



And when you run out of shoulders to stand on, the air works just as well.

[Filibustería]

jeje

[FactionHeir]

Today is a bad day to be Aztec

Soldier1: "I wonder whether we will even get to see any Aztecs?"
Soldier2: "Aye, either they'll have run away by the time they noticed our fleets approaching or our comrades in arms have driven them back over the other end already"
Soldier1: "I should have stayed home and waited for the next wave of Timurids instead"



Settings:
Timescale 1.0, starting year 1100, World is round at turn 94.

Note each ship is a single carrack carrying 20 regiments of troops (mostly Obudshaers, Chivalric Knights, Hospitaller Knights, Generals, Serpentines, Cannons, Veteran units and a few Elephants)

[Subedei]

Only thing that can stop you now is "Montezuma´s Revenge"....not that many toilets in South America....

[HoreTore]

Gangstah talk in the 12. century.

[hoetje]

Today is a bad day to be Aztec

Soldier1: "I wonder whether we will even get to see any Aztecs?"
Soldier2: "Aye, either they'll have run away by the time they noticed our fleets approaching or our comrades in arms have driven them back over the other end already"
Soldier1: "I should have stayed home and waited for the next wave of Timurids instead"



Settings:
Timescale 1.0, starting year 1100, World is round at turn 94.

Note each ship is a single carrack carrying 20 regiments of troops (mostly Obudshaers, Chivalric Knights, Hospitaller Knights, Generals, Serpentines, Cannons, Veteran units and a few Elephants)

Euhm.....congrats!

How did you do that in 94 turns?

[FactionHeir]

I actually took it slow and with diplomacy, but striking back fierce fully when betrayed. I had victory conditions by turn 50 (mainly by buying off towns from the AI early on) and started building up for mongols and timurids. Had my armies wait outside town during the plague so only lost half my family but no soldiers. I shipped people from spain, southern italy, greece, middle east and england to Lisbon where I was building the naval drydock when it became available at 94 and started that building at turn 95 at Cordoba, Marrakesh, Genoa and Palermo. Transferred troops directly from dragon boats onto carracks and sailed west (to go east according to the narrator).

Do note that those are all my forces and I had noone in the middle east defending when the second wave of timurids arrived (note yerevan was plundered)
Eventually did build up a few troops there to stop them, but that's another story.

Pity I didn't take a screen when I fought aztecs on a volcano (I initially thought that terrain would prevent me from even reaching them, but eventually I did with all troops exhausted :p )

[Xehh II]

Fear me great welsh shadow warriors.

[Afro Thunder]

I actually took it slow and with diplomacy, but striking back fierce fully when betrayed. I had victory conditions by turn 50

You call that SLOW?!?

[FactionHeir]

You call that SLOW?!?

Actually yes. Steamrolling would mean victory by turn 35-40 with a reputation of despicable, but I had a reputation of trustworthy by the end of my campaign. You can try it yourself.
Right at the start of the game when you can get 6-8k in florins per alliance/map/trade offer and more if you sell your princess or buy theirs. If you collect those florins OR trade those things for a town instead, you can have towns all over the map fairly early. From those you can then expand into rebel settlements other factions usually would expand to as you get a free merc garrison on buying settlements.
If you then play aggressively but at the same time only attack those who declare war on you (never declaring war on someone yourself), you keep a good reputation and are free to plunder.