A Beginners Guide to Medieval: Total War

**Ludens** · 07-18-2006, 22:47

Yeah, it is a rare but known bug. Your leader's influence will rise until it hits 9 and than go back to zero. It seems like some wrap-around effect, but what causes the continual rise in influence is not known. Someone suggested it might be caused by having a (religious?) agent in every province on the map.

**Sensei Warrior** · 07-19-2006, 00:22

Originally Posted by Ludens

Yeah, it is a rare but known bug. Your leader's influence will rise until it hits 9 and than go back to zero. It seems like some wrap-around effect, but what causes the continual rise in influence is not known. Someone suggested it might be caused by having a (religious?) agent in every province on the map.

Do you mean your religious agent or anyones religious agent? Does it have to be a religous agent or can it be any type of agent? Could it be a mix of agents (like any one type of agent in every provence)?

From the question mark you probably don't know the answer but I figured I'd throw it out in case somebody does.

**Ludens** · 07-19-2006, 12:17

Originally Posted by Sensei Warrior

Do you mean your religious agent or anyones religious agent? Does it have to be a religous agent or can it be any type of agent? Could it be a mix of agents (like any one type of agent in every provence)?

I think it was Ironside who reported that this bug occured when he had a bishop (of his own) in every province. The effect stopped when he moved on bishop to another province, thus leaving one province uncovered. Sorry for not being clear.

**Sensei Warrior** · 07-19-2006, 22:00

Thanks Ludens. I knew that the cascading influence sometimes happens (although I have yet to see it), I never knew someone came up with a reason why. I missed so much while I was away.

**Archaeopath** · 08-14-2006, 14:39

Nice guide froggy, one of the best around :)

**Caerfanan** · 02-05-2007, 10:47

An impressive guide indeed.

I have a question. During a defensive battle in which I had to swap tired and out of ammo Irish Dart throwers for fresh ones, I couldn't make them withdraw, but only flee.

It was not a problem since I wanted them out of the field anyway, but the going out in good order instead of running awkwardly would have been more decent, since I was handling that Mercian pretty well.

I have the MTW gold edition from the Era's box. I couldn't see a propoer "withdraw" option, and the ctrl+W doesn't seems to do anything. Having an Azerty keyboard, I haven't tried a ctrl+Z though....

Any Idea?

**Agent Miles** · 02-05-2007, 14:13

If you put the cursor over a unit and right click, you get a menu with all the options, to include "withdraw".

**Geezer57** · 02-05-2007, 23:52

Deleted - post in error.

**Adrian II** · 02-06-2007, 19:01

Originally Posted by Caerfanan

I couldn't see a propoer "withdraw" option, and the ctrl+W doesn't seems to do anything. Having an Azerty keyboard, I haven't tried a ctrl+Z though....

You can change all of your hot keys in the Options menu.

**Caerfanan** · 02-08-2007, 16:07

Awww... Such in a hurry to play the game I didn't even took the time to test all the options...

Thanks guys! My warriors will leave the field with all thair pride and dignity from now on.

**Caerfanan** · 02-08-2007, 16:16

"all thair pride"

Very nice. I'll check my english a bit more, next time...

**Ventrian** · 06-28-2011, 17:51

I just wanted to say that this is an epic piece of work and even now some 8 years on there are people like me who still find this thread useful. I have had M:TW for quite a while and have fumbled around the edges until recently when I figured I would give it another spin. To be honest it is graphically challenged by more recent titles however it is really very good for a game of its age and this beginners guide is superb I cannot thank the OP enough for the effort put into it outstanding

**drone** · 06-28-2011, 23:03

Welcome to the Org, Ventrian! It is indeed a great piece of work. This and the Unit Guide are why I joined here so many years ago.

And rumor has it that the Lady Frog will be releasing a guide to Shogun 2 soon.

**Trapped in Samsara** · 09-30-2011, 15:01

Originally Posted by Ludens

Yeah, it is a rare but known bug. Your leader's influence will rise until it hits 9 and than go back to zero. It seems like some wrap-around effect, but what causes the continual rise in influence is not known. Someone suggested it might be caused by having a (religious?) agent in every province on the map.

Hi

I have just encountered this phenomenon in my current Caravel v3.3 campaign (Early, Hard, Almos).

I'm not sure how or why, but I noticed something odd was happening and started checking my ruler's influence every turn. It was increasing one or two crowns a year, and then suddenly shot down to zero! A momentary panic ensued as I expected provinces and generals to start rebelling left, right and centre. But nothing happened. And when I checked the income and loyalty scroll all provinces remained at 200 happiness!? Similarly, my generals' loyalty did not seem to be affected, and I received no, 'you have a number of disloyal generals' warning.

I do have a lot of imams on the map, but certainly not in every province. Ireland, for example, does not have a port.

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Victor

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