Stele #3

[soibean]

EB 2 is the only reason that Im buying MTWII
thanks guys best of luck

[Phoenician Soldier]

Fills me with profound sense of joy to know you guys are working so hard to get EBII up and running.

Keep up the excellent work as I'm sure everyone on these forums will join me thanking you for slamming your heads repeatedly against a hard surface whilst trying to bring us the next version of the best Total War game yet made.

On a slightly different note however you should know that your amazing efforts in EB v1.0 have totally ruined all other incarnations of TW for me and basically made me waste lots of money buying them all and the expansion packs.

Vanilla Rome is un-playable compared to Eb, MTW2 is also unplayable, just looking at the campaign map in MTW2 and then comparing it to EB1 makes me quit the game in disgust. Kingdoms is no better, EB still looks and plays in a much superior way but it's not even about looks. The campaign map in EB makes for a much more strategic game than the bland, flat, featureless sea of green that MTW2 offers us.

I'm really looking forward to the EB2 now, with battles being as good as they are in MTW2 and the campaign being as challanging as it is in EB1, it's likely I will still be playing EB2 over Empires when that finally arrives. Knowing CA they will make Empires a walk in the park for seasoned TW players and I will be forced to go back to EB2 for the challange it (crosses fingers) presents.

You are the future of TW, thanks to all involved in the project and I'm looking forward to getting my hayasdan on when the game is ready for us plebs to play.

PS. Touch the cavalry stats for the hayasdan family members and I will find you and pull off your fingers :).

[bovi]

I guarantee you that all stats will have to be redone for EB2, including your precious. The lethality factor doesn't work in M2TW you see.

[Puupertti Ruma]

I guarantee you that all stats will have to be redone for EB2, including your precious. The lethality factor doesn't work in M2TW you see.

NOOO!!!!!

Is there any new ways introduced in MTW2 (or kingdoms) to make the combat system more complex, or is that just a step backwards?

[konny]

From what I have seen, but I haven't played some much, it is a step backward.

[wumpus]

Any possibility for increasing the number of weapons a soldier can carry from 2 to 3 or more??? This is what I'm really concern about

What I would rather see, instead, is an increase in the number of factions possible, and a wider map. I'm certain this is what a great number of others here would also drool about. Hawooh.

[wumpus]

EB 2 is the only reason that Im buying MTWII
thanks guys best of luck

I already have M2TW. I already have Kingdoms. Didn't like them that much, really--I continue to prefer RTW. Because RTW has BI, Alexander, XGM, and especially EB. But if EB2 will be here already, I'm sure I'll begin to like M2TW for its sake. (What I lack at the moment is a 2-GHz computer, so that I'd be totally contented--at the moment.) Hawooh.

[Lusted]

Is there any new ways introduced in MTW2 (or kingdoms) to make the combat system more complex, or is that just a step backwards?

Way to assign individual movement speeds to all units is very useful.

[Sarkiss]

.
Patch announcement at the ORG
.

so is this patch out yet?
i went to totalwar.com but got confused. there are two, 1.2 and 1.3 for MTWII with no dates of their release! i dont play MTWII so cant trace which of them i already have. im pretty sure i downloaded one of them some time last year, cant remember whether it was 1.2 or 1.3...

[Mouzafphaerre]

so is this patch out yet?
i went to totalwar.com but got confused. there are two, 1.2 and 1.3 for MTWII with no dates of their release! i dont play MTWII so cant trace which of them i already have. im pretty sure i downloaded one of them some time last year, cant remember whether it was 1.2 or 1.3...

.
Nope, it's not out yet. Personally I'd prefer a more complete patch to an early one.
.

[Sarkiss]

.
Nope, it's not out yet. Personally I'd prefer a more complete patch to an early one.
.

ok, thanks.
another quick question. when you get both 1.2 and 1.3 patches installed what will it say in options scroll's top right corner? right now i got 1.03...
sorry for OT.
thanks in advance

[Mouzafphaerre]

.
AFAIK it displays the latest version, ie that of the last path. But this is based on MTW and RTW, as well as EUIII (so it's a bit of a standard). I don't remember what exactly it looked like in MiNO.
.

[fenix3279]

You most buy the MTW2 and Kingdoms because EB 2 is for Kingdoms

So I have to buy both MTW2 AND Kingdoms or can I just get Kingdoms?

[Puupertti Ruma]

I guess Kingdoms needs Mtw2 to work, but I'm not sure. You could of course wait for a "gold"-version to come out, which would contain both Mtw2 and Kingdoms.

[master of the puppets]

wait a sec... srry if i sound stupid but... so the mod isn't out yet

right?
cuz it looks awesome and i need a good mod.

[aftzengeier]

Hi master of the puppets...



EB 1 (on the ROME-engine) is already released but EB 2 (based on the Medieval2-engine) is still in its swaddling clothes




Greetings...

[Xtiaan72]

By the time you need Kingdoms there will be a discount bundle for under 30 dollars if the past is any indication.


What I really want to know is when we are going to get a Stele # 4

[Mithridates VI Eupator]

Gee, I can't wait for Stele #4!
Not to mention prewievs on the new factions, and their units! That'd be sweet...

[Copperknickers]

Well there shouldn't really be too much to talk about faction and unit wise. Excluding the new factions (don't know how many) the units should all be the same in keeping with historical accuracy.

[Gebeleisis]

From what I have seen, but I haven't played some much, it is a step backward.

+1
played the game a lot,im preety known in the meddie comunity but i agree with konny,it IS a step backwards.


those execution moves dough look nice and the posibility of in close screenies with cinematic editor rule,but in rest...meh

[Sarkiss]

+1
played the game a lot,im preety known in the meddie comunity but i agree with konny,it IS a step backwards.


those execution moves dough look nice and the posibility of in close screenies with cinematic editor rule,but in rest...meh

i disagree. whilst its not as advanced of a step forward as we would have expected it is certainly not a step backward either. it does have many improvements and new features. and AI is more moddable.

[Intrepid Adventurer]

+1
played the game a lot,im preety known in the meddie comunity but i agree with konny,it IS a step backwards.


those execution moves dough look nice and the posibility of in close screenies with cinematic editor rule,but in rest...meh

So how is the MTW2 system a step backwards?

[Hax]

Overall worse Unit Cohesion, mostly.

[TheHorde]

Hello there,
I was just wondering if exactly what your team has considered fro their unit cohesion, movement, and unity in combat. For mtwII in calvary fighting i found this mod by Niko and this vid very interesting for implementing in mods. The calvary attack would actually carry through the lines, no stop in front of them. Check them out ^^ ill put on next post

[TheHorde]

OK here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibnaQYGQb0

[Iasonis]

pretty nice cavalry attack, have any other videos of it?

[Sarkiss]

OK here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibnaQYGQb0

cool, but i dont think such an effect would be appropriate in regard to ancient cavalry. apart form maybe cataphracts.

[Sarkiss]

pretty nice cavalry attack, have any other videos of it?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lxMLQLURtyU&NR=1

[TheHorde]

i know it might not be perfect for the cavalry attacks, however it is much better suited for it rather than jss stopping in front of enemies. At least this way u can utilize a cavalry assault to try to overrun enemy lines instead of trotting into them. Anyways thnx for looking into it

[mcantu]

Looks like the mounts have a high mass value...