Darn me, is this game great?

[bakdal]

Hi everyone.
See, I usually play a lot, both board games and PC games. Favourites used to be Diplomacy PBEM and Civilization (in both senses, actually).
I've enjoyed MTW for about three days now, and I'm totally hooked. The depth of the game seems to be without end.

Usually - as my very good friend The great dane (isn't Peter Schmeichel a bit outdated? ;-) knows only too well, I've always been better at strategy games without too much stress, rather than real time. In this game, the balance between the strategic and combat elements is unique.

Well, no news in this I'm afraid. I have just started up a campaign with Byzantium. 25 years or so, everything going smoothly. I'm trying an economical based strategy, and so far only conquered in order to gain regions that holds great tradeable goods or natural ressources. Good marriages, a few strategic assasins, and then a virtual invasion of spanish and papal bishops hits my fair homeland.

surely lots of questions will arise, and I'll be back with them, and of course with experiences useful to others, as soon as I have upgrated my skills a bit.

Bakdal

[Quid]

you are certainly right...it is a great game and I completely agree with you on the time factor...just gives you enough time to think things through before doing anything silly. it is not for nothing that the game is played so many and disliked by so few. once you get aquainted to it have a go at mp...it's grand...

welcome, by the way...

Quidster

[LadyAnn]

Wouldn't it be great to have Online Campaign like Diplomacy PBEM?

Annie

[Gregoshi]

Welcome bakdal. Thanks for signing up and dropping by. Reading your post took me back to the good old days - late last August. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif Enjoy your journey of discovery, for it is only beginning. Should you have questions or something interesting to share, we'll be here. If you do have questions about something (rebellions, trade, loyalty, etc) make a visit to the Table of Contents thread pinned at the top of the Main Hall forum. You'll find a wealth of knowledge about the game there.

[The Great Dane]

Welcome Bakdal

As I would expect of you - old friend - you seem to hold on to your old John Lennon strategy:
Make peace - not war.

Only problem is, that you can´t stay in bed for at week with Yoko Ono in this game - you´ll have to start killing people by the thousands if you want to become famous http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[bakdal]

Thanks for the welcome http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Lady Anne: Yes, some sort of PBEM could be fun. Negotiations between different players fillling out the factions of the game. Two major problems though: First of all, Diplomacy is based in simultanous moves, and not turn-based. I believe email negotiations works best - or even only - in games with sim moves. But a multi player-negotiations-sim.move based version could be possible, eh?
The second problem is the combat element. How to handle that online? Waiting for everyone to be online at the same time? That would be a time killer. That doesn't work, and I'm afraid I haven't got the imagination to figure out a solution.

To the Great Dane: Don't you dare mess with my heroes A Lennon based strategy is a strategy as well, all though a bit different from your Joe Stalin/Napoleon based ideas http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
Well seroiusly; I guess there's no strategy better than the other seen from the top, but there's a huge difference in playing Danes or Byzantines, for instanse. I guess you have to make a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) for every faction played, and the result sort of limits the sane and reasonable strategies.

Bakdal

[Sjakihata]

Hi Bakdal

Welcome, I hope you will enjoy. Do you play online as well? If so I'd like to setup a battle http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Have fun man

btw.. nice strategy http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif