View Full Version : lib Naval Headache
Can anyone help out here?
Playing England and @ war with Egyptians. They have three boats in three areas around England.
I have built three sizable fleets to wipe them out yet despite attempting to bring them to battle (and confirming the attack.."yes"), nothing comes of it!?
What's going on here?
Cheers
------------------
PSYCHO HOJO / PSYCHO SO
Hosakawa Tito
09-12-2002, 08:10
If you out number him, break up your large fleets into 1 or 2 ship units and then attack him. Each one of your fleets has a percentage chance to catch your opponent and force a battle, 30-50% I think, so dividing your force gives you more chances to catch him.
------------------
Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell so that they look forward to making the trip.
Also, you may want to put your faster ships into a group and slower ones into another group, but maintain the relative strenght (compare to enemy fleet). If your ships are as fast or faster than the enemy ships, you can catch them easier.
oh I see.
Thanks a heap Hosakawa Tito / pdoan8.
I'll give it a go tonight.
Cheers
Psycho
You got the game (I haven't had the time yet). Loving it???
smith
Gday Mr Smith http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
Good to see you around.
Yes, my fiancee suggested she get her mum to get me a copy Friday 6th from EB at Westfield Miranda. Fact stranger than fiction. Gotta love that woman of mine http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
I have to say they need to put a warning on the box .."This product will cause time to speed up"
I have never played a game or engaged in any activity whereby time has flown by soooo fast. Highly enjoyable ...no, I have to say bloody marvellous!
Have been playing England on Hard. I'm up to around 1255 after playing all night Friday, Saturday, Sunday .....
I had allot of problems initially working out "Oh if I give this guy a title I can increase income through his administrative skill" kinda stuff.
I allied with the French and built up infrastructure. Invaded Scotland, Wales....
Had a war with the HRE (Germans), got excommunicated, revolts all over the place. Scots reclaimed independence. Problem with Scotland is that it is full of Scots. King became a real pain in the butt with adultery. Alcoholism etc. Tried to assassinate him but he went and got all paranoid. So I sent him on a one-way invasion of the Danes. He died valiantly for the cause http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Many years passed. I was happy assassinating French emissaries and princess' Ad Infinitum. The French must have just got miffed as they then decided to attack me. I hadn't given the AI enough credit and it caught me off guard. They invaded 4 provinces in a co-ordinated attack. I was overwhelmed. Over a few years my new king gained the support of the people again, reclaimed Scotland (slaughtering all rebel captives) but were systematically pushed out of France.
Just when it looked like the French were bent on my destruction and invade England, fate took a hold. The Germans attack their back and in one year their king lay dead at the hand of the HRE and his only surviving royalty lay dead at the siege of Wessex. France splintered and was no more.
I kept building up. The Pope called for a crusade against the Poles. Sent one through the Germans whom I was now having a kind of 'cold war' with. The crusade staggered into one of the Baltic provinces only to be slaughtered and pushed back. Again it tried to take the province once it had gained some more recruits. It was soundly trounced and disbanded.
The Italians sink a ship of mine in the Med..so I sink a few back during which I get excommunicated again. My King having been a merciless bastard has a Blood lover and Atheistic vice. This alone is lowering his support, so with the excommunication he has to go..besides, I don't think he likes women as he has sired no children at all which is a big problem!!
I try and convict him of heresy but fail,... but I succeed with his next oldest brother who suffers from laziness, alcohol and absorbed in himself and has little loyalty and no piety. My King is sent on a one way invasion of the Danes and dies a valiant death for the cause.
The New king is great. He sucks up to the Pope immediately when he asks for a crusade to Russia. A young knight with great ambition is chosen to head the crusade and it slowly makes it's was through Eastern Europe. It captures it's objective without a fight but then turns to rape, pillage and plunder of those steppe provinces until cornered and slaughtered. The King (very high in piety) of course refuses to pay for the release of the few survivors after their actions in Russia and they are processed as Novogrod worm food. The captured province in re-taken by the enemy.
Peace is made. A crusade is called against the Almohads in Granada. The King leads the crusade which had huge support. It marches South from France, through Spain and takes Granada. The Egyptians attack the Almohads from the East and the last bastion is mopped up by Spain in Portugal. They are no more.
Years pass. Inquisitors start going beserk and slaughtering thousands throughout my lands and reducing zeal. One particular guy is a shocker and can't help burning people at the stake...so I send him as a missionary to Palestine! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Spain attacks and within 5 years is overwhelmed by my forces. The almohads re-appear as a distant descendant tries to re-establish their kingdom. The Egyptians crush them.
The Byzantines and Turks are conquered by the Egyptians. The Mongols invade Eastern steppes and after a short success against Novogrod, succumb to the Egyptians.
Call a crusade to liberate Constantinople. After a valiant stand is slaughtered by a far superior Egyptian army.
Now in a huge war with the super power of Egypt. They are moving huge armies west and all fronts. I'm bracing for the storm to break.
Cheers
------------------
PSYCHO HOJO / PSYCHO SO
Gday Mr Smith http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
Good to see you around.
Yes, my fiancee suggested she get her mum to get me a copy Friday 6th from EB at Westfield Miranda. Fact stranger than fiction. Gotta love that woman of mine http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
I have to say they need to put a warning on the box .."This product will cause time to speed up"
I have never played a game or engaged in any activity whereby time has flown by soooo fast. Highly enjoyable ...no, I have to say bloody marvellous!
Have been playing England on Hard. I'm up to around 1255 after playing all night Friday, Saturday, Sunday .....
I had allot of problems initially working out "Oh if I give this guy a title I can increase income through his administrative skill" kinda stuff.
I allied with the French and built up infrastructure. Invaded Scotland, Wales....
Had a war with the HRE (Germans), got excommunicated, revolts all over the place. Scots reclaimed independence. Problem with Scotland is that it is full of Scots. King became a real pain in the butt with adultery. Alcoholism etc. Tried to assassinate him but he went and got all paranoid. So I sent him on a one-way invasion of the Danes. He died valiantly for the cause http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Many years passed. I was happy assassinating French emissaries and princess' Ad Infinitum. The French must have just got miffed as they then decided to attack me. I hadn't given the AI enough credit and it caught me off guard. They invaded 4 provinces in a co-ordinated attack. I was overwhelmed. Over a few years my new king gained the support of the people again, reclaimed Scotland (slaughtering all rebel captives) but were systematically pushed out of France.
Just when it looked like the French were bent on my destruction and invade England, fate took a hold. The Germans attack their back and in one year their king lay dead at the hand of the HRE and his only surviving royalty lay dead at the siege of Wessex. France splintered and was no more.
I kept building up. The Pope called for a crusade against the Poles. Sent one through the Germans whom I was now having a kind of 'cold war' with. The crusade staggered into one of the Baltic provinces only to be slaughtered and pushed back. Again it tried to take the province once it had gained some more recruits. It was soundly trounced and disbanded.
The Italians sink a ship of mine in the Med..so I sink a few back during which I get excommunicated again. My King having been a merciless bastard has a Blood lover and Atheistic vice. This alone is lowering his support, so with the excommunication he has to go..besides, I don't think he likes women as he has sired no children at all which is a big problem!!
I try and convict him of heresy but fail,... but I succeed with his next oldest brother who suffers from laziness, alcohol and absorbed in himself and has little loyalty and no piety. My King is sent on a one way invasion of the Danes and dies a valiant death for the cause.
The New king is great. He sucks up to the Pope immediately when he asks for a crusade to Russia. A young knight with great ambition is chosen to head the crusade and it slowly makes it's was through Eastern Europe. It captures it's objective without a fight but then turns to rape, pillage and plunder of those steppe provinces until cornered and slaughtered. The King (very high in piety) of course refuses to pay for the release of the few survivors after their actions in Russia and they are processed as Novogrod worm food. The captured province in re-taken by the enemy.
Peace is made. A crusade is called against the Almohads in Granada. The King leads the crusade which had huge support. It marches South from France, through Spain and takes Granada. The Egyptians attack the Almohads from the East and the last bastion is mopped up by Spain in Portugal. They are no more.
Years pass. Inquisitors start going beserk and slaughtering thousands throughout my lands and reducing zeal. One particular guy is a shocker and can't help burning people at the stake...so I send him as a missionary to Palestine! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Spain attacks and within 5 years is overwhelmed by my forces. The almohads re-appear as a distant descendant tries to re-establish their kingdom. The Egyptians crush them.
The Byzantines and Turks are conquered by the Egyptians. The Mongols invade Eastern steppes and after a short success against Novogrod, succumb to the Egyptians.
Call a crusade to liberate Constantinople. After a valiant stand is slaughtered by a far superior Egyptian army.
Now in a huge war with the super power of Egypt. They are moving huge armies west and all fronts. I'm bracing for the storm to break.
Cheers
------------------
PSYCHO HOJO / PSYCHO SO
we heard u the 1st time PSYCO http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/cool.gif
http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif ... I know...I know
Cheers
------------------
PSYCHO HOJO / PSYCHO SO
Psycho you old button-pusher!
Sounds fascinating! Useful having Denmark as a place to exile the nutters.
My problem is if I buy the game (I can probably justify the expenditure in a few weeks) I'll get immersed just when I can't afford to!
Difficult times ahead for me I can see.
Have you played any multi?
smith
http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif ...yes Denmark is my #1 tourist destination for nutters. Caters for all types.
Yes, be warned my friend. You will lose large amounts of time to this little gem and not even be aware of it.
Had my first MP game last night. LOTS of fun. Had English, Italians and Poles (me) vs Germans, Danes and French (I think?). 3 vs 3 max florins. With swams of troops...it was a little gerky but playable. Could be my dog of a PC. I wouldn't even attempt to try a 3 vs 3 in STW.
Cheers
Ah, but did you prevail?
smith
http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif...yes, the gods of warfare were certainly smiling...and so was I as a result http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
[This message has been edited by PSYCHO (edited 09-13-2002).]
vBulletin® v3.7.1, Copyright ©2000-2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.