Ashock
06-26-2003, 06:13
Hi all.
First the comment.
I just finished my first campaign. Finished it in 1453, heh. I had a 60% victory around the mid 1200's, but then my king produced 6 daughters and no sons and after his death my empire went into chaos. The problem is that after I put down all the fires, I still had revolts almost every turn on the whole european right side of the map. Basically every province starting with Kiev revolted every other turn. I had to juggle troops from province to province for the last 150 years of my game, until about the last 10 turns. Every 5-6 years or so, I had 0 loyalty in 4-5 provinces in that region too, so revolts were unavoidable no matter how I shifted my troops. This all caused me to lose big time florins and I played for about 70-80 years with a negative balance of over 50K. And of course every time my king died I had massive revolts since the new one wound up somewhere next to Portugal, thereby being in the corner of my empire.... *sigh*. In any case, I know about the AI making it difficult for you once you're basically in control of the map, but this is a very cheesy way to do it and is damn annoying, not to mention time consuming. I was playing the English on Norm, btw.
Well, it was nice to get that off my chest ;-)
Now for the question: Does the metalsmith upgrade ranged weapon damage or is it just the melee damage of those same archers?
tia
-A
First the comment.
I just finished my first campaign. Finished it in 1453, heh. I had a 60% victory around the mid 1200's, but then my king produced 6 daughters and no sons and after his death my empire went into chaos. The problem is that after I put down all the fires, I still had revolts almost every turn on the whole european right side of the map. Basically every province starting with Kiev revolted every other turn. I had to juggle troops from province to province for the last 150 years of my game, until about the last 10 turns. Every 5-6 years or so, I had 0 loyalty in 4-5 provinces in that region too, so revolts were unavoidable no matter how I shifted my troops. This all caused me to lose big time florins and I played for about 70-80 years with a negative balance of over 50K. And of course every time my king died I had massive revolts since the new one wound up somewhere next to Portugal, thereby being in the corner of my empire.... *sigh*. In any case, I know about the AI making it difficult for you once you're basically in control of the map, but this is a very cheesy way to do it and is damn annoying, not to mention time consuming. I was playing the English on Norm, btw.
Well, it was nice to get that off my chest ;-)
Now for the question: Does the metalsmith upgrade ranged weapon damage or is it just the melee damage of those same archers?
tia
-A