padmewan
04-04-2005, 22:18
I just started playing MTW -- awesome game! Wish I had gotten it with Viking Invasion, can't seem to find it in the States at all.
I'm playing my first campaign as the Almohads and doing reasonably well... took out Spain and then Egypt, now I'm beating back the French and German Crusades, haven't even had a chance to play my Jihad yet.
Anyway, my first ruler died and his heir took over. The problem is that he doesn't seem to have any children. He does have 5 brothers (there was an amusing message about how his father proved his potency by siring so many heirs), and of them the second and the fourth would make awesome rulers. I tried knocking off the first by letting him stand down an attempt by the French to take back Burgundy, but he and his 3 units of AUM's and 1 of desert archers held back about 1000 French knights, calvary, archers, and peasants. He picked up 2 command stars and the "last stand" virtue. Oh well... his younger brother is still better, but at this rate, as one of the guides states, he might just end up being an idiot savant general. (with 3 acumen he's not that bad).
Is my king having trouble having children, or are they not showing up on the list, or what? He's getting up there in years, and I want to know whether I should knock his brother off or worry more about potential idiot children. Those sperm do degrade over time, you know!
I'm playing my first campaign as the Almohads and doing reasonably well... took out Spain and then Egypt, now I'm beating back the French and German Crusades, haven't even had a chance to play my Jihad yet.
Anyway, my first ruler died and his heir took over. The problem is that he doesn't seem to have any children. He does have 5 brothers (there was an amusing message about how his father proved his potency by siring so many heirs), and of them the second and the fourth would make awesome rulers. I tried knocking off the first by letting him stand down an attempt by the French to take back Burgundy, but he and his 3 units of AUM's and 1 of desert archers held back about 1000 French knights, calvary, archers, and peasants. He picked up 2 command stars and the "last stand" virtue. Oh well... his younger brother is still better, but at this rate, as one of the guides states, he might just end up being an idiot savant general. (with 3 acumen he's not that bad).
Is my king having trouble having children, or are they not showing up on the list, or what? He's getting up there in years, and I want to know whether I should knock his brother off or worry more about potential idiot children. Those sperm do degrade over time, you know!