Playing Total War or not?

[Adrian II]

It's Backroom confession time!
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Do you play any of the Total War games at present? If so: which ones?
If not, did you play any in the past? If so, why did you quit?
If you never played them, what are you doing here?

Like most polls this one is completely useless, except that anything you say can and will most certainly be used against you.

I played both S:TW and M:TW for several years, but I hardly have the time to start, let alone complete a decent campaign anymore. Maybe I should say I don't make time anymore. For some time I have tried to keep up, now I have given up. I have erased all TW files, stashed my TW cd-rom's, deleted guides and related stuff.

The only headsoup I make these days is in the Backroom!... http://matousmileys.free.fr/baffe3.gif

[Kagemusha]

I play STW and some RTW.I really dont know why i stopped playing MTW,i just did. :shrug:

[Don Corleone]

Glad I'm not the only one that's curious about what my backroom mates are up to. Favorite faction would be Shhhhh! the French :embarassed: (I love heavy cavalry).

Right now, I'm in the midst of an extended English campaign. As for the time issue, this might be a bit anally retentive, but I have a solution Adrian. A timer & a notebook... I keep copious notes on everything I'm thinking so when the time is up, I can pick up the next night where I left off.

[yesdachi]

STW back in the day and MTW still when I get the chance. :medievalcheers:

[Don Corleone]

Why aren't you voting, Adrian? Planning to collect the data & forward to spouse/girlfriends/boyfriends/whomever ? ~:cool:

[Kanamori]

M:TW and some R:TW, but no more, WoW has found a home in me ~:)

I stopped playing M:TW online, because it was hard to find a decent game after R:TW came out. I stopped playing R:TW, because, firstly, I hated the MP; secondly, the campaign was too easy when you fought the battles against the compy; and thirdly, I just don't like the gameplay of the battles as much.

[Kagemusha]

Glad I'm not the only one that's curious about what my backroom mates are up to. Favorite faction would be Shhhhh! the French :embarassed: (I love heavy cavalry).
I hated the French in MTW. :thumbsdown: My favourite faction was the Holy Roman Empire. :knight: And now this is not French bashing. ~D

[Adrian II]

Glad I'm not the only one that's curious about what my backroom mates are up to. Favorite faction would be Shhhhh! the French :embarassed: (I love heavy cavalry).We are like minds. I loved those white knights from Toulouse. Once you can make them on a regular basis, they beat everything to a pulp.
:charge:

[Duke Malcolm]

I play MTW and RTW, and am currently nearing the end of a fantastic campaign as the Julii, with almost every faction, except Sarmatia, Seleucid, and Armenia at war with me, and I'm still winning.

I have a relatively new file on the Napoleonic mod for MTW as the British, and my 2500-strong Highland Infantry Division currently rampagin through Burgundy, and my Light Brigade, of about 300 Hussars and 200 Light Dragoons and supporting artillery led by my King have just landed in Portugal, and a British Army of the Pyrenees has been established of about 3000 regular infantry of the line, 200 Life Guards, 400 Royal Dragoons and Hussars, 500 Light Infantry of the Line, 150 Green Jackets, and a mighty 80 artillery pieces are preparing to invade Spain.

[Xiahou]

I'm back onto RTW maybe 1 or 2 times a week. I haven't played MTW for a few weeks since I was forced to reformat my HD, but before long I'll have it reinstalled and MedModded up, cuz the battles are just better. ~D

[Adrian II]

Why aren't you voting, Adrian? Planning to collect the data & forward to spouse/girlfriends/boyfriends/whomever ? ~:cool:Big Brother is a Dutch invention. :mellow:

[Kanamori]

My favourite faction was the Holy Roman Empire.

~:cheers: The Italians also for their ability to have eight heavy cavs. in MP. Otherwise, I love the turks and all-cav armies ~:cheers: ~:cheers:

[Devastatin Dave]

I reloaded RTW a week ago. I've been playing the Hellenic Total War mod for a couple of months now and before that, MedMod (which rules BTW). But, I think I'll go back to MTW. Is there a STW mod that uses the MTW load? That would be sweet. I looooooooove STW, but for some reason I can't get Mongol Invasion to run. Man, but I have to say that MTW and STW are sooooooooooooooo much better than that eye candy crap RTW!!! ~D

[Ser Clegane]

Still playing all three games more or less frequently.

Currently I have a campaign running with the Turks in M:TW and one with the Germans in R:TW

[Kagemusha]

~:cheers: The Italians also for their ability to have eight heavy cavs. in MP. Otherwise, I love the turks and all-cav armies ~:cheers: ~:cheers:
~:cheers: I liked Italians also,Turks had a great pool of troops.All cavalry armies were just too frustrating for me,all those cav archers to watch over. :dizzy2:

[Devastatin Dave]

I play MTW and RTW, and am currently nearing the end of a fantastic campaign as the Julii, with almost every faction, except Sarmatia, Seleucid, and Armenia at war with me, and I'm still winning.

I have a relatively new file on the Napoleonic mod for MTW as the British, and my 2500-strong Highland Infantry Division currently rampagin through Burgundy, and my Light Brigade, of about 300 Hussars and 200 Light Dragoons and supporting artillery led by my King have just landed in Portugal, and a British Army of the Pyrenees has been established of about 3000 regular infantry of the line, 200 Life Guards, 400 Royal Dragoons and Hussars, 500 Light Infantry of the Line, 150 Green Jackets, and a mighty 80 artillery pieces are preparing to invade Spain.

How good is the Mod and where can i get it? ~D

[PanzerJaeger]

1. Do you play any of the Total War games at present? No
2. If so: which ones? --
3. If not, did you play any in the past? STW, MTW, RTW (for a short time.)
4. If so, why did you quit? RTW lacked the depth that the previous two games had.
5. If you never played them, what are you doing here? --

[Louis VI the Fat]

Still playing M:TW in fact.

I'm into mods at the moment, they keep the game fresh for me. I'm currently having a ball playing as the Burgundians, teaming up with the English and kicking French butt wherever those sissies may hide. :duel:

[Devastatin Dave]

5. If you never played them, what are you doing here? --

Because you love me!!!! :furious3:
Ugh....

[Divinus Arma]

No TW vanilla. Just EB betas. mwa ha ha

[Byzantine Prince]

I can't play anymore, plus I lossed a lot of interest. I have school and other things to worry about and TW games take up so much time once you start. You all know that I'm sure.


I might revisit RTW for the hell of it, but I doubt I'll do it anytime soon.


I just like to post here because I found the discussions are occasionally interesting. Is that a crime? :embarassed:

[Don Corleone]

Still playing M:TW in fact.

I'm into mods at the moment, they keep the game fresh for me. I'm currently having a ball playing as the Burgundians, teaming up with the English and kicking French butt wherever those sissies may hide. :duel:

Hey Pal! There will be no French bashing while I'm around! Unless of course, it's by me. Or it's funny. ~D

[Meneldil]

I played
STW - never achieved to win a game. I usually killed all other daimos (sp?) with uber geisha, and quickly ended up quite bored after fighting load of rebels/ronins.

MTW - Wasted a good load of hours on that game. Won a game with the Almohads, the Almoravid and the Byzantines with Super Mod (early). Won as the Welsh with VI. Never achieved to win as the french, cause of boredom.

RTW - Played a few hours with both vanilla and RTR. I spent much more time modding the game than playing it.
No playing anymore, but I expect to get back on business when BI, EB or AoVaF are released.

Louis VI, are you playing SuperMod or XL ?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Or it's funny. ~D~:mecry:



@Meneldil
I digged up an old Medmod, had to give it a try sometime.

[Templar Knight]

I haven't played it for some time, Im just waiting patiently for BI. At the moment I am playing the wonderful Knights of Honor :charge:

[Adrian II]

I haven't played it for some time, Im just waiting patiently for BI. At the moment I am playing the wonderful Knights of Honor :charge:My friend, where have you been all this time? I was starting to be afraid you had been devoured by the notorrious Golden Grrotto sharrks (Largo).
~:cheers:

[Templar Knight]

Nah, Im still here, just not as active as I once was ~:cheers:

[Adrian II]

Nah, Im still here, just not as active as I once was ~:cheers:GF being tedious about it?
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[Geoffrey S]

Thunderball?
I've got MTW and RTW. At the moment I'm waiting for EB or BI before I pick up RTW again, and I'm busy with a Polish campaign in MTW (gotta love starting small!); usually less than an hour each evening though, I've got plenty of other things to work on.

[Templar Knight]

GF being tedious about it?

:yes:

[Duke Malcolm]

How good is the Mod and where can i get it? ~D

You've never played it?! It is by the Lordz, I believe there is a downloady thing a thread of the name of the mod in the Engineers' Guild in the MTW Section.

[Adrian II]

Thunderball? Yup! :bow:



Behind the scenes footage of notorrious sharrk...
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[econ21]

My interest in TW really took off with the PBMs here at the Org. I very much admire the TW engine for battles, but find it hard to motivate myself through a long solo campaign. Splitting it up the campaign into alternating reigns with other Org members was an inspired idea and so I had a lot of fun with MTW.

I agree with much of the grumbling about RTW in the Org. It certainly seemed to kill PBEM. However, one thing I found was that it was easier to finish an SP campaign. I guess the 50 provinces thing is just much more realistic than "conquer the world". But also the nature of the campaign map perhaps avoids some of the more fatiguing encounters in STW and MTW. However, after a while, I found RTW lacked challenge and lost interest for quite sometime.

Lately, I've discovered Rome Total Realism (and the VH campaign option plus a few house rules) and that has re-invigorated my interest. It makes TW much closer to a historical wargame than before, but retains the core gameplay we liked in STW and MTW. With EB on the horizon, I am more interested in TW games now than ever.

[Geoffrey S]

The one thing that tends to keep me from starting new campaigns is the unrealistically weak starting units of the factions. If I've just ended a campaign involving Chivalric knights and pikemen I'm hardly going to enjoy starting a new campaign with peasants; it's almost boring in comparison. In MTW this wasn't too much of a problem due to the option of choosing the starting periods, but RTW lacked this option.

[Azi Tohak]

I am still playing sure, but RTR 6.1 is my fourth game right now (the other three are console games). I play when I am watching a TV show, like football.

Azi

[kiwitt]

Because MTW was crashing, I loaded RTW again to give it a try. While different to MTW, it is worth playing still. I will try the RTR mod after I have played a couple of campaigns.

[drone]

I have stopped playing R:TW, but I still play Medieval every once in a while. I'm having trouble getting a few consecutive hours to play though, which cuts into my campaign time.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I've never played STW, and was an MTW addict. With frequent relapses. I think I'm going to continue my Northumbrian (VI) campaign (hard!).

Rome: Total War was less compelling, though with EB I think I'll rediscover it. And BI.

And EB + BI!

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I play M:TW and even a bit of *gasp* R:TW.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I've played all of them, except for MI, never knew it had come out. :embarassed:

I currently only very rarely go back to STW, go back to MTW every now and then and would be playing a fair amount of RTW, but Hearts Of Iron II has stolen my gaming time so I will be driving my Panthers through Russia instead. I've already taken Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad with the Poles, Austrians, Italians, Danes and Flemish supporting my drive with obsolete infantry, on to Baku! :charge:

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I still play MP VI everyday. SP is too boring after MP. RTW mp sux and MTW isnt as good as VI. Why play the rest when you can play the best?

[Alexanderofmacedon]

RTW. I need to get BI and it's mods, though. It's going to be sweet!

[Aurelian]

I still play MTW frequently. Haven't for the last month or so, but I've had other things going on. I've currently got Viking Horde's XL Mod, and BKB's Super Mod loaded onto my hard drive.

I've still got the downloads for Hellenic Total War, Fall of Rome, Napoleonic, and the old MedMod stored on my computer.

When Wes W's new MedMod is finished I'll give that a go.

I'm also looking forward to trying some of the RTW mods that are being developed. The EB mod and Blue Lotus look particularly good.

So, yes, I do still play.

[Steppe Merc]

I play RTW:EB. Sadly, I need to reinstall it, because things were being buggy.

[Soulforged]

I played the three but the first two didn't appealed to my graphic tastes so I dismissed them quickly. RTW was amazing, but I desintalled it until Barbarian Invassion appears, and perhaps EB appears too.

[Spetulhu]

I played R:TW as late as last week, well, the RTR mod of it. My Pontus campaign finally got to a close after my faction leader fought a pitched battle outside Rome. Praetorian Guards are incredibly hard to kill, especially when you get attacked before your heavier armies can catch up. Four chariot archers? Three Cretan archers? Three Illyrian mercenaries? Assorted crappy mercenary H-t-H troops? Against Romans with lots of gold chevrons? ~:eek:

The chariot units were down to two, my general's bodyguard had shrunk to ten men from the 57 he started with and the footsloggers were all but wiped out. But the sons of Pontus thriumphed! ~D

[ichi]

I still play MP VI everyday. SP is too boring after MP. RTW mp sux and MTW isnt as good as VI. Why play the rest when you can play the best?

Xactly

VI is the best game I've ever played. I uninstalled STW after I tried the STW for VI mod, that's the only campaigning that I do. Try to get on daily for a game with Gawain.

ichi :bow:

[Franconicus]

Played MTW and since Christmas RTW. Spend most of my time with them. Favourite factions are the Germanians and the Scythians. Fit best to my Barbarian character ~:cool:
Didn't play a lot in the last two months though. I am waiting for BI. Until then I am just hanging round here ~:cheers:

[Ja'chyra]

Playing RTW RTR at the minute, well not right now as I'm at work ~;) , took me about three weeks to get the game uninstalled and re-install it with RTR 6.1, other that that I play EVE now and then but will switch to Roma Victor when it's released, I refuse to pay for more than one MMORPG at a time.

[GonZ]

I still play - occasionally. Had a great blast of STW in the summer - that game is still awesome imo.

Haven't played MTW for a while but know I will return to it sooner or later.

Playing a RTR game on and off at the moment. BI doesn't seem to be capturing my imagination and I probably won't buy it - until its discounted.

I am excited about the era of the next full game though. I hope it's got gunpowder and canons and a workable multiplayer campaign.

[Sigurd]

I have STW and MTW stashed on the shelf and are currently still at my first campaign in RTW as Julii (is that a year now??).
Too little time for recreation results in prioritising…

[Adrian II]

Wow, 51 votes and counting! This must be the most representative Backroom poll we have had in quite a while.

And the result will be used against anyone who suggests that Backroomers have drifted away from the .org main stream. Over 3/4 are still playing the games and mods or waiting for BI to come out.
:charge:

[Beirut]

The only two games I play consistently are M:TW and the IL2 flightsim series.

R:TW is kind of boring for me. M:TW still surprises me and keeps me up late at night. Going to try out the XL mod soon, I heard it's good fun.

[Big_John]

voted "still playing", but i haven't had the time to do it for a while now. in the near future, i will start playing medmod MTW again and wait for EB to reinstall RTW. i'll probably try out NTW sometime in the future too.

[Ironside]

Still playing RTW and MTW occationally, but ATM does WoW take most playtime.

[edyzmedieval]

RTW. But MTW VI takes much more of my playing time.

But now, BI came out, so only BI for me. ~D

[dgfred]

MTW stays on my computer for when I have some free time to enjoy ~;) .

My problem is 'next turn syndrome' which will force me to play for hours :embarassed: , instead of a little bit like I planned.

[Aurelian]

Going to try out the XL mod soon, I heard it's good fun. - Beirut

Yeah, do try it. Highly recommended. XL is probably the mod that I've spent the most time playing. It's my first choice for MTW now.

By the way, Viking Horde just released a patch for the XL mod a few days ago. Nothing big, just tidying things up a bit.

~:cheers:

[mercian billman]

I'm not playing but unlike most of you I have a good excuse~;)

I went to Bootcamp for 3 months, and am currently at School of Infantry, as such I do not have a whole lot of computer access (except on weekends.) I'm planning to get a laptop soon, so hopefully I'll be able to play more in the future, but not RTW, I had some really bad experiences the first time and will probably be playing MTW or STW.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Just got BI today, and it seems to be a step in the right direction.

[Paul Peru]

Too much...
lately RTR 6.*+minimods,
but MTW will be back in action soon. (medmod4 and BKB's new project, if it gets finished)
I've decided to get BI as well.

[Soulforged]

Does BI requires something special, because in my machine (with an nForce of 64mb AGP x8) it appers than when I use night battles color frames appear in place of the lighting. Did the exp. add something more to requirements?

[Kralizec]

Played Medieval to death, got addicted and eventually sold off my CD because I decided it took waaay to much of my time.
RTW was a nice game, it had some nice new features but at the same time I was really pissed they threw away so many good features of MTW and made the AI so crappy.
Since a month or so I'm having fun with RTR. It's amazing how they made such a great mod within the limits of the old game.

Never tried multiplayer, but I figure I should one of these days. Are there enough people who play RTR online though? Dunno if I'd be willing to reinstall vanilla RTW 1.2 just to go online.