What Total War Games do Org Members have?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hey guys,
I just realised that this question was not in the public profile of the Org members like it is on Total War Centre. So I, of course, I couldn't resist asking it here, and using the poll option for the first time, so we can all see who has got what game. So guys get voting in my first ever poll! Cheers!

Note to the moderators: If this is not the most suitable place for this thread then feel free to move it to wherever you desire. Thanks! May I also request that somebody with super powers change the poll question to "What Total War games do you have?". Cheers!

[naut]

Well I've lost my Shogun disc :weeps uncontrollably: so I can't count it at the moment.

[Raz]

XD, I'm not entirely sure why anybody would come here, whilst not owning any of the related games. Of course, unless someone has sold or lost the games, then I understand (I recently lost MTW but I expect it to turn up sooner or later).

I still expect it to have several votes anyway, just for laughs. :laugh4:

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

I don't know why I put it on (read the username :grin:) perhaps I did it because somebody could come to get information about the games before they decide to buy one?

[Poulp']

I checked the RTW box only; I had Shogun but I lend it years ago. (but I burrowed him games the same way too :D )

[Warmaster Horus]

I've got Total War:Eras so that entitles me to all the games besides M2TW

[Monarch]

MTW, RTW + BI and M2TW :)

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

M:TW and VI
R:TW and BI
Shogun

[cegorach]

ALL (except the crappy Alexander)

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Mtw, Rtw, Rtw: Bi, M2

[Andres]

STW
MTW
RTW
RTW:BI
M2TW

Looking for a copy of the expansion packs Viking Invasion and Mongol Invasion, can't seem to find them anymore ~:mecry:

[Lord Gruffles]

Stw
Mi
Mtw
Vi
Rtw
Bi

[Grod Tepes]

I've got the whole ruddy lot of them! Yup, I'm a happy basket case :yes:

[Martok]

Shogun (and Shogun: Warlords Edition)
MTW & VI

Used to jointly own Rome with my old roommate, but I (gladly) let him keep it when I moved out. ~D

[Lysander13]

RTW, BI, & MTW2...Though i have yet to even play MTW2 due to some of the really good mods out for RTW and BI.

[Sensei Warrior]

Mtw, Vi

[naut]

AndresTheCunning check eBay.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Or Amazon....

[Lorenzo_H]

I wonder why people who don't have any of them would want on these forums? (as a moderator - Sasaki Kojiro?)

My first Total War game was RTW.

I own RTW Gold Edition (plus BI) and M2TW.

[caravel]

I wonder why people who don't have any of them would want on these forums? (as a moderator - Sasaki Kojiro?)
Typical of him to vote for that one! :laugh4: :2thumbsup: :bow:

[fenir]

Lets see,

I ripped Shogun TW off a website, ( it's how i tested to see if i like new games).

Loved it went out brought my own copy to support Company that made it, some no name called "The Creative Assembly".

So... The games I own, and my opinions on them...

1. Shogun TW + Mongol Invasion.
A game in a class of it's own, the concept, much dreamed of by young boys at the time, a game that we could finally, play "master and commander" so to speak, and get down and dirty in the field.
Control and release. There was nothing like it.

2. Medieval Total War ..........(My truely ultimate, so thrashed, best $80.00 i ever spent on entertainment.)
For game play, this game still has no competitors.
Upgrade the graphics, add more resources, more provinces, more individual units, with an improved M2TW Diplomacy, put it on the Big Map of spurius, and M2TW could stay in it's box.

IMHO: Ranks as the greatest game, I have ever played.


3. Medieval Total War: Viking invasion. (just more fun for the above.)

4. Rome Total War: Great game, a step forward in many respects, in foresight, perhaps to much time on Graphics. Not enough on Diplomacy, when in retrospect, diplomacy could have been the main devlopment of the game.
Playability was good, as was as much as generally possible i believe, the historical context was used, abit, with some editing, and exclusion, not with standing time, space and money.
All in all a very good game.


5. Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Actually imho, an improvement on RTW. Immersion was certianly better, and felt better in playability. Truely came to life with the addition of Spurius' Big Map.

6. Medieval 2 Total War:
Much was expected of this game, much was not delievered. Great Graphics.
Diplomacy, a gaint leap forward, but still lacking in the basic's, (like get off of my land, Actually hard to see how the heck they missed that one).
The changing of the historical tense of the map, to a disassocaititive one, was , imho, the hallmark of being brought by a multi national. A total break with the historical context helps shift the goal posts, depending on where you want to go of course.
Gone is any pretense to mark territories historically, and no effort was made to increase the number of provinces with the addition of the Americas.
Espeically when the circumstances both allowed an increase in map size, and provinces accordingly. Burgundy, a very important State, County, plus Duchy was excluded totally, infavour of, in the medieval sense, a non senseual America's.
To go one further, the exclusion of the Time date on the game screen, is another inventive way of dis-associating the player from the immerision of the game.
Much will be said of "stops people gaming the game", with knowledge of when certian things happen.
Well i did that after seeing what turn i started, and counting how many to a year. Took 3 sec's.

Many of the things that made MTW orginal, such a great game, and great immerison, haven't been included.
But still, for a mature product, this game (I suspect only) was a forced released, as the bugs are serious and glaring, imho.
Certinaly not what we would have expected, (or come to expect,) from a doubling of the work force to produce it.
Certianly, strident effort was made to produce more individual units types for Factions, but when glaringly obvious exclusions from Factions, eg: no Crossbow for Roman empire(Byzantine), no nafftan, yet three other factions have its use.
No extrapolation of them surviving the 1453AD fall, by including Cannons, Musketeers, and the such, to the level of other factions, seems obviously shortsighted.

The reworked Mongol invasion, is most certainly an improvement, and the fact that the Timurlane invasion is included, is wonderful.
But looking at the east, where are the Armenians, and Georgians, both historically important fations with a long history in the area.
Important Trade roads have been left out, and 1 level of roads taken away, But a spilt from Castles and Cities to define recruiting, rather than developing immerision within each faction, certianly leaves you scratching your head.
The removal of Oil at the gates, was to strong they say, but thats it, it should be strong, most battle's should be fought in the fields, Cities/castles being the strong hold of the Faction, their base of growth, develoment and recruiting.
Make the Strong hold just that, important cities didn't change hands as rule, on a regular basis. In many cases they were a thorn in the sides of a conquoring army.

:oops:

Ok i better stop there, i think perhaps, i have drunk to much....and being having to many thinking thoughts.
:idea2:


:smash:
fenir :whip:

[fenir]

That guy above me is a noob :dizzy2:


hehehe I just realised it's a poll............:yes: :shame:



:smash:
bad fenir :whip:

[naut]

Well your opinion is well thought out and displayed, so worth the post.

[Samurai Waki]

I really just need to go down to a retailer and buy M2TW, but I have so many unplayed games as is, I feel like I would be neglecting them even further. I guess I'll wait for a few more patches for M2 before I go out and buy it.

[Ludens]

I have bought the Shogun: Warlord Edition, the Medieval: Battlepack, R:TW, BI (for the mods) and Alexander (still haven't installed it). I am not considering buying M2:TW at this moment. Perhaps later, when the total conversion mods become available. Anyway, between my studies and playing the Europa Barbarorum modification I don't have time for another game.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I wonder why people who don't have any of them would want on these forums? (as a moderator - Sasaki Kojiro?)


I don't even have a computer :shame:

[Andres]

I don't even have a computer :shame:

Poor guy!

But, but, but ...

:inquisitive:

He doesn't even have a face!

:eeeek:

[Samurai Waki]

Poor guy!

But, but, but ...

:inquisitive:

He doesn't even have a face!

:eeeek:

I think he lost it in an unfortunate log ride accident in 'nam.

[sapi]

I've got mtw, rtw and m2tw (no expansions)

That's all the tw fix i need in between my other games.

[econ21]

Got 'em all. Heck, if they announced a Desperate Housewives Total War, I'd probably preorder it. :laugh4:

[naut]

A true diehard TW fan. :bow:

[César Victor]

STW:MI, MTW and RTW Gold.

I won't get M2TW for a few years. My computer is too slow. ~:mecry:

[The Foolish Horseman]

Got all total war games....ww1/ww2 total war wud be cool.... id probs even orrder barby total war

[César Victor]

WW2 total war games would hard to do. Other TW games are epic battles over large fields and walls. WW2 was urban; shooting from buildings, marching through the country side etc. Would be completely new.

WW1 TW would be dull. Sending 100's of troops over a field to get shot then the enemy doing the same until both sides are destroyed.

[caravel]

Got 'em all. Heck, if they announced a Desperate Housewives Total War, I'd probably preorder it. :laugh4:
Only if it had the STW/MTW style campaign map. :yes: :yes: :yes:

[macsen rufus]

Desperate Housewives Total War

This is one where I would put graphics ahead of realism :yes:

STW(WE) + MI
MTW + VI (+ mods! Don't forget the mods! HTW, NTW, PMTW, XL, Samurai)
RTW + BI

Gave up on RTW after a couple of months, though, I missed MTW too much!

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

ww1/ww2 total war wud be cool
I am sorry to say that I disagree. The problem with a WWI/II TW would be that there would be six units for every faction - tanks, gunners, machine gunners, planes, boats and U-Boats (WWII TW only). A little dull in my opinion - you need more variety to create interest and that is where you start to see fantasy units such as singing and screaming women on the battlefield.

[César Victor]

Just a correction there Omanes; WW1 had very little in the way of major artillery and aircraft. It really was as simple as "going over the top", getting shot to death and then letting ze Germans do the same.

[Kralizec]

Shogun Gold (it never ran on my PC)
MTW Gold
Rome: Total War, without BI.

[Martok]

Shogun Gold (it never ran on my PC).
Did you ever check in at the Sword Dojo and Apothecary to see if they could help you with that? It's a pity to not be able to run such a terrific game. :sad:

[Zalmoxis]

I own Rome and I borrowed Shogun with MI for a while but gave it back. They're both fun games.

[Saulot]

I listed M:TW, M:TW-VI, R:TW, R:TW-BI, and M2:TW.

I first got into this series hearing through word of mouth about what a great game Medieval: Total War was, and I bought it and was quite impressed, growing very absorbed by that game. Consequently, I've collected each new game and watched the series grew in popularity. I didn't get a chance to buy Rome: Total War-Alexander, and Medieval 2 came out soon afterwards, so when I was in a position to get a new game, I opted for the newer one.

[Kralizec]

Did you ever check in at the Sword Dojo and Apothecary to see if they could help you with that? It's a pity to not be able to run such a terrific game. :sad:

No, I always assumed it was my Nvidea card that gave me trouble. I can't run MTW either without using an old driver.
Maybe I'll browse through the Dojo and Apothecary later, can't hurt to give it a try.

[César Victor]

I doubt it, but maybe you were having the same trouble I had with STW at first. I found that, without the patch, STW wouldn't load and play properly but with it, the game worked fine.

[fenir]

César Victor, Oh contre'

WW 1, acutally was the first time in history that Major artillery groupings where used in a war.
And that is why ww1 is also Called, "The Artillery War".

10,000's of them on every side, from small bore 12pdr's to 14in and 16in mortars, in fact, in both ww1 and ww2 the biggest killer of any military equipment, was artillery.
The machine gun was nothing in ww1, when compared to artillery. And, the Tanks and panzers come near the end, believe it or not in ww2.

Quick note: each British Brigade had a Art Regiment Attached, 3 batt of 6 if i remember correctly. 2 or 3 bde's to a division. plus divisional artillery, then corps artillery. then siege park. So about 200 to 300 Artillery peices per Division. About 3 to 5 thousand per army, with out a Artillery Division included for attacks.
NOTE: All Figures are roughly correctly, as i cannot be bothered walking the 11 steps to my filing cabinets.


( Trivia Note: The british, under general haig actually acually developed "worm running", that is sort of like running in zig zag, as they didn't like their french commanders full frontal run straight assult idea.) :beam:


I forget the production figures, but British Empire, France and Germany, produced over 100,000 artillery peices each in ww1.

ww1 is a stand out, because of these, the first time to be used enmass.

And hence the name of WW1 is "The Artillery War".
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Aircraft,
No one started off well,

Aug 1914,
RAF (RFC = Royal Flying Corps)..... had about 200 Aircraft, and about 230 pilots. Plus about 90 in Royal Navy Fleet of Air Arm. Initially sent about 50 or 60 each to France with first BEF.
France.. about 140 Aircraft 220 pilots.
Germany... About about 245 Aircraft. Can't remember how many pilots.

No one else worth mentioning, as all had under 50 aircraft of all types.

7 months later in March 1915..All three had about 400 to 450 aircraft.

Trivia
Pilots............the average life span of a pilot was 3 weeks. :beam:

Most production of all the different companies, in all three countires could produce about 50 to 150 aircraft a month.

Hence in June 1916 France alone had over 1120 Aircraft, That same month, Britian and france had 386 fighters, vs Germany's 129.

In sept 1916 the hindenburg program in Germany had been in effect, and begun to produce over 1050 aircraft per month. thats over 13000 a year.
You where saying about hardly any?

France actually produce far more than anyone, But only half of there planes ever got to the front for operational duties.

fast forward here
Aug 1917, France 2335 planes
Britian 1890 Planes
Germany 1200 Planes.

All three where producing aircraft at the rate of over 1200 aircraft per month. by june 1916.
So for 1917 alone...... thats about 15,000 aircraft each, or about 45,000 between the three.
Of course by this stage, Italy, USA, Austria, and Russia had all got in on the Act.

I don't know about You César Victor, but I reckon about 110k of aricraft in 1917 is a lot.

Edit:
In 1918 Britian out stripped eveyone, they produce 32,000 Aircraft. And Winston Churchill was minister for Munitions.


:smash:
fenir :whip: <== oh yeah i been bad.

[Kralizec]

I doubt it, but maybe you were having the same trouble I had with STW at first. I found that, without the patch, STW wouldn't load and play properly but with it, the game worked fine.

You missed the part where I said that I have the Gold edition ~;)

[CybrGamr]

I have ownd Medieval Total War and the Vikings Invasion expansion pack for some time now. I also had Rome Total War at one point but lost it. A couple of months ago, I went out and bought Total War Eras and got Medieval 2 Total War for Christmas (even though my machine doesn't run it well). So I've got the whole family of games...

[naut]

Gold Edition MTW? There's a patch for that now.

[César Victor]

I stand corrected. You obviously know your stuff, Fenir.

[Kralizec]

Gold Edition MTW? There's a patch for that now.

Yeah, but we were talking about STW.

[The Foolish Horseman]

C&#233;sar Victor, Oh contre'

WW 1, acutally was the first time in history that Major artillery groupings where used in a war.
And that is why ww1 is also Called, "The Artillery War".

10,000's of them on every side, from small bore 12pdr's to 14in and 16in mortars, in fact, in both ww1 and ww2 the biggest killer of any military equipment, was artillery.
The machine gun was nothing in ww1, when compared to artillery. And, the Tanks and panzers come near the end, believe it or not in ww2.

Quick note: each British Brigade had a Art Regiment Attached, 3 batt of 6 if i remember correctly. 2 or 3 bde's to a division. plus divisional artillery, then corps artillery. then siege park. So about 200 to 300 Artillery peices per Division. About 3 to 5 thousand per army, with out a Artillery Division included for attacks.
NOTE: All Figures are roughly correctly, as i cannot be bothered walking the 11 steps to my filing cabinets.


( Trivia Note: The british, under general haig actually acually developed "worm running", that is sort of like running in zig zag, as they didn't like their french commanders full frontal run straight assult idea.) :beam:


I forget the production figures, but British Empire, France and Germany, produced over 100,000 artillery peices each in ww1.

ww1 is a stand out, because of these, the first time to be used enmass.

And hence the name of WW1 is "The Artillery War".
*****************************************************
Aircraft,
No one started off well,

Aug 1914,
RAF (RFC = Royal Flying Corps)..... had about 200 Aircraft, and about 230 pilots. Plus about 90 in Royal Navy Fleet of Air Arm. Initially sent about 50 or 60 each to France with first BEF.
France.. about 140 Aircraft 220 pilots.
Germany... About about 245 Aircraft. Can't remember how many pilots.

No one else worth mentioning, as all had under 50 aircraft of all types.

7 months later in March 1915..All three had about 400 to 450 aircraft.

Trivia
Pilots............the average life span of a pilot was 3 weeks. :beam:

Most production of all the different companies, in all three countires could produce about 50 to 150 aircraft a month.

Hence in June 1916 France alone had over 1120 Aircraft, That same month, Britian and france had 386 fighters, vs Germany's 129.

In sept 1916 the hindenburg program in Germany had been in effect, and begun to produce over 1050 aircraft per month. thats over 13000 a year.
You where saying about hardly any?

France actually produce far more than anyone, But only half of there planes ever got to the front for operational duties.

fast forward here
Aug 1917, France 2335 planes
Britian 1890 Planes
Germany 1200 Planes.

All three where producing aircraft at the rate of over 1200 aircraft per month. by june 1916.
So for 1917 alone...... thats about 15,000 aircraft each, or about 45,000 between the three.
Of course by this stage, Italy, USA, Austria, and Russia had all got in on the Act.

I don't know about You C&#233;sar Victor, but I reckon about 110k of aricraft in 1917 is a lot.

Edit:
In 1918 Britian out stripped eveyone, they produce 32,000 Aircraft. And Winston Churchill was minister for Munitions.


:smash:
fenir :whip: <== oh yeah i been bad.

Bravo matey boy :grin:

[Artorius Maximus]

I have Medieval: Total War, Viking Invasion, Rome: Total War, Barbarian Invasion, and Medieval II: Total War. I don't have Shogun: Total War, Mongol Invasion, and Alexander Expansion for Rome: Total War. I need to get them someday.

[Stig]

I choose the option that sounds a bit like GAH!

[Lorenzo_H]

@ Sasaki Kojiro
How are you posting here then? As a commited moderator? Found a really cheap internet cafe? I found one recently - all you have to do is buy a drink and you get unlimited free access!

EDIT: sorry I quick replied to the wrong post...

[Braden]

I have them all bar Alexander, however, I'm regretting getting M2 now.

[phoenix[illusion]]

I've got Rome, BI, Alexander and Medieval 2

[Lorenzo_H]

ALL (except the crappy Alexander)
How do you know its crappy?

however, I'm regretting getting M2 now.
Why you regretting it? Send your copy to me if you don't like it:clown: I think it absolutly rules!

[CountArach]

Got 'em all. Heck, if they announced a Desperate Housewives Total War, I'd probably preorder it. :laugh4:

HAHA! Great image!

I got Med+VI (With Napoleonic Total War Mod), RTW+BI (Playing EB at the moment) and MedII Total War (Just can't hold my attention long enough to finish a campaign. Just got bored of it pretty quickly).

[Zasz1234]

got all the base games. M2TW is nice but I miss the old battle maps of STW and MTW. Still M2TW is fun, but I can't wait for the mods to come!

[Xehh II]

I have STW+MI
MTW+VI
RTW
M2TW

I forgot to vote rome on the poll.:oops:

[Caerfanan]

Got all the games, but I had to start somewhere. I did with the viking campaign of MTW:VI.

I can't run M2TW on my computer, and it is not working very well on my girlfriend's. I'll wait a while!

Played Rome a wee bit to test the game. My father actually plays a lot at RTW, to my surprise.

Never tried Shogun. Soon.

[Martok]

Never tried Shogun. Soon.
Not soon enough, my friend. You're missing out! ~;)

[Caerfanan]

Not soon enough, my friend. You're missing out! ~;)

Well, I do remember three or four of my friends speaking of STW like constantly five year's ago: we were playing a collectible card game connected to medieval japan at that time, and the were excited like drunken rabbits about that game.

I came to the total War games when medieval came out, being quite fan of this historical period. But I had to wait to have a proper computer. Then another game (Civilization III) came out and took ALL my computer game time! Until the ERA's box. Because I wanted so badly to play the viking campaign.

But I'll give a shot to shogun, of course! :yes:

[bedlam28]

I remember playing Shogun so many years ago that its really just a hazy memory; and I never really related this game to Rome when I bought it. It only occured to me once I started reading the .org
oh the distant memories.

But I love Rome, it drives me nuts sometimes but I really enjoy it, I've got the BI expantion as part of the Gold Disc but haven't played it yet.
My dad bought me M2TW for my birthday coz he's great but my computer isn't powerful enough for it and he's not quite great enough to buy me a new one... .seems to think I'm old enough to be buying my own.
TUT.
Played M2 on a friends computer however as England and was surprised by the slow speed of the battles !! thats gonna take some getting used to !!

Gonna finish my Egypt game; wiping out the last of the romans, then will probably decide between a Greek game or moving onto BI.

TW is my top gaming experience. :2thumbsup:

[LuckyDog Trojan]

Got 'em all. Heck, if they announced a Desperate Housewives Total War, I'd probably preorder it. :laugh4:

LOL! Good one!

To everyone:
By the way, Rome is the only game in the TW series that I own (and I'm glad I do). If I were to give consideration to buying another game in this series, which one would you recommend? Or - are there other titles outside of the series that I might want to check out?

[econ21]

By the way, Rome is the only game in the TW series that I own (and I'm glad I do). If I were to give consideration to buying another game in this series, which one would you recommend?

If you have a fairly modern computer, you should probably get M2TW. Sharing the same engine as RTW, you will feel right at home with it. It needs another patch, but that's on the way.

Otherwise, MTW/VI (buy them together) is a good bet - like RTW and M2TW, it has a lot of variety in its campaigns. STW has very good battles, but more basic and less varied campaigns. With both of the older games, coming from RTW, it may take a while getting used to the older graphics and the Risk style map.

Also, don't forget the RTW mods. Rome Total Realism vastly improved RTW for me. The release of Europa Barbarorum 0.81 is just around the corner.

Finally, I personally have a soft spot for Barbarian Invasion. I just like the premise of shoring up a declining Roman Empire - the atmospheric opening movie is worth the price of admission to me. It also has some very nice mods - Goth mod and IBFD; I think RTR 7.0 will require it too.

[Ossie The Great]

If you have a fairly modern computer, you should probably get M2TW. Sharing the same engine as RTW, you will feel right at home with it. It needs another patch, but that's on the way.
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does that mean if rtw works mtw2 will work

any way i have stw-gold editon rtw-gold editon ( and just orders mtw2 ) :computer:

[econ21]

does that mean if rtw works mtw2 will work

Not necessarily, M2TW has higher system requirements. You can test if your PC meets the requirements by going to this website and choosing M2TW from the list of games:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

[Ossie The Great]

Not necessarily, M2TW has higher system requirements. You can test if your PC meets the requirements by going to this website and choosing M2TW from the list of games:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

hi i have done this and it said mtw2 it does not work ~:doh:
but it also said this rtw does not work, but i have
this and it is runnig fine :thinking2: :confused:

[King of Bavaria]

I have just bought MTW+VI as a cheap compilation.

RTW will probably not work an my bad, old pc, and M2TW will shurely not work.:wall:

I never testet STW, because I don't know if it's worth to get, although I've just got MTW.

[econ21]

hi i have done this and it said mtw2 it does not work ~:doh:
but it also said this rtw does not work, but i have
this and it is runnig fine :thinking2: :confused:

The safe thing to do in such a case is try the demo. The actual game runs better than the demo, but still - if the demo is unplayable, I would think hard before buying the real thing.

[-Amon-]

i have all except rome:alexander...