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printable unit guide.zip

Printable unit guide (STW, STW WE, MTW and MTW VI) in Word by frogbeastegg.

The Complete Total War Unit Guide by Frogbeastegg

This guide is the work of Frogbeastegg, unless otherwise indicated. If you want a copy of this guide on your website please ask and I will be more than happy to agree. This guide took me months, don’t steal it.

This printable guide is up to date and correct as of 12th January 2004, for recent additions check the on-line guide at: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=31444

Confused by cavalry? Annoyed by archers? Pounded by Polearms? Then this is the guide for you! This guide contains an in-depth analysis of every single unit and unit class to appear in the Total War series. It tells you what the units do, what they don’t do and explains the differences between units of the same class. You will also find the most important unit stats in here. This guide is written for single player but it should hold up well in multiplayer, just remember that Total War changes to a whole new game when your up against another human. This guide also assumes a basic knowledge of the principles of battle, you should know how to manoeuvre behind your opponent, ensure your troops have the best position etc. If you are a complete beginner or don’t know the basics of the battlefield take a look at the Beginner’s Guide to Medieval: Total War at:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=31444

NB: All the screenshots in this guide have been enhanced with PaintShop Pro in an effort to make them clearer. Sadly some picture quality has been lost in the making of this document, if you want to see better quality images you will have to hit the net versions of this guide. Also note that the pictures in the chapter headings are not intended to demonstrate good deployment of units, they are intended to break up the 105 page long text and look good!

I should probably add that I chose the factions for the screenshots based on colour contrasts to make the two sides as clear as possible. No bias is intended.

PDF version compiled by Tricky Lady and last updated on March 29 2004.
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01-17-2004
1.69 Mbytes
Keywords: official mtw manual ca

printable beginners guide.zip

printable beginners guide by frogbeastegg with tips for playing MTW, STW and any TW game in general.

This document is entirely the work of frogbeastegg unless otherwise indicated. You may do what you wish with this document as long as you do not make money from it or claim it as your own work. I did this for free and I worked hard. Don’t steal my stuff.

This printer friendly version of my guide is the September 10th 2003 version; there may be a more up to date version on www.totalwar.org forums so check there for updates. This version of the guide was made for Microsoft Word 2000; if you view it with something else it may lose its formatting.

Index
1. Getting started
1.1 Useful resources
1.2 What to practise before starting a main game
1.3 Choosing your faction, difficulty, mode and era
2. The campaign game
2.1 Your main aims
2.2 Buildings and the tech tree
2.3 Armies and units
2.4 Mercenaries
2.5 Finances and provinces
2.6 Securing your borders
2.7 Diplomacy
2.8 The Pope
2.9 Agents
2.10 War!
2.11 Events
2.12 Crusades and Jihads
3. The battle map
3.1 Basic aims
3.2 Unit types
3.3 The landscape
3.4 Generals and kings
3.5 When to fight and when to withdraw
3.6 Sieges
3.7 Tactics and fighting styles
4. Moving to intermediate
5. Appendix
5.1 Hotkeys
5.2 Multiplayer
5.3 Modding the missile units

PDF version compiled by Tricky Lady and updated to May 2nd 2004.
Forum topic.

10-06-2003
345.46 Kbytes

MTW-VI_tech_tree.zip

The official tech tree of MTW VI in PDF.

09-15-2003
661.38 Kbytes
Keywords: ca mtw tech tree

MTW_stats_v11_JJ_MOD.zip

PDF document.

JJ MTW unit ranking
The table below attempts to rank MTW units according to their shear power and their up-keep cost, which, IMHO, is far more important than the purchase cost (in any case a buy efficiency is also given).
All is base on "tootee_corrected_mtw_stats_v11" and on "tootee_ProjectileStats_v11"

09-13-2003
64.52 Kbytes

tech.zip

MTW tech tree by ciecato.

09-13-2003
562.48 Kbytes

MTW_VI_Sheets.zip

MTW and MTW VI sheets by Bushface and frogbeastegg.

MTW corrections
VI Tech Tree.zip
MTW Unit Availability.zip
MTW Unit Prod Stats.zip

09-01-2003
1.19 Mbytes

Yas_units_master_201f.zip

Unittool made by Yas Terazawa for MTW VI 2.1.

V2.0.624 for MTW VI 2.0 (that is unpatched).

05-20-2003
1.03 Mbytes

MTW_ichi_unit_avail_by_era_v1.zip

Excel sheet made by ichi showing availability of units in MTW.

05-03-2003
8.05 Kbytes

formationdatafiles.zip

Document from CA about unit formation files (FormationData\*.txt)
Written by Longjohn
Uploaded by GilJaysmith on 25.4.03
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