I was trying to do the Report before the save came up, will upload it soon, maybe do a dual report.
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I was trying to do the Report before the save came up, will upload it soon, maybe do a dual report.
If you have scarce time and it is a choice between reporting and playing, I'd prioritise playing. The savegame can speak for itself to a degree and you will have time to write while waiting for people to fight their battles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warluster
So...anything going on of any interest here? :book:
Warluster would you like a series of instructions for Arnold and the AHA around Budapest?
Vienna is still red faced even though all Austrian holdings should be yellow or green.
I'm just thinking out loud here.
I just noticed that the start of 1248 savegame was uploaded this morning:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/1248-1.zip
Warluster has not provided instructions, but Thorn is besieged and Arnold is besieging Budapest. I suggest Stig and Ituralde should play out those battles if they want to.
Thanks econ.
Yes, the save is uploaded. I haven't had a good look yet.
Will do a dual report.
If you haven't guessed already, its harder then I expected :P
Think I will fight some time to day, depending on what the Polish army (I take it they are Polish) is made off. If they are too strong to sally out against I prefer to fight them in the streets and on the citadel.
There strong, very strong. Theres a strong Russian one aswell.
Ok, won, and OOC I urge you to do the following things:
-Move the Imperial Army towards Thorn, the Russians won't be able to siege it next turn, but Thorn is in need of help (same as I asked IC).
-If Kage agrees let Jonas take command of the Crusade army (what it is now) and move it towards Thorn.
-Take some the cav from Breslau, and move it towards Thorn.
Here's the screen:
https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d...ult/thorn5.jpg
Will write some nice report tonight, haven't taken screens, the battle took too much time.
And I want to say this:
POLISH NOBLES ARE BLOODY IRRITATING
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1248-2.rar
The save
Also I intend to let the next army that besieges Thorn attack the city.
That should give time to move in some sort of reinforcement army.
I'll propose all of the things I've said here in the Diet IC some time, but don't have the time for that now.
Yeah, I've been saying that much since the first time i had to face them. Definitely my most feared enemy unit, and my main reason I hate to face them in open battle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
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I just defeated like 9-10 groups of them in open battle, and will never do it again, I know that. It might have been better to let them attack Thorn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
The AI tends to use their artillery first till it's out of ammo, so it would be easy to defend the citadel, sides the nobles wouldn't be able to move in the city.
But I decided to fight on the open field because the many knights we had ourselves.
Can't you guys build some forts near the bridges and just station a unit of cheap troops to stall for time while Thorn recruits more units instead of letting Thorn besiege and loose the ability to recruit? I am gathering that's what is depleting the troops in Thorn right?
Edit: Stig, looks like you lost most of them in the battle?
Good idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by StoneCold
Warluster, can you have one of the faction members in Thorn build a fort more or less in front of it (so it needs to be besieged) and retreat him to Thorn.
The mercs can take control of the fort. It should give us another turn or 2.
Yup, I had to use the cav to run down the Nobles and drive them into the archers and infantry.Quote:
Originally Posted by StoneCold
yeah, that was my main thought also. I didn't expect my cavalry to get the losses they did when attacking though, as our heavy knights are just too slow and our light cavalry too weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
The best thing would be to just have your crusade sack and destroy some nearby polish cities as well, and destroying those polish noble producing buildings along the way :wink:
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I'm surprised you had troubles fighting them in a sally, since the AI tends to be to docile during those and just sit around.
Also, shouldn't gibson have been fighting the battle?
FH, I thought during Han's reign as the chancellor, he was supposed to secure the border with a series of forts? You never build any of them?
Nope, Gibson, DG or me could have been fighting it ... it was just that Peter had the highest command.Quote:
Also, shouldn't gibson have been fighting the battle?
BTW I checked we can't build a fort outside Thorn, so we need to get some armies to Thorn to reinforce it.
any news on the milanese front?
Was the AHA combined with the ejected garrison of Budpaest?
If not then can you please do that Warluster.
I'd like us to take out the Hungarian's, then the Poles and then attack Budapest.
Ituralde can you get ready to do that?
Cheers
AG
Stig, not even at the bridge to the east of Thorn? Or are those too far off for a noble to reach and return to Thorn?
yeah... idthink i could have won against 10 polish nobles in the open field sallying out with that army..
Err... isn't the highest command the actual way we determine who is fighting the battle? The only reason people should be fighting battles when their avatar is not the commander is if the actual commander is out of action for RL reasons and has specifically asked that someone else fight it for him. If you don't like the fact that Peter has a higher command, you should be dealing with that IC, not just ignoring it and playing gibson's avatar for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
StoneCold: I did build one near Bran, but the Hungarians started the siege. Wanted to build one outside Thorn too at the border, but the Russians kept us busy every turn and I didn't quite want to let Ansehelm get stuck out there alone.
stig is the same command, last time i checked so it just arbitrarily picks peter. i probably wouldnt have had time yesterday to fight it - i was pretty busy
Is it truly arbitrary? Or, if two generals have the same command, does the game go by some other factor to break the tie? Like purity of bloodline, age, ect... Didn't MTW have something where it figured out which unit was more "knightly" if the stack was just captains when it figured out who was in charge? If its truly arbitrary, then there is not much we can do to predict it other than have someone sally out to check who the general is but not save it. If it is not arbitrary, then we just have to figure out what the tie-breaking factor is and then with each instance of same command, figure it out by looking at the family tree and character stats.Quote:
Originally Posted by gibsonsg91921
*edited for grammar*
So, I guess it's okay then, that I take the save, do as many of the battles that AussieGiant has proposed and start the siege of Budapest.
Gonna put up the next savegame then.
You go to it Ituralde!!, kill em all!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ituralde
After this though I think we are going to need to have Ragusa pump out some troops for restocking!! Plus the reduced units sent there for retraining.
Sofia is about to be handed back to the Byzantine's so Han's could cover for the AHA while we refit.
Peter and Ansehelm have the same command, but Ansehelm is better in attacking walls, while Peter is better at this.Quote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Sides we did the same before during FH's chancellorship, so why would it be a problem now.
And I certainly don't like your tone, I was said to fight the battle, I did, so don't you @$#&! blame me.
The commander of a garrison/army is determined by the general in the stack with the highest command stars. However, this only updates post battle and each time a general joins/leaves an army, but not between turns, when generals can gain/lose traits that give stars. In garrisons on the other hand, it does update then too.
Now, the peculiarity is, that the general shown with the gold star in an army/garrison always commands the battle, even if at the pre-battle screen, he is actually the worse general (i.e. after modifications for attack/defense). So when looking at a situation, the gold star tells all.
Because that's the rule.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
Just because the person playing Chancellor lists the wrong commander for the battle doesn't make it any more valid. If gibson wants you to fight his battles for him, then that's fine, but that wasn't posted anywhere at the time.Quote:
1.3 Players whose avatars lead in a battle will be expected to fight that battle. This will involve downloading the savegame of the battle, playing it and then uploading the resulting savegame. Uploading the post-battle save must be done within 48 hours of the pre-battle savegame being uploaded. If the deadline expires, the battle is autoresolved.
There's no need to make this personal. :no:Quote:
And I certainly don't like your tone, I was said to fight the battle, I did, so don't you @$#&! blame me.