3 vs 3 devs vs the community

I see to many people complaining about cavalry armies, yet they aren't that hard to beat. A lot of people sit there not knowing how to react to a cavalry rush and wonder why they are routing. So, they just claim that cavalry are to strong, when in fact it's them being clueless on what to do.

If you think all cavalry armies are to strong, try playing against a clan using all byzantine. A clan using all byzantine and picking atleast 4 or more byzantine infantry is a lot worse, trust me.
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Spears need to be better against cavalry. Before the patch it was a pain in the ass to rout spears with cavalry, not even flanking and rear attacks worked well. Now it's spears routing fast when they get flanked or badly outnumebred and such *the way it should be*. I think spears need to eat away cavalry faster, so maybe they should have a bigger bouns vs cav.

Hail Everyone,

This is a bit embarrasing so please dont laugh at me guys. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/idea.gif . I have only had a pc for last couple of years since about junior year in H.S. so I'm not pc savy at all and STW was only 2nd pc game I ever really played. Well my question is this how do you play the replay. I d/l it onto desktop but then when I try and play it and open it it says "open with" and gives me a list of stuff I have on my pc. (I have win 98). What do I do? Thank you all in advance for your time.

RTKPaul

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Hail Paul

To watch the replay:

1. Put the .mrp file into the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Total War\Medieval - Total War\SaveGames\Battles

ATTENTION: the above path is only valid if u have installed MTW to the default directory. If not then simply find the SaveGames/Battles folder and place the replay in there.

2. Launch up MTW
3. Click Single Player
4. Click View Replays
5. Select and play the replay u want to watch

Both replays are quite errrm, for want of a better word, FUN http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

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Looked at the 2nd replay. I thought I had seen cavalry rushes in SP...ouch

I thought the far flank had a chance of putting up a fight; the Janitors usually put on a good show. I'll have to look at it again to see what made them runaway so fast. Maybe the lack of secured flanks?

I know kocmoc was the host, if you were the host it would have crashed. Good thing the game didn't hang when you crashed cause we wouldn't have been able to get the replays, i think anyway i'm not sure.

Lack of secured flanks was it. You can't be lost not knowing how to react against someone who knows what there doing or your dead. Some people online don't understand that and call me cheap, lame and say that's the only way i can win, by using unbalanced armies. Sad part is sometimes they are also using an unbalanced army aswell and are upset they lost.

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That flank charge with your lancers was beautiful AMP Even if the CA player had committed full out to stopping you I think you would've won. That he/she committed piecemeal just made it a sure thing. Since the plan was to show CA what the game actually does in MP I was glad to see many things were used: thin line attack; cav rush; all (or nearly so) cav army... One thing I did NOT see was the "Attack of the Purple Windmills" (soon to be a feature length movie I hope)

Thanks alot Sinan http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif Its late but I'll watch the replays tomorrow.

RTKPaul

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Quote[/b] (AMPage @ Dec. 14 2002,19:55)]Having watch the replay of the 1st game i wasn't in. I noticed Gil also dropped at the end, when the game was almost over. So, both games he dropped when the game was clearly lost. That reminds of those competitive games i played back in stw, when the host would drop me at the end, when he was losing. Oh well, it happens. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

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GilJay came back into the foyer both times very clearly unimpressed with CTD

Both times He dissappeared from the list of peeps online, and various peeps mentioned that fact and surmised his system had crashed.

GSD's, CTD's, random lockups and drops are plenty common in games above 2v2.

your insinuation is unfriendly AMP.

I couldn't help but laugh to myself while watching those replays. In the first game ca seemed to have a unified front, but their lack of battle knowledge hurt them. When AMP steamrolled the right side I seriously started to laugh. Units not even involved were running for thier lives, elite units too. The side-line Gil set up should have been longer, with hold-position and formation on. They would have still lost, but at least not as quickly. Very brave of you to show up CA. Please do so more often. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

Yes, you're right sorry about that.

Thank goodness for the patch they aren't common anymore, they are rare, well for me anyway.

I think I came out as not apreciationg the fact that CA don't have the same time to play as the opposing forced have.

I most certainly loved to see CA in action. That shows a lot of, both love and dedication to the game. We can't be dissatisfied with that. I have only seend devs come online in two other games, Tiberian Sun (I wonder why??) and WarCraft III (I'm not sure but I heard Rob Pardo was frequenting the Ladder of Starcraft)...

Surely AMP would have won regardless, he showed much better management of his cav, but if Azimuth had committed all forces he would have laste good time, and perhaps taken out enough of a chunk of AMP for the Lancers to have run out of steam. But sadly that would not have helped Gil with those wrongfacing spears http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif but if tehy had faced well enough I guess the fight would have been other than a routfest.
Those games certainly did not scare me regarding the cav. But I would not mind if spears got a little bit of bite back, though I do not demand it. If I had seen something like that against a much better opponent (no pun intended CA) then I would get scared.

Well thanks for putting in an apperance giljay http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif Maybe i fight u guys one day when i get back online http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/flirt.gif

Too right http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

My hat is off to the CA boyz for 'aving a fair go' as we put it so eloquently down under

Onyas