Vandal PBM - out of character thread

Ok, I think we're ready to go. I don't think I have any mods installed but since I brought all of my cds with me on vacation I'm going to do a clean reinstall of BI and patch 1.6 just to be safe and forestall any incompatibility problems.

I'll start my turn tonight, but first better get some dumb questions out of the way. :)

Will the presence or absence of the bug fixers on my version cause any problems?

Does anyone know where I can get some software to convert those tga screenshots to jpeg? I've never posted any before.

Paint should do it. Copy the screenshot and then paste it onto paint. 'Save as' and then choose .jpeg file.

Ok, the first ten years of Visimar's reign have ended. The Sarmatians were successfully horded, but dissapointedly settled in Campus Iazyges. The Goths horded and were destroyed in the same turn, oddly, the Huns seem to be bearing down on the ERE, the Lombardi have been horded and are making their way through Gaul, and the last settlements of the Burgundii and Franks have been sieged. Both have decent garrisons, and the Franks have family members with those annoying Paladin bodyguards, but they should be no match for the besieging armies.Oddly, our horde took the biggest hit from taking the Sarmatian capital, mostly due to the crapulence of horde infantry and high armor of the Sarmatian horse archers. :furious3: But our horde is nonetheless scarcely weaker than it started. :2thumbsup:

I'm going to try to upload the save right now before I go to bed (3:40 A.M. here in the West Coast) and hopefully finish my writeup by tomorrow night.

Where is the write-up?

~:) Not done yet. I just finished the game half an hour ago. I'm still pretty wired from the huge amount of caffeine I've consumed so I'll try to stay up and finish it tonight, but I might not be done until tomorrow. I take it that it should be posted here in the throne room as a new thread?

Btw, our game is now uploaded, rather uncreatively under the name of Zim'sVandals373.

I'm sorting through my screenshots right now. I think I may have gone a bit overboard. I have over 70 of them.

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Originally Posted by Zimfan

I take it that it should be posted here in the throne room as a new thread?

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Yes, that's best - it keeps the story clean of administrative stuff.

PS: I use Irfanview for saving tgas as jpg - it's free to download on the internet. Please resize to 75% of the original before posting. (I use imageshack to host screenshots).

:thumbsup: Wow! Didn't know you'd be that fast, Zimfan!

I'll get right to work on the game. Although my progress will definitely be slower.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

:thumbsup: Wow! Didn't know you'd be that fast, Zimfan!

I'll get right to work on the game. Although my progress will definitely be slower.

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I was still hopped up on caffeine when my fiancee went to bed last night, so I just stayed up and did it all in one go.

I'm working on the writeup right now. Hoping to get it done tonight, but it might take a bit.

Good luck! I think I left our horde suitably enrichened and not overly depleted, although I think Visimar will be happy to finish up with these poor barbarian towns and get started on the richer, poorly defended Roman towns.

Ok, the writeup is done, the tgas converted, and hopefully after a visit to imageshack(thanks for the tip, econ21!) it'll be up tonight(well, tonight for me here on the U.S.'s West Coast). :2thumbsup:

Ok, I'm glad now that I did that before trying to post the whole writeup with all it's pics.

Test run part two http://www.123pichosting.com/basic.php

Test run part three. http://www.123pichosting.com/viewer....5004cmpadj.JPG

http://123pichosting.com/images/4512004cmpadj.JPG

:2thumbsup: I posted the writeup! https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...20#post1209520

:oops: I can't edit my posts, could a mod please delete that bandwidth sucking post I made a bit back while trying to figure out how to post screenchots?

Things are progressing well here. The Burgundii and Franks have been horded (although fighting a stack with five generals in it was extremely annoying :wall:), and Visimar & co. are marching on.

Just a heads-up though, I will be on vacation for three or four days starting tomorrow and won't be able to play at all during that time, so don't be alarmed if I don't post for a while.

Just an update:

I am back and about half done my reign. Things have progressed slower than I had hoped, so I'm slightly behind schedule as far getting to Corduba. Will try to speed things up for the second half, maybe skip a city.

Well, my reign is wrapping up. I'll finish it and post the savegame within a couple of days. Sorry it took so slow, everyone.

I'll give my notes to Ignoramus when the time comes, but for now let me just say that the next few players should have no problems when it comes to money. :grin:

Also, is x-dAnger still interested? I know he left the Senate...

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

the next few players should have no problems when it comes to money. :grin:

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Good, I tend to be a big spender...

Ok, it's done. Ignoramus, I'm passing the savegame to you.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Vandals-Sum-383.zip

A couple of notes:

-Our treasury stands at around 140k. So you really need to work to get us in financial trouble.
-Every single horde faction is in WRE territory, which is excellent. :evil: Most are sieging a settlement currently, and the Lombardi have settled in Mediolanium.
-Our spy is in Corduba. Our diplomat hasn't had too much to do, but he's making his way to Mediolanium to (hopefully) patch things up with the Lombardi. Our assassin didn't even make it to my reign. :hide:

I'll post my writeup in a day or two. Right now there's a mountain of screenshots that need to be sifted through.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Zim, your pictures don't work anymore.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Ok, it's done. Ignoramus, I'm passing the savegame to you.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Vandals-Sum-383.zip

A couple of notes:

-Our treasury stands at around 140k. So you really need to work to get us in financial trouble.
-Every single horde faction is in WRE territory, which is excellent. :evil: Most are sieging a settlement currently, and the Lombardi have settled in Mediolanium.
-Our spy is in Corduba. Our diplomat hasn't had too much to do, but he's making his way to Mediolanium to (hopefully) patch things up with the Lombardi. Our assassin didn't even make it to my reign. :hide:

I'll post my writeup in a day or two. Right now there's a mountain of screenshots that need to be sifted through.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Zim, your pictures don't work anymore.

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:oops: Sorry about the assassin. He somehow managed to die going after a Sarmatian...agent, I think.

I'm not sure what I can do about the pics. I hosted them on imageshack. I still have them in jpeg form on my comp, but without being able to edit my posts I can't put them back in.

Why can't you edit your posts, Zimfan? You are a member now, so should be able to.

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Originally Posted by econ21

Why can't you edit your posts, Zimfan? You are a member now, so should be able to.

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:2thumbsup: You're right. An edit button has indeed appeared at the bottom of my posts. I hadn't even noticed that my membership had upgraded. I'll go fix the pics right now.

Ok, pics are now up.

And while I'm at it, I thought you guys might be mildly amused at something that happened during an Allemanii campaign I started right after my turn at the pbem.

I had spent the first decade or so in a struggle to evade destruction at the hands of vastly larger and more advanced Roman armies when I noticed somethign odd. Vandals on my back dorrstep (Campus Quadi). The first time I'd ever seen them go for Germany. They made a bee line straight for Campus Franki, horded them, and both hordes tore settled Gaul and promptly spent the rest of the game fighting eachother for it. I wonder if the AI learns by copying the player.

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/0995e10ac9.jpg

I've PMd the next players - Ignoramus and x-dANGEr.

x-dANGEr can't play his turn.

Ignoramus has not logged on yet. To keep things moving, I propose we give him until Friday 6pm UK time to post here that he has picked up the savegame. If he does not reply, I could pick it up - I should have done my turn by Monday.

But I'll let Zimfan decide whether that is ok.

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Originally Posted by econ21

I've PMd the next players - Ignoramus and x-dANGEr.

x-dANGEr can't play his turn.

Ignoramus has not logged on yet. To keep things moving, I propose we give him until Friday 6pm UK time to post here that he has picked up the savegame. If he does not reply, I could pick it up - I should have done my turn by Monday.

But I'll let Zimfan decide whether that is ok.

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Hmmm..would you be able to pick up the game Monday? I'd be inclined to give him until Sunday(and thus a full week since his last post) before bumping him back a space in line but I also understand that pbems tend to die if they stop progressing for too long. If this weekend is a short opening in an otherwise busy upcoming week then I say go for it, assuming he doesn't reply the within the next couple of days.

Ignoramus posted on the Org today and I sent him another PM asking him to post here. My constraint is that I can only really play weekends.

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Originally Posted by econ21

Ignoramus posted on the Org today and I sent him another PM asking him to post here. My constraint is that I can only really play weekends.

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In that case we'll have to give him until Friday. If he hasn't posted by then he be bumped back in line behind you.

Sorry for not replying sooner. I'll start my turn today.

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Originally Posted by Ignoramus

Sorry for not replying sooner. I'll start my turn today.

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Good hunting! :2thumbsup: