i got the e-mail days ago. i was going to announce it but i could copy anything from the e-mail...
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i got the e-mail days ago. i was going to announce it but i could copy anything from the e-mail...
Maby the armies that were subscribed to crusades, get to the Holy land automaticly.
And everybody knows that that cross calls down the hail of pink podles down upon you enemies.
That images (the last one) looks very similar to one seen before where you had exactly 5000 florins (this one has 4960) was was possibly the English starting position...
Is it possible the English start with a Crusader army? Or are we taking to much from Marketing mockups?
I like waht they have done with religion, it is a nice mix of RTW and MTW stuff... I imagine when your guy gets elected Pope he disappears from the map and gets listed as the new Pope. Possibly you get max Papal Standing as well and mybe a free alliance with the Papal faction? From that poitn on it is up to you to maintain that state of affairs??
Just a guess...
I like that idea! :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob the Insane
It also would make sens that if your king dies, and you act like a jurk constantly attacking other catholics and permitting heretics to go free through your lands then you lose the standing that daddy got you since Religion counted long before nationality, and the pope wouldn't care that you are also english/french/german/dane etc etc.
Also one thing I intend to try is role playing as Raymond of Tolouse and the Cathars, by allowing heretics to convert everyone in my lands, refusing to heed the pope, and assassinating any inquisitor he sends to get heresy out of my lands and chastise me, looking forward to facing the Albigensian Crusades.
What about the Orthodoxy?
When are we going to hear about the Holy Hand Grenadiers?
They're in Napoleonic TW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Furious Mental
I hope the game isnt too Catholic centric. It would be nice if the other religions got a fair cut as well, hell it would be nice if the pagans and heretics had their own temples and priests this time around.
With a name like Mithras you would think that... :smile:
The new podcast from TWC talks more on religion.
Link to the CA interview
Some interesting things in that one.
It seems the pope will have different personalities which affects how he behaves.
And CA got Islam and the way it was implimented approved by a Islam scholar.
A Reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20: (as provided by this link)Quote:
Originally Posted by Furious Mental
"Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
See here
"So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth."
TB666, you know if there's a text transcript of that podcast anywhere?
you don't understand what that guy is saying or what?:P
Er, well, actually I didn't download the zip file because I assumed that in order to listen to the podcast inside I'd have to have an i-Pod. Is that not the case?
Nope, podcasts are just MP3 files.Quote:
Originally Posted by B_Ray
iTunes can download podcasts, but so can lots of other programs.
Oh, well dang, I'll download it right away then. :laugh4: Thanks for the correction!
Hmmm, I'm french and i don't understand very good (or it's really tiring, particularly in the last podcast about the battles, with the guy's incomprehensible accent) the spoken english. I understand the big lines when i read so i would want to find a text version of the podcasts. Is this available somewhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDC
Podcast was completely all about Catholicism. Pope is like this Pope is like that. Ok, but what about Islam and Orthodoxy?
Just look out the map and check out their (Islam & Orthodox ) territory. :book:
Just check their factions.
In the Islamic realm there was a Abbasid caliph in Bagdad. There were Shia - Sunnah faction conflict, There were heretic factions such as Hashasins.
Islam = Jihad... What a simple approach to history. :inquisitive:
Getting to Gaza within 10 turns on the new map is quite a challenge really. Are they sure that that can be achieved from every starting position? Somehow I doubt it. Not to mention the chaos that will occur if you have to work together with the AI to be successful... imaging being forced to fight side by side, else you do not get the reward, and the AI typically doesn't wait for you, making it harder to join in. brrr...
Well the screenshot says you should build an army to join the crusade in 10 turns, they didn't say you were supposed to reach gaza in 10 turns...Quote:
Originally Posted by sunsmountain
:balloon2:
Exactly, that makes it even worse: "Join the crusade". What crusade? Your own crusade? Your allies crusade? Your catholic enemy's crusade? And where might this crusade be at this moment? In the dark (unless you have spies everywhere)? Or at Gaza?Quote:
Well the screenshot says you should build an army to join the crusade in 10 turns, they didn't say you were supposed to reach gaza in 10 turns...
If at Gaza, will they wait for you (answer:no)? If you're there first (recommended), should you wait for them (answer:hopefully no)? If you waited up for them and they decide it's not worth attacking, will they still join you if you decide to attack? Even if they're not your ally, or enemy even, and they have the same mission?
There are so many things that can go wrong with a crusade mission it scares me. Hell, look at any old MTW forum and find the posts about crusades, it was one of the few things that was unclear (when would get glory goal points, aka pips, when not?, etc.).
(IIRC, it was also one of my first posts on the totalwar.org forum, explaining when exactly you got the points.)
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...03&postcount=8
A Crusade isn't like in MTW1, with one army moving which everyone has to put men into. If you want to crusade, you build your own army and go to Gaza. If you conquer it first, you are rewarded. If the AI's crusade army gets their first, and captures the province, it gets the reward instead. You don't have to wait for each other, or cooperate.
Makes it all the more scary ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
No no... these are the holy elephants of God you see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
IGN PC just did a feature
http://pc.ign.com/articles/729/729509p1.html
EDIT: OMG, I can post here now! ~:shock:
Notice how it is almost the exact same thing as the newsblast, almost word for word....
The only thing I found interesting was this screenie:
This
It gives us a view of the new missions.
:balloon2:
Anybody noticed those icons in troop rooster, thet look excatly the same as those that signify that unit is fighting. Well it would be okay if it was a battle map. But what are they doing on World Map!!??
Hm, notice that crusading armies have those crosses above banners. Maby they have special rules of movement (faster ect.)
The crossed swords icon shows that they are crusading units.
They do have special rules of movement - they go twice as quickly.
Hmm, but some of the units don't have them. Those three in lower left corner.
Sounds good. Though religion was implemented in MTW with crusades and the lot, this seems to be more involved. I particularly like the way crusades are handled, with such things as an increased rate of movement.