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Will make my turn Sunday
Sorry for the OT but are any of you on Xfire ?
My Xfire Name is wingedguard
Pardon my gross ignorance, but what is Xfire?
[edited p.s.] OK. Found it. It's a online gamer's friends' network.
Obviously, I'm not on it. All this is new to me. Nice idea, though.
Yeah it can be real practical if we ever want to play a rapid succession of turns by being all at the same time in front of the PC
No I'm afraid I don't have x-fire and the problem of being in different time zones would make all being on at once very complicated
It is also very useful as you can send the saves files diectly to the next player thru Xfire
Sorry Prole, but you more or less lost a very big army
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Crusades-3-4.zip
All's fair, Stig.
Saves up
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Originally Posted by Proletariat
???
I can't find it.
Shoot, not sure if the issue was on my end or not, but anyhow, now it's actually there. Sorry for the delay.
Got it.
Crusades-4-1 is up.
I'll play my turn either tonight or tommorow night
here is the latest save, sorry for the delay - http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Crusades-4-2.sav
OK Got the save...
Will play it tomorrow evening...
Btw, wouldn't it be great if we posted the battles during our turns as well as any death of player's characters just as if we played SP ?
yeah that would be good, if people can be bothered. i certainly will form now on.
Ok I'll begin on my turn
I like the idea. I'll try and post a few screen shots if anything significant happens next turn. It's a shame hotseat mode doesn't give you all the bulletins on what's happened in the last turn like SP does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
While that sounds fair enough, I'm going to be the old grouch and holdout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
Allow me to explain.
Suppose we were playing a Teutonic campaign and I was the Lithuanians. Suppose the Teutonic Order really ripped my guts out on one turn, defeating a huge army and taking an important town.
I wouldn't want it to be widely known right away that I was crippled. Also, the Teutonic player might not it widely known.
Why would either me or my Teutonic slayer want to let everybody know that I'm at death's door and it's time to swarm me, getting what provinces you can before the Teutonic Order finishes me off? Alliances could change instantly.
To me, information is the most important commodity of all. I share information with my closest allies. Everybody else can get what they can on their own.
I understand your point perfectly nevertheless death of agents or merchant take-overs should be advertised...Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson
I don't want to have to take note of position of every single agent of mine to know if one has gone missing during the other players turn
We should also be advised as in SP of any change of relations between factions (I've just found out I'm at war with the Turks thx to the Diplo Tab....:furious3: )
Could we agree on that at least ?
Don't worry Doug, I won't tell anybody of the bashing you took :oops:
Anyway, I'll edit today and post some screenies... Unless anyone is of one mind on this subject...
EDIT : forgot to post link....Crusades-4-3.rar is up.... Stig, you're good to go...
EDIT2 : Here is what happened during my turn...
As requested by Doug, i won't post any strategic info...
Sorry, Doug... or perhaps not...Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
They were a general and an assassin
Sure, I'll go for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
~:rolleyes:Quote:
Don't worry Doug, I won't tell anybody of the bashing you took :oops:
I'm sure everybody's looked at the military strength graph on the ranking charts, TdC. I let those do my bragging for me. If your victory is as impressive as you say, perhaps we have a fair fight again after what happened to you on Turn 2.
Let me call a Crusade... And we'll fight as equals...:2thumbsup:
You Jihading :furious3: ...:laugh4:
Hey, it's not my fault your religion doesn't inspire enough zeal. :smile:
Upon reflection, this has been a pretty interesting campaign. We both have stories to tell, and a lot of it has been revealed anyway.
So start with what you did on turn 1. I'll describe what I did in response, and we can tell the whole story in context.
I sure will as soon as I have some time on my hands... I want to make as correct a report as possible...:book:
I really have much fun thwarting your plans... surely as much as you have thwarting mine...:smash:
I wonder if our northern neighbors have so much fun...:laugh4:
If they are, they're just about dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
:laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson
Apparently it was my turn (thanks for the PM, missed this thread ... well mostlikely not missed but forgot)
And I've taken it, up to you Prole.
Little important happened really.
Will get to this this evening, hopefully
Sorry for the long delay, save's up. Going to Italy tonight, will be back on the 8th.
Crusades-5-1 is up.
Will certainly play it tonight (along with teutonic hotseat...)
I'm also preparing to post the turn report that we spoke of earlier...
Lot of tga editing and not much time on my hands...
sorry for the delay, I've only just realised that it's my turn, It'll be done shortly.
Turn done and uploaded here: http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Crusades-5-2.sav
Ok i've posted the turn report... Made it in some kind of AAR...
I suggest that each player makes a post and edits it as the game progresses...
It should be easier
The thread is here
I've made my first repot, I started at turn 5 because I deleted the screens from previous turns and don't have the time to go and replay the turns. Btw the '...' in bold is only there because I can't remember what year turn 5 is :P
Jerusalem turn 5 played... Save is here
Not much happened... I'll update the report once everybody has played its turn... No free info... Sorry :2thumbsup:
hey guys, in addition to this hotseat campaign, join my brand new, wots style Teutonic Order campaign. Get your avatar quickly before someone else does!
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=93377 for more info
Right I finally moved
Hey everyone, back and will begin paying full attention again. Should have my turn up tonight sometime
Is it ready?
I've sent her a PM and she hasn't read it yet, her profile also says she hasn't been online since she posted that. I would impose a time limit but I don't have anyone's passwords so I can't get a replacement or skip the turn. I'm asking you all now to PM me your passwords in case something like this happens again, don't worry I swear on my honour I will not enter it unless there is no alternative.
So we are :furious3: ?
Hope not
Come on Prole...:whip:
*sigh* she has completely ignored my post in the Pub Crawl Massacre thread :(, we may have to start afresh if she continues to be like this.
Hey guys!
Love the new screen name BTG. ^_^
I caved and bought Kingdoms despite the whole Securom thing. No one's computer exploded so I figured it would be safe to get.
The up side is the Crusade game has been the most fun that I have ever had with a TW series. If you ever start up a new Crusade PBM hotseat, I might consider joining.
there is still a chance you can join this one if I can only squeeze the password out of Proletariat, she has now read one of my PMs but not replied yet, maybe she'd listen to you :shrug:
btw well done on getting over the non-existent SecuROM issue :beam: (hang on a sec! Is this the sound a computer makes when SecuROM causes it to explo.....*BOOOOOOOOM*)-sorry got a bit carried away there.
Seeing as I don't know her, I don't think I'll be sending a random PM. lol
But, I might consider taking her place if she gave up the password and no longer wanted to continue the PBM.
As for securom, I still am uneasy. But Crusades is just so fun! (Playing Jerusalem of course in my sp game. It's basically the Kingdom of Heaven movie with most of the same characters.)
So I'm not "over it", I am just ignoring it for now. ^_^
lol ok, and yes I agree, the Crusades campaign has been my favourite one so far, seen any Jans yet? :laugh4:
No, unfortunatly no Jan von Hamburg in the Crusade campaign. But I have been having fun playing the character's I recognize.
Of the 5 starting Jerusalem characters, 4 are represented in the movie, Kingdom of Heaven (which is itself "loosely" based on historic events). Raymond of Tripoli was represented by Tiberius in the movie and played by Jeremy Irons. Bailan of Ibelin was the main character in the movie played by Orlando Bloom. Prince Guy in the game was Guy the "evil Templar guy" in the movie. And of course King Baldwin was in the movie as well played by Ed Norton. Only Gerard the Crusader seems to be without it's movie equivalant.
So, I get to move them around and pretend their the people from the movie. It helps to have faces and mannerisms to put with the avatars. I haven't gotten to far yet because I keep restarting in order to perfect my "opening moves" with Jerusalem. I wish I could get to those two Egyptian bridges by turn one but I can't. I can only get an army on the north bridge by turn 2 and an all cav force on the south bridge at the same time. Defending a bridge with only heavy cav is tons of fun but very very nerve wracking...
^_^
wow I never noticed those names before! I just started by marching straight down with a large army led by Baldwin to kill the 2 jihading stacks that appear there (even though that was a fluke seeing as I didn't know they were there) and then fought my way into their homeland. Then it was a case of using some men to hold the bridges which stopped their armies from protecting the northern cities (the castle really helped me later) and then I used Richard to pop down and finish off Cairo and the town next to it. After Cairo fell it was just mopping up really :beam:.
Yeah, my only beef is a small one. I wish Richard came with English armies instead of generic Jerusalem ones. Same with the French King who comes to Antioch. They went through the trouble to give the English and French their own faction specific units for the Teutonic Campaign and the American Campaign but they cheap out for the Crusades campaign.
Some longbowman would have been nice... :D
Welcome PKev
I hope you'll be able to play Proletariat's turn... If she ever surrender her password... Seeing as she is ignoring us at the moment...
Thanks,
If she doesn't cough up the password, you guys might want to consider starting over. The save has been ready for her since October 15th. It's now November 6th. That makes it over 3 weeks. Something about that is really not cool. It's the death knell to a game like this when someone can hold the whole game up for weeks on end.
So yeah, if you can get the password, I'll take her spot. If you can't, I'll be more than happy to play in a new Crusade game.
I only advise that the person running the game demands passwords from everyone before starting up the initial save. And people should be advised to not pick a password that they use for everything else, which may explain her refusal to give hers up.
There should also be some reasonable time limit for how long you can keep the save. It shouldn't take more than a couple days to find the time to play one turn, especially if your auto resolving all PvP battles. 3 weeks is too long.
AHA! I have the password! Proletariat has apologized for holding up the game and I will pass the password onto PK through a PM, also while you are joining this hotseat we also have a vacancy in the Teutonic hotseat so if you are interested...
Alright, I'll take the Turks. I have to do a couple things at work before I can go home. I'll try to have the save up in a few hours so as to get this game moving again.
Basically there is a change of leadership in the Turkish court. Anything the previous Turkish chancellor told you, is no longer valid. All previous deals are off. New ones can be made though. :D
Since I'm taking up one PBM, I might as well take up the other. I'll go post in the Teutonic thread. :yes:
what about the alliance with Egypt and the war with me? You can't change them :P
I can change how the Turks interact with people. If I am taking over then I am taking over the faction completely. How other factions react to that is their decision. ^_^
Alright, here is the save.
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/Crusades-5-5.sav
Prole left me in quite a situation... o_O
I'll try to do what I can with what I have.
Sabotage is fun though... :evil:
Stig and EF will notice some buildings missing. :yes:
Also, some of my Jihad armies did not have any MP when I got to them. weird.
Nice to know it is finallay under way again :2thumbsup:
:duel: :charge:
Yeah, I PM'd Doug to let him know that he can finally play again. ^_^
Hmm... I bet the Kingdom of Jerusalem has churches... :evil:
(churches are unbelievably easy to sabotage) :2thumbsup:
We have churches.....and a fine network of spies and assassins...:devil:
Just ask Doug...
Right, I don't play with certain people anymore, I'm out
Stig, what is the matter ?
Can't you put your diffrences with PK aside ?
It is a totally different game from KOTR
Got the news. Will make my moves tonight.
Let Stig be like that if he wants (he doesn't have to play), Zim is interested in joining and he may take up the Byzantines, I'll PM him. Oh and about movement points that's because I beat all of your armies the last turn so they had to retreat and use up all their move :P. You can destroy churches for now but soon you won't have any settlements so I guess we'll be even.
Edit: and it's nice to see that this thing is rolling again :) thanks everyone
Too bad about Stig ( or maybe not...)
Welcome Zim (or anyone else)
Thx also to keep the ball rolling...
Hey Tristan how come you know about what happened in KotR? :inquisitive:
If you have been reading the threads then you should join, it's really fun :2thumbsup: .
I'm sorry guys that the KotR drama had to spill over into here. I had naively hoped that a game that is less political, and more international warfare, would create a situation where Stig and I could put stuff aside and play together. But, he doesn't want to and that is his decision.
I won't rehash the drama on here but if someone wants to know what this is about, just shoot me a PM.
And to agree with EF, KotR is awesome and we could always use more players. It doesn't have to take up a lot of your time but you may find yourself sucked into it because it is so much fun. :2thumbsup:
also, with regards to my sabo-trash talk, I am simply making due with what I have. I was not left in... the best strategic position. So, I'll have to sabo-spam for awhile. Plus it's fun. :beam:
@ Bob and PK : I followed a bit of KOTR up until the cataclysm event then things in RL (like a bay being born) led me away from things but the way Stig dropped out made me wonder and a quick search on the most probable thread (KOTR OOC then Duchy of Franconia) gave me some answers...
Joining KOTR would be great but it would taking too much of my time and I've other things to consider : taking care of my baby girl, finishing my Aztec AAR, playing the PBMs I'm involved in (3 to that day), doing lots of other things...
At one point, I was on the brink of joining but the cataclysm reared its head and I did not want to spoil your game but acting the noob...
Maybe some time later...
Anyway, it really makes a great game...
Real life is more important. Though I disagree with your assumption that you would have spoiled anything. ^_^
There are always openings if you want to join later. Even if there are no family members open, we can just create a general. Or you could be an elector with no avatar until a family member opens up. So, you have options. :yes:
Don't blame me for starting it.Quote:
But, he doesn't want to and that is his decision.
If you won't stop (posting in the Franconia thread after being politely asked) I won't stop.
PK; please don't dignify this immature comment with an answer, Stig I am now politely asking you to stop posting in this thread, seeing as you're no longer taking part there is no need for you to post here.
Ok, if Stig is unable to continue playing, it seems I will be taking over for the Byzantines (luckily for me, they're my favorite faction) :2thumbsup: . Any alliances and agreements will require renegotiation, not so much because of plans to change them, but so that I may become aware of them (and don't stupidly, say, attack my best and oldest ally or something).
P.S. Now I'm off to read the whole thread and catch up.
Welcome Zim!
Basically, Jerusalem and Antioch are at war with Turkey and Egypt. Byzantines are at war with Turkey. If you have ever played the Crusade campaign, then you know the Venetians are coming in a little while. And eventually the Mongols will grace us with their presence. Were only 5 turns in so there is still plenty to do.
Turkey has just had a change in advisers to the Sultan so the Sultan is willing to make deals. :yes:
Crusades-6-1 is up.
That's different, as this does not compare to not being a part of Franconia and posting there anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elite Ferret
But I will stop posting here, same for the other games, which I won't join
:daisy:
well you can at least PM me and Zim your password, stopping us from playing would just be a horrible thing to do.
EF, it is your turn...
Yeah but if he can't get the Byzy password, this game is dead. :/
I pmed him. Hopefully he'll respond in a day or two. If not, then I guess we have to start over. :sweatdrop: I hope not, though, since that could be disastrous for a game that's gone on a while like this one.
Well, luckily we have 5 dedicated players so it would be annoying to start over, but not "game killing". One way or another, we'll play a crusade game.