My exact first thought when I read Ituralde's postQuote:
Originally Posted by OverKnight
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My exact first thought when I read Ituralde's postQuote:
Originally Posted by OverKnight
Metz lost, Hamburg about to be lost, Dijon besieged, Vienna besieged, Rome besieged. I think we finally have an interesting PBM.
Corrected :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
And yes its getting more interesting, but if we were to actually use cavalry more actively I think that should be over quickly :)
Yeah, it truly has become a Challenge. I'm waiting for the French or even the Milanese to drop a full stack near Rome though to make it complete.
FactionHeir, I'll try to add some screenshots about the events, but in the end all the important information is written down. Seems you have been spoiled by TinCows excellent reports. I'll try to add some more pictures. I just haven't gotten around to uploading them all.
Edit: And I also encounter some problems with imageshack...
Yes, TC spoiled me. Blame him! :)
Oh and if the Milanese dare attack us, then I think its time we took those two islands
Sorry, but you are wrong. The report specifically says that Dijon is besieged, Vienna is besieged and Rome is besieged and that the Zagreb siege has been lifted.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
And it looks like we both missed Venice.
So, in summary:
Metz lost
Hamburg about to be lost
Venice besieged
Vienna besieged
Rome besieged
Dijon besieged
Unfair, Ituralde edited his post after my posts :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TinCow
Ituralde: Any chance you posting a screen of Hans so I can prepare my role better?
Also, if Hans is say chivalrous to begin with, I think I should find a way to 'kill off' Elector V Swabia and replace him with Hans :)
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'wonderful child' hopefully doesn't mean Paranoia, Ignorance, Coward, Disloyal, Ugly, PublicAtheism :D
Wait... it says Hans is in Ragusa? When did we take Ragusa?
Err he probably means he spawned into Henry's stack.
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And he probably meant Zagreb, not Ragusa.
Sorry about that. Hans spawned in Zagreb.
I currently don't have a screenshot and Hans has a bunch of traits. None too negative, just take a look for yourself. kotr1168-1
Man, we've barely even left the Reich, and already you're losing bits of it left and right... :D
Things are certainly getting more interesting. I wonder if we'll be returning from the crusade to a smoking ruin though ;)
Ah.. no worries. You loose a town, you take a town. That's how it goes! :juggle2:
The savegame is now with Dutch_guy. While he's at it, take a look at the savegame and let me know if any of you besieged want to sally out. I'm currently not planning on it. Also let me know where you want Hans to go. Hate to get him killed in a glorious defense of Zagreb against a superior Venetian force. :2thumbsup:
Hans has OK stats....just the Effete thing bothers me. Ah well....
I just looked at your updated report and the heretic card and figured that CA forgot to add a trigger to remove NaturalPriestSkill when priests become heretic. I fixed most of those triggers myself already for other priest traits but must have overlooked that one too.
I'll upload a 1.01 version of the fix to the totalwar.org site in a bit that takes care of that problem.
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New fix: http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/KOTRfix101.rar
Ituralde, you only need the character_trait file itself really. the rest is exactly the same
Everyone else: If you are even only/merely fighting a battle in KOTR, you must have the fix installed or certain traits won't trigger.
I'm still open to suggestions how I should approach the whole Elector V Swabie and Hans business btw.
I'm torn between just jumping in as Hans vs putting an end to Elector V Swabia and then taking over as Hans.
Well since the plan was that you were going to be Hans all along, I just assumed we had a precocious toddler as an Elector. This caused me some amusement as I was imagining a twelve year old questioning Otto's motives when he didn't execute Milanese prisoners.
When I got Otto, I had Gunther go back to Innsbruck to serve as a bureaucrat there. Ituralde had Conrad die of consumption. How invested are you in the current character? Does he deserve a send-off? Or should he quietly return to the back benches?
There's no reason why Hans can't be the Fifth Elector of Swabia. The ages of the characters in the game shouldn't really factor into the discussions due to game mechanics... except when avatars about to kick it, like Heinrich.
Hey faction Hier, Hans looks better than Gerhard. Gerhard is all loyalty and Chivalery(sp), a yes man. Which sucks, cause I really want to rip into the Kaiser (no offence GH), but that would be totally out of character for him.
A couple questions, first, that Hungarian full stack near Venice is mostly Crusader sergents and Knights, does the fact that was are catholic affect them when we are excommunicated?
and
can we please do something about the unit of peasent crossbowmen with 2 men in it in the bavarian Household army, they are utterly useless and taking up a space.
Just a quick confirmation that I indeed have the save, will be playing the battle some time this evening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ituralde
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My two cents would be to start afresh, working from Hans's traits, but it is your call as you are the one who has invested in Elector V. Just let us know which way you go.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Whether Hans goes on crusade is also up to you - for what it is worth, I/Henry would very much like you to join the crusade (it would be good to have a young Swabian in the Holy Land, eventually spawning avatars) but its up to you/Hans.
Hmmm since the elector is stationed in Rome currently with the Diet, I suppose I shall wait for Heinrich to attack the pope and somehow add it into the story.
As for fix1.01, I uplaoded it first thinking that the extra line of code would fix it but I tested it earlier extensively in my own campaign and found that something quirky is going on with AgentTypes. Looks like heretics are considered priests too in the game even though they are two different AgentTypes. I'll investigate on that further though before making 1.01a (which would simply be adding a check that a priest is not a heretic when giving out priest skills)
This won't influence the current state of game so it can carry on for the time being.
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After hours of testing, find 1.01a here:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/KOTRfix101a.rar
(files changed this time are the vnv string bin file and the character trait file)
It really is tough to get the game to turn a priest into a heretic. Hours of failed denouncing didn't do it for some reason nor did tinkering with the campaign_db to increase the chance. So had to just keep ending turns. Checked 3 priets who turned heretic with spies and they all lost the NaturalPriestSkill trait. Hopefully that wasn't just an exception :p
Wanted to make sure that its really *really* fixed :)
Is Dijon besieged?
Yep. I believe Ituralde asked all besieged generals to decide for themselves whether to sally. If not, he will not be doing so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warluster
Okay, I better decide what to do!
Ituralde, did you receive my PM?
I must say, I feel slightly disappointed that we had to cheat to get the game to be challenging. However, it is not going to be easy to push the French back. You'll have a vital battle, Warluster.
I guess cheating to makes things more challenging is better than cheating to makes things easier.
BTW, does Dutch_guy still have the save? It looks like we'll have a few titanic battles in the near future, like with that huge Hungarian army in Italy.
Dutch_guy had problems uploading the game, but will do so today and pass it on to GH so that he can make his sally. Once the game comes back to me I'll probably press the End Turn button and wait for all hell to break loose.
Hamburg will probably fall, The Hungarians should attack the Bavarians. Mabye Venice will fall, Magdeburg will be besieged and hopefully Dijon will be attacked. Maybe the Poles even decide to go for Frankfurt or Nuremburg for a change.
That will be an interesting turn. :2thumbsup:
Aren't you glad you won the election? :laugh4:
It would actually be good to have 2-3 archer/xbow units in all our border towns.
I noticed those are great for sallying each turn, killing the main bulk of the enemy army and then forcing a draw.
In my current SP French campaign, instead of giving the AI money, I changed the AI behavior in the files so they become active at turn 1 instead of 10 and then 30. Also changed the King's purse to 5000 for all AI, so they get roughly 2500 per turn more than I do. I'm ranked last on the financial rating on the end turn report :)
Kind of makes it more fun
TC: I'm Elector V Swabia not Bavaria, even if you may wish it so ;)
Isn't it ironic that we were worried that the game was going to be a walkover? So we send off 6 of our best generals off on Crusade, and leave the rest at home to defend the Empire. Methinks I'll get some good battles.