I cant fight any battles untill sunday evening.Im just about to leave for a rock festival for the weekend.Have a nice weekend guys!:2thumbsup:
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I cant fight any battles untill sunday evening.Im just about to leave for a rock festival for the weekend.Have a nice weekend guys!:2thumbsup:
Can i fight my battle tomorrowish, or is that too late?
Sounds good - could you post a placeholder in the battles thread? You can edit in your story later, but it is good to keep things chronological.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stig
I'm working on my story now, as I'm going to my parents this weekend.
Thus I won't be able to fight any battles before sunday 20:00 GMT, maybe even monday afternoon.
pretty soon i should be able to get my game fixed and i can fight my battles, just keep me traveling with gunther or ansehelm for now i guess
I've downloaded Stig's save and will fight my skirmish soon.
OK, this is the new save - I believe for Warluster and xdeathfire:
http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1238-3.zip
121 Imperials fought 337 rebels. We lost 16; they lost 308. I think the odds were 2:1 in our favour, I'll check.
Factionheir: I think this is your last turn as Chancellor? When you have done everything, please add money to the AI and then end-turn - managing any battles that arise. Also please deal with all the messages for the start of 1140. Some may require our action, but I don't trust messages and savegames, so you can still act as Chancellor to make any decisions that can't be avoided (e.g. accepting guilds; marriage and diplomatic offers etc).
I guess we are heading for a Diet session on Mondary or thereabouts. Who is going to stand for Chancellor? Getting plotting!
I'm gonna fight the battle tomorrow afternoon since I don't have access to M2TW until then but since im besieged right now, I guess factionheir could just leave it as it is and then have me fight it some other turn
I looked at your army compared to the enemy's and it will not be an easy fight. You have numbers, but it is mainly militia and the AI have foot knights who excel at carving through militia. Maybe take a look at it tomorrow and decide what is best? I am not quite sure what has happened to the once great Army of Swabia. :inquisitive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
from the Chancellor and governor reports:
When I specified brothel before City Hall in the building queue. I'm not too fussed as they're both usefull at this point in time and the Chancellor is good player...basically to say that I dun mean to say that I'm offended or anything...but can the chancellor do that or has he just missed my post on the building queue?Quote:
Construction
Marseille City Hall (Chancellor's Choice)
Build queues should be posted before a Diet session ends, so maybe Factionheir is treating yours as optional? It's the kind of thing you would be justified in kicking up a fuss in character if you want. (Personally, I am a little sceptical of brothels - don't they give bad traits? We have a Master Thieves Guild somewhere, so might be better getting our spies from there.)Quote:
Originally Posted by McIwoo
yeah for the ic fuss I thought about it but I wasn't sure if it wasn't actually allowed...I picked brothel before city hall because it's faster and marseille is in dire need of postive influence. I have no idea about the negative traits :no:
so city hall is prolly the best idea...still I'm going to break hell in the chancellor's message box :furious3:
Ugh - I'll be out Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. :wall: Mind extending the voting for a day so I can get mine in? I really don't want to miss another session.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
who's gonna be chancellor?
Probably better to ask that during the election :p
Besides Hans, no-one is standing at the moment, but then the diet session doesn't open till Monday most likely.
McIwoo: All build queues posted/sent after the start of a term are deemed entirely optional, and as such the chancellor is not obligated to fulfill them.
Generally, I look at the optional queues and see if anything useful is in there. If there is, I build it. If I see something else that is better, I choose that.
:P i meant who was going to stand for chancellor
I believe Ignoramus wants to have another go at you ~D
Wrote a little history of Ansehelm btw
nice read stiggy
ignoramus is up again? nice
idk who ill vote for whoever has the best manifesto i guess
Ulrich will run. However, as usual, I will be absent tomorrow. I just wanted everyone to know where I am.
lets get more runners so its not last election the sequel
non-swabians? haha
Well I believe we have a problem here. We have loads of old characters, who are going to die in the following years.
And next to that there are many undeveloped characters, like your Peter and my Ansehelm, new kids on the block, and what we need are the characters who fit in the category between these two.
well, excluding unassigned, the young characters include the young steffens, duke arnold, sigismund von mahren, us young kastiliens, elberhard. middle characters are like hans, conrad salier, gerhard steffen, ulrich hummel, etc. old is basically henry, gunther, and fredericus.
you should make a run stiggy
Oh, I have a feeling we won't have the last election, the sequel.
interesting
Ansehelm needs more bagage first, he's still young ... maybe in some time.Quote:
you should make a run stiggy
@stig - maybe so, but hes still gonna be duke someday and i think he holds pretty good influence
I'm not sure whether Factionheir has any other plans, but if not, it looks like the 48 hour deadline for battles expires about 19.00 Sunday (UK time). I think Warluster and Xdeathfire still have options to fight battles. They now have less than 24 hours to do so.
If it is just a day, I'll extend it. But if we get going earlier (ie Sunday or Monday), it might be better for you to give me advance notice of any votes. It would be good if candidates could declare early, and any controversial edicts placed early, so GH can post his vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
Ahhh knackered after 2 long days/nights of O2 wireless ambulance duties.
Righto, will check diet post and see if there's anything interesting.
As for the battles, people actually have merely 1 hour left to fight them, as the PMs were sent out 1:33 am on the 15th of June UK time. Its now 0:34 am UK time, the 17th of June.
When do you want to start the new diet session econ? In a few hours or Monday?
lets start it in a few hours! woot w00t
update: my game and patch 1.2 are reinstalled, and im going to try the switch before i put the mod in. i assume its fine, as i am not running the unpacker
edit: it works!
Let's do it. I am about to go to bed, but if you want to press end turn now, I doubt any generals will upload their post-battle saves in the next twenty minutes. I may open the Diet in the morning, providing Henry lives to see the dawn...Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Right.
I'll autoresolve Warluster's battle then and let Xdeathfire wait out in Paris.
Why not just not attack? He can do it next turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Have you ended turn yet, I will fight my battle now.
if i remember right
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I am going to have to call it a night. Factionheir and Warluster whatever you two decide is fine by me. ~:grouphug:
now that i got it working, mod and all, i cant wait to get going in my first battle! haha
I just ended turn already and warluster's battle was autoresolved, clear victory, ransomed some 1400 florins worth of prisoners.
uh well, I guess I was too slow :)
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Err Henry didn't die in my game. Maybe in yours.
And please stop posting what happens in the following years if you play ahead!
i changed it to spoil lol idk i thought he did cuz he died in mine every time. dang i wanted to get my diet on...
sorry for the spoilers tho lol
gibsonsg,
In every game something diffrent happens, its all the mechanics.
yeah i figured its random but it happened to me more than once so i guess its a random occurence generated by my game alone.
jobst is still allowed to start diet right? i guess its hasty but idk lol
FH, you make Henry into a killer... Now his soul will rot in hell... :P
lol yeah wasnt he henry the crusader, now henry the killer? haha
ya, I think for a while he was even known as the Champion... :P
lol those dang amazing assassins
i played ahead and picked off the danish prince, 60% odds, with hans plitterdorf
Well....taking out enemy targets, mainly generals, training targets and an inquisitor do take training.
Also, report 1240 is now up with a battle table (that is almost complete)
hey hans, id worry about going for another term - people may not like the idea of breaking precedent :P
i think its nice to have a new face every ten turns
20 turns isn't it?
20 years, 10 turns. It was only 20 turns for my initial reign, then it got too big.
Heh, how long before you get married? Ansehelm is 27, and damned fertile ~D
Well, if I don't break it, Warluster probably will as he can just use his priviledge as emperor (Unlikely Henry survives till 68) to become chancellor the next term.Quote:
Originally Posted by gibsonsg91921
I've updated the Stats in the playlist (first post of the Chancellor reports thread) - let me know if there are any errors, as the stats in that table will be used to weight votes. (Once votes have been tallied, I won't unpick them).
In terms of the precedent of serving for 20 turns, there is nothing wrong with serving twice. But when there are several players competing, I personally will tend to vote for the one(s) who have never been Chancellor before. That's a purely OOC thing: to share out the fun - old style PBMs used to follow the principle of Buggins turn.
personally i have no doubt that hans would continue to do well, but that can be said of all the chancellors.
How would Warluster using such privilege break the no back to back Chancellorships 'precident'?Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
The Library will be updated tonight. I've already done all the in-game screenshots for it. (Dear god, there are a lot of some avatars.)
Hey there,
I'm back from the funeral, have already worked my way through the OOC thread, but I guess that's just the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully I'll be in shape for the upcoming Diet. I'm gonna look at the avatars available and see if I jump in or wait for something Austrian to crop up in the future.
Either way, I'm back! :beam:
I'm against Edict 10.3 for OOC reasons. I want to make it to the Aztecs, if we take more French settlements they're more or less done for it, and we will come dangerously close to 45 settlements.
Just to let you know
OOCly, I think edict 10.1 is semi-alright. Sacking and leaving them isn't too bad as they can retake them, but we ought to not destroy military buildings there and probably cut down the targets to 2 or 3.
Having only one large army makes it very difficult to besiege/assault more than 2-3 settlements in addition to movement unless you have several trained spies nearby. The nearest place where we can train spies is way west in Europe as there are no brothels around.
True, and btw I only put in Vilnius (the Polish province) since it was more or less on the route. I don't mind if it's sacked or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
Helsinki for the same reason. A spy (or priest) to check out the size of Helsinki would be nice. The main target is Novgorod
And I want to destroy military buildings because that will make sure they won't come back for like 50 years.
I really think it's time for some proper non-expansionist ruling.
We are really just hammering the AI now.
Personally Arnold has done absolutely bugger all since becoming Duke so I'm going to have to come up with something to liven things up.
When it comes to running for Chancellor it might be an idea for guy's to think about things like a modern day ruler.
Countries don't expand their borders now days so there are plenty of other themes to run on.
OK has given an example in his comments towards FH.
Just something to think about.
As for Arnold, then by god is he going to kill some Hungarians.
Ituralde you're still me defacto General while I'm away for fighting battles so your about to begin the martial career of your son!! :)
I'll do my very best, AG!
Before anyone else says it:
Welcome back Ituralde, the Diet isn't the same without Leopold's firebreathing. :2thumbsup:
GH is Conrad getting the shakes? That must be some kind bud if he's going into withdrawal over cannabis. Unless, of course, Hash has served as a gateway drug to Opium. :sweatdrop:
Edit: Three way race! Sweet. A first!
Indeed, welcome back, Ituralde. :yes:
I expect you'll find out very shortly.Quote:
GH is Conrad getting the shakes? That must be some kind bud if he's going into withdrawal over cannabis. Unless, of course, Hash has served as a gateway drug to Opium. :sweatdrop:
-edit- Nice, we have three candidates, maybe even four! Let Diet Smackdown begin!
I fear we may be closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted, but I have proposed Charter Amendment 10.2 to try to restrain our expansion.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
Like the religious buildings edict, it's a largely OOC proposal.
*goes of the second CA 10.2*
Good to see you back Ituralde!!
Does anyone know what the schedule is for the next patch?
And GH, niiice one there maaate :)
This should get the juices flowing.
I suspect there will be one with the expansion, which I think is out in the Fall sometime. I'm not sure what it will cover - I've avoided the 1.2 bug thread, as the 1.1 one made me ill.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
Thanks for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
Too true econ. I've all but given up on the Citidel because the PBM is taking up all my time.
I still read of course but those patch threads are really something else.
By the way your screen shots always look great. What settings are you on and what is your PC spec. I don't mean specifics just general stuff.
I confess upgraded my graphics card just for this game. I got a Geforce 7800 GS 512MB - the best AGP card available (at least when I bought it). The computer is unexceptional: P4 3.4GHz, 1 GB RAM.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
The settings are shader 2, 1024x768, everything high, no anti-aliasing and ansiotropic x 2.
When I had an older video card, I found shader 1 was best and with no shadows.
One day I'll probably blow up my computer playing M2TW (as I did an older one playing RTW), as the graphics card is supposed to need far more power than my power unit delivers. But I tried upgrading the power unit and the new one did blow up, so I'll just wait for that day.
Ahh the old "blow up" upgrade solution... :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
That certainly is one way to go about things LOL.
Thanks for the information econ. I wish I could be home more to play. It's really hampering what I would like to do with this PBM.
Ahh well.
The religious buildings edict is too connected with RP for me to vote on it exclusively on an OOC basis. The very aspect of making it religious oriented means that it has RP consequences. CA 10.2 is a good OOC expansion limitation attempt and I think all serious debate on it should be conducted here. There's no way it could pass a proper RP Diet vote, so let's not even bother. Let's discuss it here and vote on it entirely OOC.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
I agree that the horse has already bolted and the serious challenges are done with, but I feel that KOTR has got 2 to 3 more solid Chancellorships before it really comes to any conclusion. France is still fielding a lot of men and two factions have dramatically increased their territories lately: England and Spain. If we ever come into conflict with them, we will have a few more interesting (even if not challenging) periods.
Regardless, I think we should simply be aiming to play out the game naturally. When it 'feels' like it's over, then it's over, no big deal. I feel like we've learned as much from KOTR as we did from WOTS and whatever we come up with after this one will be another leap forward. Remember, when KOTR is over, it just means it's time to start another game!
Part of the reason our enemy fields larger armies is because they got more florins than normal, after some private discussion with our gamemaster econ.
Between 10k-30k depending on whether we are at war with them and how much they had when I checked.
hey FH i didnt think u abused power, i was referring to matthias's allegations
From the Diet:
I really think we need to stop giving the Pope territories. That doesn't help anyone, including ourselves. A Papal 'buffer zone' will futher decrease the pressure on our borders. Durazzo already bugs me every time I load up the game. It makes no RP sense (for the Pope or us) and reduces the challenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by FactionHeir
It's too bad we can't go back and modify the King's Purse. I've been playing an HRE campaign VH/VH and doubled everyone's but mine, and it's been a satisfying game. I'm in this huge never ending war on my Eastern frontier with the Poles and Russians, the hordes keep coming off the steppe.