Out of character thread XIX

I was just taking a look at the save to assess the general situation, and I noticed that, hilariously, the siege force at Dijon has built 21 rams and 7 siege towers. Now if only the AI would provide them with one single bloody company of infantry, they could really go crazy.

Things aren't all bad really. Have the AI armies been topped up yet, or is that waiting, or not going to happen? Just curious because it's difficult to formulate strategy, in particular in the Bavarian theatre, without know if there will be additional forces in play.

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FYI, the Library update will be delayed since I am on vacation. It will be done sometime on Friday or Saturday which is, unfortunately, after the Diet session is over. My apologies, but I simply don't have access to the game right now so I can't do it.

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Originally Posted by Warmaster Horus

My computer is almost dead. So I'm going to be unavailable for a few days, since my internet is going to be unavailable too. Since I don't have an avatar right now it's okay, but I thought I'd better tell you guys, in case an available avatar came up.

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From the Chancellor's final report, we do seem to have an avatar - two Steffen twins in fact. I'll pencil you in for one of them. Maybe FLYdude will take the other?

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Originally Posted by Ramses II

Have the AI armies been topped up yet, or is that waiting, or not going to happen? Just curious because it's difficult to formulate strategy, in particular in the Bavarian theatre, without know if there will be additional forces in play.

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I'll try to do it tonight. There will be additional forces in play - I'll top up settlements and the odd understrength general, but I won't teleport stacks. I'll try to keep the changes in the fog of war, but sometimes that may not be possible (if we are toe to toe with the AI settlements, as in France).

You could put the French new top ups at Toulouse or Zaragoza..

Mostly my concern was the two remaining Byzantine cities. If they're going to magic in more forces before we get to move then it represents a wholesale change to the apparent situation.

One more question, for Fritz, if I buy a merc ship can I use it as a shuttle to move troops two at a time to the mainland (i.e. Pick up two, take them near Arhus, drop off, go back for two more, etc.)? Or is that a bit cheesy? Mostly I want Fritz off that island (To avoid more withdrawal oddities) which I can do with just one ship, but it might be worthwhile to ferry off a few more companies just in case that captain Danish stack jumps past Stenkil's.

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Can't see anything wrong with that

I think that was the plan for the cyprus invasion OK and zim was envisioning. So I do not think there is nothing wrong with it too.

There's nothing wrong with shuttling a large army with a small fleet - look at D-Day and the subsequent build-up.

I have buffed up the AI a little - not a lot, as to be honest, it looks fairly competitive as it is. (Franconia looks over-run and Austria is threatened too.) If after 5 turns, we have made a lot of progress (as we may, now that the plague is over and money will be rolling in) then I will supply a bigger buff.

Despite my intention, I have made some changes within line of sight, as some of the distances of fogged out cities just seemed too far to have an impact. This applies particularly to Outremer and to the Poles. We will have first move this time, though, so hopefully it won't spark too much protest.

The two remaining Byzantine settlements in north Italy have been reinforced. Personally, I don't think it is that unrealistic - there's a sea route and we don't have a navy capable of interfering with it. I'd also cite the case of Hitler's desperate attempt to hold Tunisia after the US invasion of North Africa. What the Byzantines have received is nothing compared to what the Germans poured in. I suspect it will do the Byzantines as much good as it did the Germans, so it is nothing to get worked up about.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1360-1.zip

I wasn't trying to be snide with the magic comment, I'd love it if the AI reinforced their cities that were under threat, I just should've been patient and not started making plans before the save was fixed. :laugh4:

I'm rather worried about Hamburg. I firmly believe that even if the Danes bring both of those armies to Arhus I can hold them because the AI is so grossly incompetent at attacking huge walls, but if there's no one in Hamburg and they attack, it's gone and they're right in our backfield, holding Madgeburg constantly trapped and threatening Frankfurt and points south.

Is Dutch_guy able to fight? Any reason for him staying at Madgeburg?

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

Is Dutch_guy able to fight? Any reason for him staying at Madgeburg?

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AFAIK, we have not heard from him in a while. He's a veteran Orgah and PBMer, so his absence does not spark alarm. But if you are elected, you might want to PM him to find out his situation. Heck, you could even PM before you are elected to try to secure his vote, killing two birds with one stone.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

FYI, the Library update will be delayed since I am on vacation. It will be done sometime on Friday or Saturday which is, unfortunately, after the Diet session is over. My apologies, but I simply don't have access to the game right now so I can't do it.

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I will send you the new mugshots!

I'm going to be in Spain for a week starting on Friday, will change my actuve duty post.

Crud. If you don't lift the siege and/or a sub isn't allowed I'm pretty sure Madgeburg is going to fall.

That'll be about the worst start to the next Chancellor's reign imaginable.

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Elite Ferret, in the circumstances, I think it would be fine for you to take the current save (1260-1) and break the siege while the Diet is still in progress.

We need more active duty generals in Franconia - perhaps GH should send his avatar there rather than to Swabia?

I would be fine with that.

If that is the case then GH really needs to do a 100 degree swing and head north east.

Between inactive General's and the plague I was hard pressed to say the least.

Magdeburg was a really tough situation...as well as Bruges and parts of Austria.

Something for you to have a little fun with, AG.

At the moment, we seem to have only about 2 active generals per House (Outremer included). It's enough if we spread them out, but only just.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Something for you to have a little fun with, AG.

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On it GH!! Love your work.

That last effort in the Diet should nearly need editing :beam:

I've used every trait Arnold has to get that little effort "out the door".

Good night and see you all tomorrow.

is Magdeburg under siege again? If it is the same armies as last time then there's no way I can beat them in a sally, is DG unable to fight battles? Anyway seeing as I'm going to be gone for a week doesn't that mean that a sub (Ramses ;) ) would be available?

If a sub is allowed I'd be happy to fight the siege. I have never seen the AI capture a citadel, I'm not actually sure it's possible. They usually seem to run into bugs and out of steam about the 2nd gate.

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I don't want to sound negative guy's but I doubt that will happen.

Check the top of the active duty thread and look at Dutch_guy's status.

It's been like that for weeks now.

Given the last ruling on subbing, it seems highly unlikely that anyone will be able to fight this apart from DG or someone going to the rescue in the game.

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and that is the OOC thing that has been frustrating. I'm not blaming anyone but if you go back in this OOC thread there's a moment there where I pretty much come out and strongly ask for everyone to update their status as I'm stumped as to what I can do.

Luckily it can be vented IC through Arnold. :-)

have you played ahead and seen how soon they will attack? If the game goes slowly and they take their time I may be back to fight it. Also if their army isn;t too big I'll take a shot at it now. Taking the save for viewing if I can find it.

I am back from vacation (on Active Duty again) and the Library has been fully updated, thanks in large part to Northnovas once again.

Jet to let everyone know, I will be on vacation from Feb 20 - Feb 28th. I'll be in London during that time, my first trip to England. I won't have access to the game and internet access will most likely be spotty.

Any tips on what to do while in London would be appreciated. :2thumbsup:

Edit: I've updated my entry on the active duty list.

London is quite dull actually. Been here for 4 years and the only sight I'd recommend is the Tower of London.
If you are going around England though, visit places like Warwick or Windsor. Scotland is quite nice too.

Stonehenge is overrated btw :grin:

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Originally Posted by OverKnight

Jet to let everyone know, I will be on vacation from Feb 20 - Feb 28th. I'll be in London during that time, my first trip to England. I won't have access to the game and internet access will most likely be spotty.

Any tips on what to do while in London would be appreciated. :2thumbsup:

Edit: I've updated my entry on the active duty list.

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Mate, London for the first time. Killer town but it's a dirty run down thing.

Go see a show in the West End. It's like Broadway but with more history.

Any and all the museums are very good. The old gas works is a treat (they put a museum in the old gas works from back at the turn of the century).

Visit a pub or two...they are unique in how they fit in with the culture.

Take a ride in a Double Deck bus with one of those sight seeing tours...it's a little cheesy but you do learn a lot.

Visit the Tower of London as FH says...that's great. If you can get out to Windsor Castle then that is also a treat. Stonehenge is also a big yawn, again FH is right on the money.

If you like the night life then London is beyond comprehension. There is any and everything available. Grab a few magazine's and take a look at what is on offer...mind blowing array of options.

Go watch the buskers at Covent Garden. They are some of the best you will ever see.

The tube is below average...avoid it if you can, but you wont be able to, so prepare yourself.

The London Eye is apparently not bad. I've never been on it but it is the massive wheel on the river Themes.

London dull?! I lived there for 10 years and never got bored. Home of my two most favorite museums in the entire world, both of which I consider a must-see:

The British Museum - Showing off the benefits of Empire
The Imperial War Museum - Far and away the best 'general' military museum in the world IMO.

The V&A is pretty impressive as well.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

London dull?! I lived there for 10 years and never got bored. Home of my two most favorite museums in the entire world, both of which I consider a must-see:

The British Museum - Showing off the benefits of Empire
The Imperial War Museum - Far and away the best 'general' military museum in the world IMO.

The V&A is pretty impressive as well.

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Exactly. I had to leave or I would have partied myself into the grave :beam:

And really...the museums are unreal. I was back in December and I went to the Royal Portrait museum...I mean what could you expect...we ended up staying for 4 hours.

Museums are alright. Not sure if its OK's thing though. I quite liked the National History Museum and the Science Museum, both of which have free admittance.

Can't say I participated in any of the nightlife at all.

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Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Can't say I participated in any of the nightlife at all.

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Well, then I can totally understand why things are much different.

Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know I'll be gone for the next day or two. My wife and I are going on a trip. :beam: Should check in tomorrow morning before leaving, then no internet for a day and a half. :help:

On the off chance a battle comes up for me and it's obvious I won't be back in time, go ahead and autoresolve it without waiting. :yes:

Well, that turned out not to be any real worry. :clown:

I'm back.

rotfl, sorry. :laugh4:

We'll get there soon-ish. At this point I just want Cecil's sign off on the resolution and some movement at Dijon. Tomorrow, one way or the other, we'll be moving forward I'm certain.

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Some turns take longer than others. At least this gives me a chance to look at the save again before the next turn.

Did you get my orders about those understrength units, Ramses? I think I have one unit with only one guy. :clown:

Indeed I did, sorry if I didn't respond. Been hip deep in stuff. Likely I'll use the ships to run men back and forth to be retrained at Acre, since they aren't going to be needed for the assault any time soon.

At the moment it appears that there will be enough money to allow almost all the training requests to be met, but there will be no construction budget.

In fact, don't be too surprised if your House's construction budget doesn't go up until your enemies are in retreat. :yes: :laugh4:

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For a second I thought you were talking about Outremer, rather than Swabia. :clown:

Funny thing, I think we have as many enemy stacks around as Swabia, we just have a infinitely more defensible situation.

My construction queue for Acre is certainly not too high priority. An Armoury would allow more heavy infantry without breaking the stack rules (zweihanders) but I'm just as happy with spearmen. Shields are improtant with all those horsearchers, and spears will kill more than two handed swords with so many cavalry anyway. :yes:

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

Indeed I did, sorry if I didn't respond. Been hip deep in stuff. Likely I'll use the ships to run men back and forth to be retrained at Acre, since they aren't going to be needed for the assault any time soon.

At the moment it appears that there will be enough money to allow almost all the training requests to be met, but there will be no construction budget.

In fact, don't be too surprised if your House's construction budget doesn't go up until your enemies are in retreat. :yes: :laugh4:

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Turks and Greeks killing each other? Shocking. Hopefully they will send their carefully recruited elite armies against each other. :laugh4:

I'll bust up the siege of Adana once I get back from work.

I can but wonder at the size of the French armies... They seem to have full stack everywhere on the map...

It will take us forever to whittle them down to uselessness...:smash:

Yes, it should be more difficult at Dijon now that you stole my mercenary spears :inquisitive:
I guess I have to use GH instead. A vicious cycle indeed.

Try not to kill GH's avatar this time. :laugh4:

A bit of tension...I like it!! :beam:

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Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Yes, it should be more difficult at Dijon now that you stole my mercenary spears :inquisitive:

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I just thought that you needed some challenge...:2thumbsup:

Plus what's one spear unit when face with so much cavalry ?

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Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng

I just thought that you needed some challenge...:2thumbsup:

Plus what's one spear unit when face with so much cavalry ?

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Not much! There was so much calvary the one unit of spearmen did not have a chance. No one had a chance. It was great when they just sat there being cannon fodder but when they moved out, an onslaught of Hungarians and they had some nice heavy cavalry units to boot. Those horse archers are a pain too!!!
Well learn for next time.:book:

I'm going to post a few more specific recommendations to commanders in the O&R thread in a little bit later. It was very late last night when I got that up, but I knew we had some chaps in various time zones who would be itching for some action, so I apologize for the rough edges on the report. :laugh4:

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back and ready to fight any battles if Dieter is still alive.

He's alive. The Autoresolve Gods like you.

I must say I simply couldn't believe Ramses won those to auto calc's. That really saved his Chancellorship right there in the first year.

You know, Madgeburg exceeded my own expectations by a large margin. I thought we would have a draw, lose about half of each army, and it would just prevent the AI from going forward with the siege while EF was away. I used my Broken Crescent game to tests sallies, and I never lost an general during a sally, even a sally against strong odds. If you wait for the siege and lose, everything is gone.

As it was either the dice were kind or Dieter's stack was somehow better set up for autoresolve than the Poles. The Polish army that currently is in siege is actually weaker than the last one, while they've (typically) got two stacks wandering around the Stettin region a bit aimlessly. I think we might get Dieter in the field here soon.

edit: Out of curiosity I loaded the -6 save again and did the same two battles in order again and both were still victories.

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I was just doing some surfing in the Austrian Thread and came across the origins of an Emperor of the Reich.

The origins of gibson9212 Emperor of the Reich.

Just shows that anything is possible!

I'm having a problem with the save which I don't quite understand. Newly trained Imperial Knights and Teutonic Knights are not training at full size. Teutons show up as 45 men, and Imperials show up as 48.

I've checked my unit sizes in prefs and they are set to 'large,' as they should be for KotR right?

What else can I do? Since there were no defensive battles that are going to be fought I can go back to the end of the previous turn without complications, as long as I don't change anything substantial I believe.

Advice? Suggestions?

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That is odd. I didn't think it was possible to change the unit scale in a campaign already in progress.

I figured it out, 48 and 45 are the correct sizes, the problem was they were available for retraining because of the training bug. I cleared all the lines and used a spy and everything is fine now. No substantial changes to the turn.

In the future I'd like to request that everyone submit their training requests in writing rather than putting them in the line for their city, this way we avoid the training bug as I'll put all training in line at the end of the turn.

Report'll be up soon.

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haha NN, that was before i had even patched up from 1.0 and i couldnt get an avatar. i remember you were the nameless count of zagreb, AG was the merchant of venice, and we all got avatars about the same time. i was ehrhart von mahren, the first guy to die in a battle.

AHHHH.... reminiscing...

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

I figured it out, 48 and 45 are the correct sizes, the problem was they were available for retraining because of the training bug. I cleared all the lines and used a spy and everything is fine now. No substantial changes to the turn.

In the future I'd like to request that everyone submit their training requests in writing rather than putting them in the line for their city, this way we avoid the training bug as I'll put all training in line at the end of the turn.

Report'll be up soon.

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Well, actually Imperial and Teutons should train at 60 under the KOTR sizes. Make sure you don't have a unit file in your data folder of the mod.

As for retraining bug, what I did during my chancellorship was to save at end turn and then go through all the steps I outlined here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=97521

It doesn't matter what happens during AI turn, as troops are trained when you click the end turn button rather than when you get to turn start.

Can I just check that you are topping up the AI with cash, Ramses? The console commands are in the first post of this thread, although some will need a lot more than 10k I suspect.

The French refused a very paltry ransom, which made me wonder. I know had to give them (and the Byzantines) ridiculous amounts of money during the Diet to get them into the black.

Argh! No, I forgot to cash 'em in. As I mentioned, my console-fu is weak and it doesn't often occur to me to use it. I'll check the first post and do it as soon as possible today (~3 hours)

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You check their funds with the reports scroll right? Is it current to this turn?

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I believe it's current to the beginning of the turn, but I don't think it will show you the money you've added to factions. If you have diplomats to spare near them, you can always enter into the diplomacy scroll and see what they rate as wealthwise.

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

You check their funds with the reports scroll right? Is it current to this turn?

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Well, I know the Russians are boundless, it's in the screenshot. But then, they aren't at war.

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Best way to check it is with a diplomat.

Load a save, teleport a diplomat around checking their cash status and give them money while in the diplomacy screen. To update the value displayed, you can choose any offer/demand. If the display goes to "Well Off", you are at about the right level. Try not to go to boundless though, unless you have already upgraded to KOTRfix 1.3a (which everyone should have after the diet btw, as it was published during AG's term) lest you want the AI generals to end up with several bad traits.

Don't save, just note down the total florins given (note 40k max per transaction, normally you shouldn't need to give that much after I cleaned up debts during the start of AG's term) then repeat the process with every other nation.

At the end, load the initial save and give the noted down amounts and save.
You probably won't need to give the papacy anything. Also don't give anything to dead factions.

The saves frozen for the moment? Any ETA on unfreezing?

If it would help, I promise to kill any prisoners and not ask for a ransom. :laugh4:

Hi Ramses,

I was also not so comfortable with the console commands.

What I did was give the save to FH early in my term. He did his thing, as described in his post. I then set an alarm to ensure that at some point in each turn I gave 30 000florins to everyone and then a 30 000 and a 20 000 dump to the Byzantines.

This seemed to work quite well. Plus it was easy to do.

Took a look at the current save,

Those Teutons on the boat south of Adana should be 60 each rather than 45 if they've been fully reinforced. In fact, I can merge them to form one 60 unit and one 30 unit.

I don't know enough about technical issues to hazard a real diagnosis, but I'd guess a mod might be interefering. I know LTC and some others reduced cav size relative to infantry.

Have infantry units been suffering the same wonky behavior?

I'm home and taking a look at things right now. All I have installed is Broken Crescent, but I didn't notice it messing with my vanilla campaigns otherwise.

Things seem a bit of a mess, but I'll get it sorted and have a fresh save soon.

Odds of me teleporting around a diplomat seem very poor.

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Okay, I have no idea what I'm looking for to fix this training problem. I just confirmed that it does not happen in Broken Crescent or in Vanilla 1.3, but only when I use the KotR .exe. What's the file name of the 'unit file' I need to look for in the data folder, and what about it needs to be changed?

I'm very curious as to what could have caused this? I installed Broken Crescent some time ago and have not had any trouble with it relating to the KotR save. Once upon a time I had LTC 3.1 installed, but that was before I got started on KotR I believe.

I'm sorry Overknight, but for now the save needs to stay frozen. It may be tomorrow before we get this all sorted out.

The technical aspects of being Chancellor were one of the reasons I didn't want to run at first, and I probably should've listened to my head. :no: :oops:

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Check if you got export_descr_unit in the same folder as the fixes. If so, get rid of it. Its not part of the fixes. Indeed, get rid of ANYTHING inside your data folder that is not from the KOTRfix archive (i.e. delete all contents except folders and then copy in the KOTRfix files)

Okay, as stage one I'm emptying the data folder and reinstalling Kotrfix.

I'll report results soon. :)

edit: KOTRfix13a is the current version, correct?

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Yep.

I'd be interested to know if the autoresolves still would have been victories without your unit mod.
Btw, if you have any newly trained cavalry that is below normal size, you can recreate them via console into the stack.

For instance:
create_unit "Staufen" "Imperial Knights" 1 1 1 1

Would give 1 unit Imperial Knights at Staufen with 1 xp 1 weapon 1 armor (might have been armor first, then weapon)
You can also create it onto characters, so replace Staufen with Fritz von Kastilien.

If you can't create it onto a certain captain because several have the same name, create it somewhere nearby and then move it over manually and use character_reset.

Interesting question. Since we'd only had one battle (Rheims) I simply went back to the previous turn and did everything the same again. Frankfurt's autocalc for 1364 was still a victory, though with slightly more casualties. We ended up with about 2k more florins, somehow, and I lost three more men at Rheims than Tristan did, but they'll be back next season so I didn't worry about it.

I also used the command to top off the AI, but I didn't try to warp a diplomat around. I just gave those factions which appeared to be bottomed out on the faction scroll 3x more florins than those which had money showing.

The sole significant difference that I can see is the Venetians didn't rebel at Durazzo. I'll edit that out of my report, and unless there are objections we'll move forward with this as the save:

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/kotr1364a.zip

I would like to ask FH or Econ (Or anyone else who feels qualified) to take a look at things and make sure they're correct.

I'm curious as to where the extra files came from? As I was deleting things I did notice that some of them appeared to be left over from LTC, but if so they've been there for months.

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I loaded the 1360-6 save to test those two battles, and though Madgeburg was still a victory (Dieter took 190 casualties, which might be slightly more than in the original auto-calc) the battle at Frankfurt was a crushing defeat, including a 1700 florin ransom bill. As expected the city didn't fall, but the siege would have continued. :thumbsdown: :no:

Is this the point where I get to suggest my own impeachment? I'm afraid I don't have the technical skills to be a good Chancellor. It's appropriate for Fritz, but not so much for his player. :embarassed:

edit: BTW the save is not unfrozen until someone more skilled than I signs off on things, especially the AI money additions. There is no feedback for success in the console so I have no idea if they worked or just popped off into the ether.

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If the save is unfrozen by tomorrow afternoon/evening I can fight my battle then.

Well, I've been going through my MTWII folder, and other than two seemingly inconsequential LTC files (landstoconquer.cfg and one other) all that I found were the files from the Wolfgang Hummel battle at Staufen. I installed those at that time, tried out that fight, and never thought about them again. Is it possible that they were the source of the problem?

I note I have a 'system.log.txt' which may have more information, but I don't know how to interpret it. I can email any of these to someone who can tell me what would help them diagnose as well. I could do a reinstall too, but it'd have to wait until tomorrow night I think.

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

I'm curious as to where the extra files came from? As I was deleting things I did notice that some of them appeared to be left over from LTC, but if so they've been there for months.

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No worries, at least we did find the problem and you managed to fix it.
That should also be a warning to everyone else who has other mods running concurrently.... the safest way is a modfolder I suppose, and if there is demand, I can upload a modfolder version of KOTRfix.

I'll check the save now.

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Save is fine. You may have overdone the santa role a bit as pretty much everyone was on Boundless. Looks like the French were in debt though, so they still had low levels of funds. Fixed that by giving them 25000.

Unit sizes seem fine on a quick scan. Nothing jumped out at me.

New save: http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/kotr1364b.zip

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Originally Posted by Ramses II CP

Well, I've been going through my MTWII folder, and other than two seemingly inconsequential LTC files (landstoconquer.cfg and one other) all that I found were the files from the Wolfgang Hummel battle at Staufen. I installed those at that time, tried out that fight, and never thought about them again. Is it possible that they were the source of the problem?

I note I have a 'system.log.txt' which may have more information, but I don't know how to interpret it. I can email any of these to someone who can tell me what would help them diagnose as well. I could do a reinstall too, but it'd have to wait until tomorrow night I think.

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system.log.txt is quite useless imo.

The files in your root m2tw folder are harmless, although its still good practice to get rid of them. The problem was anything inside your (m2tw main) data folder (and in its subfolders), as those all get activated when using the io switch.

I am interested in Ramses II issue. What was the actual problem that caused the corruption to his game? Just when you think things are fine something like that happens and wonder how and why. Was the source trying out the other saves he had mentioned.
I really found that Med Manager helpful for playing multiple mods on your system.
I can see how the extra responsibilities of being Chancellor intimidating.

I'm available to fight once econ21 has the save back. I just need some coffee.

I'm glad the tech issues were sorted out, big thumbs up to FH! :2thumbsup:

I'm just glad we caught the issue before we went too far in.

No need for impeachment Ramses, I don't think we want Vice-Chancellor Gerald Ford in charge.

Sorry for the double post, but my battle report is up, guess which movie I cribbed a line from in this one.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=253

Perhaps Patton was actually Matthias Steffen reincarnated, instead of Hannibal.

Good show, TC. In my next battle report, I will be working in lines from "Point Break".

On another note, I am amazed at Tristan's grand raid through France. Two cities taken with just his bodyguard. :dizzy2: Now that's vengeance.

If only the AI could properly garrison a city. Taking into account all the troops and money we've been giving them, it would be the least they could do.