Love all these screenshots!
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Love all these screenshots!
That's great ~:cool: --- affable with killer instinct ~D .
Multiple Personality Disorder maybe?
*waits for "Strange" vice*
Finally a campaign it looks like I'll complete...
Byzantines, started in Early, Normal difficulty, XL mod.
When I first began I intended to go at the Turks first but people kept attacking me on the opposite side. First the Cumans who were swiftly dealt with, then the Germans. Without thinking about what I was doing I pushed them all the way back to western Europe, taking the Hungarians out along the way. When I got them weak enough to where they HAD to accept my truce, I left the invading armies there for insurance and got on with the business of fighting the Turks. I invaded Rum with 2500 brand spanking new troops led by "the best general ever" and kicked their ass. After that they kept throwing lame counter-attacks at me which were too pathetic for me to waste my time with personally - auto-calc. I took a few more provinces from them by force and then bribed the rest of their delapitated army, aside from the Sultan's stack of course. When I first went to war with them the Egyptians allied with me (finally, they've been trying to ally with me for decades but I wanted to keep things quiet with the Turks while I dealt with the Germans). Then when the Turks are reduced to insignificance they attack one of my ships. Poor them, they'll go the way of the Turks soon enough.
This is one of the most fun campaigns I've had. I have Constantinople so teched up it's amazing (just got Gold armor). And as long as I keep conquering at a steady rate I have a practically unlimited income, no matter how many troops I raise. I can't remember the last time my annual income was below 5,000 florins.
Can any of you tell me how close to 60% I am? I don't have the stomach for 100% as it's already becoming aparant that everyone wants me dead (for the first time people cancelled their alliances with ME when Egypt attacked).
Rum:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...t/byz3-rum.jpg
Current Campaign Map:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...oldat/byz2.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...oldat/byz1.jpg
Stoopid Lithuanians...
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.../byz4-lith.jpg
When do the Mongols appear again? I'd really like to wrap this up before they appear if it's possible.
Nice empire graphic.
I think the mongols appear at 1230 or so. So you better hurry
Mongols appear at the end of year 1230. Maybe if you push on all front you can hit 60% before the Mongols come.
I'll try that then, thanks guys. I'll come back with pics from the ByzBlitz. :charge:
Lurking forward to it ~:cool: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Graphic
~:eek: @ Spain
I've never had such swift victories than in the Spanish campaign I just created.
I had the Almohads out of Ibera in 10 turns, all EXTREMELY decisive victories, I'm talking 500 killed/capped for 60 dead type victories. All with just Spanish Jinettes and FMAA.
Then I launched a crusade without putting anything in it but a few Jinettes and end up going through a bunch of 60% zeal provinces on my way to Croatia, two free stacks! Serbs attack north against Hungary, leaving Serbia itself totally undefended. Took that then attacked the besiegers and eliminated them.
This was within an hour. ~:eek:
No pics at the moment, I just wanted to praise Spain.
Oh, btw. I blitzed, lost a few battles and half my empire revolted. Got mad and quit.
*Bump*
Which Mod are you playing Graphic ?
XL ?
Reading all these stories about all your empires always inspires me to start a new campaign, hell maybe I'll even post some pics of my new Italian campaign myself ~:)
:balloon2:
XL, yep.
All my empires, indeed lol. I always get deep and campaigns and start new ones to try new units, I think I have half a dozen unfinished in here. There's just so much crap in MTW and then XL that it never gets old trying it all. I still have the save files though, maybe when I go broke and lose the internet for a while I'll finish them all https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...sc/biggrin.gif
No later than 10 minutes after I post this I find out that this will be the case lol. Funny, I think =/. I'll take the time to finish these campaigns.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graphic
Broke? Sounds a bit drastic.
Err, you mean in real life, I take it? ~:eek:
I have one:
[img=https://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1981/pope1is.th.jpg]
No you are not drunk, no you don't need eye check that really is Pope and his golden age. ~D
The funny part is that he was already killed once then come back and as you can see he came back in style. :charge:
:bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Welcome to the forums ~:cheers: .Quote:
Originally Posted by SaintBlackAdder
Are you playing as Spain? That map IS amazing, I've never seen the Pope
expand like that ~:eek: .
BUMP! :grin2:
C'mon guys, this thread shouldn't silently slip to page 2. This is one of the more interesting threads in the Main Hall. I demand pictures! :wink:
Agree. I'll soon finish Hungarians/normal/high/GA campiaign and post with screenshots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tricky Lady
That's great KT, good to see this thread up and running again ~:)
:balloon2:
:nice: That's the spirit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight Templar
Perhaps I should start a MTW campaign again too? Mmm, I guess I should try BI first... :thinking:
I like this thread too. When I finish and get time I'll put up my German campaign. Perhaps I'll put my Byzantine one up too. It takes me a lot of time since I put up so many pictures and description.
I´d love to send pcs of my HRE campaign, especially the high rise and even more sudden fall of my neighbours, the Hungarians (they ruled the whole southeast of the map and were completely killed of in two battles), but I´ve got difficulties with taking screenshots. Could it be that there´s a limit on the number of screens that can be stored in the TGA folder? I had 15 taken, after that there were no new ones, no matter how often I pressed F2 (that is the screenshot button, isn´t it?).
Yes, F2 is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciaran
Maybe your disk space run out? TGAs are quite big files...
Well don't have experience with TGA's , I've heard they mostly turn out to be black... and never quite turn out hte way they should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciaran
I normally just press print-screen, alt-tab out of the game , open paint, past in paint:yes: and save as .jpg in a folder solely dedicated to MTW/RTW screenies.
:balloon2:
Out of space, I don´t think so. even a tga pic is hardly 80 GB large, or is it ~:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bretwalda
I know you can do it that way, but that´s really cumbersome, and it interrupts the gameplay, too. Hardly anything you´d want to do in the middle of the biggest fight of your campaign.Quote:
I normally just press print-screen, alt-tab out of the game , open paint, past in paint and save as .jpg in a folder solely dedicated to MTW/RTW screenies.
I have FRAPS, too, but then again, the game is supposed to have an inbuilt screenshot capture function. Even if it´s not documented in the handbook.
I had zero problems with TGAs, irfanview reads, displays and converts all of them. OTH alt-tabbing out of MTW is a risky business... But do as easier for you. F2 works for me every time. (Silly question, but did you accidentaly press capslock? I do all the time and of course F2 wouldn't work in that case...)
I've just finished it, I' ll post tommorow with 7-8 screenshots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knight Templar
My Hungairians/normal/high period/GA campiagn, although I've played it more like conquest as Hungarians don't have interesting goals at all. Before the game, I made little modifications; I made Szekelys trainable in every province, and I made crusader knights trainable for me, English, French, Sicilians (Templars), Italians (Hospitalers), Spanish and Aragonese (Ko Santiago) and HRE (Teutonics). Conditions for training were Horse Breeder's guild and Spearmaker's guild.
https://img473.imageshack.us/img473/9094/mad11td.jpg
This is the situation in the 1229. After conquering Balkan (except Constantinopole), I attacked HRE. They didn't even want to fight for their lands- I gained 4 provinces, but had only 1 battle.
https://img473.imageshack.us/img473/8758/mad21ja.jpg
Well, I conquered HRE except Provance, and now I'm preparing to attack French; as you can see, my economy isn't working and I need rich provinces like Flanders. Sicilians used the fact that I have no navy and started to attack Croatia by sea.
https://img498.imageshack.us/img498/4209/mad32ty.jpg
I conquered French Europeian lands, however they are still strong in Africa and Asia. In meantime, Turkish attacked me, so I took Constantinopole from them (another rich province) and bribed rebel army in Trebizond (there was civil war in Egypt).
Interesting to note, GH got England by marriage; in 3 years, this is the first time I see someone took a profite from marrying his prince to foreign princess.
https://img498.imageshack.us/img498/4155/mad42gn.jpg
By the 1275, I was just about to attack Italians, when I got message his king died heirless. Of course, I use this opportunity to gain 6 of their provinces with little fight.:charge: I also bribed army in Sweden hoping to conquer Scandinavia later. In Minor Asia, I eliminated the Turkish. English reappeared and took their homelands from GH.
https://img498.imageshack.us/img498/421/mad55qf.jpg
Damn Italians reappeared taking 8 provninces including Sweden. Another big army to deal with. I'm in war with English (got Wessek, lost Friesland), Egys, reappeared Turkish (in one moment they even held Constantinople) and Byzs (tried to conquer Nicaea). I dealed with Sicilians: my spies initiated rebellion on Malta and I bribed the rebel army, and I invaded Naples by sea (my navy got stronger).
https://img498.imageshack.us/img498/7007/mad68gq.jpg
My war against Turkish (soon will be eliminated), Egys and English goes well. However, I didn't leave lots of army in Europe, so Pope thought I was weak and invaded Venice (taken back soon). To be revenged...:knight:
https://img473.imageshack.us/img473/5025/mad70pp.jpg
I expelled English from Britain, they remained on Ireland. Asy ou can see, I have problems with Italians (who attacked me) and English royalists. War with Egys goes excellent. My spies caused rebellions in Denmark and Sweden (stupis Italians didn't build BF). I bribed rebel army in Denmark. I revenged the Pope.:charge:
I was also working on eliminating Polish (althought I'm not in war with them yet) by killing they heirs. My v5 grand inquisitor killed two sons of their king. He only has his brothers now as his heirs, so I thought I succeeded.
https://img454.imageshack.us/img454/7360/mad82pr.jpg
And here it is, 60 % victory. ~:cheers: ~:cheers: Egyptians are eliminated, Corsica and Sardinia conquered. I was so angry my plan with Polish didn't work (in the year the latest brother died, they got new 16-year old king), so I attacked them conquering 4 regions (Poland, Saxony, Silesia and Bragdenburg) in one year.
As picture shows, I worked on my agents (especially inquisitors).
Nice work knight templar. How come you didn't have any cash in your treasury? You should have attacked the Middle East first because they're much more wealthier than central Europe.