Pics & History of your Empire

Hi guys I wanted to make this thread for everyone to show pics of their empire and a brief history of it. Just thought this would be something intresting for us to read. I'll start off with mine.

Faction: The Spanish
Starting at: Early Period
Year:1384
Type:GA
No cheats, except for the see entire map cheat, I just like to see the whole map.

History: I started off being a small friendly empire, once I bordered my empire at Aragon, and the neighboring province (Neverea i think) I started building up my army for the crusades. I sent 2 succesful crusades to Palestine and Tripoli. The settlements were pretty good there until the mid 1300s.

The Egyptians had humoungous armies and took over palestine and tripoli, but only after me winning the battles 5 times in a row, in the 6th battle Palestine finally fell.

I expanted into Europe when I lost my settlements in the east. I reached as far as Ile De France, and into Rome. But my forces weren't strong enough to stand against the allience between Germany the Byzantines and the Pepacy. So I pulled back to aragon, and now I'm there waiting for the year 1453 to hopefully win.

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...LIFT/spain.jpg

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...IFT/spain2.jpg

Hey man.... Can I ask you a question??? Have you installed a mod because I cannot recognize that shield(the one with the red cross, think it's a crusader type thing).... Hey, I'm gonna post my stuff soon...

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Hey man.... Can I ask you a question??? Have you installed a mod because I cannot recognize that shield(the one with the red cross, think it's a crusader type thing).... Hey, I'm gonna post my stuff soon...

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yea man it's the XL mod, the best mod ever :)

Well I finished my campaign, here is the territory

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/DEADLIFT/1452.jpg


the results:
I have won but only because the main and big empires fell into civil war many times each, which allowed me to expand my empire into central Europe.

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...T/spainend.jpg

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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Hey man.... Can I ask you a question??? Have you installed a mod because I cannot recognize that shield(the one with the red cross, think it's a crusader type thing).... Hey, I'm gonna post my stuff soon...

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so where is it bro? I'd really like to see other people's empires

I've been playing this game for quite a while now. I started off as the welsh and conquerred Britain in viking invasion, then started a new game as the English in the european map in the early medieval period.

So far I've conquerred, in this order, Navarre, Wales, France, Aragon, Castille, the rest of Spain, western Germany, kicked the almohads out of Iberia except for granada, central and northern germany, morroco and granada, crusaded through scandinavia and denmark conquerring each province just after my crusade leaves before finally joining my invasion army up with the crusade and moving through poland to attack khazar, driven out of khazar by the byzantines and settled for conquerring chernigov and some neighouring provinces, lost provence to a sneak attack by the italians, retaliated killing the italian king causing a civil war, took advantage of the civil war taking northern italy, corsica and sardinia, crusaded to egypt succesfully wiping out the almohads, invaded poland sending the ex crusaders in russia to invade lithuania and help deter the byzantines, crusaded to syria and closed off the middle east by securing syria and attacking tripoli fro mthe sea with my conventional army.

It's 1182 and I've reached this far on expert mode. I start a new save game everytime a king dies so I could post some screenies here of my progress. I haven't saved any images of major battles though..

Bit blotchy because of bmp to jpg conversion, but you can see my progress just fine.

http://images.plus613.com/14000/www_...m_timeline.JPG


I decided to go for 100%, will I make it before the mongols appear? I don't think so, not unless the byzantines go into a civil war and I have a number of stunning victories against the hoardes of novgorods and russians that still exist.

Sorry mate, it's not there.

http://img216.echo.cx/img216/4994/13052fr.jpg

Playing as the Sicilians. Shot taken in 1305 (I think). I'm currently in a war with the Spanish, the two armies facing each other down in Morroco and Cordoba could be interesting when they collide.

The mongols have just won a war with the poles, due to killing the polish king with no heirs, hence the rebel regions in the baltic areas.

Aside from that, it is really down to me and the Spanish, teh Byzantines aren't really a threat, I'll deal with them once I'm finished with the Spanish.

Incidentally, GA points are really hard to acheive with the Sicillians.

dgb, that's a very sweet empire you got there man!, the war between u and the spanish look very intresting, I'd like to see how your war turns out, it'd be cool to show the results of about 10 years in your empires feature

Yes, I had a Spanish Empire too. Mine stretched from (meaning conquered those territories and a little beyond that too) the British Isles, Scandinavia, Denmark, Holy Roman Empire, France, Genoa, Corsica, Egypt, more isles, northern Africa, and more. It was pretty sweet, it looked like an extended Western Roman Empire. It was during the high period where the only civ left in map were the byzantines and Egyptians. You'll catch up easily cuz Spanish are usually easy. However I was dumb enough to delete the campaign cuz I got bored of it. But how do you do that glorious achievement window and homland thingy?

plus, my comp is messed up so I can't even play mtw anymore. :furious3: :furious3: :furious3: I wish I could see the glories of my empire once again....
Build some navy that stretch all over western Europe. Spain will be flowing with money, and soon you'll be unlimited in the matter of money.

and spread inquisitors and bishops for all ur regions and states, so in the case other nation conquers ur territory, the 100%zeal level make sures that they rebel and gives u back the control. And try avoiding wars with muslim nations unless u have a real lucky advantagious circumstances. They NEVER quit attacking if u go to war with them unless u get out of Africa.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/dine3/L/sp.bmp
This is my re-creation of what it looked like.
awwww, the glory.... :charge: :charge: :charge:
I'm not showing off, since most of you conquered the whole map probably, but this is the biggest I have ever gotten. But I'm not sure about the steppes region cuz I scarcely went there to explore. (oh, and i remember now that I did conquer Italian peninsula).

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and spread inquisitors and bishops for all ur regions and states, so in the case other nation conquers ur territory, the 100%zeal level make sures that they rebel and gives u back the control. And try avoiding wars with muslim nations unless u have a real lucky advantagious circumstances. They NEVER quit attacking if u go to war with them unless u get out of Africa.

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Look at my GA screen. You see any islamic factions there?

Re. how do you get the screen up, are you playing in conquest or glorious acheivments mode?

ohhh, so it's about conquest or glorious achievement mode bfore u start the campaign! ty for informing me that. Unfortuanately, my stupid comp can't run mtw anymore...

for those of you who dont know how to take screenshots and make them small files (less than 100kb)
this is how
while playing the game, position your camera to where u want to take the screen shot, then press and hold ALT+PrtScrSysRq(upper right part of keyboard) then close the game (or minimize it) then open up PAINT on the start menu, go to EDIT, click PASTE and voloa u got the pic, when u save it, make sure you save it as a JPEG file, then go to photobucket.com and make an account load your pics there, and then just post them right here :)

I really wanna see how other people's empires are, then maybe we cna share strategies on how to get rich, and be with peace with everybody(cause i always get attacked) etc.

Pitt.

Also you may need to resize them down. If I posted mine as is it would be huge (plays the campaign map at 1600x1200).

I would suggest to press F2 which takes screenshots and places them in the TGAs directory. This way you dont have to alt+tab out of the game and the screenies will be stored. You can use irfanview to view, resize and convert the pix and you can use the above method to post them. Good luck!

how do you guys get pictures of your maps and GA's on here?

I upload the pix to a free webspace and link them.

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how do you guys get pictures of your maps and GA's on here?

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go here www.photobucket.com make an account real quick, then upload pics on there, then when u want to post them you'll see the icons above the text that you're writing, click on the icon that will say "insert image" after you keep your curser on it for 2 secs then copy the link from your image and paste in there :)

so dgb hows your war with the spanish going?

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Originally Posted by PittBull260

so dgb hows your war with the spanish going?

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It is on hold unti my war with a calculus assignment is over.

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...2/timeline.bmp

You can just make it out.

Forgive me if I sound nerdy, but I've been playing this for months. I haven't played it much since I last posted here though.

hmm...

Economic situation.

All Iberian provinces except Valencia and portugal are getting a lot of money for development. The spanish steel provinces are my balls, I train troops in France and England, send them to specialist provinces which build armourers, master weaponmakers and valour bonuses, then send them to spain to get their attack bonus. Currently my specialist provinces are upgrading to fortress and my training grounds are preparing for when I reach the high medieval period, in 1205. I am training feudal seargants and archers with a +1 valour bonus from master spear and bow makers, they also get a +3 armour bonus and just recently a +2 attack bonus. So my feudal seargants are the equivalent of men at arms -1 defense and +1 armour, I think.

I'm sufferring a lot from corruption due to my very high tax level in all subjugated provinces. Some of my high acumen generals have been corrupt and I've had to strip them of their titles send them off as auxillaries into my war zones. I used to only give titles to generals with an acumen of 4, but I've reduced that to 3 because you still get more money. I have a lot of money, but I intend to spend it all as money unspent is money wasted. My navy just about covers every coastal square there is, except around Ireland and Greece with about 1 ship on every square, so if one is destroyed by a storm I could face a lot of trouble. I don't waste time building economic buildings in provinces I use to build military technological buildings.


Political situation.

I'm at peace with the Sicilians, Papacy and Men of Novgorod. I'm at war with everyone else. The super powers are the Byzantines and myself and a distant 3rd and 4th the Poles and Hungarians with strong regional powers. The pope has threatenned to excommunicate me if I attack the Hungarians and the Hungarians are allied with the Byzantines. The Germans will be wiped out in 5 years at most.


Religious situation.

Catholicism is winning out due to my efforts. A combination of invasions spearheaded by crusades and supported by my navy and conventional forces has allowed me to conquer the Baltic, north Africa and the middle east. I upgrade to keep and build a church in provinces which are not catholic, if I have money to spare.


Social situation.

There are many small peasant revolts in landlocked portions of europe. A few have occurred in Anjou and Scotland, Anjou being a province I am developping to train chivalric knights in. Unrest is curiously low in the remains of the Egyptian and Almohad empires, I sometimes leave them empty, there were a few revolts there and an Almohad revival a few years ago, but they consisted entirely of archers, napalm throwers and peasants.


Military situation.

I train all of the 4 basic early medieval units to the most advanced degree my country can allow. Archers, Feudal Seargants, Men at Arms and Knights. I am also training Viking Huscarles in Scandinavia and Denmark and Catapults in Ile de France. When desperate I put some of my annual income into training auxillaries, especially spearmen, slav warriors and steppe cavalry.

The navy is paramount to my military, which explains why there is a gaping hole in central europe and why I've managed to conquer the middle east. I spy on enemy forces using diplomats and bishops and mix and match my newly trained elite troops to counter enemy forces, then send them in. Around 50% of my battles and around 80% of my attacks take place along the coast. My navy has recently destroyed the Byzantine navy in the Black sea and there is no longer a risk of the Byzantines forcing me to spread my troops across the entire coast of the black sea to prevent some large army splitting my territory up.

My Macro strategies consist of my blitzing into easily defended clinch points, such as Greece and Constantinople, or Cordoba or Navarre. This is not happenning in Eastern Europe. I have had to donate a large amount of my forces to defending the long borders in Europe as there is usually no point in raiding provinces I can't keep as I will eventually conquer the provinces and utilise the building there.

For battles I mix and match and I never fight a battle I cannot win and I aim to reduce casualties. I often deal with rebels by placing a unit of Feudal Seargants and Archers on top of a hill, mowing them down and winning the battle with 0 casualties. My larger battles are based around a line of Feudal Seargants with archers in front which move forward to pin enemy forces whilst my knights surround the melee and charge into the enemy's vital troops and generals. I gain the most casualties when assaulting castles I am considerring massing together auxillaries and laying siege to castles instead of assaulting them as I usually do. During an Assault I just knock down the stone walls with my catapults and run my infantry over in a dispersed formation, then close formation and watch the hell for a minute or 2 until there is one enemy lieutenant left who takes another 60 seconds to kill whilst the rest of my troops are cut down by archer fire. I take the keep first of course so less of them get mowed down.

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Sorry about my grammar.. I was just slapping down key points like I do before an essay and didn't bother with eloquence.

Well I decided to finally give the Byzantines a go in Glorius Acheivement mode. Things started off swimmingly well in Early with all the points for Homelands I could get but they tailed off in High when they all dissapear bar three. That's when I noticed the French and Polish were becoming close competitors in the points.The only way I could solve it was to push north past my northern border of Greece and Constantinople. . . At first I just went on a pillage and raid mission but I evenually ended up keeping the lands and have now pushed up as far as Greater Poland, Austria and Bohemia.

I accidently put the Poles into dissolution through killing off their heirs. . . but then I had the dreaded re-emergence which got swiftly put down and now they survive in Estonia and Livonia. I also annihillated the Pope in the hope that when he comes back he would reappear in the French provinces (after I had given them up), but nooooooooo they reappear in Naples, which I have held for the entire game! :dizzy2: I think his time die again will be soon. . .

But the main reason I posted was because I had the most insane battle last night (well this morning really ~D ), led by my heir no less who I have been trying to school up since he was born with a paltry 2 Dread and 0 Stars. ~:confused: I will let the screens speak for themselves. 3 Hours Long, and they still hadn't finished bringing on the troops by the end!!! ~:eek:

The pre-battle info

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...zZzZz10000.jpg

"Ummm. . . Constantinople, we have a problem. . . "


The final scenes

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...aterPoland.jpg

Mwahahahahaha!!! :charge:


Prince Manuel, heir to the throne

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...omeskoolin.jpg

I couldn't believe it. . . 10,000 men in a regular battle, not a re-emergence or the Horde!!! ~:eek: I nearly lost it in the first wave aswell I stayed back and held my ground with the basic infantry line and firepower support. Not a good idea, The Chivalric seargeants took all I had and I only managed to wangle it by getting the Hors Archers (of all the troops :rolleyes:) to do some rear charges. For the next waves I took the battle to them with my Cavalry reinforcements, as you can see alot of fertiliser for Polish lands. ^^

Oh yeah I am playing on the XL mod atm. Loving it too. ~:)

very nice BAD, that is an awesome battle you've won man, pretty crazy

keep us updated on your progress

Yes, very cool Bad. I love it when a general gets the "Skilled Last Stand" trait. Congratulations are in order! ~:cheers:

well here's the progress on my new campaign as the Sicilians on the XL mod


Faction:The Sicilians
Starting at:High period
Current Year:1281
Type:GA
NO cheats except for the one that lets you see the whole map

I started out just making farms and other money making upgrades. I build up a nice Navy, and took over the Serbs, I was allied with the Pepacy Venitians and pretty much all my neighboring countries.

When I conquered Bulgaria from the Bulgarians, the Hungarians and the Venitians double teamed me and took Serbia from me. They also attacked Bulgaria but I succesfully defended it.

So i left bulgaria becasue it is too far away from the center of the empire, and took back Serbia with a large force. There I stayed for a while until I had a large enough force to go into Greece and Constantinope, who the Venitians control. So I took over those 2 provinces to make good money off of it.

The pope excommunicates me so I take over Rome and The Papal states, get in peace with the Venitians and left the Pope to keep Genoa (so that he doenst re-appear with a huge army). And here I am now, pretty much waiting for the ALhomads to come with their huge low-tech armies, hopefully I will succesfully defend my empire from them :)

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...FT/sicily1.jpg


The points
https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...FT/sicily2.jpg

This thread is quite fun ~:cheers:

Loved that one about the battle in Greater Poland -- 10000 Frenchmen! ~:eek: -- very impressive prince character there, made me want to play a game solely for training up legendary generals.

Anyway here's my current game. I'm only playing vanilla at the moment (VI, v2.00). This is my special campaign with the Papacy. Obviously I'm not trying to expand my lands or play a typical conquest game but rather trying to convert the whole map to Catholicism (95% in all provinces is my goal) and generally promote the Catholic factions.

In the early age the Byzantines conquered all of Russia and Eastern Europe all the way to Germany and Austria. Meanwhile the Catholics bitterly fought each other, though the Spanish did defeat the Almohads and eventually were at the border with Egypt. I was certainly in for a challenging game since I had to somehow unite Catholic Europe under one flag and roll back the Patriarch in Constantinople and his imperial bunch of invincible 8-star generals.

The HRE dissolved early on while the French came out strong so to begin with I placed my bets on them and had all my agents undermining their enemies. The English were at war with them so my inquisitors burned all their heretic generals worth a star.... eventually I killed off the English royal family and let them go rebel. Unfortunately the French continued to disappoint me and ended up losing all their homelands to Spanish and Italian invaders. By now the Spanish are my champions as their empire is stable and healthy and they're finally managing some great crusades.

The Golden Horde helped a lot with my situation with the Byzantines, which I was of course hoping for. The Poles and Hungarians re-emerged and finally after a long persecution of the Byz royal family I was able to kill off their last heirless emperor and make them neutral. The stage is now set for a Catholic east.... after I assassinate the Khan of course ~D

Enough BS, here are the screenshots:

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2.../twcampmap.jpg

All the rebel territories in the east are basically the former Byzantine empire, after the tragic death of their last emperor ~;)

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2.../twmideast.jpg

Most of the Middle East is around 70-90% Catholic, despite still being ruled by the somewhat estranged Muslim factions.

hey oskar, that's a very intresting campaign u got there man, hopefully u'll make the world catholic :)
keep us updated

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This thread is quite fun ~:cheers:

Loved that one about the battle in Greater Poland -- 10000 Frenchmen! ~:eek: -- very impressive prince character there, made me want to play a game solely for training up legendary generals.

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Damn right, that was insane. The crazy thing was I thought that would break their back. So I continued with my advance towards the baltic. What greeted me at a siege in Pomerania a few years later? 14,000 Frenchmen!!! I had to retreat I only had 800 this time, it was beyond even Prince Manuel's abilities. ~:eek:

And my dang ruler went and had a new son who matured before Manuel could take the throne. Noooooooooooo_O after all that schoolin aswell. ¬_¬ Now I have to do it again with the new heir. . . Now where are those frenchmen. . . ~D

Ahahaha but nice game you got going there oskar, I may try that with the muslims. Someone has to stand up for them. . . if you leave the AI to it the get creamed everytime. :(

Oskar's campaign looks really impressive, but I've still conquerred more territory and I'm only in the 1190s

:knight:

It looks as though I might win, I have a new king in his early 20s and I'm all set to conquer the world in his lifetime. My training camps are churning out the best equipped and most up to date units in the game and are prepared to churn out the same amount of units once I get past 1205. The hungarians are sealed in, but I'm using a lot of troops to do this (can't attack cause of excommunication threat from pope) and the Germans will be wiped out next turn. The Byzantines are in a dire position now, they have a few good generals, but nothing I can't match and my conventional army outclasses their kataphraktoi now. A crusade is marching towards Constantinople and will pass through Hungary and my ex-crusaders + newly trained units and a troupe of elite knights trained up by killing egyptian peasants archers and spearmen is honed to blitz into eastern turkey. Once the byzantines are gone It will be easy pickings until I've finally conquerred the entire map, probably before the Mongols arrive. Though I think I'll leave ireland unconquerred or something, just so I can test my elite English armies against them in one glorious final battle to secure England's place as god's divine kingdom on earth (I'll have a puppet pope by now) for now till eternity!

:bow: :charge: :charge: :charge: :charge: :knight: :duel: :duel: :duel:

Ahem.

I have 40 years to do this. Once I figure out how to use photo bucket I'll get some proper screenies in.

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Oskar's campaign looks really impressive, but I've still conquerred more territory and I'm only in the 1190s

:knight:

It looks as though I might win, I have a new king in his early 20s and I'm all set to conquer the world in his lifetime. My training camps are churning out the best equipped and most up to date units in the game and are prepared to churn out the same amount of units once I get past 1205. The hungarians are sealed in, but I'm using a lot of troops to do this (can't attack cause of excommunication threat from pope) and the Germans will be wiped out next turn. The Byzantines are in a dire position now, they have a few good generals, but nothing I can't match and my conventional army outclasses their kataphraktoi now. A crusade is marching towards Constantinople and will pass through Hungary and my ex-crusaders + newly trained units and a troupe of elite knights trained up by killing egyptian peasants archers and spearmen is honed to blitz into eastern turkey. Once the byzantines are gone It will be easy pickings until I've finally conquerred the entire map, probably before the Mongols arrive. Though I think I'll leave ireland unconquerred or something, just so I can test my elite English armies against them in one glorious final battle to secure England's place as god's divine kingdom on earth (I'll have a puppet pope by now) for now till eternity!

:bow: :charge: :charge: :charge: :charge: :knight: :duel: :duel: :duel:

Ahem.

I have 40 years to do this. Once I figure out how to use photo bucket I'll get some proper screenies in.

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hey man if u duno how to use photobucket I can tell u, AIM me, my sn is PittBull260, or u can MSN me honor31@hotmail.com

http://img260.echo.cx/img260/4071/empire2py.jpg

Playing the BKB super mod

i started out with rhodes as the knights hosplitar and took greece while it was still under rebel control. eventually the turks took constantinople and destroyed the byzantines for me, which left me to invade the turks. after that i massed togher a huge crusade of mercanaries towards egypt. the army was undefeatable and the egyptions went into cival war from losing from it so many times. some how the italians got palastine from egypt which put a thorn in my empire, so since the pope asked for a crusade against them i figured why not, ill have everyones support. when i reach venice the italians are almost dead and the papacy took most of their lands, for some reason when i conqured venice the papacy attacked me and ive been at war with the pope for 50+ years. now i dont really care who i attack, ive got less than 30 years before the game ends and i want to conqure as much as possible.

@oskar
How do you play the papacy? Is it a mod, what mod is it and where can i dl it?

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It looks as though I might win, I have a new king in his early 20s and I'm all set to conquer the world in his lifetime. My training camps are churning out the best equipped and most up to date units in the game and are prepared to churn out the same amount of units once I get past 1205. The hungarians are sealed in, but I'm using a lot of troops to do this (can't attack cause of excommunication threat from pope) and the Germans will be wiped out next turn. The Byzantines are in a dire position now, they have a few good generals, but nothing I can't match and my conventional army outclasses their kataphraktoi now. A crusade is marching towards Constantinople and will pass through Hungary and my ex-crusaders + newly trained units and a troupe of elite knights trained up by killing egyptian peasants archers and spearmen is honed to blitz into eastern turkey. Once the byzantines are gone It will be easy pickings until I've finally conquerred the entire map, probably before the Mongols arrive. Though I think I'll leave ireland unconquerred or something, just so I can test my elite English armies against them in one glorious final battle to secure England's place as god's divine kingdom on earth (I'll have a puppet pope by now) for now till eternity!

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conquering with one king's lifetime? How much territoy did you already have before this king? The furthest conquest I had with one king was the whole of western Europe, still with my best troops and numbers, I wasn't able to defeat rivaling large factions.

@WingedVictory: minor factions can be made playable by editing the relevant campaign file (EARLY.txt, HIGH.txt, LATE.txt) stored in /campmap/startpos. In there you can find a list of factions with labels 'MAJOR' and 'MINOR'. Change the Papacy's (or the Swiss or Novgorod's etc) label to 'MAJOR', then they'll appear playable in the campaign startup.

Still playing my campaign and having surprisingly much fun - I'd sort of had enough of playing MTW with self-imposed limitations, but this time it's really working because I have some fairly clear goals (convert the map to Catholicism, promote 1-4 other Catholic factions to control the whole map).

After killing off an entire dynasty of Italian "heretics", I bribed a great 5-star Italian commander who was left behind as a rebel. To my surprise, he became my new Pope after the old one died....

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...nnocentiii.jpg

Papam habemus! If some people today are disappointed with Benedict XVI, how'd they feel about this guy!?! ~D His Piety was at 0 when he became Pope so I figured a couple of low-level Inquisitors could teach him some Bible Basics and bring him up to "Born Again". They went a bit too far however and declared him an atheist on the spot! Oops.... better not invite more Inquisitors to Rome then, things might warm up a bit.

So apparently the Papacy's best general becomes the new Pope upon succession... that's very nice to know, opens up lots of possibilites with choosing your own Pope. Which is why I've bribed myself two very nasty Byzantine royals to lead the church into the 14th century.... ~:cool:

Pope Innocent, being a military man, decided to take Constantinople by force to symbolize the defeat of the Eastern Church. The city will be rebuilt to an even greater splendour than before, making Rome and Constantinople the twin beacons of international Christianity, under one Papal authority.

Crusades are going well, with three successful Spanish crusades to the Holy Land and one German to Khazar (Lebensraum!). I'm now promoting the Germans as my "Champions of the East".

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...lebensraum.jpg

'Tis the start of a Great Eastern Empire.... meanwhile, Inquisitor gangs are building up zeal in the steppes (and other parts of the map).

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...istianrebs.jpg

As you can see the missionary work is starting to pay off - the non-Christian factions are barely able to hold onto their territories due to Christian opposition.

As for the Golden Horde, I decided to let the Khan live for a while since the Horde posed no threat to the Catholic world and would mostly serve to deplete rebel stacks and keep the Turks busy in Asia Minor. Historically, the Catholics were enthusiastic about the Mongol invasion since they hoped for an ally against their enemies in the Middle East... this was very much the case in my campaign, except I wanted them to bring down the unstoppable Byzantines.

wow oskar that's a very nice campaign u got there man, I might try that myself :)

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...landpwnz0r.jpg

This is my progress so far. I'm taking around 30 minutes to complete 1 year, so I haven't progressed much since last time I spoke here. It's not boring, it's like playing lost of little games on one big map, with the added bonus of being able to distribute resources. The knight with the bronze weapon enhancement and silver armour enhancement represents the peak of my technology, with an attack of 6, a defence of 7 and armour of 8 and that's without the valour bonus from my jedi generals (+3 or +2) and by 1205 I shuld have the facilities needed to produce chivalric knights with the same bonuses!! Along with Longbowmen and billmen with the same enchancements all of them mass produced (I have 2 provinces training a unit because it takes 2 turns to produce 120 longbowmen etc.., I then send them to other provinces to get their upgrades, so 120 longbowmen are upgraded each turn).

How many mb is the bkb super mod?

it's about 130mb i think

I was cleaning out my TGA folder when I came across this shot. I don't remember a thing about the particular campaign, but thought the kill/capture ratio of 17:1 was impressive- at least for my games it is.
https://photobucket.com/albums/y240/...nt=Turk001.jpg

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I was cleaning out my TGA folder when I came across this shot. I don't remember a thing about the particular campaign, but thought the kill/capture ratio of 17:1 was impressive- at least for my games it is.
https://photobucket.com/albums/y240/...nt=Turk001.jpg

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damn thats pretty impressive

Well I started a Catholic campaign aswell.

Faction:Teutonic Knights
Starting point:High Period
Current Year:1352
Goals:destroy all muslims and other forces who are against catholics.

History:
well I started off with 2 small provinces, I barely ahd any money, fortunently lithuania was controlled by the rebels, so I took over it, from there I started building farms etc. once I got the money I built an army to defend agaisnt the mongols who will arive soon.

The mongols came, the russians and Turks kept them busy for a pretty long time unitl they reached me. Once they reached me the first province they attacked was Lithuania, i had a good 2000-2500 men there to defend it along with my king a 6 star general. For the first few years that army by itself defended well against the enemy who outnumbers them, but they needed reinforcements, the tides then turned...

I had a large enough army to destroy the mongols, so I went on the offensive, expanded all the way into Muscovy and Volga-Bulgaria, and then at Khazar defeated the Mongols.

That's when I started making Crusades and Bishops and Inquistidors etc.

Whatever faction attacked a catholic country, I would send a crusade at them (notice the southern Muslim lands are all under my control :) )

My only danger now is the Danes, they've been excomunicated and their armies are huge, the borders between me and them are getting tighter and tighter, in 2 years his forces on the borders have doubled...suspicious..

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/DEADLIFT/tk1.jpg

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/DEADLIFT/tk2.jpg

It might be an idea to Garrison up prussia and focus your attention on the middle east, unless the ukrainiansm (or whoever those dark blue with red flags people are) get conquerred, the Danes shouldn't bother invading. I suggest taking Syria and driving west along north Africa with your Middle eastern armies, you appear to have a navy capable of dominating the mediterranean.

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damn thats pretty impressive

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Aye TwinMfg's is great but check out what you can do with a more advaced Turkish Army. Gold armoured Armenian Heavies, carried the day. Plus "That" Valour 7 unit of Turcoman Horse. ~:cool: 40:1 kill ratio. ~:cool:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...kishpwnage.jpg

Was only on hard though, not expert. . . ~:handball:

haha holy shit man that's crazy

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This reminds me of this game I played once where the papacy kept on reappearing, except I never got my kill ratio up to 1/40. Except in small battles against rebels, where I can get my kill ratio to 0/infinite, cause none of my soldiers die.

@ Bad:

Well, I'm suitably impressed. :jawdrop: Mine was still in Early, and I play on Hard.

well here's one of my good battles, not as good as BAD's but the ratio is 25-1 so I guess its good :)


WHO SAYS ALL CAVALRY ARMIES SUCK?

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...1killratio.jpg

Hahahaha! Now that's the kind of Bada$$ army I like to see. Nice to see someonelse using Gendarmes aswell. I love em. Give me two units of Gendarmes over one unit of Chivalric Knights anyday. Ahhhh I remember one of my earliar Spanish Campaigns, Gold weapons and Gold armoured Lancers. ~:) Man Lancers rock! :charge:

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Hahahaha! Now that's the kind of Bada$$ army I like to see. Nice to see someonelse using Gendarmes aswell. I love em. Give me two units of Gendarmes over one unit of Chivalric Knights anyday. Ahhhh I remember one of my earliar Spanish Campaigns, Gold weapons and Gold armoured Lancers. ~:) Man Lancers rock! :charge:

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hell yea Gendarmes own

England can't build lancers :embarassed:, though I'd have to wait 150 years to start building them anyway.

The pope died and I blitzed into Hungary and am currently holding 4 castles under siege, the king escaped to Serbia and I can't attack him or I get excommunicated though.. My crusade has reached Constantinople and I killed the Emperor in a bloody battle in western Turkey in which a melee consisting of 240 of my knights, 120 of my viking huscarles, 120 varangian guards and 80 über jedi kataphraktoi was reduced to 30 or so feudal knights vs the Byzantine king. The byzantines brought a few peasants along with them aswell, but they were wiped out in the first few seconds of the battle.

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...andpwnz0r2.jpg

1190^

impressive Patron, looks like u'll get 100% soon :)

After dropping two easy campaigns (Spanish and English) and a once promising normal campaign with the English that turned disastrous, I decided to to revisit the Spanish for my second normal attempt. Things are going decidedly better in this one. I attacked Navarre but lost it to rebels. I then eliminated the Aragonese, but rebel reinforcements (from Valencia) kept me from taking the province. I bribed the rebels and then used them to take Navarre back. Meanwhile, the Almohads waltzed into undefended Valencia. They also took Portugal, but they couldn't manage it and it rebelled many times. After some more buildup, it was time to take on the Almohads.

My first move was to take Valencia, which I did without issue. However, the Almohads strongly reinforced Cordoba and my offensive was stalled. I built some more, but I still didn't have the strength to take it from them. In a desperate move to keep my offensive going, I sent all my troops from Leon, Castile, and Valencia into Cordoba. The numbers were quite a bit in my favor (2400 to 1600 or so), but I didn't trust myself with such a large battle, so I autoresolved. I won! This broke the Almohads' back, and I pushed them back to Tunisia without a fight. They looked a bit more formidable at this point, so I stalled. Then France, much to my joy, sent a crusade to Tunisia. They took it through my provinces, but the Muslim provinces had low zeal, so they didn't take many troops and lost quite a few. They attacked until they were exhausted, but they could not crack the Almohad defense. However, they were weakened to the point that, with the crusade gone, they retreated when I sent my stack again. I captured Portugal a little later, putting me where I am now.

It's 1156, and my economy is doing pretty well. To make sure that I don't make the mistake I made last time (letting my navy get destroyed, making my entire country open to attack), I have 4 provinces pumping out a barque every three turns. I'm also preparing an army that will crusade to Aquitaine or Toulouse, as the French have recently been excommunicated and are at war with almost everyone in Western Europe.

Here's a screenshot. Notice the Crusade marker and growing army in Castile.

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y2.../Spain1156.jpg

Sweet, man. Who's going to command the crusade?

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Sweet, man. Who's going to command the crusade?

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I have a five-star royal (not anymore a prince) who will take charge.

Crush the apostates! :charge:

Dont. I always read that it is not advised to take you king on a crusade. I believe there are more reasons but here is one: when attacking with the king the distance of your king is always considered to be the max from all provinces, thus it is very likely that your empire will revolt and crumble into civil war. It is the same effect as if you took your king to Ireland and never had or burnt the port...

edit: I case I missunderstood you and you dont refer to your king (on second reading it seems likely) then disregard what I have written :wink: /edit

Your second instinct was right; it's not the King. It's a former prince that didn't accede to the throne. My king, as of this point, has only a son who is about eight (!), so I have to protect him well.

By the way, how can you tell which prince will become the King? Is there any way to affect the selection? It seems to usually go to a young one, I guess so he has time to have heirs, as it doesn't seem that princes have children. I could be wrong about that, though, as I have seen it where I had heirs after someone just took over the throne.

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I train troops in France and England, send them to specialist provinces which build armourers, master weaponmakers and valour bonuses, then send them to spain to get their attack bonus. Currently my specialist provinces are upgrading to fortress and my training grounds are preparing for when I reach the high medieval period, in 1205. I am training feudal seargants and archers with a +1 valour bonus from master spear and bow makers, they also get a +3 armour bonus and just recently a +2 attack bonus. So my feudal seargants are the equivalent of men at arms -1 defense and +1 armour, I think.

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I don't quite understand. What is the advantage to this strategy? Is it the ability to customize for desert warfare?

If you click on the crown icon it shows you a list of your heirs. Only Princes can become Kings, so no queen matildas :(. The heir at the top will become King once your king dies.

"I train troops in France and England, send them to specialist provinces which build armourers, master weaponmakers and valour bonuses, then send them to spain to get their attack bonus. Currently my specialist provinces are upgrading to fortress and my training grounds are preparing for when I reach the high medieval period, in 1205. I am training feudal seargants and archers with a +1 valour bonus from master spear and bow makers, they also get a +3 armour bonus and just recently a +2 attack bonus. So my feudal seargants are the equivalent of men at arms -1 defense and +1 armour, I think."

I have my unit size set to maximum, so cavalry units get 80 cavalrymen, archers and melee infantry get 120 men and spearmen get 200 men, per unit. However this means it takes 2 years to train one unit, so I made this organization so that I retrain a unit per turn in provinces which give armour, valour and attack bonuses.

So instead of trainined a unit in a stat boosting province in 2 turns I retrain a unit per turn in the province. I don't worry about fighting with armoured units in the desert, I just attack quick and once my knights are tired I use the ol' archers and spearmen tactic to kill the rest off through attrition.

Oh! I see now. Yes, that is a very efficient system.

One more question: can you choose which prince is at the top?

nd Aquitaine, and I may have to abandon Brittany to have any hope of doin
The crusade to Aquitaine met no resistance, and my combined defensive armies from Navarre and Aragon took Toulouse. After a few turns of reorganization, I attacked Brittany and Anjou in the same turn. They abandoned Brittany but decided to defend Anjou. They had about 1700 to my 950, but they were all peasants, archers, urban militia, with a few militia sergeants (and some hobilars and royal knights that entered the party late that I wasn't aware of). Still, I figured that my solid force of feudal troops could carry the day. Once I got to the battle screen I realized that I had greater problems than I realized. I had forgotten all the archers, and I only had one unit of men-at-arms. The attack went extremely poorly; my feudal sergeants held but could not win, and some rear charges by my knights did not have the effect that I had hoped. My general (who was also a 5 acumen governor) was killed, and I lost over 700 troops (to the enemy's 500 or so). I'm not sure now whether I can hold Toulouse and Aquitaine both, and I may have to abandon Brittany to save one of them. I'm building more troops and may try another crusade to regain the offensive. And this time I won't forget the archers. The reason I had no archers was that I had shuffled and added to make good defensive armies in both provinces; the rest of the units in Toulouse were just lumped together while I decided what to do with them. I forgot their poor balance, however, and sent them anyway. My good offensive army is in Brittany, but I expect that it shall have to be recalled.

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By the way, how can you tell which prince will become the King? Is there any way to affect the selection? It seems to usually go to a young one, I guess so he has time to have heirs, as it doesn't seem that princes have children. I could be wrong about that, though, as I have seen it where I had heirs after someone just took over the throne.

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Go to your family parchment. Whoever is listed at the top of the sheet (he should be in red lettering instead of black) is the guy next in line for the throne.

The Germans may be an exception to this rule, however. I believe the next emperor is "elected" by the nobility, and they may choose any man of royal blood.

This picture gives you the general impression of my power. As you may have noticed I crusaded into Russia about 50 years ago, but the situation here is similiar on all my other conquests. Here, the Novgorods noticed their impending doom as I began to eradicate the rebel states borderring them and decided to charge south into Smolensk with it's garrison of 20 men peculiarly at exactly the same turn as I blitzed into their pitiful realm. When the year was ended an army of 4000 loyalists appeared in a region of the planet not traditionally associated with England and the last scrap of land held by the Novgorods.

https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...rldLoyalty.jpg

Smolensk was sparsely populated during the 12th century, so it's my guess that the 4000 consists of peasants whom out of their own free will decided to take up arms in the event of a Novogorodian invasion. I'm not going to let them fight though, I'm going to lift the siege using my conventional forces and send them into western europe to be properly trained :). My only challenge now is to complete the 100% conquest before 1205, which will be quite difficult as I have to kill the pope before I invade Hungary and I have to time it right so I can claim the entire of europe to be mine before the pope reappears. The Italians have an army of 3000 and a lvl3 general in Naples, but my armies are so advanced and my anti-computer early medieval warfare skills so fine tuned that I cannot possibly lose.

Last time i got that far my king died and the biggest ever civil war occured and then at least 2 factions reappeard; spanish and egyptians if i remeber rightly. I was not a happy man. Getting 100% is difficult, well at least ive always found it hard.

Anyway good luck with 100 ~:)

Interestingly enough, the game crashed as I was going to save right after the battle that I lost badly. I reloaded the autosave, which didn't record my horrible loss. How fortunate!

This time, I sat tight and prepared troops for a go at Egypt. After sinking their navy, I declared a crusade to Palestine (I know that the trading provinces are richer, but it just felt more...appropriate). In the same turn my armies in Cyrenacia invaded Egypt. Both provinces fell after I defeated counterattacks. The Egyptians declared a Jihad against Egypt, but it has always retreated instead of attacking. Last turn, though, Palestine was invaded from all directions by a force of 4100 men. I only had 1800 (and many were a bit too heavily armoured), but I decided to fight it. There were some tense moments early, but I beat back their first wave and sent the Sultan fleeing. They sent wave after wave after my position, but most of their troops broke and ran before they even made contact. They would then regroup to approach again, and would again flee before hitting the lines. My troops saw little fighting after dispatching the first wave, and most of that was at my initiation. This lasted about an hour until (mercifully) the timer ran out. While the casualty count was many times in my favor, the fact that they didn't fight much meant that the victory was far from decisive. As you can see in the picture below, Palestine is still surrounded by hostiles.

On the French front, I sent a second crusade, this one to Flanders. After taking Flanders, I blitzed troops from Flanders to Normandy; from Aquitaine to Brittany; and from Toulouse and Aquitaine to Anjou. The French retreated from all attacks, so I've managed to take most of western France without a single battle.

Spain in 1188:

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y2.../Spain1188.jpg

Plans:

Probably another crusade against the Egyptians, probably to Antioch or perhaps somewhere in (very lightly defended) Asia, which will help spread the Egyptians out. Acheiving that, I will move my armies slowly up the eastern deserts, hoping to avoid battles until I get into a more favorable position. Also, I hope to avoid offensive battles as much as possible, as I'm completely inept at attacking.

What types of units do you have? What ypes of units do the Egyptians have? I think you should do a proper invasion, you should take Silesia as it is a choke point into north Africa and you appear to have naval superiority. Then you can combine your forces to invade Arabia and Syria. If you succeed the rewards will be great, you will be in a position to pound the Egyptians to death. You will have 2 provinces to defend whereas the Egyptians will have 4 or 5 provinces to defend aswell as the provinces you can attack by sea. Everytime you see a province poorly defended you can drive out or kill the army and if the province has no castle you can loot it, then leave and use the barren province as a forward for your future invasion (this might not be a good idea on coastal provinces). If you keep on doing this you will certainly make progress somewhere and will probably eradicate the Egyptians in 2 decades.

My units in Egypt are remnants of an early army, with Jinettes, archers, and (mostly unupgraded) feudal foot troops. My units in Palestine, and my possible reinforcements, are upgraded feudal foot troops, archers, and feudal knights. Despite their local superiority, I think another large infusion of troops will knock them back on their heels. I could send it away from the Levant and hope to split them up, or I could use it to reinforce my holdings and unite my forces, hopefully pushing them back into Asia. I think I also have the upper hand in France, as they just launched an attack at a province (Anjou?) that cost them 1600 troops. That was a big hit to their strength, and almost all of their melee troops are peasant militia anyway.

Counter attack vs the French immediately and drive them into 1 province and let them rot, or if you think you can prevent them from reappearing after you eradicate them, do so.

Use spearmen to lock the Egyptians into position then attack the rear of their units methodically with your knights, engage quickly and you should be able to get your knights up an elevations and do this effectively. Watch out of their armoured spearmen, it might be worth bringing along 2 units of feudal men at arms along with whateer masses of seargants and knights or other cavalry you can muster.

Also

VICTORYYYYY VICTORRYYYYYYY!!!!! :charge:

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https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y2...eaceatlast.jpg

I've passed on into the High era, and my troop-producing provinces are now producing arbalesters, CMAA's, chivalric sergeants, and chivalric knights. I've advanced up the eastern coast of the Med some, and I've moved further into France. I attacked Sicily so that I could get my Papal warning and then hit France. I'm also attacking the English. The Egyptians and French have both suffered from rebellions, and the Turks reappeared in Armenia with 2 stacks and then proceeded to bribe the Egyptians in Georgia. With the Horde coming in 16 years, I think I'll let the Turks live as a buffer between my lands and those of the Horde. Meanwhile, I'll try to take the rest of Asia and more further into Western Europe.

Spain in 1214:

https://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y2.../Spain1214.jpg

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damn thats pretty impressive

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hey!here are my best ones:

1-Bridge Battle..Expert..Turkish..Early..(it's my Favourite ~:cheers: )(damn futuwwas are really cool ~:cool: )

https://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b...onresult_1.jpg

2-I don't remember,possibly a land battle..Medmod-Hard..Italians..Early...
https://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b...onresult_2.jpg

Wow! You killed 1045 without a single casualty! I always seem to get at least 1 casualty.

yep!it was very funny battle..but i have to say that these futuwwas are damn cool..

I started a campaign today as the Bosnians, and here's the info

Faction:Bosnians
Year:1131
Plans:Take over the Pepacy and leave them Sicily to starve on :)

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...IFT/Bosnia.jpg

Are you sure its not the Croatians? ~D

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Are you sure its not the Croatians? ~D

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:p I changed it cause I'm Bosnian, mwahahah :charge: :charge: :charge:

Fair enough mate. Its nice to see some pics of the mod. Hope your enjoying it ~:cheers:

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Fair enough mate. Its nice to see some pics of the mod. Hope your enjoying it ~:cheers:

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oh I'm enjoying it :)
oh, can u tell me how to change a faction's religion?
if its too long/complicated then u dont have to tell me :)

i just wanted to show this sweet swiss campaign from the super duper awesome BKB super mod :)

https://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...LIFT/swiss.jpg

The Italians: I started a campaign with these, it went pretty well. I expanded north, into HRE, until they were completely eradicated. I then proceeded to blitz all of the French provinces, beating them within 3 years. The English quickly went the same way. Then i proceeded to invade Denmark, only to get exocommunicated. Started to move east and south-east into Poland, Russia and the Balkans. Eliminated Poland within 5 turns, and destroyed Hungary within 10. Was doing quite well with all the rebels out in Russia when suddenly the entire empire fell into bits within one turn, due to the fact that there was civil war and the re-emergance of HRE and the French, all in one go. I ended up defeated with about 20 turns, because i picked the crap side by accident. It said they had the most men, but they were all rubbish....oh well...better luck next time, ey?