MTW2 Wishlist

[Quickening]

I wish the difficulty was the same, in Rome Total War even on easy i struggled, on medium on MTW2 i can just about kill everybody, even when defending with a small army. Also, as you said, different units depending on the place you bought them, i often liked buying greek troops, as i was always the Brutii.

Reading these forums makes me feel like the peasant I am. So many people around here say the game is too easy... not to me it isn't

You know what's missing from Med 2? Soul. I know it's almost a worthless statement to make since you can't really quantify such a quality but dammit... it's true. Rome felt like it has it's own spirit. Med 2 somehow feels totally soulless as much as I love it.

[PBI]

After playing Broken Crescent for a while I have decided on one thing that I miss from previous games: Colour.

In M2TW I often feel I am simply grinding two groups of very well animated, but fundamentally ugly groups of greyish-brown peasants against each other in a muddy field. Realistic? Probably. Engaging? Not really. Give me absurdly impractical, beautifully decorated Rajput elephants over efficient, ugly peasant spearmen any day.

I am looking forward to Empire with its ridiculous ceremonial uniforms.

[Dead Guy]

I agree to some extent, but I don't think it really brings the game down. From your statement I take it you don't either. I always felt there was a lot more medieval mood to medieval 1 than 2. Especially the music, the sounds, the fact that every unit had a more or less noble leader, and the interface decorations. Actually I even like the old strategic map better but that's another point I guess, and one which not that many will agree upon perhaps.

In line with the original poster, I liked the double bridge battles as well as the more aggressive AI. The region-specific units are sorely missed!

[PBI]

It certainly doesn't break the game. Indeed most of the interesting action for me goes on in the early campaign, when the armies are nothing but hordes of drab spearmen. It just makes me a little sad to think that my expensive computer is working so very hard animating all those little soldiers, only for it to wasted on ugly units for most of the game. I kind of feel that if I'm going to win, I might as well look good doing it. The chivalric knights and the musketeers know what I'm talking about.

I definitely agree about the AI challenge in MTW. In almost every campaign, I found that one of the AI factions would match my expansion and turn into a rival superpower, setting the game up for a huge late-game showdown. RTW simulated this somewhat with the Roman civil war, but M2TW doesn't really have anything like this except the Mongols and Timurids.

All that said, the fact remains that these are things I miss, implying that I have moved on to M2TW. I find it is one of those games that, no matter how much I enjoy griping about the little things that annoy me, I can't seem to stop playing.

[ataribaby]

After playing Broken Crescent for a while I have decided on one thing that I miss from previous games: Colour....

Give me absurdly impractical, beautifully decorated Rajput elephants over efficient, ugly peasant spearmen any day...

The chivalric knights and the musketeers know what I'm talking about.

What? With every soldier in the unit with identical appearance to the guy next to him? And factions like shocking fuscia Parthia and colour-clash cyan/red Pontus? As for SPQR: I spent a day modding those awful mauve uniforms before I could even face playing as them. Like OMG girlfriend! Those RTW duds were like so '86!

One thing I miss is the fire-and-forget berserker units from RTW; especially the Hounds of Culann. I used to have fits of laughter watching armies of angry little purple men stomping around, belting elite enemy troops clean into the air with their two handed clubs.

They used to swarm after the nearest unit and not move on to another till they'd pummelled every last man into the ground. And once you'd pressed the 'Go Beserk' button you had absolutely no control of them. Hilarious.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Agree with everything on your list Eikon. Perhaps also add:

• No passive battlefield AI (I just can't take waiting down the timers every turn against the Timurids)
• No passive campaign AI (please Mongols stop sitting around Yerevan*)
• No AI stacks of 90% siege weapons
• A less crippling reputation system on diplomacy
• Make the AI keep its promise to be my vassall once in a while
• "Get off my land" diplomacy setting
• Pikes and 2-handers that are not bugged off the battlefield (especially pikes)

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

* Sometimes they take Antioch. Only in one of my six campaigns so far have they established themselves, when they took everything east of Constantinople and south of Tblisi. Didn't realise how novel it was at the time, might have appreciated it more.

[Ramses II CP]

1. Better AI
2. Better Diplomatic AI
3. Better Strategic AI
4. Better Tactical AI

Everything else I can live with, but an essentially solo game with such poor AI is quite a disappointment.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

It really depends on what you want from the game, a Poor Bloody Infantry, why not just be Turks or Byzantine, arent they colourful? Sorry but i havent expanded that far yet. I just started a new campaign as England, an i have to say the enemy go down easily, in RTW you could conquer the first few cities then get stuck in a failing war with the Greeks (or is it just me?)