Do you have any addictions???

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

In the game i am addicted to killing people with my assassins, i even used my assassins to kill even allied diplomats, princesses, priests and especially family members.

[YellowMelon]

Conquering cities, destroying every upgrade in the city, making loads of cash, then abandoning it to rebels. Not only does the computer have to destroy the rebels, but their city is now crap ;)

[General_Someone]

Spamming useless crap armies of peasants or militia and overwhelming them with sheer numbers . It does cost a lot of upkeep though

[Yoyoma1910]

This sounds like a bad version of AA.







And uh... I like to steal generals with my princesses.


Alot.




But it's not an addiction. I only do it at parties.




I mean, common everybody does it sometimes, right?

[Ramses II CP]

Horse archers and mounted crossbowmen. Heck, archers and crossbowmen in general, but especially mounted. There's just something about watching a hail of bolts and arrows smash into an advancing wave of enemy soldiers that pleases me much more than the actual melee.

And when they can't even strike back, they just have to keep marching under fire until they meet my infantry, which is when the HA charges against their rear and they break... ahhh, that's the best.

[Vladimir]

You mean power, or control...I agree

[Eikon the Magistrate]

Conquering cities, destroying every upgrade in the city, making loads of cash, then abandoning it to rebels. Not only does the computer have to destroy the rebels, but their city is not crap ;)

maybe its a canuck thing... but this is prolly my favorite part of MTW as well.
Its sick and terrible...and if you think about the pixels you are hurting... its nearly overwhelming. ....tabernac.. soo much fun tho..


BTW Insane..just a word of caution about killing ur "friends" off.. if your assasins are discovered enough and fail their missions it will degrade your diplomatic relations to the point of war. So aim true!

[Rhyfelwyr]

I always build at least about five or six full stacks for when both the Mongols and the Timurids arrive.

And I love making enemy cities Rebel. Rebels seem cool by the mid-game, its like they're a novelty. Right now I've triggered a French war of independance in my Turkish campaign. So far with the aid of my spies and sabotaging assassins the rebels have liberated both Paris and Rheims from the English (a superpower in this campaign), and Bruges has the peasants revolt sign and is at 50% loyalty.

[Vladimir]

It's so difficult to do that on VH if you're the same religion.

[Rhyfelwyr]

My Imams helped a little, but not much. Rheims was at about 10% Islam, 90% Catholic when it rebelled. I've noticed in my own settlements heresy seems to create more unrest than other religions, perhaps having double the effect on public order.

I've got so many spies in Bruges there's a 164% chance they'll open the gates if I attack (and maybe I will now I just took Antwerp).

[The Wandering Scholar]

My Imams helped a little, but not much. Rheims was at about 10% Islam, 90% Catholic when it rebelled. I've noticed in my own settlements heresy seems to create more unrest than other religions, perhaps having double the effect on public order.

I've got so many spies in Bruges there's a 164% chance they'll open the gates if I attack (and maybe I will now I just took Antwerp).

What if you failed:

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Northern Italy was so full of diplomats i had to get rid of them, and the princesses, and the family members, and the priests, and the heretics, and everybody in general. I keep getting paid by france and sicily to assassinate their kings, for france, i had two of those missions in a row. It is really quite the game, assassinating, i had one with full eyes (???) and a load of writing (?!?) but he died recently of reaching 60 years old, poor old man, but he had assassinated atleast 150 people in his time, well him and my other assassins.

Also i find your rebel tactic fun, i let rebels take florence as it was sieged every 2 seconds, and the garrison out-does any force my army can muster. On my milan campaign the same thing happened as soon as i took Antioch (i got it give to me from egypt along with 5000 gold) but i couldnt exterminate them all so they rebelled and i was forced to to Allepo instead.

In combat my gut instinct is to use spearmen rather than heavy infantry, so i often get crushed, but nothing beats heavy cavalry My newest hobby is to get a really, monsterous family, i have 1 character, called something de vela, i have to keep him in a fort as the public order goes down to far if he is in a town. i almost had a revolt in Venice because i kept him there

[Rhyfelwyr]

If you find you have a province you can't control, just sell it off. In a deal with the Danes in my Turkish campaign, they happily gave me Stockholm for an alliance and trade rights. Of course I coudn't exterminate the population, and my closest settlement at the time was somewhere in the Balkans, so the population was in an uproar. Meanwhile, the Byzantines were reduced to holding Antioch and Nicosia. So with a little money exchanged, I got Antioch from them in return for Stockholm! Using the toggle_fow command, I watched it rebel after a couple of turns. The merc xbows the Byzantines were given in the settlement marched all the way down past Antioch, and then got stuck because their last province was Nicosia, on the Isle of Cyprus province.

Did a similar thing giving Naples to the Egyptians after I bought it off the Pope.

[cassu]

my would be mass enemy routs, happened more in rome but its just something to watch a 500 men army rout and chase them all down with 1 horse unit that leaves a beautiful trail of bodies to the end of the map

[Forlorn Hope]

Massed artillery fire!
t may be crap in this game but still.....
Boom...camera shakes...drools

[Rhyfelwyr]

Well this isn't mine, but since my little brother hijacked my computer and I told him about the Elephant Rocketeer cheat he has spammed several full stacks of these and blitzed half of Europe.

[WhiskeyGhost]

hello, i'm Wisky, and my addictions are Timbuktu, Artillery, and wiping out entire nations if they backstab an alliance with me with so little as a 1 turn port blockade.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

I am currently turtling with England, i havent even conquered the scots yet, and my only expansion is caernervon, york and rennes, and i have built up a mighty trade empire, with just about every nation in the world, and by god is it sweet, no rebellions, enough generals for several crusades and best of all, a holy roman empire giving me cities as long as i dont attack and disrupt their trade, being rich, they prophit less of me than i do them, and well, i have scots french and holy roamn empire at my mercy, i have the most modern armies there, and i could take france out of the game within a heartbeat
Turtling is my new addiction!

[PBI]

My addiction would have to be unnecessary modding.

I don't seem to be able to just play through a single session these days without exiting to tinker with something or other. Most of my old save games no longer work because I've modded so much since I last played them. My current version features cannons which fire such a superabundance of grapeshot that they will wipe out a unit of elephants in one volley, from the far side of the map.

I think next time I will be adding elephant rockets, available to all factions, from the start of the campaign, from a wooden castle.

Help! Please, someone stop me!

[Forlorn Hope]

Haha

[Ethelred Unread]

Addicted to General Cam and no radar in battles.

Except in mountains cos it's too hard to see. But I cut myself after.

[The Wandering Scholar]

I'm addicted to winning :P

[fhdjkhfghgkjhf]

When playing islamic faction, trying to turn Rome 100% islamic with imams.

[Rhyfelwyr]

My addiction would have to be unnecessary modding.

I don't seem to be able to just play through a single session these days without exiting to tinker with something or other. Most of my old save games no longer work because I've modded so much since I last played them. My current version features cannons which fire such a superabundance of grapeshot that they will wipe out a unit of elephants in one volley, from the far side of the map.

I think next time I will be adding elephant rockets, available to all factions, from the start of the campaign, from a wooden castle.

Help! Please, someone stop me!

At least it's not just me then. Check my sig.... that was after having played a whole two campaigns.

When playing islamic faction, trying to turn Rome 100% islamic with imams.

Currently doing that as the Turks.

You will not impose you're new 7 sins for the modern world on me!

[Andrei]

When playing islamic faction, trying to turn Rome 100% islamic with imams.

By the book brother did that with Moors, turks and egypt.

But my true addictions in this game are:
1) Crusades and Jihads
2) Getting as many prisoners possible and executing them just for the fun of the sounds
3) Crushing those pesky, small and aggressive countries e.g Milan; Denmark etc.
4) Bribing...really this is a dependency for me in late game...here is something weird...Venetians had only Zagreb left; they emptied the town of all faction members and left a unit or two of peasants...went there with a diplomat(keep in mind it was there capital) and bribed it for 400k; had the money so i accepted

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I'm addicted to winning :P

Same here ...

[Veho Nex]

Reading yoyoma1910's posts, and cocaine, and heroine, and... wait a minute... your talking about m2tw?

ummmm.... using strategies from ww1 and ww2 and watching them fail miserably because the game isnt that far into the future... OHH and doing firing lines, man those are beautiful.

[Old Geezer]

I confess, I am addicted to spamming high level priests until I completely control the college of cardinals. Sometimes I even "cheat" by liquidating other factions priests to speed the process up.

[TinCow]

I'm addicted to fielding "perfect" armies. I like a balanced army with the highest level units possible, upgraded with the best weapons and armor possible, and led by the best generals possible. I often waste a lot of time suffling units around the map to achieve this. Then, after the army has taken some casualties, I have to do more shuffling to bring it back up to its earlier pristine state of perfection. This can be seen in this post from an old RTW BI PBM, where I created several border armies. Legio II Italica, Legio VI Claudia Pia Fidelis, and Legio V Claudia Pia Fidelis can be seen and they're all of a relatively standard composition, with the best units available upgraded with the best weapons and armor I could find. I remember being slightly annoyed that Legio I Italica was never perfect because it saw constant action.

[Korlon]

I would rather call it an obsession. I'm obsessed with keeping my missile units at full strength, meaning none of them gets killed during a fight. I'm fine with my infantry getting killed, and possibly some of my cavalry, but not my archers. They MUST keep full strength so that I may unload a full unit's load of arrows in the battle and thus save more of my men.