How to know when the game is pissed at you.

**Raz** · 03-12-2008, 11:25

12. You are playing as the Spanish. It's one turn before the golden horde arrives and you march your entire army to the east to prepare for the defence and leave your only King in Castile for safe keeping. You press "End Turn" and a message pops up saying: "Bah, I think I'll do something different today"............ The next turn, Mesoamericans sail to Europe and launch a massive assault on the Spanish peninsula - Your king is annihilated and you lose the game.

Psst, see the irony? =D

**Ironsword** · 03-12-2008, 11:39

18. The computer kills off your King when your heir is only 14yrs old.

19. Rhodes is invaded and your King resides there, so you try to draft in troops from all over your empire to protect it. The problem is you can't squeeze them all on the tiny $%*&! landmass and lose. Horribly.

20. You've been playing for a while and there are only two powers left, you and the papacy. You begin to gear up for war when a message pops up; The papacy has claimed the lesser victory of 60 territories - You Lose chump.

**nara shikamaru** · 03-12-2008, 13:51

Originally Posted by Ironsword

18. The computer kills off your King when your heir is only 14yrs old.

19. Rhodes is invaded and your King resides there, so you try to draft in troops from all over your empire to protect it. The problem is you can't squeeze them all on the tiny $%*&! landmass and lose. Horribly.

20. You've been playing for a while and there are only two powers left, you and the papacy. You begin to gear up for war when a message pops up; The papacy has claimed the lesser victory of 60 territories - You Lose chump.

Speaking of number 18 Ironsword, I remember a campaign as the Danish were the French had a an empire stretching from northern Spain thru france, England, and into Germany, were the French Monarch had no heirs of age. Now I notice this only because I use the -ian thing to see how other factions are doing, and see he has an heir at 5 years of age. Later when I check again the heir is now 15, and I thought my ally to stay for another generation. Well I was wrong, end turn, the French king dies before his son came of age, and the whole French empire became rebels.

**Caerfanan** · 03-12-2008, 14:55

Originally Posted by Ironsword

19. Rhodes is invaded and your King resides there, so you try to draft in troops from all over your empire to protect it. The problem is you can't squeeze them all on the tiny $%*&! landmass and lose. Horribly.

I feel the pain!

On a more serious notre I "discovered" that pressing X or Z allows you to be shown only allies/only enemies, or agents/no agents. YOu can then pile more troops in Rhodes! :-)

**caravel** · 03-12-2008, 17:06

21. You were in the middle of fighting a continous series of epic battles against the mongols, the whole lot lasting around 2 hours when this little gem shows up:

Medieval_TW.exe has performed an illegal operation and will close.

If you were working on anything then congratulations you've lost the whole bloody lot!

**Heidrek** · 03-13-2008, 04:11

Can the AI actually claim a lesser victory for having 60%? I've always wondered about this.

22. Your uberstack of 13 level 3 ships with a 5* commander is completely destroyed by a storm in the altantic. Conicidentally, the 3 other nations ships in the same region are unharmed.

23. An earthquake in Brittany destroys your recently completed Fortress. You now have to strat from scratch with a Fort.

24. Every time you move a good general out of a province, the AI happens to move every available unit on the borders into the province. It's like it knows or something.

25. Your 8 influence king still seems to produce only 1 or 0 star heirs that are all Lazy and Often Drunk.

26. Your provinces suffer loyalist and peasant revolts in sucessive turns despite having over 120 loyalty and 0% chance of rebellion (this actually happened to me).

27. every time you are 1 turn away from completing a Fortress, Cathedral or Master Weaponsmith, that province gets invaded by an overwhelming force - of your allies.

28. Whenever you give a command boosting title to one of your generals, he magically aquires Pride or Often Drunk.

29. every time you try and reload the quicksave of a crucial battle you get a CTD error with no message, but a strange chuckle comes out the speaker. Your last Autosave was 5 years ago, just before your king dies and 3 factions reemerged on your borders.

30. All of your missile units manage to miss enemy troops but hit any friendly ones nearby. Your own artillery causes your general to break, despite being outside the blast radius and sparks a mass rout.

31. While chasing down fleeing archers, your Royal Knight general manages to die despite the rest of his unit remaining intact. You're troops Rout in response. When replaying the battle, your general seems to be killed first in any engagement and if you dont use him at all, he Routs as soon as you get the "The enemy are fleeing the field" message earning him Good Runner, Alcoholic and Coward.

**Kaidonni** · 03-13-2008, 11:29

32. No matter what, whoever you make governor of a particular province becomes inbred to the extreme. You fire each guy, but the next guy just ends up the same.

33. Your governor's are meant to get vices from sitting around for too long in any one province. So you decide to move them around each turn - and they magically get the vices you're trying to avoid. You start another game, leave them alone each turn, and they also magically get the vices.

**Caerfanan** · 03-13-2008, 13:53

Originally Posted by Heidrek

26. Your provinces suffer loyalist and peasant revolts in sucessive turns despite having over 120 loyalty and 0% chance of rebellion (this actually happened to me).

Not sure about this, but I think that loyalty varies during the council when you are regarding a province which you siege or something. I've notices the color coding about loyalty turn to red, than back to green when you assault a castle (and autocal the battle)

34. One stupid two provinces "empire" attack one of your boat and sinks it when your building your trade routes. Your King is isolated on an Island, and you face thus 4 reappearances at once. Plus a Jihad. Plus a Crusade.

**Kaidonni** · 03-13-2008, 15:57

Yeah...I've noticed it too. If you change to assaulting a castle, the loyalty in a province jumps up massively. It can make a big different. You could face revolts while waiting out the garrison, but be well into the green if deciding to assault.