Hotseat General Recruitment Thread

[aazard]

Hello aazard and welcome to the Throne Room!

We are set on having a never ending series of gams in the Britannia, Teutonics and Crusades expansions from M2TW:Kingdoms. Britannia should end in 10 or so turns if nothing too weird happens, the Teutnoics game just started and is a long way off and the Crusades game still has an epic clash to resolve between factions with about 25 provinces each.

We really have several openings in Stainless Steel 6.4 games and if you've never played the mod, you should definitely give it a try, trust me on this one. I'm a gamer who for long years abjured anything that wasn't made by the original developer team and I hated mods and fan missions, until I understood that the developers can never put in as much time on a project as the fans can. SS has a longer (and still ongoing) development cycle than M2TW and it fixes so many annoying things from vanilla (low movement rate, inaccurate map, stupid AI etc.) and adds so many more (extensive traits system, historical accuracy, lots more factions, great and diverse unit rosters etc.) that it is a sacrilege for you not to give it a try.

Start a SP campaign in SS and if you are still unsure I could help you out with pointers or even est up a small "tutorial" hotseat deathmatch between me and yourself where I'd give you pointers and reviews on each turn as we play it.

Then, there is always the hotseat guide whcih I recommend you giving the once-over.

Hello and thank you for the FAST welcome!

i have not tried SS but i will, please link or email me the most up to date version's website. Is there any chance on a "vanellia" hot seat? i am willing to try SS via hotseat but i was hoping to meet some other non-mod players.

SO who is up for this "SS" hot seat? i can easily complete turns within 1 hour of recieving them via email looking for N/N to H/H skill levels. also infradata.it @ gmail is my gaming account for email contact.

[Nightbringer]

Hello and thank you for the FAST welcome!

i have not tried SS but i will, please link or email me the most up to date version's website. Is there any chance on a "vanellia" hot seat? i am willing to try SS via hotseat but i was hoping to meet some other non-mod players.

SO who is up for this "SS" hot seat? i can easily complete turns within 1 hour of recieving them via email looking for N/N to H/H skill levels. also infradata.it @ gmail is my gaming account for email contact.

Welcome!

Well, we haven't much going on with vanilla right now, but feel free to try to recruit some people for it. As to SS, I know we have openings in Wrath of the Khan (Moors) and Clash of the Gods (Kwarezmian Empire).

and here is the ss forum.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=314

[aazard]

Hi all,

REQUEST FOR RECRUITMENT **vanilla game** please post or reply via email to me (infradata.it @ gmail is my gaming account for email contact)
hoping for 5 or more human players for H/H grand cam.

[Myth]

Why do you insist on vanilla? BTW go to the main M2TW forum and suggest for a vanilla game there. If you want I can play a short deathmatch vs. you to teach you the ropes, should a larger game be unavailable.

[aazard]

Why do you insist on vanilla? BTW go to the main M2TW forum and suggest for a vanilla game there. If you want I can play a short deathmatch vs. you to teach you the ropes, should a larger game be unavailable.

Hi Myth,

I ask for vanilla as i have not tried SS yet and wish to get used to hotseat before trying a mod. let me know what you think.

[aazard]

Also am i posting for a hotseat in the wrong area? i thought that "Hotseat General Recruitment Thread" would be the area to find a "NON"-mod game

[Nightbringer]

I think this is the right area, but advertising their as well could help draw vanilla players in.

[phonicsmonkey]

Also am i posting for a hotseat in the wrong area? i thought that "Hotseat General Recruitment Thread" would be the area to find a "NON"-mod game

Hi buddy - welcome to the Org and to the Throne Room!

You are indeed posting in the right area and thanks for stopping by and expressing your interest in a game.

What we have found is that the grand campaign in vanilla M2TW is not the best setup for hotseat games, largely because of the slow movement rate and large number of rebel territories which makes it long-winded to wage war on each other.

Recently we have tended to play hotseats in mods like Stainless Steel (where the movement rate is greater) and also to use the hotseat function to move the game along automatically to a later date so that the starting position is more developed with more units available.

You'll see that the two grand campaign hotseats we currently have running (Wrath of the Khan 2 and March of Time) both have used this approach.

Also, most players are in multiple games at once and these games tend to take a long time to run their course - hence starting new games is relatively infrequent unless we get a big influx of new players at the same time.

This is why others have encouraged you to join one of our existing games in the meantime while you wait for a new game to be started.

It'd be great if you would consider doing this - there are some great games going which are in their early stages (i think both of those I mentioned are only in the single digits in terms of the number of turns played) and some vacant factions which are in good positions.

Of course if you do get enough interest in a new game it would be great if you would consider hosting it here.

Otherwise I will certainly let you know when a new game starts - the most likely is for a new game in the Kingdoms campaigns which you can see we are running one each of (except Americas).

Anyway, great to see you here and I hope you find a space in a game that interests you!