Stainless steel?

[Monk]

yeah for almost everything as far as I have seen. I don't think there are any 1 turn builds anymore.

That's correct, roads and bottom tier churches are now 2 turn builds. The default campaign turn length for the Early era (SS has a Late era as well) is 1.5 year turns but I did a quick edit and made it 1 year turns to slow it down even more. I'm quite happy with this mod and recommend it if nothing else to try out and see if you like it.

The only thing to watch out for is SS has menu crashes that plague the faction select screen if you jump around clicking the symbols; if you go right to the faction you're wanting to play however the crashes won't happen.

[spud_u_like]

It's already been mentioned but perhaps not stated enough - the map in 6.1 is now HUGE. It's as big as the programming can actually handle and it really does feel like you've built an empire.

There's also a recruitment mod with 6.1 which affects (read as slows down) your ability to recruit high level units. In effect you have to take time building up an army of any quality and then use it wisely once you've got it. Combined with the supply mod, blitzing becomes far more difficult, and you have to plan your early expansion carefully.

I can't recommend it enough though. I'd stopped playing m2 and kingdoms until I found stainless steel. The only downside is the size of thing!


Just to clarify - when I say size at the end there I mean the size in MB of the download, not the map size.


[Merged your two posts rogether for ya. -- Martok ]

[G^2]

SS sounds incredible, can't wait to download it. I just have to find time to move my CPU to download it because I still have dial-up at my house (since its such a large mod). Thanks again to all for their feed back will post my first impressions.

[pevergreen]

Played SS 6.1 for a few hours.

It is a lot more fun than Vanilla, a lot harder. A nice selection of mini mods.

Everything takes so long to build and train though. And the end turn is slooow.

[Old Geezer]

I finally got SS 6.1 downloaded last night. Do you think I'll have time to finish one long campaign, early era before I retire at the end of August? (Who will be the first to explain in 10 pages or less how I can easily win by blitzing in 25 turns without cheating or exploiting or even going to the restroom once?)

[Ferret]

In SS 6.1 I can confidently say that blitzing in 25 turns is impossible, unless you cheat.

[PBI]

Am I right in thinking that in 6.1 they've got rid of the New World? Is that why the map is so huge now?

Makes sense I suppose, to use all that space taken up by empty sea to expand the map of Europe instead. After all, the Aztecs are quite fun the first few times, but I rarely keep playing long enough to get there.