Stainless steel?

**Monk** · 05-24-2008, 17:28

First make sure you have Kingdoms, doesn't really matter what patch you use in my experience.

Then go here http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=159996

Linked the main 6.1 thread as it also has install instructions and a full overview of what you're getting.

**FactionHeir** · 05-24-2008, 17:39

Threads merged.

**seireikhaan** · 05-26-2008, 05:47

Umm, a question...

I'm getting a new computer in a week or so, and it definitely is capable of running M2. But what I'm curious about is this: is there still a SS which enables me to get to the New World, that still has most of the benefits of SS? Its sorta something I'd like to be able to do, I guess, at least a few times while not having to play M2 unmodded.

**Ferret** · 05-26-2008, 11:09

Do you have Kingdoms? If so I think 5.1 still does and if not 4.1 almost definately does.

Links:4.1 5.1

**seireikhaan** · 05-26-2008, 22:59

Originally Posted by Elite Ferret

Do you have Kingdoms? If so I think 5.1 still does and if not 4.1 almost definately does.

Links:4.1 5.1

Actually, I have neither game at the moment, as I am waiting for the computer first. Is Kingdoms required for Stainless Steel? I'm rather hesitant about putting SecuRom onto my brand new comptuer.

**Ferret** · 05-27-2008, 11:02

SS was made without Kingdoms up to 4.1, so that still works with normal M2 but with Kingdoms you can go all the way up to the latest 6.1, which, though it doesn't have America, goes very far East and has loads of factions and a lovely campiagn map.

**Andrei** · 05-27-2008, 12:32

Just my

: stainless steel will make the game worth playing...gone will be the days when the AI dind't have a clue where it was...it acctually takes me a little planing to beat the AI armies...and all in all in 6.1 the AI can make armies so dynamic that makes your Uber-Stack obsolete...

Stainless steel will make the game so much more that you would expect...it really is worth playing...I recommend it with all my heart for those who want to have a fun experience with the total war game...

PS: At one point I lost in front of the AI that i wanted to throw my computer out the window, but calmed down, reloaded and beat the crap out of the AI :2reloaded:

**El Jojo** · 05-27-2008, 19:44

Originally Posted by makaikhaan

Actually, I have neither game at the moment, as I am waiting for the computer first. Is Kingdoms required for Stainless Steel? I'm rather hesitant about putting SecuRom onto my brand new comptuer.

4.1 is the latest version which doesn't require kingdoms. I am using it and it works perfectly.

**Old Geezer** · 05-28-2008, 18:17

The only serious drawback with SS that I have found yet after playing almost 40 turns is that auto-resolving, esp. assaults on settlements, is almost invariably a disaster of the most monumental proportions. I had the same experience in Kingdoms when playing as the Spanish. Field battles as the Spanish against the Moors are ridiculously easy but the assaults are not. It sure is slow moving armies, even with increased movement. I wonder if my generals all die of old age before being able to get to the Middle East if they go crusading or will the armies all starve to death.