BC mod Hotseat Duels.

[Merlox]

I'm pretty new to the hotseat environment, Doing lots of local hotseats with friends, most of them for duels, but not as fun, getting to see there base, the random punch when you kill an army of thiers, yeah. I have started a few online hotseats as it is. My first hotseat duel against Askthepizzaguy. Some how he got me to play against him after he told me that he would do a game where he is the weakest nation of all time vs one of the strongest nations. But yes, I am now currently wanting to train myself on some other people, the veteran’s of hotseats in a duel, 1vs1, This will be alright practice, Not against the ultimate of blitzkrieg... ATPG. but, yeah!, good training on an enemy with less blitzing skill.

I'll accept duels from ANY person, just as long as we can sit down, and get alot of turns in before one decides to go afk. I do have a windows live messenger, Merlox@live.com . It work's pretty well from files there, and ofcourse, and yeah. We'll work something out for time, But please.. I like duels for fast pace,

Name your faction and version.

Medieval 2 Total War; Broken Crescent 1.5 with quickfixes
(If I could get Road to Jerusalem to work, I’d love to play that as well.)

I'll agree to rules that ban exploits, and I will reveal all my movements and publish my save files. I'll agree to host and I'll disable the console. If players wish to set it so we both have to post an honest truth about what we did on our turn, I accept on that as well. just in this format.

Merlox vs Player BC 1.05 with hotfixes.
Faction against Faction
Turn # summary
Strategy: What ever you are doing.
Current Priority: What ever you think is best.
Movement: a quick summery of all of your troop movements
Diplomacy: What ever you do with a diplomat or go to war. such
Military: what you build / losses, win, such.
Build info: what you build
Agents recruitment: what you hire for agents.

Any ways, I'm hoping that a few of you will challenge me, I will gladly accept a duel from anyone, It will prolly be extremely fun, and since I’m not as skilled as ATPG, We can expand just a tad bit more.
See you in the matches!
~Merlox

[Chaotix]

Hey, Merlox. I'm pretty new (actually completely green except for a few local hotseats) to hotseating, but I'd like to try it, especially since I really have nothing else to do right now. I don't have BC, but I do have M2TW, Kingdoms, and the Retrofit Mod. I would challenge you to a M2TW 1.3 duel right now, but I need some help as to how to actually set up the hotseat. First of all, vanilla M2TW doesn't run hotseats (at least for me), so it'd help if you could explain that- maybe you meant the retrofit mod? Second, how are we going to send the saves to each other? Do we just email them, or upload them somewhere? You can PM me if you want.

Well, anyway, if you can answer those questions for me, I'd be happy to duel you with whatever rules you suggest to get some hotseat experience for myself.

[Merlox]

Setting up a hotseat game in a non hotseat game is pretty easy to be honest, All you gotta do is put
(Copy and Paste exactly what is below this)

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 1
save_prefs = 0
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

Into your Current mod or unmodded version of your game's CFG file that should be in where you installed your game, You need to open with option under the right click and do it with note pad. Paste all of the [hotseat] into it. (If the file has a [UI] Selection, MAKE SURE you put it above it, or that's at least what people always tell me. lol, Though, if your file doesn't have that ui, then it's perfectly fine to put it any where.

For the save files, Using some kind of messenger program is prolly thE gratest if you are looking to knock down alot of turns quickly, If you have Windows Live Messenger, My thing is Merlox@live.com It's a very quick easy program, get on, send a thing to me, we can get the time things download as well.

Also, I didn't mean refroit or how you spell its name mod. =p I'm /alright/ at kingdoms, but i'm more focused into the Broken Crescent 1.5 quick fix mod, or The Long Road mod. Both from what I hear are supereb mods, I though, dislike the V mod. (It would be my last resort I guess.) But, Please do take out the Broken Crescent Mod! It is 697 MB big, but you'll enjoy this mod very much! A VERY large map of boundries of mostly on the middle east, but goes all the way to constantinople (I think thats how you spell it, lol) to all the way to the western part of India, and also there's The Long Road mod which is basicly a more detailed version of the origional Medieval Total war 2 map. More towns, smarter AI, more stuffs.

Any ways. I would love to do a duel, but please do check out the mods first that I sent that is right under here!

Broken Crescent Mod : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=140857
Broken Crescent Quick Fix update : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=142288
Broken Crescent Fraction Info : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=97742

The Long Road, I don't know the exact forums off my head, but if you go to www.twcenter.net/forums I think you would be able to find it there if you looked around!

Best regards to you and Thank you for taking an interest! If you have any more questions, please feel free to post it, PM me, or Windows live messege me! Thanks!
Merlox~

[Chaotix]

Thanks, Merlox. I actually know a good amount about BC already, but I never got around to downloading it. I've also been following ATPG's duel thread, but knew I would get destroyed if I challenged him , so when I saw your thread I thought it might be cool to play someone else. In any case, I'll see if I can download BC (it'll probably take a while, I've got a slow comp.) and then maybe we can set up a duel. Just to let you know, I'm not great with the Eastern/Horse Archer factions, but I suppose there's always KoJ for some good heavy infantry.

Oh, and for saves, is it possible for me to just email you at that live messenger account from my aol account? I don't have windows live messenger.

EDIT: I tried the method for making a hotseat campaign, and it recognizes the text, i.e. no fatal error, but there's no option for a hotseat. Is BC already hotseat-enabled?
EDIT # 2: I sent you an email at your account from mine. Is Windows Live messenger just another email/IM service? Odd that I've never heard of it, considering my comp runs Windows XP...

[Merlox]

I got your email fine, We can do it just like that, And, BC is not hotseat enabled at the start, you just gotta copy+ paste that dumb [hotseat] into it and then it will work as a hotseat, instead of single player, and yes there is a vista update as well if you get a fatel error on vista, but any ways,

THe funny thing is, just go to single player, and then grand campain, then click on some multi factions.. notice that they will all blink...!? XD yeah, it replaces single player campain with hotseat. pretty useful,

[Chaotix]

All right, that's good. I'll probably have BC all ready by late tomorrow, and then I'll want to play around with it a bit, see which faction is good for me, and then Tuesday (or 2 days from now if your not in the US) we can start the hotseat, if you want. You have my email address from the email I sent you, right? If not I'll PM it to you.

[Merlox]

Well, i'm free, just defeated Chaox in a duel, any body else?

[Chaotix]

You might just want to ask at your BC3 thread, Merlox- if they're playing one hotseat, they can probably do another.

[Merlox]

Hey, I'll play you in the SS mod? apparently it's pretty nasty
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=159996
Yeah, its a huge download though, but.. it would proll be pretty awesome.

[Chaotix]

Oh, do you have SS already? I recently dl-ed SS 6.1, so I'll play another duel with you if you want. I like SS better than BC- the west is more interesting to me than the east, IMO. That and I can actually win effectively with European armies.

[Merlox]

I'm still downloading it, When i'm done, i'll be happy enough to duel you, at the moment, i am downloading 200 mbs a day. I am very interested in playing it. Also, could you imagin a hotseat game in later era? 28 factions? lol