MTW-Redux Beta Released!

[Axalon]

Here are some replies to Bozwolfs post:166,

I've checked the readme file now. Good to see the portraits (the helmeted general for example) can be easily customized/swapped with others (that's what I meant when I referred to this in my original post).

Now you can get DC/Marvel-styled heroes where you want them! Or anything else you deem suitable. That was part of the design all the way. Personally I never really liked the portraits of CA, too much…. Well, I just don’t like ‘em, perhaps its best to leave it at that. I wanted DC/Marvel inspired style instead! Storm as princess, oh there is sweet a thought….

As far as the historical accuracy thing goes, I fully agree with you! Personally I do like historical accuracy but with the way Redux works there are so many more advantages to the system that I'm not al all bothered by the date in the lower right corner. So yeah, good job on that.

Well that is a happy surprise, great great! This calls for a bow! I only wish there where more people that came to that conclusion. History stuff and games don’t work that well together. Never did. As a setting and inspiration, ok, fine and excellent but beyond that, naah!

Overall what I enjoy most is the way Redux tends to make the actual game a bit more realistic. Ships moving at a faster rate, better economic balance, realistic costs for running professional armies, more logical buildtime/buildcost ratio for structures, missile troops being far more dangerous at range. Etc. Basically your mod changed and tweaked a lot of game mechanics (instead of just making the game "more of the same") that I always thought needed tweaking in the original.

Seriously, this is news with a babefactor… Thanks man!

It's more challenging, too. You really have to work quite hard to protect your kingdom. I like smaller kingdoms much better these days. Large empires tend to get a bit boring and annoying.

Yeah, I’m all for that myself. Besides, if you got a big empire there are fewer enemies to fight and kill which is not as much fun. And on a more serious note, the bigger empire you got the more vices “your people” (generals) get. Don’t know the exact numbers for it thou but as long as you stay under 10 provinces you are safe from that penalty. Because of all that I usually prefer 7-9-ish highly developed provinces myself but I’ll intervene and police things all over my trade routes. If the Pope has been acting stupidly I’ll go over there with a decent commander and few formations of Heavy Infantry (one of my personal favourites) and sort things out with his holiness, making him retire to think things over for a while so to speak!

But usually I tend to safeguard Spain for Christianity and have an ever standing training school at Sahara to spice things up. Playing as England that dubious honour usually falls upon Scottland. At any rate I do prefer the smaller kingdom-modell myself and the “worldpolicing” it’s just a hobby of mine. It’s a dirty job but someone got to do it. Essentially I am an equalizer most of the time, slowly building up my valour:5 veteran-formations. Yes that’s right valour 5, the only way to go. They won’t break and they don’t care whatever opposition or odds they are facing. They just fight on and doing it with style. That means that I can focus on tactics. Hehe!


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