MTW-Redux Beta Released!

[Axalon]

Hello Dai,

Another thing is, if I only want 1. to get rid of a Princeling and 2. to raid other factions´ provinces to get fast money and to deplete them from the possibility to earn money and to recruit (shameful: yes, I do such things, sometimes they are necessary...)

That’s pretty naughty of you… I hope that the driving “necessity” for this kind of tactics is a regular circumstance - if so Redux is at least doing it’s job properly. It is supposed to be challenging and not a cakewalk like raw MTW – regardless of tactics used. That was the plan anyhow.

No need to keep those provinces, and as well no need to keep a 11toed drunkard who accidentally got some valour6 or so ;-)) No need as well to let some Spearmen or Warriors or Cavalry get slaughtered if the actual job to do is NOT to keep but to destroy....

I guess I can understand that. If you are set to kill a “freakish prince” using wedge formation might help as that lowers his defence-value by -2.

Unit rooster: At the moment, I´m not involved in the Baltic region, only recruiting in Norway, Sweden, Mercia and Ireland (Denmark is for solely ship-production), so I have to go along with the number-limitation (except those Irish and Saxon Heavy Spears, filling in a bit for the 40men Norse Spears - but never go without the Norse!!). Those normal Archers aren´t to my taste as well, so I have units of 10 and 20 men for ranged warfare only - but with their accuracy, that´s quite enough

We all have our style when it comes to armies… We can do that much more freely in Redux, as the alternatives are so much more plentyfull and the impact of all that it is much greater in battle as well and I always liked that. Redux has a heavy focus on combat. There are almost 200 units in Redux so that will go a long way to ensure all that – especially with the unique combat-system in place. I don’t want troops without clear purpose or to be mere copies of other units under a different name. I have certainly tried to stay away from that as much as possible as I generally feel that such stuff is poor design. Still in some few cases it is very hard to avoid. I have always been highly critical to the roster in raw MTW as I think it is far too limited and standardized.

It seems to me, that the recruition possibilities are strictly region- and religion- bound, means that ONLY in pagan/christian-pagan provinces I can recruit anything beyond simple Archers, PeasCav, LightHorse, SiegeStuff and ships. The only region I didn´t have conquered a single province is North Africa - I´ll see to that to get maybe Tunisia (trade goods!!) to verify that I can´t recruit anything there....

That may very well be the case. It would not surprise me much if it is just like that.

So, still being busy with the house and the game, there is no boredom - and I wish you the same: Interesting work, interesting games for recreation, and maybe a fine glass of Whisky in the evening

I’m more of a wine person myself - red - if given a choice (white is ok too. I quit beer, and I quit the booze as well, but I have poured enough vodka - pure - into myself to know the drill). Anyways, I got little time to play much Redux at the moment - all the same I do appreciate the sentiment. :D


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Thanks again for the prebattle-screens...