Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Outnumbering the Golden Horde the moment they appear in Khazar playing as Byz. One of my favourite memories...
Khan: "Like the storm of the great steppe we will sweep across the lands..."
Advisor: "Sire!!"
Khan: "... of these petty fiefdoms who they call kingdoms and empires..."
Advisor:" SIRE!!!"
Khan: "What?"
Advisor: "We're surrounded..."
Khan: "..."
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Being suprised by the little details.
Starting a campaign in high period as the English, build an assassin nearly straight away to get to work on the enemy spies that are everywhere. Pleasantly suprised it is Guy of Gisbourne!
5 Valour off the bat...excellent.
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Having a 10 star Byzantine Jedi stare down turks whom outnumber him 10:1 and then watch as he methodically mows them down.
Watching My Danish vikings crush the peasants/town militia.
Watching my Swabian swordsman cut through French lines and take Paris
Watching my Boyars bring order to the lawless east
Watching my Italian infantry unite the peninsula
Taking the holy land
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Campaigning as the English.
remembering the Byzantines lost their fight with the Turks, tracking down the remainents to Crete and seeing spawn after spawn of Kata there and nothing else.
Sending in a welsh created longbow heavy army protected by some quality spear and mowing them down.
Slaying nearly 400 Kata and only losing about 20 spear.
Satisfying!
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
TO CRUSH YER ENEMIS, SEE DEM DRIVEN BIFORE YOU, AND HEAR DE LAMENTATIONS OF DEIR VIMENThe most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Iä Cthulhu!
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
How about when you kill or capture the entire enemy army? I like to see my flag flying over the castle next turn with no assult, no seige, no loss of buildings, no mess, no fuss.
In those simple times there was a great wonder and mystery in life. Man walked in fear and solemnity, with Heaven very close above his head, and Hell below his very feet. God's visible hand was everywhere, in the rainbow and the comet, in the thunder and the wind. The Devil too raged openly upon the earth; he skulked behind the hedge-rows in the gloaming; he laughed loudly in the night-time; he clawed the dying sinner, pounced on the unbaptized babe, and twisted the limbs of the epileptic. A foul fiend slunk ever by a man's side and whispered villainies in his ear, while above him there hovered an angel of grace . . .
Arthur Conan Doyle
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
good call. i'll add taking a castle or citadel and it not getting destroyed in the process. or even better, finding out that the AI faction was upgrading to a castle,citadel, or fortress and finished on the turn that you took the province.Originally Posted by Brandy Blue
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Yep. Bingo. That's a huge one.
Nothing's more demoralising than seeing the Pope scarper off the battlefield (despite being utterly MOBBED by your own troops), and knowing that you'll have to assault his citadel/fortress next turn.
Re: The most satisfying moments in Medieval Total War
Wow, some interesting stories here by now. Geezer57, that is one amazing battle you had there! The feeling you get from winning a battle where the enemy clearly has the upper hand sure is sweet..
By Crom, The Unknown Guy, you really got that right there!
Recently I experienced yet another memorable moment relating to MTW. I wouldn't describe it to be satisfying though, actually it was quite the opposite, but I think it's still worth sharing: My mom was doing something on the computer and she started nagging something about this computer (How slow it is etc etc.), and I made the fatal mistake and tried to advice her a bit. Well, thanks to my advice she started to browse the files of the computer and deleting practically everything that she thought sounded weird or unfamiliar to her. (Which propably applies to about 90 % of the stuff that is on this computer.) Well, to make a short story even shorter, I started this computer the next day and surprise! MTW was no more. And she had even managed to delete the goddamn game entirely, no save game- file left, nothing in the trash can either.
Well, these things happen. At least now I will have time to finish my run through the Baldurs Gate game series, and one beautiful day I will re-install MTW again and wreak chaos and destruction all over Europe once more! (The situation isn't that bad actually, I still have one copy of MTW on my computer with the Warlords-mod, so maybe now I will finally have time to give it a proper try.)
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