Hello and Merry Christmas

[Thermal]

Did you get the full game (MTW + Viking Invasion)?

indeedly, gold edition, im currently with the danes, i find expand is a much slower and harder process, i enjoy the intelligent AI too, the campaign more or less equals out the IMO slightly poorer battles, i played it 11 hours straight away, now im shattered lol (with food inbetween though)

Also EB was far to tight for money IMO, the aedui gaul started -3000 in debt there army was small, i was forced to change the EDB manually and add taxable income to my core buildings just to make enough money, not to mention the law, and it ran slow, a big mod, like SS is for medieval 2, but i soon got bored of it, i appriacte it is epic, but i didnt like the cavarlys get bet by missile units, the whole game feels impossible, and it takes heaps of memory on my computer up

[Stinger123]

I honestly have not heard much about the Viking Invasion expansion, how is it?

[Martok]

indeedly, gold edition, im currently with the danes, i find expand is a much slower and harder process, i enjoy the intelligent AI too, the campaign more or less equals out the IMO slightly poorer battles, i played it 11 hours straight away, now im shattered lol (with food inbetween though)

Now that sounds familiar. Ah, the joys of the all-day gaming session....

Glad you're enjoying it!

I honestly have not heard much about the Viking Invasion expansion, how is it?

Det er veldig god! [Roughly translated: "It's very good!"]

Seriously, though, you should get it, as it's one of the best expansion packs I've ever seen.


While VI adds a host of new features and tweaks to MTW, the two biggies are (of course) the Viking campaign -- which is a blast just by itself -- and the pre-battle screen (in which you can set up in what order you wish your reinforcements to arrive). The expansion is worth getting just for these two things alone.

In addition, Viking Invasion adds a number of new units. Also, it makes three of the factions in the main campaign (Aragon, Hungary, and Sicily) playable, thus extending gameplay even further.

Viking Invasion is also worth getting because it allows you to install and try out all the mods available to MTW. (There's currently only two full mods that have a version compatible with the vanilla game, MedMod and Redux, and even their "main" versions are compatible with VI only.) Whether you're talking about Samurai Warlords, BKB, Pocket Mod, Hellenic TW, XL, etc., there's a host of excellent mods available to those who have the Viking Invasion expansion.


Honestly, I can't recommend VI enough. It's a must-have for anyone who plays MTW.

[Stinger123]

holy crap, I didn't know it was even possible to play as Aragon with or without an expansion pack....

anyway, I just had an epic battle with the Golden Horde as the surfaced INSIDE of my russian empire...
Before Battle
Army Size
Russian(me) had 5015
Golden Horde had 2065
Casualties....
Russian: 760
Golden Horde: 1363

P.S. I knew the numbers because I wrote it down, tis no exaggeratin'