Against 4tpy...

[bobbin]

So EBII should reduce the number of tpy because you can't learn slow down? isn't that a bit much to ask for

Anyway changing the number of tpy is much easier in M2TW, it's literally just changing one number so you could mod it pretty easily. Thats assuming 2tpy doesn't mess up the scripts and whatnot.

[A Very Super Market]

If anything, the distance you can move your units in a turn is already shortened in comparison to real life.

[Azathoth]

If anything, the distance you can move your units in a turn is already shortened in comparison to real life.

Apparently, in EB the default action point value is 80, but to get a realistic movement rate you need like 500.

[Andy1984]

Apparently, in EB the default action point value is 80, but to get a realistic movement rate you need like 500.

Would this make the AI stronger or weaker? I'd think the AI would be capable to launch invasions deep into your territory, forcing you to fortify every city, every pass,... And if you besieged the AI will have endless stacks it will send against your siege-army. What would the downsides be other than a more aggressive gameplay and the possibility to blitz even faster?

[option]

Would this make the AI stronger or weaker? I'd think the AI would be capable to launch invasions deep into your territory, forcing you to fortify every city, every pass,... And if you besieged the AI will have endless stacks it will send against your siege-army. What would the downsides be other than a more aggressive gameplay and the possibility to blitz even faster?

It would make the game extremely ridiculous and annoying, for one. Realistic movement only works if you're willing to add many more turns per year - otherwise you get situations like multiple enemy stacks coming from out of nowhere and besieging half your empire. Not to mention it give the possibility of taking half a faction's settlements in half a year, along with forcing you to fight every enemy stack for a thousand miles around if you ever want to take a settlement.

Plus, if you think the AI generals forming insta-armies by recruiting all the mercs in an area is annoying now, just wait until they have 6+ different merc pools they can empty and throw at you within the space of a couple turns.

[Azathoth]

Well, hey, maybe instead of playing VH/VH the challenge-seekers could just raise the action points!

[Krusader]

So EBII should reduce the number of tpy because you can't learn slow down? isn't that a bit much to ask for

Anyway changing the number of tpy is much easier in M2TW, it's literally just changing one number so you could mod it pretty easily. Thats assuming 2tpy doesn't mess up the scripts and whatnot.

Yeah but CA didn't bother about aging. No matter what you set it to, characters age 1 year every 2 turns.
Unless they changed that, but have a feeling they didn't.

[Bucefalo]

Yeah but CA didn't bother about aging. No matter what you set it to, characters age 1 year every 2 turns.
Unless they changed that, but have a feeling they didn't.

IIRC in Third Age total war (the mod about lotr), they managed to make characters age properly using 4 turns per year. I think the solution was creating a script that controled it, here is the thread.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=255427

[ziegenpeter]

- no expansion (or hardly any) in the first twenty years of the game
so far as to give regions to other factions. I'm not sure whether this is still possible on VH

Thats what I usually do (sweboz f.e.) but with the romani that would hardly give me a historical feeling

- drain your coffins by having a fleet

Check

- rely almost solely on factional units (and do bother to send depleted units back to your capital for retraining)

Thats actually quite cheaper than having regionals but I do have botz and yes I send my legion back home to retrain

- some people like to role-play, even going so far as to give regions to other factions. I'm not sure whether this is still possible on VH

Yep with FD and I did that with that rebel town on wich the lusotanni have claims on.

So EBII should reduce the number of tpy because you can't learn slow down? isn't that a bit much to ask for

Anyway changing the number of tpy is much easier in M2TW, it's literally just changing one number so you could mod it pretty easily. Thats assuming 2tpy doesn't mess up the scripts and whatnot.

Gnahaaha very funny... But thanks for the MTW2 hints.

I admit that this time I am playing on H/H because VH/H wouldnt feel realistic. The campain AI goes beserk and you have to always fight stacks much bigger than yours and that doesnt improve my feeling of accuracy anyway. But maybe its a different thing with the Romani maybe VH is the right setting for them and lets pray that RomeSage works ;)

Nevertheless for me its sometimes just frustrating to proceed so slow in time.

Like that it wouldnt take me so long to get reforms either. I mean seriously, for Augustan reforms* you have to play till 125. That NEVER happened to me.

[Atraphoenix]

against 4py?
I am planning to make a month turn system for EB2 via decreasing movement points dramatically so as to make blitzing impossible
that means you can conquer whole map in ten years like Alexander did.

[Horatius Flaccus]

I send my legion back home to retrain

Maybe try another faction (apart from Romans). Try Hayasdan or Pontus on VH/VH, that will be fun.

[ziegenpeter]

Thats true, the Armenians rock! But I will try to switch the campain diff to vh via romesage, because I cling to my romani campain...

[Smeel]

Though feel like you, that having the augustan reforms is kind of ridiculous(588 turns, yeah, likely to happen), I have no problem with the expansion in my romani game. It's the year 150-something, and I'm still within historical boundaries. And I'm playing on m/m Exstensive use of FD is the name of the game.

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

4tpy is the best for expansion, don t forgot the many turns for take a full control of region(barracks, administration, law building).
I think with less tpy the game isn t fun.
I hope for more tpy, maybe 6.