Just for fun: What do you think an "EB 0" made with MTW 1 would be like?

[Olaf The Great]

I really like the art style, music style, and play style of Medieval 1, it just feels so familiar and "fits" the game so well, and I think it would fit EB too. I think the EB team should get their artists to actually DRAW the unit cards so they look similiar to the old Medieval ones. However, I really got spoiled by Rome's combat system, and without extensive modding the system will never truely work with EB, though it would work wonders with autoresolve.

[Ludens]

There was a Rome mod for M1:TW, but I haven't played it. M1:TW has a better tactical A.I. and better battle maps (they aren't dominated by a single feature like in R:TW), and I think the combat engine is more balanced, so if you do not mind the dated graphics the battles are a major improvement. The campaign game has its pros and cons compared to R:TW. The strategic A.I. isn't better, but the risk-style map limits the scope for stupid moves. The A.I. always has a clear idea of how powerful you are, and is therefore less inclined to start stupid wars (although it does seem to think that attacking your fleets is not a hostile act). Diplomacy is rudimentary, and trade very difficult to conduct. The M1:TW trait engine is just poor: you cannot change the traits, only rename them; and once gained a trait can only grow stronger, not weaker. There are other unmoddable bits as well.

So, overall I think that an EB for M1:TW would produce better if uglier battles, but the campaign game would be more challenging in both good and bad ways.

[johnhughthom]

My favourite campaign would be ruined in the MTW engine as horse archers have to stop to fire, the nomad factions would lose a lot of the fun in those circumstances.

[antisocialmunky]

Part of the scariness of the MTW AI were the generals that got 6+ stars and then could autoresolve up to 10 stars and then be a random unit in a BG unit that would be hte last thing to die(or flee through your whole army). It was generally better as it would create a line of dudes and then try to run around your line of dudes.