Who's still playing?

**edyzmedieval** · 02-13-2011, 13:15

Originally Posted by gollum

MTW on the other hand was caught half way in between RTW and what it finally it became ie an "evolutionary" step from STW. Initially CA intended MTW to be its full "3D men" release, and in fact you can see that in the intro sequence of MTW - that's an early version of the Rome engine. Notice the man climbing the ladder of the siege tower and his animation there - that later on was also to appear (for entire units of course) in RTW.

I've been playing MTW for the past 9 years and I haven't realised this. Thank you!

**Tristrem** · 02-17-2011, 02:18

I've been experimenting with a few good mods, and I am about to try out the Nords in an Age of Warlords campaign, my first for this mod.

**Vantek** · 02-26-2011, 23:55

If I play any computer game at all, MTW has certainly the highest chance of being the one. Unfortunately or fortunately, but playing any computer game at all does not happen often these days, maybe 5 hours a month. Not enough for a proper campaign... Last time, it was when I was ill a month ago, and I did play MTW :P But with autocalc, cause I didn't have the time for battles.

I still enjoy checking up on my fellow fans though, and seeing the screenshots of the rare AAR.

**edyzmedieval** · 03-01-2011, 17:22

The Seljuk campaign is damn entertaining, XL Mod 3.0. Egyptians have been easy to defeat, Byzantines kept up their stride successfully against me but now I'm worried that if I don't defeat them soon enough the Mongols will come and I will fight on three fronts, destroying me completely. I'm ramping up my defences but I only have 70 years left to train defensive units.

This will be tough.

**Kamakazi** · 03-01-2011, 18:09

im still here not on the forums so much but im always playing

**fuzzbomb** · 03-07-2011, 00:59

Kudos to the guy who figured out how to get the game playing on my NVIDIA system. Got tired of X3 Terran Conflict and went back to MTW. I think I'll still be playing this game when I'm in the old age home (I think someone else said this in this thread....but it is certainly true).

Anyway, started this time as the English, early just to get back into it. When I'm done I think I'll try the Danes early. I have never been able to win with that one.

**gollum** · 03-07-2011, 02:51

Welcome to the org and the main hall fuzzbomb, enjoy your stay.

The Danes are pretty easy if you:
1. take on Sweden
2. Build 2 longboats
3. Land on Britain (can start from Northumbria and move south)
4. Conquer Britain
5. Conquer Flanders and Normandy

From that point on you can either conquer the rest of France or land in Spain and conquer that starting from Leon and Castile before taking the rest of the provinces there.

The advantage of Denmark is that they have the Viking unit that has higher attack and morale and armor piercing ability available from the Fort level and costing cheaper to maintain than the equivalent mele unit for the rest of the Catholics (FMAA) that is made available from the swordsmith in Keep level and is less able and has less morale. This means you can spam them and swamp early opposition pretty easily.

If you want a more challenging game with the Danes (or other factions) in the vanilla setting/context you can try the pocket mod (follow link in my signature), or any of the many other mods available.

**drone** · 03-07-2011, 13:17

Welcome to the Org, fuzzbomb!

The Danes have some advantages, especially in Early. As gollum said, they get Vikings, which you can spam from anywhere. They get Longboats, cheap and good ships you can use to set up trade routes. And their location, which lets them keep their borders to a minimum if you expand correctly. You do need to be a little aggressive though, taking Sweden is a must and you need a good income to keep your many heirs' RK units paid.

**fuzzbomb** · 03-20-2011, 07:37

"Re: Who's still playing?
Kudos to the guy who figured out how to get the game playing on my NVIDIA system. Got tired of X3 Terran Conflict and went back to MTW. I think I'll still be playing this game when I'm in the old age home (I think someone else said this in this thread....but it is certainly true).

Anyway, started this time as the English, early just to get back into it. When I'm done I think I'll try the Danes early. I have never been able to win with that one."

Update:

New Danes game.
Year 1174. I own Scandanavia(SP?) Lithuania, Latvia(not sure what the name is, just above Lithuania), Denmark, Saxony, Flanders, All of the English Isles, and most all of Spain (Mopping up the Alomohads). I have a longboat in every sea provence available. Income is about 20some thousand in the black per year.

My biggest problem is getting out from behind the eight ball. Used so many turns early to get the cash flow going, that I am way behind where I normally would be (Tech wise). Fortunately those vikings are everybit as good as everyone said, so hopefully that will be the saving grace.

(Had to edit-the original post is at the top...opps)

**edyzmedieval** · 03-21-2011, 02:34

Originally Posted by fuzzbomb

My biggest problem is getting out from behind the eight ball. Used so many turns early to get the cash flow going, that I am way behind where I normally would be (Tech wise). Fortunately those vikings are everybit as good as everyone said, so hopefully that will be the saving grace.

Try and use a secluded province, such as Norway, to tech up to a top tier castle, that way you get the best troops without the danger of losing your province. Make sure a stack of longboats is there to protect from the waters.