Posting fun Multiplayer battles (RTW Vanilla)

[VikingPower]

Hello there.

For the last two weeks I have been playing Multiplayer battles through Gamespy and with RTW vanilla (I have used the name Randomer 10), where I have collected my own battle replays against all kinds of factions for the purpose of introducing Multiplayer to those players here in EB forum whom mainly play Single player campaign. For there is too little activity here in EB multiplayer community, which is a shame since the EB mod has the best potential for helping people improve their science/art of tactics in battles since it is the most historical accurate in regard to units and gameplay.

These battle replays do involve fun 2v2 battles, Rome v.s Rome battles, Rome v.s Nomads battles, Rome v.s Macedon battles, along with other battles which have been interesting in other ways. I only used the Rome faction and wanted to teach people a basic tactics in order to beat other Rome factions, phalanx factions, and Nomad factions. But other 2v2 battles were very fun and sometimes very strange, like when one player cheated by bringing almost full army of armoured elephants but still lost the battle or how in other 2v2 battles then at first we seemed defeated but we managed to outlast it in the end.

For me then I am not sure there is anything more to be learned from these RTW vanilla Multiplayer battles via Gamespy, like how most people apply the same tactics and can be beaten by the same tactics. Those who view the battle replays should take note how Noobs use too single extended line with their infantry which can easily be routed with cav or tired out with inf, they have missile duel against enemy archers even that they have a fewer archers so they get massacered before the infantry clash, and how noobs send their cavalry unsupported behind the enemy lines so they get outnumbered by enemy cav and infantry.

So I am trying to make the EB MP community more active by appealing to those whom are mostly in Single player.

Here is link to the battle replays:

http://www.filefront.com/17898267/Battle Replays.zip

When you have started RTW vanilla and have chosen to load the battle replays, then those files at the top are the most recent while those at the bottom are the oldest, so it would be better to view first the latter since it will give a better picture of that how I managed to adapt to the enemy factions.


In Win XP then I think you should put these files to the replays folder in the Creative assemly folder in Program files.

In Win 7 you need to put it to the:

C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War\replays

Or

C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming and try to find the Creative

[Lazy O]

What were the rules? Money Limit?

[VikingPower]

At first I think it was 50.000 denari so that all armies were fully upgraded.

Later it was 35.000 denari so that all had armour and attack upgrades (for my part) but no experience (except cav).

But at last it was mostly 15.000-16.000 denari and rules said no upgrades.

Most of the rules were no art and no ele. But against Nomads it was something like max 12-14 cav, max 6 horse archers. When fighting against phalanx factions then it happened too often that the players brought about 8 cav and only 10 phalanx, so later I changed rules to max 5 cav and max 5 archers.

I know that too begin with it was very high money, but that was mostly based upon my former experience 1 year ago when many played refused to play me when I said that no upgrades were allowed. So the high money limit was mostly to encourage players to field full army with all units upgraded. But later when I hosted a battles which asked for clan-members as opponenst as Rome, Macedon, or Armenia, then there was no problem having low money and with rules which said no upgrades. For I want players to field full armies with low money.

[Lazy O]

May I ask which clan was it?

[VikingPower]

I can't remember all of these names, but you should find most of these clan-players in the 1v1 battles (Rome 1-4, Macedon 1-4, Phalanx 1-3, Nomads 1-4, Fun defeat 2, Tough 5...).

[Lazy O]

Just the clan tag is what I ask. No serious clan plays these formats. 99% are 15k CWB on grassy flatlands