The Anteroom - community discussion thread

[Zim]

I'm not sure how vulnerable generals in particular were, but the mod as a whole was very tough, more so than any other I'd played at . I think if I took it more slowly I would have done better on my one try through, though. I'm used to playing even tough mods on VH/VH half asleep, not through any special skill but just familiarity with the base game.

One note on any mod that portrays the faction we play fairly accurately. After the Last of the Romans game (ERE, SS if I recall) in the post game discussion it was brought up that people had a lot of trouble with the names and this hurt roleplaying. There was also some feeling that we should move to a more familiar faction in general and votes led us back towards Central Europe for the next game (I say "towards" because we ended up with France). That was years ago, though, so I'm not sure if not having heavily anglicised names a la vanilla MTW2 would matter as much now.

[Nightbringer]

That's a good point, anything that can be typed on a normal qwerty keyboard is fine for me. Beyond that and it just starts to feel like a chore.

[Zim]

All of the ERE names we had could be typed on a normal keyboard, although pronunciation may have been a bit tough for some.

Some examples, taken from the characters in the final war:

My last character: Arintheos Voutoumatis

-Vartholomaios Ksiros

-Kousinos Sophianos

-Ioannis Komnenos III

I didn't think they were too bad but I can understand why having, for example, 3-4 guys named Ioannis (we did) with different Greek names of varying ease of pronunciation might be more challenging than if they were all named "John". Unfamiliar names with spelling players aren't used may blend together.

Not saying this should be a major factor, just that it came up back then.