Back to STW!

[Mori Zennousha]

Greetings,

I was going to write this a couple of hours ago, but then I learned about Tosa. I am still in shock... rest softly, TosaInu.

After many years away, I have just recently reinstalled the original STW... man, this is such a great game! Perhaps I'll get around to STW2, but for the time I have to spend on it these days, STW is fitting the bill nicely!

And that's about it, really. Just wanted to show some love for one of the greatest games ever built, and add my voice to those that still play this thing! If there are noteworthy pieces of info out there (like new-ish things happening with STW, or even MP???), I'd love to hear 'em!

Well, it's good to be back! Hope everyone is well,
Z

[ReluctantSamurai]

Welcome home Mori-san

As you can see, not much happens in the Sword Dojo these days...S2TW mostly. But...there's still a few old-timers (like me) that check in here from time to time.....

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I played a bit of shogun recently, with morale off as an experiment. Idea being that usually it's the enemy army that flees so with no morale it would be more difficult...didn't play enough to make a judgment, it was kind of entertaining to fight it out to the last man though.

I've never gotten into any of the newer games because they seem to feed into the "level up" impulse...that makes them addictive for a few hours and then you just feel like you are wasting your time...

[feelotraveller]

I reinstalled this recently and am into my second return campaign. Lots of fun.

Does anyone remember what the 1.02 patch (MI edition) fixes? I am playing the unpatched 1.00 version right now because I prefer the troop stats it has but wonder what else I might be missing.

[Stazi]

Does anyone remember what the 1.02 patch (MI edition) fixes? I am playing the unpatched 1.00 version right now because I prefer the troop stats it has but wonder what else I might be missing.

Check here.

[feelotraveller]

Ah, thanks. That helps some with reassurance about what I could be missing (but am not). I guess half of my query was about:

"4) A series of code fixes have been made to improve stability."

I have experienced several crashes when reshrinking the battle mini-map. (Including one which, since I went straight to another battle in the same season, deprived me of an incredible and as I found unrepeatable victory over the No-Dachi hoard from Tosa with only YS and SA at equivalent numbers.) Would something that addressed that have been included in the stability fixes? It's okay if it's so long ago that nobody remembers - maybe I need to search more for the patch notes?

p.s I guess I differ from the beta-testers mentioned in that link - I like the original march speeds and detest those of the patch. The other stat adjustments, attack, defense, armour, charge I am neither here nor there about feeling that they are quite a mixed bag. But I guess I am comfortable with the 1.00 versions because that is what I am used to. And yes, I did try 1.02 for a while previously, and also 2.01 (unofficial). Neither took my fancy.