Just booted my old MTW disc up, though my old Acer (running on Vista, no less) had to go with half size units (seems to crash otherwise).
Works fine, have an English normal campaign running. Forget the year I left off, maybe it is 1276 or so.
It's a GA campaign, and for a while I was following doing a few crusades and grabbing my territories mandated. The French got squashed early, and the Germans seemed to dislike me and kept attacking me. The HRE later disappeared and I was trying to mind my own business and tech up and keep trading. But slowly after, two excommunications for attacking the aforementioned HRE, I banked for a while hitting 400 K florins. Then, as if on cue starting some time in 1240s or so, first the Novgorad attacked me. Then later the Italians and then the Sicilians. Finally the Almohads attacked, and I launched attacks and a crusade with the route running through their territories. I took Castille and Leon from them, and surprisingly I still hold some provinces where I have no armies (conducted scorched earth policies in those places that the Italians held and the Novgorad. The Sicilians seemed to take back what they could and currently are protected by the Pope again.
A huge chunk of the map belongs to me, so it might turn into a domination game, though I usually only play to 60% as playing for 100% is frustrating at times with instant rebellions spring ing up here and there. See what happens after I beat back the Almos, who are closest in points (if not leading).
Anyone still Steam free on this game? I am on Steam for a number of other titles (Thief, Hitman, Civilization), but I found some don't run on my new MacAir (all games eventually come the the Mac, eventually, right :)). I never bought any of the other Total War titles except Shogun, so no experience with them.
Formerly Gaijinalways
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