Stamford Bridge 1066

[barocca]

The Wargamer has a new Historical Battle Scenario available for download,

The Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066
authored by Creative Assembly this is a challenging battle set shortly before the beginning of the Early Campaign. At Wargamer.com you will find an historical outline, plus a description and walkthrough for the battle/scenario along with some screenshots.

Download it from The Wargamer
http://www.wargamer.com

[Welshman]

Nice Thanks for the tip, it looks great. I have some ideas about creating one or two Welsh battles. I grew up near several Norman castles, and it would be cool to see them in MTW.

[Sir Dipthong]

Must say that I've recently got more interested in the historical campaigns/battles as my enthusiasm for campaign game micromanagement has waned. (and my PC isn't powerful enough for multiplayer...are you listening, Santa?)

But why-o-why can't we play the historical battles as either side? On trying Hastings, I felt badly let down to find I couldn't play as the English and change the course of history.

[TosaInu]

Konnichiwa,

You can play the battles on either side. It's a fairly easy textedit in the BDF files.

The relevant files are in the MTW game folder subfolder Battle/batinit/Historical battles. You may want a given battle available for both sides at all times. Lets take the Battle of Bannockburn as example. Make a copy of the Battle of Bannockburn folder in the historical battles folder. Rename the folder to something like Battle of Bannockburn Eng. Open the dir and rename the BDF file to Battle of Bannockburn Eng.bdf (directory name and bdf name must be identical).

Open the BDF file with a texteditor (like notepad), find these lines:

Player::Robert the Bruce 6 6 LOCAL Scottish 0 false 23159 32289 102 PAGAN_CULTURE
Player::King Edward II 5 5 ARTIFICIAL English 0 true 37771 37198 269 CHRISTIAN_CULTURE

and replace it by these:

Player::Robert the Bruce 6 6 ARTIFICIAL Scottish 0 false 23159 32289 102 PAGAN_CULTURE
Player::King Edward II 5 5 LOCAL English 0 true 37771 37198 269 CHRISTIAN_CULTURE

Yes you only swap Local and Artificial. Local is the human player, artificial is the/a computer controlled army.



Save and start the historical battle menu.

The same can be done for 8 armies in 1 battle (you can play as 1 of the 8), historical campaign and you can fancy up the battle with custom art and descriptions.

You can download this battle as simple example:
http://www.totalwar.org/tosa/BattleofBan_Eng.zip

Have fun.

[Sir Crashalot]

Quote[/b] ]But why-o-why can't we play the historical battles as either side? On trying Hastings, I felt badly let down to find I couldn't play as the English and change the course of history.

I`ve managed to change the course of history in that battle by playing as the French.

Great It`s nice to see extra stuff like this being released by CA.

Thanks for the info TosaInu, I`ll try that out

Crash

[barocca]

Using my privileges as File Admin I have updated Tosa's Bannockburn battle,
it will now display the correct Victory Conditions for the English,

download it here
The English at BannockBurn - updated

to see what i did download Tosa's version (link in his post),
and the updated version here,
open the bdf files in notepad and compare

[muffinman14]

I cant seem to get my battle to work... After extracting it, I try to open it but nothing happens

[barocca]

Today i added the Battle of Stirling as the English

Battle of Stirling as the English

to accompany the Battle of Bannockburn

Bannockburn as the English


muffinman14
does the battle appear in the list?,
try downloading, extracting and installing as per instructions again, maybe a file got corrupted.
These 2 files work on my computer just fine.

[Sir Dipthong]

Excellent Many thanks to TosaInu, Barocca etc. for the info. I guessed (wrongly) that there must be some hard-coded battle AI. Seems odd that the option to choose your side isn't available within the game.

Anyway - I'm off to change the course of history by winning as English. Rather than by losing as the French...

[barocca]

just reminding everyone to grab this excellent battle
:D