Want to play an MP campaign?

[ElmarkOFear]

I believe the starting units etc . . are the same between the two versions. However, I used the WE version to establish the initial setup.

[HunkinElvis]

Thanks.
Pardon me for asking so many questions but I came up with another one.
Will I be able to call off an attack? Total War let's us do that. I don't want to attack if I know that I'm outnumbered.

[ElmarkOFear]

You will be be given the option of retreating to a nearby province, before the battle is set up and thus giving up the province to the enemy. To speed things up and have it where we are not waiting on a response, if I do not hear from either player about them wanting to retreat within a few days, then the battle will be fought and the results tabulated.

There will also be pillaging. If I remember correctly when you win a province, the province's buildings are reduced by one castle-size and all buildings which require the bigger castle size, will be destroyed as well. You will then have the option of pillaging the any or all of the buildings in that province and using the koku gained at the beginning of your next turn. I think the koku value of each building destroyed/sold is 1/2 the normal cost of building that building. I will have to double-check to make sure.

PS: Forgot to state that the only info you will get before the battle is how many men there are of the enemy. No detailed army information will be given unless you have a spy there in the province at the time of the battle. This keeps you from doing some "cheap" recon. of the province without risking any of your units. :)

[Nigel]

Drisos & Wilbo: Hojo
Hasty: Mori
Paolino: Oda
Hunkin Elvis: Shimazu
Nigel & Steeleye: Takeda
Lord Hornburg: Ronin & Rebels

Is this still the up to date player list ?
Are we still looking for players to get started ?

If you want, Elmo, I could pass the word to the old Bandits and Mercenaries and see if anyone of them would be interested.

[ElmarkOFear]

Yes please do Nigel. I am afraid with the RTW patch and the MTW/VI Samurai Wars mod, we might not get the people interested and having enough time to play.

Thanks.

[Wilbo]

We could just have one player to each clan, granted it might take longer to get a response but at least we could start tomorrow! I'm sure we could get through a turn or two a day, certainly if it was done via PM to me (I cant get email from work) I could respond 2/3 times per day...

If someone didnt respond for 24 hours we could just skip there turn, letting them gain some funds, or if it was a battle we could presume their army was 'ambushed' and had no time to withdraw!

[Lord Hornburg]

Any date Elmo

[Nigel]

hmmm, 24 h per turn is tough going, Wilbo.
Also, that won't leave us any room at all for diplomacy.

I would settle for something like a week per turn. That has worked reasonably well in the past.
Just my thoughts, anyway.

[Wilbo]

1 WEEK!??!?!?!? omg, it could take 7 weeks for you to get to the second season...

[Lord Hornburg]

1 Day Prefrably

[Lord Hornburg]

Elmo are you here? You havent answered my question yet.

[Drisos]

sorry for my absence, back now . ..

[Drisos]

Finally got the chance to read what i missed during my absence, looks like i almost missed the start of the campaign.

who can tell me the current clan list + the players?

[Lord Hornburg]

Guys are we still doing this or what? I mean no ones said anything about so is it still on?

[ElmarkOFear]

We still need at least two people per faction. I have found, from past experience, if you only have one player per faction, someone inevitably holds up the game. For example: Drisos was away for awhile . . not his fault, but things happen during the course of a long campaign such as this, and if there is not another person to pick up the slack the game will falter.

See if you guys can recruit other players to team up with. Good luck. It looks like most have moved on to other games, or are playing RTW now. I could not interest any clan in participating either. That is always a problem with a game over 4 years old. :) Maybe we will get lucky though.

[Wilbo]

Couldnt we stick the lands of one faction into Rebels & Ronin! Imagawa would be good for this as their lands are split up.

[Oaty]

I'm up for adoption

I briefly read up on the posts in this and will read em all when I get the chance. Anyways I prefer a long life so the Mori or Shimazu clan preferably. Hojo in the corner might do. I could be a servant of lord taco but that's only when I have the munchies

Hmmm CA so quiet and an expansion in the works ........ Rome Total MultiWar..... wishful thinking.............

But then again considering the majority of popular games is multiplayer FPS.... and the FPS camera

But until then when I see FPS games with an optional strategy cam then I'll know the strategy games have taken hold

[Drisos]

I say: good idea wilbo!!

[Lord Hornburg]

I dont think we are going to get any other players so go Wilbos idea!!

[Drisos]

[QUOTE=Lord Hornburg]I dont think we are going to get any other players[QUOTE]

new player: oaty!!!!

[Lord Hornburg]

Okay after oaty

but welcome aboard!!!!

[Nigel]

Yes, wellcome aboard Oaty.

And Wilbo's idea of going with a reduced number of factionis sounds good to me. Otherwise we might be in for a looong wait to fill all places.


That said, I will be away between 11th and 22nd of March, but will gladly place the rule of my lands into the hands of my trusted first minister KyodaiSteeleye (hence Elmo's insistng on 2 players per faction )

Would still be happy to see this taking off

[Oaty]

PS: Forgot to state that the only info you will get before the battle is how many men there are of the enemy. No detailed army information will be given unless you have a spy there in the province at the time of the battle. This keeps you from doing some "cheap" recon. of the province without risking any of your units. :)

Sounds good to me but 1 question

will it be just numbers or number of cavalry and number of infantry.

Also what might add a bit of flavour to this game would be each faction gets a specialty unit. Not an extra unit but plus 1 valour for that type. So Shimazu get's plus 1 valour for there no dachis and so on. Or will it be added in by wich province it was trained in just like it was in the campaign map for single player.

Well anyways I read up on all the posts and wich clan will I be with

[Gray]

Hi!
I would like to join your MP campaign!
still looking for players?
and I have a question:
does the times deffrence between the states will matter?

[Lord Hornburg]

I think it would be fine for you to join.

But as to your question i have no idea. sorry.

[Wilbo]

Hi Gray,

I believe we are still looking for one person so it shouldnt be a problem for you to join. Time differences will not affect the campaign... I believe there will be a week for each person to take their turn.

I hope Elmark hasnt given up on the idea without telling us :(

[Gray]

cool then!
I'll start reading this forum to updated...

For how long have you being planning of doing this?

I need to introduce myself right?

[Gray]

Ok look , sorry for spamming but ...
I started to read this discussion from it's start, there are a lot of things I really dont need to know so I thought of asking one of you to tell me shortly whats going on exactly...
just too much to read

[Drisos]

sorry for spamming but ...

no problem man, welcome to our campaign, have you sent elmarkofear (the host) an e-mail yet?

we should ask the ones who wanted to join the campaign to choose a clan now, so that we won't have to wait much longer.

and gray, the first pages of this thread won't be intresting, just read the last 20,30 posts and you'll know enough.

[Gray]

cool, what do I tell elmarkofear in the E-mail?