Pics & History of your Empire

**Vantek** · 10-21-2009, 16:39

One year, two battles. Our armies march into Aragon, but simultaneously the Portuguese sense an opportunity and Castille is attacked by every single soldier they can gather.

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We suffer unexpected defeat under Castille, but perhaps an even less expected victory at Aragon. The whole Aragonese faction is in shambles as she deserves, while the Portuguese have grasped more than they can hold.

Nevertheless, our position is far from desirable. Our worst fear is that the French, still allied with the Aragonese and Portuguese filth, will pick up aggression against us, especially when saving an ally from enemy has been provided as a comfortable excuse. Castille must be recaptured at all cost, but soldiers are not overly plentiful.

For these reasons, our King has decided to cunningly retreat from the now near-defenseless Aragon, and return when Castille has been secured, hopefully wiping out the whole Aragonese royal line when they leave the Citadel to once again hopelessly defend their doomed existence.

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With this plan our King only fortifies our confidence in his divine origin, as blessings one by another are now bestowed upon us!

The Portuguese leave Castille without a fight and the province is returned to us without damage!

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A Caravel and two Barques of ours sink two remaining Portuguese Caravels, only losing one ship!

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Our King's first son becomes of age! Despite being accused of Hedonism, he is nevertheless surely a competent heir to the throne. Dispute among King's brothers is evaded, and a fresh start secured for when our King will leave this world for a better one.

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The French split their massive garrison in Toulouse to secure Friesland, likely to finish remnants of Holy Roman Empire!

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Only one message brings worrying signs. The Neverending Crusade, having reached Lesser Armenia, is now inexplicably unable to move at all, neither East towards their destination by land, neither North or West, nor into the sea, the only obstacle separating them from their destination. This turn of events leads most to feel uneased, though some speculate that it might all be within God's omniscient plan.

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**Dodge_272** · 10-23-2009, 16:12

1773, got involved in my first battle (I've had sea battles with Denmark and Holland before this, getting my ass kicked by Denmark at sea BTW) while trying to organise my economy in the British Isles and Hanover I disbanded all units except militia. I don't know what happened to suddenly caused an uprising but the English rebelled against the Hanoverian King George II, but they did in force. I think it was the high taxes.

800 British Line Infantry, 160 British Light Infantry and 50 Hussars rose up in Wessex where the King was stationed along with 200 Militia. I managed to bring in 200 Militia from Wales, 200 from Mercia and 200 from Ireland, but the Scottish and Northumbrian Militia couldn't beat the Danish blockade of the north sea to join their Royalist comrades. Also present at the battle was the bodyguards (20 in total) of King George II, Prince George, Prince Alfred and Prince Rowland.

I of course lost after putting up a very brave fight and killing the rebel General, King George II fled the battlefield only after every single member of his bodyguard had been killed, and every soldier of his army was routed. he fled to the Tower of London along with 231 of his militia army.

Heir to the throne Prince George died in the melee along with his brother Alfred who was next in line, and Prince Rowland, the youngest son was captured and ransomed to Ireland for 4700 francs, he is now Crown Prince and is trapped in Ireland due to the Danish blockade.

This is going to be a tough one especially as I have no army and the King can hold out for 3 years, I have to build troops from just two adjacent provinces and god help me if the Danes invade from the North Sea. Loving this game though.

**warrior king** · 11-07-2009, 02:17

Campaign - Conquest Mode
Faction - The Irish.

Before I start I would like to say the Irish are a good start for anyone new to Medieval Total War, they are a small and easy to deal with kingdom, that can grow to be the dominant power over all Britannia.

My opening move in the campaign was to secure the whole of Ireland, The Irish are a very small kingdom so need to secure the easy pickings on their island before making a move on conquering the mainland (that's my view anyway!) Once I secured Ulster, usually in the opening two years, not forgetting to keep the folks back home happy with some peasantry or two and beginning to build both my navy, strategic and military arsenals from Brega and Laigin. Once I had my emissaries available with a Royal Palace, I bribed the two rebel armies in Munster and Connacht. After gaining control of Ireland, it was time to secure the lands and get the best troops I had in position to make my first strike on the mainland. Once my navy was in postion, I used my emmissaries again to bribe the easy pickings of Manu and Reget. Now I had a foothole onto the mainland, it was time to do the three Rs, RETRAIN, REENFORCE, REFORM. Retrain my forces, whilst securing my new lands, then reforming to strike again. For anyone playing this campaign, repeating this process over and over every time is the best strategy in opinon. The key to remember is - your navy, this is your primary defence, as long as this is kept strong up to date and widespread , your realm will be impregnable from any sea bourne invasion. As for your borders, as your armies grow keeping a few behind to deter any counter attack should keep you safe, but I would recommend saving before and after any invasions. But as for this campaign in particular, wiping out the Northern most factions should be your first priority in the first half of the game, In my game by around the early 9th century, I had conqurered well over half of Britain. As I say wipe out the north, The Scots, The Picts, then head south, The Northumbrians, The Mericians(if they are still around) and so on. The Saxons are gonna be your bloodiest foe, but they should be easy to defeat but it will take several of your best units and your best generals in command. I destroyed them in around ten years, before finally wipping out The Welsh reappearance, and the game ended and all Britainia was under my rule by the end of the 960s.

Hope this leads you to glorified victory...........

Vuweni Spurus De Sumcarwe - I came, I saw, I tore the thick bastards limb from limb!

**Vantek** · 11-10-2009, 19:13

I don't seem to have the time/energy to continue my story quite in charachter, but I figured I ought to finish what I started, so just a quick update.

Magically, after the Aragonese king was replaced, my stance with them became neutral and thus my personal rule dictated I leave them alone. Following that, I was JUST about to crush the Portuguese, when the Pope reappeared and gave me a warning!! Gosh... If the reappearance had been just a few turns later, I think I would probably calling the campaign won by now. Instead I have to wipe my mouth of Portuguese riches and look elsewhere as they hold on to the west coast of Iberia as well as Granada. At least the Pope was swift to accept an alliance offer from us.

Another good news is that the Neverending Crusade is about to reach a victorious conclusion after no less than thirty years of marching and imprisonment! The French conquered Antioch from the Ayubbids and lo and behold the crusaders were now able to move into this territory after being paralyzed for over a decade! The crusade has now reached Egypt and is about to enter Cyrenaica, their promised land! We have also crushed remnants of Ayubbids in Sinai and met the venomous Mongol snake creeping down south up to Arabia without touching the sea. They are likely our next target, and the question now is only wether to force the serpent to retreat inch by inch from the south, or cut it right in half through the Black sea.

Alas my young king is as of yet without proper heirs, only a sister! I tried to hook him up desperately from the start, but everyone turned down with depressing consistency! Come on girls, he may not be the most attractive man in the world but surely he beats the cloister! Perhaps out of sheer pity, a Crusader princess finally accepted, but the union is yet to bear fruit... Let us hope that the king doesn't show preference for young boys rather than girls and that the new queen is in good shape!

I have at least one ship in every sea and two or three in many. I'm making a filthy trade profit - close to 10K a year. The French, although nominally our allies, ironically remain the worst threat to our mission, or perhaps second worst after the possible emotional meltdown of the pope... But now that the crusades will soon again be at our disposal, the Golden Horde is sure to fall to us. After the pope's deadline expires, I will be able to remove troops from Iberia - either the Portuguese will prove their rebirth by remaining faithful, making the presence of large garrisons unnecessary, or they will give us the evidence of their rottennes necessary for us to justly crush them.

EDIT a few hours later: Sicilian king died heirless while being sieged by the Golden Horde in Constantinople. At this moment I was sieging Golden Horde in Bulgaria, and I managed to march into Constantinople, bribe the remaining handful of now factionless soldiers, and capture perhaps the only fortress on the map! (Not to mention one of the best provinces...) Unfortunately wars had done in the royalty buildings, which I'm probably better off sticking to Castille, or maybe good old London out of nostalgia.

Then Bulgarians reappeared in Bulgaria where I had left... And this bunch of mongols seems doomed. Also Italians have been demolished, first a civil war and then getting attacked by the Pope... As soon as I notice their king sieged I will try to bribe Crete (Citadel, only 2K florins) and hope the king will die before they manage to harm my fleet. For now I'll bribe&capture some ex-Sicilian islands, as I hate to leave islands to the enemy, it's so annoying when they are surrounded by ships.

Anyway looks like it's pretty much mopping up at this point - and hoping that I get an heir in time :P Well, I'll probably call it quits before my king dies but I want to crush a few more factions at this point.

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**Prince Cobra** · 11-10-2009, 21:03

Originally Posted by Vantek

I don't seem to have the time/energy to continue my story quite in charachter, but I figured I ought to finish what I started, so just a quick update.

Magically, after the Aragonese king was replaced, my stance with them became neutral and thus my personal rule dictated I leave them alone. Following that, I was JUST about to crush the Portuguese, when the Pope reappeared and gave me a warning!! Gosh... If the reappearance had been just a few turns later, I think I would probably calling the campaign won by now. Instead I have to wipe my mouth of Portuguese riches and look elsewhere as they hold on to the west coast of Iberia as well as Granada. At least the Pope was swift to accept an alliance offer from us.

Another good news is that the Neverending Crusade is about to reach a victorious conclusion after no less than thirty years of marching and imprisonment! The French conquered Antioch from the Ayubbids and lo and behold the crusaders were now able to move into this territory after being paralyzed for over a decade! The crusade has now reached Egypt and is about to enter Cyrenaica, their promised land! We have also crushed remnants of Ayubbids in Sinai and met the venomous Mongol snake creeping down south up to Arabia without touching the sea. They are likely our next target, and the question now is only wether to force the serpent to retreat inch by inch from the south, or cut it right in half through the Black sea.

Alas my young king is as of yet without proper heirs, only a sister! I tried to hook him up desperately from the start, but everyone turned down with depressing consistency! Come on girls, he may not be the most attractive man in the world but surely he beats the cloister! Perhaps out of sheer pity, a Crusader princess finally accepted, but the union is yet to bear fruit... Let us hope that the king doesn't show preference for young boys rather than girls and that the new queen is in good shape!

I have at least one ship in every sea and two or three in many. I'm making a filthy trade profit - close to 10K a year. The French, although nominally our allies, ironically remain the worst threat to our mission, or perhaps second worst after the possible emotional meltdown of the pope... But now that the crusades will soon again be at our disposal, the Golden Horde is sure to fall to us. After the pope's deadline expires, I will be able to remove troops from Iberia - either the Portuguese will prove their rebirth by remaining faithful, making the presence of large garrisons unnecessary, or they will give us the evidence of their rottennes necessary for us to justly crush them.

Perhaps .unfreeze. is one of the most historically accurate cheats in the game. You know, sometimes when the King has hardships in producing an heir, there must be some kind of... cough ... wonder. Perhaps a handsome page will make the things easier. And since men (that's a confession) are foolish beings... this heir can do a good work. On a different note, many homosexual Kings had heirs.

Don't ruin your game!

**Vantek** · 11-10-2009, 23:01

Hehe, well my king is only 28 so I still have quite the hopes for him ^^ He would need to be a total runt to not get it done in 15 years...

**Vantek** · 12-07-2009, 15:33

Heirs are on the way so I'm safe for now ^^ I have reached the stage where I am mostly just peppering the enemy with enormous armies. Due to the special rules however, this time it certainly does not mean I have won... Because my lands are so dispersed, the French remain a huge threat due to their massive navy. I am allied with them (as well as the Pope, thank god), but that means very little in this world... If they decide to backstab me, I will have to face one turn of utter chaos as most of my empire will be blocked navally. I will be able to restore some order next turn but then it might already be too late!! And due to the personal rule, I cannot attack them myself... My only hope is that they clash with the pope without attacking me, so I can sink most of their navy before the blockade can begin to have an effect...

Me and the French happened to bribe different stacks on the same island (Sicily) :/ I have never encountered such a situation so I was worried sick... But I was relieved to find that there was no war, even though the French got another island and I had to ransom back the excellent general. Money is a non-issue right now.

I happened to be just messing around next turn and discovered that the Hungarians would one-turn-crusade a province I myself planned to take at that exact turn (Nicaea)! Since I was neutral and I was attacking by sea, I think this would have meant my army getting ransomed at best. So this was another annoying moment. I decided to not bother faking oblivion and replicating my plan as it would have only slowed my progress rather than done any damage.

I had a fun minibattle against I believe remnants of Byz where I needed to kill every single one of about 100 soldiers (mostly archers) to avoid a siege, I managed to pull it off with two of hobilars.

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Next, I turned to the Golden Horde and took three provinces in one turn and one in the next, nicking it in front of the French just in time. They are now in civil war and about to get crushed, though thankfully they seemed to have managed to cause the French crusade for Kiev to fail. I am also spamming crusades against them. After I also take Bulgarians, I will run out of good targets altogether though. Maybe I will finally squint my eye towards the personal rule and just blitz the Portuguese and own them in two turns. They are an enemy who attacked and keep attacking me, so it's not a total breaking of that rule. But then I will just have to wait for an opening... Or abandon the rule.

The state of my empire:

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I have been having an awful lot of fun with this personal rule (only allowed to attack non-catholic factions, rebels or those that have been excommunicated, except for strictly self-defense when they are being the aggressor). I highly recommend it.

**Vantek** · 12-09-2009, 23:22

Indeed I am now only moving stacks and taking personal command of only a very occasional battle. Once when I needed to kill the Golden Horde khan as well as his single heir in order to buy the garrison of Kiev Citadel, I was careless and suffered pretty bad losses but I completed my goal. The Golden Horde is crushed and I control a huge portion of their land... The Russians had reemerged on their lands and I grabbed one province from them, and defended a really fun river battle vs them where I inflicted 20:1 casualties and it was actually a quick battle.

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Just as I was about to consider wether to attack Bulgarians or Portuguese next though, the Crusaders, my absolute longest allies decided to backstab me!!! This could actually be a good thing! They have a navy, but it's quite weak and HORRIBLY dispositioned, and their lands would be a very much appreciated addition to mine... Especially Egypt! On second thought I should have killed the Russian hostages, as money is not the slightest of issues but they now force me to keep a garrison near their border... Thankfully the pope chose to remain allied with me, not the Crus.

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Of course, the French remain a lethal threat, and if the Crus' move is actually because I have reached the point where I'm so big that everyone decides to backstab me, I will likely collapse. But I won't go down without a fight! I should probably concentrate my navy between Iberia and Africa, and less so Britain and France. Money is so plentiful that I can just forget about trade...

EDIT: I just realised looking at the map that the French king is cut off from the empire!

I need to pay attention! Wouldn't mind seeing them face a Sicilian+Genoese reappearance!

EDIT a day later: More unexpected developments! Although I got a warning (pffft) the Crusaders left Egypt and Rum without a fight! Ironically I need to leave Lesser Armenia to them. Sinai, Arabia and Mesopotamia fell to the Crusaders, but it was a bargain to me.

But most importantly, the French have been excommunicated! I need to seriously consider taking advantage of this! It will not be easy as their navy might quite possibly be even stronger than mine.

**nzd07** · 01-10-2010, 21:50

Wow, if I'm not mistaken, those look like the Crusaders!! Wow I'm very surprised. Every time i play they always end up playing defensive, usually getting eliminated(along with the armenians) after about 15 years. I'm very surprised. Looks like you've got a very good campaign going there. I might start a new one because it looks like this thread is dead :(.

**gollum** · 01-10-2010, 22:16

This thread just winter-sleeps ;)

**Prince Cobra** · 04-23-2010, 19:50

Feast of vultures

A battle between the Almohad Empire stretching between France and Egypt and the mighty Byzantine Empire stretching from the Balkans to Georgia and Sinai. The Byzantine Empire has just stopped the Mongol Hordes and the Almohads had just conquered Normandy.
MTW/VI

Terrain: Egypt.

Coming soon.

**m52nickerson** · 05-09-2010, 04:18

Polish Campaign
VI, Early, Normal, Glorious Achievement

Pulling the fur cloak tighter around himself to fend of the cold King Wladyslaw of Poland strode trough the snow heading to the small chapel not far from his royal home. Upon reaching its doors he quickly stepped inside and out of the howling winter wind. The candle light made shadows dance across the kings aged face. Shaking the snow off his cloak he made his way to the alter and knelt. Sleep had been eluding the King as of late. A growing fear gnawed at him.

His father had told him many times "The Kingdom will only survive if we are careful and trust in God. It is God who says not make transgressions against others. We need only defend our boarders and God will take care of the rest."

Now, many years after taking the throne and heeding those words doubt had creep in. The Holy Roman Empire, the Hungarians and many other kingdoms were expanding. Growing both in power and land. The king feared that if he did not change the course of his small kingdom it would soon become a foot note in history. To make matters worse his sons did not seem to have any type of killer instinct.

"I blame my self for this, I have made things far to easy for them." the King said lowly to himself looking up at the crucifix hanging above the alter.

Slowly he rose making the sign of the cross. It was decided. It would be war.

So a new Polish campaign and great possibilities ahead. I start by having King Wladslaw attack Moldavia by himself. The single unit of spears retreat to Volhynia. After taking a year to settle Moldavia The King's unit and a unit of HA move to Pomerania. Against a unit of spears and and archers the King drew the spears off as the HA move around to the rear of the archers keeping them just out of range. The King then turns, out runs the spear unit and charges the archers. They rout. The HA now start to whittle down the spears until the King's unit is at their flanks. Charged from both sides they also rout. Pomerania is now Poland's.

1090 and 1091 has me building more troops, Slav Warriors and Woodsmen, as well as building up Poland. I also ally with the HRE and Hungary. At the end of 1091 I attack Prussia with every thing I have, inducing the first of my heirs, a one star lazy prince.

The Rebels retreat into Volhynia and Prussia is mine.

Now I send my emissary to Lithuania to bribe the rebels there. 1092 I bribe the standing rebel army. Then the next year I bribe the garrison troops. The result, Lithuania without any fighting and no lose of buildings.

By 1095 I have bribed the rebels in Kiev the same way I did Lithuania. I get ready to attack the large rebel army in Volhynia that I now have surrounded. In 1100 I attack with every thing I can. In the battle I use spears and slave warriors to pin the rebel spears while I flank with Royal Units, HA, and Lithuanian Cav. My horses hit the Rebel arhers and cross bows and drive them in to their pinned friends. A mass rout soon takes place. I then turn my attention to the rebel HAs. It takes so time but I manage to trap the all and rout them off the field.

King Wladyslaw's kingdom now stretches from Baltic to the Black Sea. The King dies in 1102 happy that he had left his son a strong Kingdom to rule.

Sorry, no pics this time. Stupid me was hitting Print-screen instead of F2.

**m52nickerson** · 05-09-2010, 18:13

In 1102 King Wladyslaw died and His son, Wladyslaw II took the throne. Many worried that the new king, a one star lazy king, would fail to continue what his father had begun. It turns out the Wladyslaw II would be the first King to rule over what could be called a Golden Age in Poland. Between 1102 and 1185 King Wladyslaw II and two subsequent heirs saw Poland build a hugly profitable trade network, expand to take almost all of the Steppes and remain at peace with it's neighbors. Novgorod had its prince die with no heirs and degenerated into rebels which were quickly bribed into the Polish kingdom.

The Polish Kingdom in 1975

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My kingdom is doing well as far as GA is concerned.

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King Wladyslaw's great grand son, King Kazimierz

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One of my early army stacks.

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**Vantek** · 06-19-2010, 19:39

Goodness! This thread isn't getting a lot of action these days, is it! nickerson is the only soul keeping the old tradition alive!

As I said in another thread, I can leave MTW for months... But I always come back to it :) And indeed - couldn't fall asleep yesterday so I dug out my old campaign! I think it's very realistic for me to win it under my special rules. But at this point, managing the huge empire is a real pain. I just experimented with a couple of options and collapsed with one but seemed to do OK with the other, despite about 3 random kingdoms declaring war on me in agreement. I think I will just declare this campaign won, and start a new one next time I feel like playing.

I'm happily busy these days though, so it will likely be some more months until that next time comes ><

EDIT a few days later: actually felt the need to go for 100% victory :P Sure enough, it was easy.

**bamff** · 06-28-2010, 02:37

Great to see that this little campfire still flickers on, and that mighty Generals still drop by with tales of campaigns fought and battles won or lost!

**Vantek** · 09-02-2010, 09:14

Decided to try the same rules (no aggression towards fellow catholics) with the Genoese in Late XL, but the crazy pope sunk my ship on turn five! God dammit! This nonsense shouldn't be allowed! I got so pissed that now the Venetians only exist I think on Malta and the Pope is sitting in Naples without a shipwright. Hope he never has the money to build one. Maybe then I can continue with my special rule, although roleplay is pretty ruined now.

**drone** · 03-26-2011, 05:31

With plenty of time to spare.

Close thing though, my king was close to dying of old age and I don't know what trouble a succession would have caused. Some provinces were borderline rebellions due to the rush. The biggest obstacles left were a large Turkish army in Constantinople, the remnants of the English in Northumbria, and the Russians in Muscovy. The Iberian peninsula was random stacks of rebels, modern day Turkey was doable if I could reduce Constantinople and go around the back end from Khazar, the British Isles were well in hand. There was no way I could kill off the Italians, no fleets to speak of meant the Med islands were out of the question, and I had no chance on Africa/Levant.

I'll take 60% with the Swiss. Fun, challenging, and different. Confœderatio Helvetica ftw!

**PershsNhpios** · 03-26-2011, 05:48

Much appreciated father Drone, I see that the Swiss decided to bring their code of neutrality to all of Europe.

I never have reached that stage of the game, I think it would be quite entertaining in a sense, having to manage so many armies and battles being so overwhelming. It could of course be made much easier by auto-calculating but this ruins the fun for me.

Thank you for breaking the drought!

**Ingersoll** · 03-27-2011, 06:51

Anyone still posting to this thread?

**drone** · 03-27-2011, 16:56

Originally Posted by Ingersoll

Anyone still posting to this thread?

Can a sticky be necro'ed?

I like to think of this thread as a home for those of us too lazy to write up proper AARs.

Originally Posted by Glenn

I never have reached that stage of the game, I think it would be quite entertaining in a sense, having to manage so many armies and battles being so overwhelming. It could of course be made much easier by auto-calculating but this ruins the fun for me.

Normally, I would quit a campaign when the end result was a foregone conclusion. This one was different since it was a race against the clock, so I felt obligated to play it through to see if I could make it. Lots of huge battles and short finances meant lots of tedious micromanagement, and having to carve out time in RL to fight 3-4 big battles per turn. 12 years to 1453 AD, 60% of the map, and 1500 florins in the bank.

I've got a Early/Hard Novgorod campaign going now, I'll post some pics when it gets interesting.

**Durango** · 12-13-2011, 23:38

Here are some random screens from my recent campaigns.

The Swedish march inexorably forward through the green farmlands...

...and behold! The vile Dane!

Thick mist and snowy wind envelop the enemy as he waits...

A marriage of factions, entirely of convenience for my part, closes in on the dastardly French!

Oh, you started already? Well, I won't take the glory from this field, I just want the prov...I mean the spectacle of your imminent victory, dear ally.

Germans defend two bridges at once(!). And they have plenty of archers...this will be bloody.

**Axalon** · 04-28-2012, 16:07

Following Durangos lead, here are a bunch of various screens from random playing….

Russian infantry dealing with pagan rebel swine…

A killing field with a lot of dead horses (rebel)… Again, Russians vs. rebels…

The English and their damned allies, the Burgundians. Storming a French Castle…

Castle mayhem, slowly grinding down the proud French defenders…

And, these are the guys to blame for it. It’s all their fault…

- A

**Durango** · 04-29-2012, 03:46

That's great, Axalon! Redux looks very good, if anyone doubted that.

Here's a pic from my...uh... French campaign. It's going pretty good, it seems.

Yep, It's cool to play MTW.

**drone** · 04-29-2012, 23:02

Originally Posted by Durango

Here's a pic from my...uh... French campaign. It's going pretty good, it seems.

I'm intrigued by your new mod effort, Durango.

**Durango** · 05-01-2012, 08:34

Originally Posted by drone

I'm intrigued by your new mod effort, Durango.

Yeah, I realize this looks very strange and off somehow. It's like something isn't right.

It's probably the faction colours.

**Trapped in Samsara** · 05-01-2012, 10:01

Hi Durango

How on earth did you get hold of these pre-release screenshots of MTWIII?

Best regards
Victor

Sapere aude
Horace

**Axalon** · 05-04-2012, 01:23

Originally Posted by Durango

That's great, Axalon! Redux looks very good, if anyone doubted that.

Here's a pic from my...uh... French campaign. It's going pretty good, it seems.

Yep, It's cool to play MTW.

What's this? The "screw all GFX-mod"? Finally making the point that GFX is just cosmetics and have nominal actual value for a game as such, are we? Well it's true actually.

GFX has only two purposes….

1. Make things easier for the player to understand and play the actual game.
2. Making the game more attractive.

Now, I prefer my women beautiful and sexy, however that does not mean that they have too be that in order to still be women somehow (sadly enough). Still, I certainly do prefer them to be, if given a choice... Same thing applies to games.

- A

**Gilrandir** · 05-09-2012, 15:10

Well, I summoned my courage and decided to post some pictures. Of course, I'm not showing off .... No, I am.
This is the historic campaign, France (the Hundred Years war, battle II "the loire valley").
I breached the walls of both outer and inner castles and the English withdrew into the inner court (or yard?)

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Now they are ready to meet my onslaught.

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I pull my forces within the outer walls and ride down some of their peasants (on the right before the inner gate).

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Now I'm ready for a desperate attack (they have plenty of Chivalric foot knights on a higher ground)

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Lo and behold! It is all over! The condition of the victory was to have within the walls at least 100 men more then the English do.
And unexpected victory!!!
P.S. Sorry, guys, I don't know what it is all about. What is attached thumbnails? I didn't attach any nails!! I find that I can't view pictures larger than they appear in the thread, although I can do it on my computer. I knew it was no good showing off.

**TinCow** · 05-10-2012, 19:34

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

P.S. Sorry, guys, I don't know what it is all about. What is attached thumbnails? I didn't attach any nails!! I find that I can't view pictures larger than they appear in the thread, although I can do it on my computer. I knew it was no good showing off.

All your images open to full size for me when I click on them. Do you have a popup blocker enabled? If so, it may be preventing the full sized images from opening.

**drone** · 05-10-2012, 19:41

I don't think you were doing anything wrong, I looked yesterday and couldn't figure out why the pics weren't coming up, but I see them now. Try a browser refresh/reload if they aren't working at the moment.

I'm guessing our friendly metallic bovine fixed your problem.

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