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[gmjapan]

Nope, no assasin disband option. I just sent mine into missions with horrible odds hoping to get slain by bodyguards.

This showed me something I was impressed with - their attributes can reduce for poor performances! They used to just escape with their lives.

Also, in battles, what is this ctr+t you are using? Decrease speed? I just press 'p' when the phone rings. p = pause.

[frogbeastegg]

Big, big, big froggy grin here! Weee!! Take a look at this, turn number 4 from my new Saxon campaign:


Here's the WRE, attacking in force the settlement I captured just last turn with a small, dashed together army scraped out of my starting units. I'm outnumbered roughly 3:1, and half of that army is hunters, and so a bit crap in a stand up fight. By the way, the Roman general is far better than mine.


And here are my lazy, good for nothing, never attacks or tries to expand neighbours, beating me to the siege of the other rebel town. No idea what troops they have, because my spy is now trapped inside that city. That second army of mine consists of 3 levy spearmen and my faction leader, i.e. every unit I've just built and my only other general.

I think I'm in trouble My medium and short term plans just went down the toilet Oh, goodie, goodie, goodie!

I didn't get a screenshot because I had no chance, but while I was besieging that rebel town I was attacked by a second rebel army I didn't even know was there. I survived that only because I managed to kill one and turn about to face the second army, fighting them individually. That's why there is a famous battle marker next to the town.

Now this is more like it! I've saved the game (sadly out of time to play it now) but I'm going to continue this one. My other Saxon game has gone in the bin, saved deleted so I can't confuse them. This is all I wanted I hope it continues this way.

So now I must abandon that second rebel province to the purple people, and go and try to stop WRE before they take my second town. If that fails, I'm going to be doing last ditch defences of my starting city. Erm, I find myself wondering if the Saxons can horde ...

Why a second Saxon game? Bored curiosity to see if it would be any different. What did I do differently in this game? Er ... nothing much. I've built levy spears instead of keels, which makes my armies marginally bigger in terms of men. I think I am going after Campus Chattii a turn earlier, maybe. The only big difference really is that I haven't had to attack the AI non-rebel factions, because they beat me to it.

Now if only I had got this on my first game, not my second.



Alt+t is the time acceleration hotkey.

[Doug-Thompson]

Big, big, big froggy grin here! Weee!! Take a look at this, turn number 4 from my new Saxon campaign: ...

I think I'm in trouble My medium and short term plans just went down the toilet Oh, goodie, goodie, goodie!

That sound you hear, even those of you across the seas, is me breathing a sigh of relief.

Edited P.S. I haven't checked the tech help forum, but the video issues brought up here deserve attention. Tech saavy folks, the fact that an LCD screen was in use here couldn't make any difference, could it?

[Geoffrey S]

I'm afraid I can't help with the biblical graphical glitches, but I can confirm the building icons and the like were fuzzy in RTW under 1024x768. Haven't the foggiest what causes it though.

Now this is more like it!I've saved the game (sadly out of time to play it now) but I'm going to continue this one.

Good job that load/save bug is outta there!

[chilling]

Frog, your graphical problems?

What size is your LCD monitor. They usually have a native resolution that they will run best in, generally 1024x768 for smaller panels (15"/17") and 1280x1024 for larger panels (19+"). As you're running at 1280x1024 I pressume you have a larger panel that has this as it's native resolution. If not that could be the cause of the blured images you get.

I have a similar setup to yours but have a 9700pro card. It runs without any graphical problems. Your video card could be overheating, try running the game for a while with the side of your case removed. Also you could try the Omega drivers that you can get from here. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ I've always used them and find them to be extremely stable.


Tsunami Total War, now there's an idea.

[Rodion Romanovich]

I just got BI. Started a campaign as the goths. All went fine, although laggier than R:TW, until I had fought a battle against the vandals for around 30+ minutes. The vandal horse archers were out of ammo and came swimming across the river. I ordered my heavy cavalry to attack. Result? The cavalry rode out into the stream and DROWNED! My two family members and key troops for success in the remaining phase of the battle, which I knew I could win, now ended in a terrible defeat...

Anyway, apart from this IMO terrible bug, BI has been a nice surprise in many aspects. Battle speed seems lower, morale of all units seem better, and battle mechanics overall seem more like M:TW. But I've only played two battles so far, so it might be too early to say so.

[TinCow]

I ordered my heavy cavalry to attack. Result? The cavalry rode out into the stream and DROWNED! My two family members and key troops for success in the remaining phase of the battle, which I knew I could win, now ended in a terrible defeat...

Anyway, apart from this IMO terrible bug

That's not a bug. In the manual it says that tired or exhausted troops may drown if they try to swim. Only swim well-rested units.

[Bob the Insane]

I don't think Heavy Cavalry is supposed to be able to swim, so it probably wan not exhaustion...

I will have to give this a go... Wait until a unit is swimming and then send a non-swimming unit to attack them and see what occurs..

Scout: The enemy are swimming the river sir!!
Commander: ah-ha... Bob, take your cavalry down there and kill them all...
Bob: umm... errr... I don't think...
Commander: I don't pay you to think, get going...
Bob: But I don't think I can swim in all this armour!!
Commander: Are you refusing a direct order!?!? I will have your head!!!
Bob: Ah.. well... of course we will attack immediately!!

Bob: Right lads, our target is the men in the water, form line and CHARGE!!!

Splash... gurgle... bubble...

Swimming Barbarian: Well that was odd!!!

[Rodion Romanovich]

They were just about to get up from the water, so I reckoned a charge at that time would be devastating as they didn't have their formations ready, sort of. But instead, the unit just ran down in the water. It was a set of 3 fresh units. And they DIDN'T have the swim ability. I thought the logical thing would be to stop just above the water line and kill the incoming enemies, but no, they decided it was best to suicide charge down into the water...