Losing 96 provinces in one year
One of my friends played with the Egyptians couple of days ago. It was his second campaign so he didn't know about 80-100 % rebellions. Anyway, he did quite well (excellent, I'd say). He gave me savegame from 1271, and I auto-calced all battles in the 1272. Here are the pics:
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Oweeee!
Thanks for the pics
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My thought exactly!Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny
Oweeee!
Thanks for the pics
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Jeez...
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Yeah, this happened to me every time I played a campaign beyond the 60% mark. Eventually I just stopped playing MTW campaigns alltogether because of the sheer annoyance.
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There's usually a civil war at 60%... If you're looking for a 100% victory, you have to beat that. But 96 province is just slightly ridiculous.
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That will make the game more challenging!
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You can have very little rebellions if you play well and avoids the things that triggers those massive rebellions. The only thing that can make those rebellions is then war with a faction with a big navy, but even then you can reduce the rebellions.
BTW did he attack Corsica with his king or something?
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I am near this point in my current campaign, so this interests me a lot. Is it because the king is cut off in Corsica? - I can't see a port on the screenshot - also the garrisons looked very low. Is the answer to build lots of happiness buildings like militas, cathedrals etc before this point. I had a rash of revolts about 20 years back, but a bit more conquering, a new King and starting a couple of cathedrals seem to have helped. Perhaps the unfortunate Egyptian should have spent his enormous treasury on some bricks and mortar - mind you, he could bribe his way back as well.
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Ouch, that must have hurt. And I thought I had it bad with my civil war in the HRE, but in the end I only lost Livland and the neighbouring province. Plus, it seems to me, civil war broke out in all neighbour nations, the English (owning most of France) and the French (owning most of England
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World record!!!!!
Irrealistic? Well, the whole known world is ruled by a tyrant. Then the tyrant loses controle with the known world. Isn't it the ideal situation for a massive rebellion to happen?
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I had a tough time after a rebellion where I had about 40% of the map and lost all but 6 provinces, I eventually came back to win but I don’t think I could come back after your friends mess, WOW!
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Well, at least he has Sardinia. In some of my games I would have loved to have Sardinia!
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I wonder what the troop quality of those units are. I would have had to slash and burn the entire map so those bastards would starve.
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Say screw it, the computer just cheated so its your turn. Use the -ian cheat and become the French. Then use the .deadringer. cheat and bribe all those armies that are rebel.
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Interesting idea; how do you use -ian command?
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I'm going from memory here, so you'd better double-check this, but: right-click on the desktop icon used to launch MTW. From the menu that pops up select "Properties" and click it. In the properties box that comes up, click on the "Shortcut" tab. There should be a "Target:" line in the box that contains the path to the MTW executable, something like this (from my machine):
"D:\Games\Total War\Medieval - Total War\Medieval_TW.exe" -strictserver
This is from a standard MTW-VI installation, so contains the "-strictserver" switch. To activate the "-ian" switch, add one space, then the switch (-ian), immediately after strictserver, and save the new properties.
Start a game normally, then when you want to change factions hit the function keys. That part I can't help you with - don't know which keys are linked to what factions. Just play around with a test session to figure it out.
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IIRC, complete instructions for using the -ian switch and a number of others are included at the end of frogbeastegg's M:TW beginner's guide.
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Losing 96 provinces in one year-part 2
Now that I'm a member and now that I can finally post in this section I'm posting another thread about losing 96 provinces in one year.I have to admit that I'm the guy who had all those rebellions on which you could read on knight templars thread. I'm posting a link where you can download my save and see for yourself. If you want you can try to play it.
Here is the link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/6308629/i...ve_it.cpg.html
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I'll check it out. Maybe we could make this into a challenge to retain/regain as many provinces as possible, maybe in 5 years?
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By the way, welcome to the forum!
I actually only played the turn but it was still impressive. I tried to regroup and keep as much important stuff as possible but dam, what a spectacular fall. That would be an important year in history no question. There was a civil war and if I had sided with the old king or it would've been over since he had a small stack.
I imagine if I'd play further my emissaries would go abribing and north Africa and the middle east would be retaken in a few years.
I'd need to get my economy in order since I am making -4000 a year and I would work hard to keep control of the seas.
It is in interesting predicament.
Last edited by NodachiSam; 10-22-2005 at 20:14.
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Everybody just feel free to try to win. I'm also retrying to play the campaign now that I have some more experience. I'll keep you posted on my progress. You can also post your achievements if you want to play my save
Last edited by miho; 10-25-2005 at 18:55.
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Merged.
Abandon all hope.
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