Medieval II: Total War Official Thread

[TB666]

I hope SEGA will have the wits to release this on a DVD instead of cds.

[Monarch]

In the newsletter it says that the dead units on the floor will also be in 3D. Just another little feature update in case anyone missed it.

Edit: Oh and obviously from flgags in screenies and such there is absolute confirmation (like we need it) thats nations like Turks and English are in.

[Kralizec]

http://www.tothegame.com/sshotfeat.a...een=6125&pic=1

The phalanx is back...I hope they sort out the pathfinding bugs

[Mikeus Caesar]

Historical innacuracy alert!!

http://www.tothegame.com/sshotfeat.a...een=6125&pic=5

Treblichets have wheels! (and yes, i know it's spelt trebuchet)

[Oaty]

Historical innacuracy alert!!

http://www.tothegame.com/sshotfeat.a...een=6125&pic=5

Treblichets have wheels! (and yes, i know it's spelt trebuchet)

Yes some trebuchets did have wheels

So what is the historical inaccuaracy in that picture?

[Monarch]

Historical innacuracy alert!!

http://www.tothegame.com/sshotfeat.a...een=6125&pic=5

Treblichets have wheels! (and yes, i know it's spelt trebuchet)

Wait, do you mean they are not suppose to have wheels, or supposed to that large wheel in the central thats not actually a wheel for movement? (I saw one at Warwick Castle last year that had those wheel type things http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/conten...lt_300x400.jpg

[Viking]

I hope SEGA will have the wits to release this on a DVD instead of cds.

Oh yeah, you can be 99,99% sure about that. At the time RTW was released, only a few games had been released on DVD. BI didn`t even fill the capacity of the CD it arrived on.

[Samurai Waki]

*rubs hands together maniacally* good. good.

[Hambut_bulge]

And is it just me, or have others noted what appears to be blood on some units-as if they get bloody after getting hit.

Nope, its not just you. According to the official blurb, "Troops and cavalry are decorated with all the heraldic finery and colour of medieval warfare that’s gradually muddied and bloodstained through the course of battle."

And those screenies look fantastic!

[Devastatin Dave]

This sis great, though i would prefer Shogun 2.

[Wishazu]

wow! looks fantastic but like frogbeastegg i too am cautiously hopefull. Everything looks great and the new features seem superb but im disappointed with their decision to return to previously visited ground. I was hoping for a Napoleonic totalwar game with fully functional fleet actions. nevermind. I just hope the AI is improved.

[Monarch]

wow! looks fantastic but like frogbeastegg i too am cautiously hopefull. Everything looks great and the new features seem superb but im disappointed with their decision to return to previously visited ground. I was hoping for a Napoleonic totalwar game with fully functional fleet actions. nevermind. I just hope the AI is improved.

Using the Rome engine, I think fleet battles where pretty much always out of the question, as a result, Napolean without naval would have sucked. Which is why I believe NTW will be the next one, the 'revolutionary' step.

Anyhow, interesting bit from Sega.co.uk:

Medieval 2 is steeped in the richness of the middle ages. Fire dead animals into besieged towns to spread disease, ransom or execute captured nobles, marry daughters into rival families to secure alliances, and even fight in the Crusades under the banner of your religion.

Firing dead animals into towns sounds very fun! Ransom captured nobles is also sounding like a great idea.

Edit: http://www.sega-europe.com/en/MediaP...ots___5654.htm

Did we already see those from other sites?[/bad memory]

[boastj]

Think about it logically if trebuchets didn’t wheels how would they move them to the battle field

[King Ragnar]

This is sexily fantastic

[Monarch]

This is demonically fantastic

Well that's one way of putting it.

[scotchedpommes]

Sovereign, ransoming is something that was a feature in the original
Medieval, just in case you were unaware. I'm glad they will have brought
it back.

Also, on the point of individual details on units, would just like to ask, does
anyone remember the Rome preview? Units were individually detailed in that, and
battle dynamics and choreography seemed more complex. That said, that they
have named these specifically as features of the new game would indicate that
these are definite advances that will be made. [Nothing but excellent.]

Am more eagerly looking forward to a return to lengthy, well-balanced battles
featured in Medieval, and a departure from 30 second engagements seen in
Rome. Also very interested in seeing separation of cities from castles or other
fortifications.

[Templar Knight]

This is fantastic

lmao

I wonder if you have dungeons or if you just have the option to ransom or execute. Oh man I am so excited

[TB666]

Think about it logically if trebuchets didn’t wheels how would they move them to the battle field

They built them on site if I remember correctly.
But I guess they couldn't add such a feature so they added wheels for the sake of gameplay.

[asilv]

Didn't notice this before:

Medieval 2: Total War will be charging its way onto streets in winter 2006.

http://www.totalwar.com/community/press.htm

CA has been really busy lately. They must have started MTW2 (or should I say M2TW ) development right after Rtw was ready while also doing BI and Spartan at the same time .

[boastj]

Good logic TB666

[King Henry V]

I need to clean the screen...I've been drooling all over it! And I'm going to be ahead of all those people named juliuscaeser4893 desperately wanting to be called Robin Hood.

[Martok]

CA has been really busy lately. They must have started MTW2 (or should I say M2TW ) development right after Rtw was ready while also doing BI and Spartan at the same time .

Yes, that's very likely--if anything, they might've started working on Medieval 2 even earlier than that. CA has a history of working on projects for a long time before announcing them. You have to remember, this is a company that started working on Rome as soon as Shogun was released way back in 2000; but they didn't even reveal Rome until 2003 (and of course it wasn't released until 2004)! So yes, the odds are good that Medieval 2 has been in the works since Rome came out, if not before.

[The_Doctor]

I have just been watchting my Doctor Who DVDs, so now all I can say is:

FANTASTIC!!!

[King Noob the Stupid]

*Thinks that it will really be a perfect game*
*knows that he'll never have a PC with 3GHz+ dualcore CPU, WGF-compatible ultra1337 PCIe graphics card, 2 GB of RAM and Windows V-crap*
*decides never to visit any total war-related sites again in order to avoid unneccessary sadness *

[Taliferno]

Lets try and guess the factions:

Certs (Well not confirmed but very likely based on historical prominence)

English
French
Holy Roman Empire
Papacy
Spanish
Almohads/Almoravids
Egyptians
Turks
Byzantine Empire
Polish
Hungarians
Danish
Siculo-Normans

What capacity? (A faction in this area will certainly be there but what form will it take?)

Italians (One faction, or a split, with both the Venetians and the Genoese?)
Russia (The Kievan Rus and Novgorod, or just the one Russian faction?)
Aztecs (Can we expect them as a faction, or maybe just rebels with Aztec units? Perhaps the Incas and Mayans will join them? Would this put it past the apparent 21 limit?)

Other possibilities (Includes lesser powers and also later emerging factions)

Swiss
Burgundians
Golden Horde
Swedish
Norwegians
Irish
Kingdom of the Isles
Scots
Welsh
Bretons
Navarrese
Valencians
Portuguese
Ilkhanate
Khwarzimian Empire
Cumans
Bulgarians
Serbians
Wallachians
Teutonic Knights
Crusader States
Latin Empire
Nicaean Empire (1205-1261)
Epirote Empire
Trebizond
Khazars
African faction (depends on how far the map goes down)
Armenians
Georgians
Danishmendid Turks
Karaman Turks
Flemish
Bohemians
Lancastrians/Yorkists (England might divide once the WOTR begins)
Pisans
Knights Hospitaller
Lithuanians
Croatians

Ok some are long shots but there's the pool, now you've got to decide. Thing is, we don't even know how far the map goes, I mean it might go all the way to India for all we know!

From that list I would say the Swiss, Burgundians, Golden Horde (as they all featured in the original MTW in some way) and possibly the Scots (In order to simulate the difficulties the English had in the British Isles, if nothing else. I chose the Scottish over the Irish as the Scots could share a few unit models with other factions, where as the Irish would require a completley different model set in order to do them justice). The Armenians are another likely faction, in order to make the east more interesting (instead of just Byzantines vs Turks every single game).

There is going to be more than 250 units (does this mean 250 differnet models, or just textures?) spread out over 21 factions, which is about 10 per faction with 40ish as regional units.

[Templar Knight]

Do you think sea battles are in?

[boastj]

Where does it say the specs

[Devastatin Dave]

Yes, that's very likely--if anything, they might've started working on Medieval 2 even earlier than that. CA has a history of working on projects for a long time before announcing them. You have to remember, this is a company that started working on Rome as soon as Shogun was released way back in 2000; but they didn't even reveal Rome until 2003 (and of course it wasn't released until 2004)! So yes, the odds are good that Medieval 2 has been in the works since Rome came out, if not before.

I would just absolutely love to be in their meetings and hear some of the ideas and projects going on behind the scenes. Can you imagine?

[TB666]

Where does it say the specs

It doesn't.
They haven't been released yet

[scotchedpommes]

I wonder if you have dungeons or if you just have the option to ransom or execute. Oh man I am so excited

Mind, rebels could be executed or enslaved depending on faction. Perhaps they
will have implemented something like that alongside the ransom system.