Medieval II: Total War Official Thread

[Servius]

I believe CA is incorporating America into this game because they plan to have their next game be based mostly in America. Think of the colonial period. European armies fighting each other for colonies, fighting natives just cause, using a more strategically-interesting map (because of all the island hopping potential, different terrain, etc.). It would also be a good transition into firearms warfair, like Napoleon TW (I bet it's coming).

I don't mean to sound racist, but the native americans were a pushover. The Europeans came with huge ships, cannons, steel armor, guns... The native were still fighting mostly naked with stick and stone weapons, give me a break. I really think this whole Aztec thing is really intended to put a foothold idea in players' head, which will be the jumping-off point for the next TW game.

[Hatchet]

I don't mean to sound racist, but the native americans were a pushover.

Not really, although the Spaniards did have cannons their guns were useless in forests and had very bad aim. Their armor was actually not strong enough to push back a rock and a sling shot, and since you could reload faster with a slingshot they were more deadlier than the guns.

Horses proved useless in tree crowded areas and in hand to hand combat the Aztecs had some superiority.

The main reason that the Spaniards won was the disease that they brought, which is what is consider Montezuma's revenge.

Today the Mexican water will poison any outsider who drinks it, yet back then the outsiders brought poison to the mexicans.

[allfathersgodi]

Disease did the Mexicans in.

Something else that I would really like to see, and I've already said it, a campaign set in the Crusader State Period.

Something else, the possibility of locked alliances in SP Campaigns...