Any questions for the official M2TW FAQ?

[econ21]

The Shogun over at totalwar.com has started a FAQ for M2TW:

http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotal...cID=1127.topic

At the suggestion of Dead Moroz, this thread is to collect some questions for possible inclusion in the FAQ.

Captain Fishpants has kindly agreed to pass on some questions that we collate from Org members.

We'll limit it to around a dozen or so questions in the first instance, so to help us select the most important, please limit yourselves to a few questions each. Or at least list them in order of importance.

Keep to the kind of factual and informational questions suitable for a FAQ Nothing too philosophical or argumentative. Derogatory questions will be deleted.

Thanks for any suggestions!

[IceTorque]

Will the number of units per stack and/or the number of men per unit be increased ? and if so by how much ?
Will the units behave more like well trained and disciplined soldiers and less like a drunken mob ?

[Servius]

1) What variables/aspects of the game will be easily modable (with basic programs like Notepad, Word, Excel, etc.)?
2) Will spear units receive the defensive bonus when their formation is deeper (a rank bonus) that existed in MTW but was removed from RTW?
3) Will infantry units have access to the wedge formation as they did in MTW (but not in RTW)?
4) Will types of terrain (desert, forest, hills, fjords, etc.) grant bonuses to certain units?
5) Can you please explain how the AI will make better strategic (economic, world-map-movements, etc.) and tactical (army leaders, balanced armies, battle-map-movements, etc.) decisions?
6) Will I be charged for units and buildings in my queue, even if they're not currently under construction?

[hellenes]

1. Will the game utilise the 64bit vista? And DirectX10? Generally will it be more optimised to take advatage of monster dual core rigs and field tens of thousands of troops?

2. Will there be a limit on unit sizes? Like the 240 men in RTW? Because there was a mod for RTW 1.0 that allowed 500 men in one unit...

3. Will the rank shooting penalty of M1TW come back? Like the archers further back in the rows didnt shoot/shoot with less accuracy?

4. What limit will be: For unit/province/factions numbers?

5. Will there be a bird skeleton? Which wasnt finalised in RTW as its evident from the txt files this is VERY important for fantasy total conversions.

6. Will the Multiplayer be B A L A N C E D? This is VERY cruicial to even speak about multiplayer.

7. Will there be a settlement editor in M2TW 1.0? More like M1TW? Because RTW's is kinda clumsy.

Hellenes

[Dead Moroz]

Can you please explain how the AI will make better strategic (economic, world-map-movements, etc.) and tactical (army leaders, balanced armies, battle-map-movements, etc.) decisions?

That's my first question too.

- What is the current situation with factions? Will there be more factions, especially in the eastern part of map? (Not the question itself, but important request: Please, don't tell that this question is "still under consideration", 'coz it will actually mean that nothing will be changed, but you don't want to admit it.)

- Any more clarification of new turns system (if it's possible)?

- Will there be Glorious Achievements?

- Will there be town guard recruitable among citizens during sieges?

- Will rivers be included into city plans?

- Will there be fishing industry in coastal regions?

- Will Aztecs have human sacrifices?

Hope, it's not too much. I was trying to restrain myself.

[Guillaume le Batard]

Will Medieval 2: Total War further develop the "field defense" concept introduced in Rome: Total War? More specifically, will it be possible to build defensive works (such as non-settlement castles) as needed/where needed?

Thanks for any thoughts you might share!

Wm. le Batard

[Nelson]

Will any castles have moats?

[Ignoramus]

Will cities on the battlemap be portrayed correctly? I.e. Paris on the Ile de France.
Will there be GA(Glorious Achievements)?
Will the technological advances be historically accurate?

My two cents.

[sapi]

Misc, no real order.

How will the family system be done? Seeing as this is back to medieval times, will you have no choice over the heir other than to kill him?
Is the ai being rebuilt from scratch or will it be a modded version of rtw?

[Duke John]

Will we get a model/animation import/export tool?

[Zatoichi]

Will gunpowder be discovered by a specific turn/year or will it depend on constructing certain buildings/buildings + random number of turns/years (as in RTW for the Marian reforms depending on which patch you use)?

Will musket armed troops only be able to fire in 2 ranks to be effective, or will it be the same archery model used in RTW, where depth of formation made no difference? (This applies to all archery units I guess).

Will there be faction respawn after their defeat a la MTW?

Will generals' loyalty and civil wars be included?

Is Sean Pertwee in the frame for more voice acting?

OK, that's enough for now.

Edit - oh, just one more! Will there be prisoner capture of routing units and the the opportunity to ransom them after the battle?

[Furious Mental]

Will pikemen be able to defend their formation with multiple ranks of pikes from any direction?

[lar]

will we see some battle replays/movies anytime soon?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Will there be events like the discovery of gunpowder in MTW? How will such events fit into a turn-system with no dates and an apparently fluid definition of time per turn?

[Voigtkampf]

Also, will those events be hardcoded, or will there be moddable? In sense that the nature of event can be altered, as well as its time of occurrence?

Also greatly important is the maximum limit of factions/provinces.

Will there be resurrecting factions, as well as pope coming back to retake Rome?

[Dead Moroz]

Could not stop myself from asking more questions.

- How important will be marriages between factions? Will it be really possible to gain another kingdom when all members of its ruling family are dead and one of your family members is married to their princess?

- Will muslim and pagan factions have princesses? And will it be possible to contract marriage between christian and muslim/pagan factions? (In MTW1 it was impossible, but in fact it were not rare events in medieval history.)

- Will it be possible to change state religion (as medieval history has numerous examples of such events)?

[Geoffrey S]

Will it once again be possible to record battles in the campaign mode, as in MTW?

[The_Doctor]

Can horse and camel units dismount before battle?

[Butcher]

Reiteration of a few from above:

Can you please explain how the AI will make better strategic (economic, world-map-movements, etc.) and tactical (army leaders, balanced armies, battle-map-movements, etc.) decisions?

Will there be GA(Glorious Achievements)?

[sythianwarlord]

when is medieval totalwar2 coming out?

[Voigtkampf]

Will there be a re-introduction of a medieval court/palace room, similar to Shogun's throne room?

[guyfawkes5]

Will the Irish be in it as a playable faction?
Will the dynamics with the pope be sorted out? (Whenever the pope was properly subdued, he came back a few years later with a super-army)
Will Scandinavia be included in the campaign map?

[Kagemusha]

Will there be a map or campaign editor included in MTW2?

[Dead Moroz]

Will the Irish be in it as a playable faction?

What Irish faction do you mean???

[SOSamurai]

Some are more important/easier to answer than others, however if any of these are to be submitted, i'll leave it to the submitter to pick which question(s) should be asked.
I also should appologise If any of these have already been asked or answered before.

1. How will buildings and other surroundings (slopes, rivers, trees, etc.) play a role in battlefield tactics in comparison to RTW? (I ask this because of one thing that has impressed me more than anything else with the screenshots released so far: The apparent evolved battle terrain and extra map design detail.)

2. What sort of special tactics/unit specific specialities (like Phalanx formation or flaming arrows in RTW) can we expect to see in MTW2 (if any)?

3. Will there be any form of weather system in MTW2, and how will it effect the battlefield?

4. What will be the maximum number of armies/factions able to enter a battle?

5. How will the game handle "leftover units" who want to enter the field and kill things?

EDIT (remembered one more question): 6. Will players be able to save replays?


That should do.

[anti_strunt]

1. Will the engine support mounted infantry, ie. troops who used horses for rapid battlefield transportation but invariably fought on foot?
2. Will some (or all?) cavalry be able to dismount during battle, or at least before, as in MTW?

[Bleda]

Will the game be similar to the first one in that you can hand out titles to your generals? Not just titles, like Duke or Baron, but your nobility will be part of the bloodline capable of ascending to the throne. I'd like to see some of sort of mix of control of your own dynasty like in RTW, and the ability for some relatives to pass down titles of nobility to those family member as well, sort of like in MTW. Each game lacked a key aspect that the other possessed.

[Lord Hornburg]

Because you have revisited the Medieval period/game does this mean another Shogun could be considered?

Assasian videos! Please get them back! I and im sure many others loved them in Shogun.

[dudzcom]

Will the game engine take advantage of new dual-core processors? if so, will it only take advantage of 2 cores, or will it be able to utalize more as processors are released next year with 4 or more.

[Mithradates]

what kind of specs will we need for our computers to run this amazing game!