The Will of the Senate PBM - out of character thread IV

[Lucjan]

Thanks . I'm trying to keep it as in character as I can. I'll try to get some better screenies next time though.

[Mount Suribachi]

ooooh.....

[Dutch_guy]

ooooh.....

Oh yeah, it does look good.

Makes me doubt if my pc is good enough, even though running rome on High seems to work

[Mount Suribachi]

That was an "oooooh" said with a wince not with an "aaaahhh"

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Gaaaaaaawwwwdd

I just gotta share this with you guys. I've been playing a H/VH campaign trying to catch up with the PBeM from the start. All nice and peaceful mostly, not even had a war with Carthage (alough the irritating bastards landed a half-stack army with elephants near Rome, and they've been stuck there for 15 years already). Booted out Greece from Italy (Pyrrhus immediately took ship for Greece), and got alliances with the Germans, Iberians, Pontus and then Illyria, whom I was keeping an eye on, also asks for an alliance.

By far the greatest threat on H/VH is Macedon, they are truly murderous. As usual, they wiped Greece of the map and became uberpowerful.

So I see the Illyrians are down to two cities (Segestica and Appolonia) and at war with Macedon and under siege by the Thracians. I move in my consular army to Segestica and together with the Illyrians wipe the Thracians (so hard, they even sued for peace afterwards - I really love those allied battles). Then I conquer Delmatia and Salona from Macedon and give them back to Illyria. With my back covered, I make the daring move of laying siege to Pella. Macedon and I fight it out in a very tough battle (they had 3 units of hypaspitai and I was outnumbered, and to top it off, my general got himself stuck somewhere after his first charge) and I sack the town. Now Macedon is truly pissed off. I run like crazy to the south, but Macedon catches up with me with a full stack of phalanx units and 1 good general, i.e. 1950 chaps !

And I won ! The biggest odds I ever faced on VH and I won, I only had 1100 chaps or so, half of them skirmishers or missile units. They immediately followed up with another attack, 900 versus 700 this time, which I won with ease.

Gosh, I still can't believe I pulled it off

The other interesting thing that happened was a unit of Gallic gaestate slaughtering 200 of my chaps (mostly principii) in a deep dark forest. These guys are truly nasty if you can't see what the hell you are doing.

[Lucjan]

Yeah you have to watch those naked bastards..

Uh...well, you don't have to watch them..you just need to keep an eye on them to...

What I mean is don't let them out of your sight..

Or..dangit..

It sounds perverted now matter how you phrase it.

[Dutch_guy]

That was an "oooooh" said with a wince not with an "aaaahhh"

Are you going soft on me, senator ?

[TinCow]

I still think a semi-historically inaccurate English Parliament would make a great basis for a M2TW version of this same PBeM. The Will of the Parliament?

[Death the destroyer of worlds]

Perhaps a bit premature ?

[Dooz]

I can't wait for this style of PBEM with all the players on M2TW . Parliament, council, we can call it whatever.

[Braden]

I was thinking that you could run a PBeM game with a Barbarian Faction still using this format though.

You’d have a Council of Elders (Upper house) and a Warrior Caste (lower house).

The RP aspect would be that the Warrior Caste would be archetypal Barbarian sort – Honour in War and Victory etc (although it could be moulded further if each Avatar was allocated a particular God they follow and which Barbarian race they were).

This would lead to them forever butting heads with the wiser Elders who advise the King (Consul).

What are the Barbarian Factions like to play in RTR:PE? Balanced?

[Mount Suribachi]

You could do it with the Saxons in VI, The Will of the Thane, you could do it with Britain in the (original) Napoleonic mod, The Will of Parliament, you could do it with HRE in MTW or MTW2, The Will of the Electors, or Venice in MTW2. Lots of potential options.

A lot depends on how MTW2 in implemented, eg how the missions from your elders & guilds work.

DDW, that was some impressive work, a full stack of macedonian Phalangites with +7 attack/defence is not to be sneezed at!

[Lucjan]

Theoretically you could use this style of PBeM with any faction provided you come up with a decent enough excuse.

Actually, I've been thinking of getting a laptop soon capable of running oh...whatever I want it to. Anybody have any suggestions, without breaking the bank? And I refuse to buy Alienware, I will not sell out to those commie pigs!

[Mount Suribachi]

Did I miss something bad Alienware did?

[Lucjan]

The following is an angry, impassioned rant. If such things bother you, don't read it. If they amuse you, like they should, well then by all means continue. Actually, you know, even if they do bother you, continue, or I'll cut your arms off! I must be heard!


Their very existance is a sin. They have taken the art of gamer pc construction and turned it into yet another fad for the ignorant masses.

Perhaps if they did not blatantly flaunt themselves to every dumb joe on the street I would respect them. But no..they do not cater solely to those who care enough about their pc and their games to actually put a little intellectual work into it and learn how they operate, learn what makes them tick...no..they have sold out our bastion of nerdliness to 'normal' people.

And for this I hate them, and I can never accept their existance as being good or helpful to anyone. AlienWare, BURN IN HELL! *Storms the production plant and starts firing off rounds.*

(Not to mention I could build the same exact computer they would charge $3,000 for, for about $2,200, maybe less.)

[Braden]

Despite the “Anti-Communistic” bit…..I have to agree (but stop somewhat short of storming their Shop…..you can’t call it a Production Line Lucjan after that rant? That implies they “make” something ).

PC owners worth their salt get proper “built to order” PC’s (which I do) or build them themselves (which I don’t on account of being a Fat, Lazy Communistic Pagan).

Suggestion for Laptop - frankly "Don't", laptops just won't ever have the same punch as Towers....however, try Dabs.com or CCLonline.com and just aim for the best you can and budget for around £1800 (GBP).

OR save £1000 and get a Tower system....with about the same power.

[Lucjan]

Honestly, I want a laptop so I can play Rome and M2TW during my hour and a half long breaks between classes at school.

[Mount Suribachi]

maybe you should get a cheaper laptop and play STW & MTW

[Dutch_guy]

I still think a semi-historically inaccurate English Parliament would make a great basis for a M2TW version of this same PBeM. The Will of the Parliament?

Sounds great

[Lucjan]

I would play...errr, after a total realism mod comes out. I don't think I could stomach playing it with the vanilla version. Not enough territories and such...

[Dooz]

Hot damn, I've just been playing Arthurian: TW for the past two days. Hell of a mod. I would not mind seeing a PBEM with that, I tell ya'. Would anyone be interested? I'd love to see the main guys from here head that one as well, same style and whatnot.

[Glaucus]

I downloaded Authurian and played it. Only played once so far, but it was really laggy. It may be that my computer is not good enough(though I can play RTW and RTR on medium-high quality with ease), or maybe I shouldn't have had iTunes and other programs running underneath it...

[Dooz]

I downloaded Authurian and played it. Only played once so far, but it was really laggy. It may be that my computer is not good enough(though I can play RTW and RTR on medium-high quality with ease), or maybe I shouldn't have had iTunes and other programs running underneath it...

Lol, yeah you don't want to have other prorams running at the same time.

[Lucjan]

Wonderland I would gladly run an Arthurian PBeM with you, maybe one using Myrddraal's multiplayer script. Send me a pm with your ideas.

[Glaucus]

Off topic, but I am in desperate need of technical help. I figure I'll ask you guys here as well as in the Apothecary, but it isn't relevant to TW. The game Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is one of my personal favorites. Fantastic saber combat system + star wars characters and vehicles makes for an awesome FPS. I HIGHLY recommend it if you are a nerd like me and love star wars, or are in the mood for an amazing sword-fighting game. The online play is what makes it amazing, dueling with other people is simply fantastic. I think it is only like 10 bucks or something nowadays too. Anyway, back to my problem: I played it on this same computer a year ago, but when I tried to play it today it didn't work. The only changes I've made to my computer since then is to upgrade from a crap Intel video card to a Radeon 9200 and to go from 512 RAM to a gig. On the consule thing this comes up after a sort of CTD:

GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

any help is much appreciated

[Dooz]

Wonderland I would gladly run an Arthurian PBeM with you, maybe one using Myrddraal's multiplayer script. Send me a pm with your ideas.

Luc, actually I was just throwing the idea out there, hoping some of the people who run this one would be into that, as I love how this is going. I would never be able to keep the immaculate records like the one TinCow so incredibely does and have such great stuff.

What's the multiplayer script you speak of? Personally, I was talking about a PBEM just like this one basically, except with that mod. Would the script play into that?

Oh and also, do you think it'd be better to wait for future versions, seeing as how it's still beta 0.61 (even though it's great as-is)?

[econ21]

I downloaded Authurian and played it. Only played once so far, but it was really laggy.

I read something about the mod currently missing some sprites which may make the battles run more slowly. It put me off trying it just yet.

[Lucjan]

Missing a few tiny sprites is no reason to not see this gorgeous mod.

Myrddraal wrote a script that confuses the game into stopping at specific, multiple faction turns. So you can have as many real players as you want. Actually...here's the thread.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=64876

I'd be willing to run one of these (or any other kind of Arthurian PBeM for that matter).

[Lucjan]

Alright, everything is back up and running now, off to download the last save game and have some fun.



Sorry for the scare. lol

[Dooz]

Missing a few tiny sprites is no reason to not see this gorgeous mod.

Myrddraal wrote a script that confuses the game into stopping at specific, multiple faction turns. So you can have as many real players as you want. Actually...here's the thread.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=64876

I'd be willing to run one of these (or any other kind of Arthurian PBeM for that matter).

Ah, so each player would play as their own kingdom? I suppose that'd make more sense in a game such as this where you never really have enough money to have more than one, maybe two standing field armies. However, that kind of puts me off because we'd never actually fight the battles, only autoresolve right?

More I think of it, the more a traditional PBEM whereby you play by reign seems the best for this mod, no? Makes the most sense. It'd be pretty long reigns, if we play until the death of the leader, but be pretty interesting. There could of course be a rule to just limit it to a certain amount of years, maybe 10, which would probably be better.

Also, I love that there are no sprites as my computer can handle it and everything looks much prettier with the actual 3d all the time . Now I'm wondering if there's any way to turn off sprites for all my games?