Exspansion pack for med 2

[neoiq5719]

maybe they are working already on the next total war and that is WW1 and WW2. who knows, that might be another cool game.

[pike master]

the american civil war is about as far as i think they will ever be able to carry the game. later types of warfare wouldnt mesh well with the battle mechanics of total war games.

one thing that is interesting i think is that for melee halberdier animations would be not too far off from a bayoneted muskets use in melee. but i mean the finishing hack from the halberdier after he has tripped a guy wouldnt do so well. the rest of the animation would work.

[Captain Fishpants]

maybe they are working already on the next total war and that is WW1 and WW2. who knows, that might be another cool game.

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

[Whacker]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

Hmmm.. Fast as a Shark 2. Does that imply another sequel??

[alpaca]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

Hehe you didn't by chance have a say in the name?
Anyways, I'd enjoy it if it wasn't a codename

[Budwise]

Well, think about this for a second or two...

"okay, let's add those viking settlements, they're way too cool! Hmm, now let's see...the reason they are there is....the reason anyone would bother going there is...the point of having them there in a game where the action are centered on big battles is...oh wait they had the great battle of ...... there!"

Anyone with an answer to that? What the HELL is the point of adding a settlement far away in canada to the campaign map?

I disagree. I think even small additions like Canada will go a long way to making a great game better. Honestly, if you don't want Canada, leave it alone but I would like to have the OPTION of taking just a small settlement in Canada.

[_Tristan_]

For my part, I think CA will give us an expansion on the lines of its previous installments something like NEW WORLD INVASION ...

With the factions being mainly Spain, Portugal, England and France the four powers that conquered a part of America and some playable Aztecs and Incas factions (one has to remember that though being quite unified empires there was a lot of civil strife among the Aztec or Inca nations or cities...)

Maybe an hidden Eldorado like Timbuktu in the main campaign...

I would really like to see what the Rain Forest would look like in TW style...

The main problem with any developing civilzation in those parts will be how to treat slavery as it was taking place at the time...

Think also of the naval part played by the Spanish Galleons and the Piracy that developed around the riches carried by those ships

It's the most logical follow-up IMO, that's where the main campaign is leading anyway, so...

[Lorenzo_H]

For my part, I think CA will give us an expansion on the lines of its previous installments something like NEW WORLD INVASION ...

With the factions being mainly Spain, Portugal, England and France the four powers that conquered a part of America and some playable Aztecs and Incas factions (one has to remember that though being quite unified empires there was a lot of civil strife among the Aztec or Inca nations or cities...)

Maybe an hidden Eldorado like Timbuktu in the main campaign...

I would really like to see what the Rain Forest would look like in TW style...

The main problem with any developing civilzation in those parts will be how to treat slavery as it was taking place at the time...

Think also of the naval part played by the Spanish Galleons and the Piracy that developed around the riches carried by those ships

It's the most logical follow-up IMO, that's where the main campaign is leading anyway, so...

I think it will be similar to this, but also incorporating the Renaissance Warfare, so as to include all the nations that didn't get significant parts of America.

[Vladimir]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

$10USD says it's a naval expansion for M2.

[FactionHeir]

Try to rearrange the letter of what FIshpants posted. Maybe there is a hidden message? Or maybe an allusion to something else just by name?

[alpaca]

Try to rearrange the letter of what FIshpants posted. Maybe there is a hidden message? Or maybe an allusion to something else just by name?

Or maybe it's just a joke by the devs who try to mislead people who believe in conspiracy theories?

[JeromeGrasdyke]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

Now now Fishpants, you know that teasing the faithful is not good practice. It'll cause your stock to drop precipitously, and you'll miss your target for goody-goodyness.

Although it is true we have nought to do with either the Med2 patch or the exp pack.

[pike master]

how about a post nuclear war total war. with deformed hordes of mentally deranged zombies running around and alien ants the size of automobiles marching in perfect formation with jaws gaping open.

[Whacker]

how about a post nuclear war total war. with deformed hordes of mentally deranged zombies running around and alien ants the size of automobiles marching in perfect formation with jaws gaping open.

Fallout: Total War? A Post-Nuclear Warfare Strategy Game?

[Razor1952]

Now now Fishpants, you know that teasing the faithful is not good practice. It'll cause your stock to drop precipitously, and you'll miss your target for goody-goodyness.

Although it is true we have nought to do with either the Med2 patch or the exp pack.

I enjoy being teased... really!, life is all toooo serious.

[antisocialmunky]

Fallout: Total War? A Post-Nuclear Warfare Strategy Game?

RADSCORPIAN CAVALRY!!! YEHA!

[Whacker]

RADSCORPIAN CAVALRY!!! YEHA!

Instead of elephants, Raiders riding overside Brahmin? Instead of wardogs, a bunch of jet-heads herding Floaters?

[JCoyote]

RADSCORPIAN CAVALRY!!! YEHA!

I can imagine one large but hilarious problem with some fool riding on the back of a scorpion thats trying to fight...

[pike master]

you could use the aftermath enviroment of warzone 2100 as a skeleton to build on. just not carry the technology and war machines as far. eventually you could build up to cyborg fighters and tanks but they would be very expensive and could not be used in large numbers.

firearms would be adhoc at best. sometimes eventually you might get to build up to machine guns and other types of weapons but at first it would be armies of men fighting with sharpened pieces of reebar and crowbars adn motorcycle chains.

with the occasional junk car jerry rigged up with a machine gun or recoiless rife on top.

you could have various factions such as gang factions that have overrun the destroyed cities

you could have backcountry mountian boys who specialize in rifles and bowie knives.

the post govt forces reemerging from their fallout shelters

cyborg faction similiar to skynet

groups of disfigured and deformed people who form large packs roaming the land in search of food and shelter and willing to kill to get it.

voracious packs of wild dogs and coyote wolf hybrids

wonders of the post nuclear world. ie the pentagon and its secret hidden technologies, various world weapons arsenals or large hospitals with stockpiles of drugs to increase your populations health.

the battlefields could take place in ruined and decimated cities.

your faction could be a medieval army who after being warned by leonardo da vinci of the impending doom of the future enter a time machine of his creation to rescue the post nuclear world.

seriously 8|

[Cadwallon1]

Howabout a reformation/counter-reformation addition? There was enough going on with wars in the HRE, Low Countries, England and France (Catholics and Huegenots) - not to mention fending off invasions from massive Turkish invasions.

Little civil wars - I can just imagine having a new model army of roundheads, fighting against Prince Ruperts' Cavaliers. Luvly stuff.

Religion would play more of a role - as you have principalities and nobles deciding to become protties or staying papists.

Whatabout refighting the reconquista, with little Granada fighting back against the Christian Infidels?

Of course you need a naval game. What would the reformation/renaissance be without the Battle of Lepanto?

[Thamis]

I see regiments of really fast sharks battling it out with the parrot fish in the coral reefs off they Seychelles. Oh, and a cute little orange fish called Nemo is in there, too. ;)

[Captain Fishpants]

Now now Fishpants, you know that teasing the faithful is not good practice. It'll cause your stock to drop precipitously, and you'll miss your target for goody-goodyness.

Although it is true we have nought to do with either the Med2 patch or the exp pack.

Look, we call it Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! in our corner of the office. Then again, at least one of our number still thinks we're working on Ninja Elephant Go! and I was reasonably convinced that we were doing Sound The Profanity Trumpet Online for a while.

I think we need a simpler system for code names. Perhaps we should set up an Excel spreadsheet for them.

But whatever it's called, it looks coooooooo-uhl!

And I don't have a goody-goodyness target. I have a carefully rationed monthly allowance of naughtiness.

[Thamis]

Congrats on the 400th post! Nice post.

[Whacker]

and I was reasonably convinced that we were doing Sound The Profanity Trumpet Online

Wait... I thought you were working on a game, not an updated version of the .Org forums.

[TinCow]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

I'm on to you. Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! is just an anagram for "A Freaky Baby Has Hat Ass! ,:2" I haven't quite figured out what "hat ass" is yet, but clearly the strange smiley at the end is a picture of one.

And Ninja Elephant Go! is an anagram for "Japan Eel In Thong!" You people make me sick.

[Cousin Zoidfarb]

how about putting in war wagons, and impoving some factions like poland who appear to be hastily done and lack units

[sapi]

More information here

It's been reported over at TWc since its been previewed in a German magazine.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=89663

Here is what we know so far:

The Addon will contain 4 Campaigns, with new faction(bolded):

• Britain: With England, Wales, Scotland, Norway, Ireland.
• Crusade: Two Alliances vs. Each other: Jerusalem + Antiochia vs Egypt, Byzantines, Turks and all together vs. Mongols
• New World: Azteks, Maya, Apache,Tarasken, Chichimeken, Tlaxkalteken and Spanish Settlers under Cortez
• East Europe: With German Knights, Poland, Lithuania, Denmark, Novgorod

- Moats added around castles
- They also added "Special abilities" for the historical persons in the 4 campaigns: Richard I. can collect fleeing troups, Emperor Manuel of Byzanz can "confuse" enemy units, that they hit themself.
- The campaings have different targets and a different way of playing it. In the Eastern, the religion plays a big role (because of unrest and unit development -> u can only build teutonic knights in a catholic area) in the New world if you play the spanish have only few Units and you have to look for alliances and trading routes.
- More units on a battlefield.
- You can build Forts with water around it.... keep their position and which you also can conquer and use for urself.
- More + Different Mission Targets: A noble man apears and asks for your help in a combat. If you are successfull, your reward will depend to how you won (how many you killed).
- In the Britain Scenario you can make as enemy of England an alliance with renegate(?) english aristocrats. They ask for your help, to conquer a town. If you give them the town after the victory, they will found a new anti-english fraction "Allianz der Barone"!

Now i think that's going to be a pretty good expansion.

[Zenicetus]

The Addon will contain 4 Campaigns, with new faction(bolded):

* Crusade: Two Alliances vs. Each other: Jerusalem + Antiochia vs Egypt, Byzantines, Turks and all together vs. Mongols

I sure hope that means you can play either alliance side, otherwise the Eastern/Muslim factions aren't getting much love in this expansion.

* New World: Azteks, Maya, Apache,Tarasken, Chichimeken, Tlaxkalteken and Spanish Settlers under Cortez

Ugh.... Apaches. I know why they're doing this, in terms of "cool units to fight," but I wish they had stuck a little closer to history and done the Apalachee and/or Calusa in Florida, instead of going for the Apaches.

The other stuff looks okay, I guess.

[Burns]

They'll spill the beans soon enough.

[Budwise]

As I've said elsewhere, we in the UK are working on Fast As A Shark 2: Yeah, Baby! This may be a code name.

It's the Australian office that's working on M2 at present.

With all do respect to the CA programmers and creators of this great series, could you not show your true geekness and come up with cooler sounding codenames. I mean come on, I say that codename to my girlfriend and she will do nothing but complain and I wouldn't get the aquired "fun time" that people get as a trade off for being stuck with women and put up with all the complaints on how incompetent we are. Women, urgggg, if only they were as easy as a full on castle seige.