Taking Notes During Grand Campaigns

**DukeKent** · 03-30-2007, 18:26

I am a micromanager myself, and sometimes I wonder if I suffer from early onset of alzheimers. lol . No really I have my own system on how to manage turns. I take notes in text pad, especially late in the game with a lot of provinces and generals. I have a lot of generals since I modded in recruitable generals. To enable other windows at the the same time you have to play the game in windowed mode. Put the following in your medieval2.preference.cfg file. This file is in the M2TW root. In your medieval2.preference.cfg file put the following -

[video]
windowed = true

link explaining the mod switch, windowed mode, and a lot more -
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=71291

If I remember correctly the medieval2.preference.cfg file gets overlaid each time the game is started. So you will need to copy your version of this file on top of medieval2.preference.cfg each time you start the game. You can do this in a windows .bat/.cmd file.

Happy Note Taking

**Quickening** · 03-30-2007, 18:32

I have no need to take notes either. If I leave a campaign and don't play it for a few days I will usually just start a new one. I like all that has passed to be fresh in my mind.

One idea might be for like a log of events for your Kingdom. You know like how at the end of some strategy games you get a history of your empire.

**wzup** · 03-30-2007, 18:46

taking notes seems a bit too neurotic imo. I can leave the game for about 1month and still remember where I'm going what IBM supposed to do. IF worse come to worse and you forgot to do something vital you can just hit the load button...

**HoreTore** · 03-30-2007, 22:39

An ingame notepad would be VERY appreciated. Easy to do, and very useful to some of us.

**SadCat** · 04-01-2007, 09:25

I forget to take notes.

So things get lost over the work week. I jest say that the last spy must of stolen the orders pouch.

Send a new runner to get them moving again. The game takes longer and not as smooth but still fun. SadCat

**Stuperman** · 04-02-2007, 03:55

I take notes on and off, I find that once your empire has 30+ provinces, keeping track of generals can be a pain, espeically if you don't want all of them to become lazy alcoholics.

**andrewt** · 04-02-2007, 04:24

I would support some ingame notetaking as well. I usually plan which city or which castle techs up to which unit or building first and of course, it's almost impossible to keep track of all of it if you're micromanaging. That and planning attacks, sending agents, etc. Whenever I play a game again after a break, whether a few hours to a few days, I always end up repeating the first turns because there's always something I'd forget.

Oh yeah, I was going to send all these priests to this province because it's about to revolt. Oh yeah, I needed to move some garrisons from these cities to a newly conquered one. Oh, that's what that ship is for and why these armies are moving here...