Update 2 Released!

[Elmo]

Installed the patch but the game won't start. It puts up the initial screen for a second then the whole screen goes black and I get a rotating hourglass that just never stops. Bah.

[Doug-Thompson]

Worked fine for me, (Right over 1.01, no mods.) but took so long to install in places that I got worried several times. I'm not implying that the problems being reported aren't happening. Just warning people not to panic if the progress bar looks like it's never moving.

One thing that might or might not have helped: I downloaded the patch at the office, burned it to a cd, took the CD home, dragged the patch to the desktop (which was almost certainly unnecessary) and loaded it from there.

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Militia spears beat peasants now. Peasants still cause >40 percent casualties to the miltia and take a long time to kill, which is fine with me. They can hold up spears until help arrives.

Religious fanatics (which were victims of the 2H bug) are now a worthwhile unit. I had HRE fanatics fight some Saracen Infantry, and it was a close-run thing. Very powerful initial charge, but then the fanatics had to fight it out against a unit with shields. The battle wasn't really decided until the HRE captain got killed. It was a face to face charge, so the fanatics could have won if they'd had some ground advantage, were better rested or had some morale advantage to exploit.

Router chasing is MUCH improved.

Horse archers don't seem harmed in any way. If anything, there appears to me MUCH less straggling.

[pike master]

either change back your imperial campaign folder changes or do a clean install. either should work. i found out the hard way.