The Pet Peeve thread

**Ranos** · 06-06-2007, 16:40

Originally Posted by Tusk

Another peeve is how, everytime after I've JUST started a new campaign, i discover something that makes me want to play another faction! How can I play 10 campaigns at once?!!!

I have that, play a new campaing every day. Save to say i havent seen the aztecs yet.

**Whacker** · 06-06-2007, 16:50

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Sapping - It's gone. Why????? That was one of, if not the, premiere tactic for breaching enemy wall defenses. This is honestly probably more of a "major" thing for me as opposed to a peeve, but I'll stick it in here anyway.

Huge 240 men units as opposed to measly 150 - Yet something else to blame the MP crowd for. I'm just kidding guys.

Time control slider - Yeah I know we can shift click now, but that's not the same as the almighty slider.

**crpcarrot** · 06-06-2007, 17:09

tower defences firing flaming sho when they cant even hit the target with normal ammo

**Kobal2fr** · 06-06-2007, 17:43

Originally Posted by Ranos

I have that, play a new campaing every day. Save to say i havent seen the aztecs yet.

*looks away*
I...I've never... I've never seen the Timurids....I'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN GUNPOWDER, DADDY !
*bursts into tears*

Yah, I've got grass-greener-on-other-faction's-soil-itis too

**HoreTore** · 06-07-2007, 20:33

Originally Posted by Kobal2fr

*looks away*
I...I've never... I've never seen the Timurids....I'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN GUNPOWDER, DADDY !
*bursts into tears*

Yah, I've got grass-greener-on-other-faction's-soil-itis too

The solution: Make gunpowder, both invasions and world is round event take place earlier. In my current game, I have gunpower at 30, mongols at 50 and world is round at 60. Can't remember when I put the timurids though.

I actually had high hopes of FINALLY seeing the aztecs, but then I noticed that Mount&Blade thread in the arena....

**Fußball** · 06-07-2007, 22:16

I have never gotten to the world is round event yet either and I always purposely prolong my games. Maybe I will wait that long in my current game.

Tschüß!
Erich

**Didz** · 06-08-2007, 08:21

I nearly forgot this one as I've become so used to it now that its almost a feature of the game.

I really. really, hate the auto-rerouting bug that kicks in when a unit can't move where you told it to.

You know the scenario.....your Crusading army is marching through Alpine Germany with all those awkward little passes to negotiate plus the usual merchant traffic jams to contend with. You click on your Crusade and it shows a clear green path all the way down the next valley, so you click on the point you want it to move to and instead of heading in that direction it marches back the way it just came because invisible to you there is a merchant or neutral army coming through the pass from the other direction blocking the route.

That is really annoying and causes damage to my keyboard when I thump it to try an hit the Backspace key as quickly as possible.

If you're too slow it also costs a fortune in replacement units when half your crusade desert because your heading in the wrong direction.

**John_Longarrow** · 06-08-2007, 18:12

My pet peeve would have to be...

Iberian tourists

You know what I'm talking about. Those random stacks of Spanish troops that wander the French country side, eating and drinking with the locals. They don't attack anyone, they just roam the lands drinking all the good wines. And of course their cousins in white and blue who have a strong fettish for good beer and whiskey. At least that is the only reason I can see for Portgugal to invade IRELAND.

No, not a show stopper, but something I'd not expect when these factions are trying to take over their homelands from the Arabs.

**HoreTore** · 06-08-2007, 19:19

Originally Posted by John_Longarrow

No, not a show stopper, but something I'd not expect when these factions are trying to take over their homelands from the Arabs.

Well, spain did actually try to invade england a few times in the middle ages...

But as for the tourism, I completely agree, they should keep to their own lands when they're not gearing up for an invasion. That goes for all factions, really. They should have a big army when they're trying to invade someone, and they should stay clear of enemy/neutral lands when they're not invading(unless they're just passing through). In short, they should respect whether they have military access or not.

**Kraggenmor** · 06-08-2007, 19:00

Originally Posted by Didz

I really. really, hate the auto-rerouting bug that kicks in when a unit can't move where you told it to.

Now that you mention it..I'd really like it if we could see the route the unit was planning to take before it started moving on that route.

**DVX BELLORVM** · 06-08-2007, 19:28

What bugs me is the composition of rebel armies. I don't consider myself to be an expert for medieval European history, but how often did the knights and other soldiers rebel? Not very often, I think. And yet, the rebel armies in M2TW consist mainly of those troops.
On the other hand, there were a lot of peasant uprisings, and it would be realistic if the rebel armies are mostly peasants. Wouldn't it be nice when we would be confronted with a full stack of peasants, revolting against their feudal lords?

Another thing, when a city revolts, you just find your troops out of it, and a province lost. How did the rebels manage to do it? Did they, in the middle of the night, carry your sleeping soldiers and their beds outside the city walls??
I would like to have a chance to defend my city...

And when you look at the rebel army that now holds the city, you'll see that they are mostly high quality troops. When did they came from? If you can train only 3 units per turn, how can they train 20?