New Kingdoms video - Teutonic campaign

[Rhedd]

Oh. All right then, I humbly stand corrected Master Rhedd.

I hope I came off as just informative, and not arrogant and overbearing.

Because, you know, I am arrogant and overbearing, so I try really hard to hide it. ^_^

[andrewt]

I'm pretty sure we will correctly translate that to Königsberg.

But I'm still unsure about the nature of that barrel-throwing catabuchet that's shown in the end? Looks like some sort of clusterfire artillery or so, I mean, did these things exist? While it does look doable, I've never heard of such a weapon before and it looks a bit too devastating for my tasteI(then again, it's a trailer, they're always made a bit more spectacular).

Oh, and I like the nobles who come over for a crusading holiday from all over the world who you then have to protect or kill, depending on which faction you play.

Standard artillery w/ explosive shells or fire ammo look awesome too. They barely hit anything, though, so I'm sure that artillery likely wouldn't be that devastating.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

gametrailers.com reliably has video media for every game. Also in HD, without having to sign up.

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=4626

Now then, the trailer. I couldn't stand the narrator's voice. Still, I think I'll enjoy that campaign.

[Kobal2fr]

I hope I came off as just informative, and not arrogant and overbearing.

Because, you know, I am arrogant and overbearing, so I try really hard to hide it. ^_^

Don't worry, being a pompous elitist arsehat myself, I can wholeheartedly condone your condescending spite of my ignorance regarding minute historical miscellania.

[Ulstan]

I must say I'm more queasy about those Teutonic helmets, with the horns and crests and all... weren't those more like ornamental and useless or even dangerous to wear in battle ?

But they look...so...cool

If they were good enough for Alexander Nevsky they are good enough for me!

[Kraggenmor]

I seriously doubt Kingdoms will have changed specs from M2.

Good point.

Sometimes me brain doesn't work right.

[Jambo]

Sadly, I just can't get all that worked up about Kingdoms. I haven't even played through all the vanilla campaigns yet, so the last thing I really want or need is a whole lot more to plough through, then mod to make more difficult, remove the bugs, balance the units, etc, etc...

What I'd like more than anything else is a really challenging AI; one that I don't have to artificially enhance with money scripts and spawned garrisons. These can only do so much anyway, since no matter how many stacks the campaign AI throws at you there's a tried and tested method to smash them to smithereens on the battlefield....

Maybe Civ IV Beyond the Sword is a better option.