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    Camel Lord Senior Member Capture The Flag Champion Martok's Avatar
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    Default Re: Strategy Guides for Mods

    Welcome back, Caravel.

    Quote Originally Posted by Caravel
    It really needs cleaning up, and the guides putting in their own forum(s).

    Agreed. The problem, however, is that right now there's not really a whole lot of guides up yet. I believe there's only about half a dozen or so thus far, and we're probably going to need about twice that number to justify a separate forum for them.

    That said, it's partially my fault that we don't have more guides up than we do. I'd been planning to write at least a few myself, but my ongoing PC problems have prevented me from doing so (I've been resitrcted to posting from my work computer the last few weeks). I should finally be back up and running in a week, though, so I'll hopefully be able to start cranking out those guides in not too much longer. [crosses fingers]
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    Hello again to all. Just back from 50 days in UK and Ireland (Eire) I ve changed my view on this-I used to think faction guides were useful but now I feel they re very subjective.

    However, unit guides are what launched me into MTW VI in the first place thanks to the excellent efforts of Ms FBEgg. Without them I wouldn t even have bothered, and i would ve moved on to other "less difficult" games.

    So Im divided about this one.

    Great to be back.


    PS It was quite a surprise to see the Total War games in their home environment, ie the shops in England. M2TW was going for 19.99 pounds the same I paid for MTW VI in 2005.

    PPS Hope you solve your PC problems soon, Martok.

    Best wishes to all.
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    Default Re: Strategy Guides for Mods

    There's a certain fatality coming out of faction guides - that's because IMO most of the time a "winning" strategy is proposed when there are plenty of ways to play a certain campaign and most of the time they are much more fun than the "winning" one.

    I would prefer to read battle AAR's from a faction's campaigns that focus on the tactical side of things rather than telling a story as the ones in the relative section. Screenshots would help a lot in making little examples (and these can be very precise if one has saved the battle and shoots straight out of the replay) of a nice charge, a hard fought melee, an encirclement etc

    Obviously lost battles and battles on the line should be also included and would make great cases of interest IMO.

    In this way one can learn about the use of the units a certain faction offers as units and as a combination.

    PS Did they evacuate you yet from anywhere you stayed Tony?

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    I agree, Noir. I've been trying to get people to save their battles and make narrated screenshots. The software is free and it is very simple to do. A Tactical Guide would help people enjoy the real nuts and bolts of the game.
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    I've been writing on the Byzantine one (cursed computer problems at home have made it hard to get from paper to digital... ) and I think that guides are an ok idea, but the important part (at least on XL) for me is that you are made aware of what units you can get and where and what buildings are required. Some people may find all that random discovery stuff fun, but I'm not one of them...
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    Default Re: Strategy Guides for Mods

    Hello,

    A forum for mod strategy guides is added below the Hosted mods for MTW section. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=238

    Other mods will get their own subforum there, so topics of your interest are easier to find. A similar forum will be made for RTW and M2TW hosted mods.
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