Battle replay thread- post your replays here

**DVX BELLORVM** · 08-06-2007, 22:55

I have just one replay you may find interesting: The Power of Stakes - a few English Longbowmen against a full stack of French cavalry

EDIT: vanilla 1.02

**ForgotMyOldNick** · 08-07-2007, 12:02

Thanks a lot, I really enjoyed these.

I'll post a few when I get time.

Could we also say which version of MTWII it's for with posting them as well?

**Grog** · 08-07-2007, 17:49

Slightly off-topic, but how do you make replays?

Is it only an option in custom battle mode or can you make them from campaign games?

Cheers

**DVX BELLORVM** · 08-07-2007, 18:02

Originally Posted by Grog

Slightly off-topic, but how do you make replays?

Is it only an option in custom battle mode or can you make them from campaign games?

Cheers

At the end of a custom battle, there is a button on a Battle results screen that allows you to save a battle replay.

As the campaign battle replays are concerned, some people say that you can get the replays by copying the Medieval II Total War\temp\campaign_battle.rpy into the Replays folder.
But this method never worked for me...

**Askthepizzaguy** · 08-07-2007, 18:50

For reference, my replays are on version 1.02 of the vanilla (original) game.

**Ramses II CP** · 08-07-2007, 21:03

I've tried out a few custom battles to make replays, but I don't really do anything terribly dramatic, and when I watch them myself even if I'm badly outnumbered it seems to mostly amount to fast forwarding until the crash, and then watching the enemy rout. I guess I just don't have any cinematic flair. ;)

**Askthepizzaguy** · 08-09-2007, 05:49

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lc9ne4

Here, Scottish peasant archers and a few units of axe infantry hold of a massive army laying seige to a Scottish city.

Since the English have with them 3 seige towers, 3 rams, and 3 ladders, 5 units of Dismounted Knights, 5 units of levy spearmen, several units of retinue longbows, some mounted knights, and a fully armored general, and the battle odds are against me for 90 percent of the battle at a rate of 3:1 odds or worse, this particular battle demonstrates the ability of even the weakest of archers to repel attackers, and the ability of just a few well-placed infantry to hold off an entire legion of far superior troops.

The strategy is very simple: my archers have the sole task of eliminating seige equipment with flaming arrows. My few units of infantry have the task of keeping the invasion force occupied and preventing them from entering the gate. If the enemy were to use his seige towers properly, my peasant archers would not be able to defend against them. If the enemy managed to smash the gate and enter the city, all hope would be lost.

Only by sacrificing the lives of my brave men could I hope to hold the walls and keep the enemy from entering the city. Few of my heroic infantry survived the battle, and my archers took a beating.

But I routed the English pigs, and taught them something about Scottish bravery. They tasted the back o' me hand.