Americans, how is Kingdoms?

[FactionHeir]

The kingdoms rebalance does not directly apply to the grand campaign however, as the same unit in kingdoms may have different stats between campaigns.

[_Tristan_]

The kingdoms rebalance does not directly apply to the grand campaign however, as the same unit in kingdoms may have different stats between campaigns.

Yes but as stated by Pserameses, it was playing on of the mini-campaigns that he encountered strat-AI problems... So it might negate all the fun the rebalancing could have created...

[Slaists]

The kingdoms rebalance does not directly apply to the grand campaign however, as the same unit in kingdoms may have different stats between campaigns.

there is a CA (developed in house) mod featured on twcenter site that retrofits kingdom campaign unit balance and many features to the main campaign.

[_Tristan_]

Any link to that mod ?

[Doug-Thompson]

there is a CA (developed in house) mod featured on twcenter site that retrofits kingdom campaign unit balance and many features to the main campaign.

Link?

[Jambo]

Here:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=118430

[Slaists]

Link?

sorry, had to run away from my desk right after I wrote the note. however, I see, the link is already here in the thread.

[gardibolt]

I just checked Amazon and my estimated delivery date is between Oct 5 and Oct 12!! Well, I still need to finish a campaign anyway so that'll give me time to do it. I did get the link for the free download of Shogun, so that'll give me something else to fool with.

[rebelscum]

I did get the link for the free download of Shogun,

Where? Is that from amazon?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I bought it in the Netherlands (see screenshot thread)

[gardibolt]

Where? Is that from amazon?

Yes, they had a deal where if you preordered Kingdoms you got a free download of Shogun. But I don't see that on the Kingdoms page any more, so maybe that has expired.

[rvg]

Personally, I won't be buying Kingdoms until the vanilla game is in a better working order. Maybe a couple of patches from now when its price sufficiently dips.

It's really not a question of money though as much as it is a question of quality.

[Odin]

Personally, I won't be buying Kingdoms until the vanilla game is in a better working order. Maybe a couple of patches from now when its price sufficiently dips.

It's really not a question of money though as much as it is a question of quality.

Not exclusive to Total war mind you, but I will wait. All those "pre order customers" and downloaders thank you in advance for play testing the bugs out and reporting them back to the dev team.

Makes my purchase much easier.

[Doug-Thompson]

First impression:

Spanish Dragoons are wonderful.

P.S. Something's been done to the main campaign: It took 20 minutes to change v1.002.001 into v1.003 before "Kingdoms" could be installed.

You don't have to install all four "Kingdoms" campaigns. You can pick and choose.

[Xehh II]

Strange

[Goofball]

I'm getting the game tomorrow. Can't wait.

Question: Do I have to install over an unpatched M2TW install, or can I install over a 1.2 patched install?

[Zoring]

I assume us Australians will get it in 6 months, like Medieval II, even though that was made in Australia... sigh

[sirnoob]

i can't believe some american shops don't have it when my game and woolworths had it on release (31st)

[Nikos_Rouvelas]

I got it on Thursday. First Impressions:
Pikeman no longer walk like old women with walkers
Varangian guard are insane now
Greek firethrowers o_0

[Doug-Thompson]

Well, I just had an extremely enjoyable evening.

My 10-year-old son is playing a hotseat game with me where he is the Teutonic Knights and I was his ally, the Danes. When why saw him enjoying himself so much and said he could stay up until 10 p.m., he cheered.

He had to autoresolve his fights and I help him with his economy, but it's been a great night.

[Khorak]

Thank god for the retrofit mod. I had no idea this expansion did squat to the grand campaign, I couldn't really care less about the added ones.

I would recommend the Retrofit mod without reservation, for little more than the balance changes. You will be overjoyed to find that peasants are now the entirely useless cannon fodder distraction they should be (the next lowest unit, Town Militia, will mince them), and while cavalry are still relatively powerful, they do not simply chew through anything and everything they can make a charge against.