King of the Romans Out of Character thread XIII

[gibsonsg91921]

Ok, I guess that's fair. I'll save my outrage good and well.

*Meditates*

[Privateerkev]

Has anyone else caught from the screenshot that the diplomat that gave naples and palermo is named "Salier"?

Kinda funny and ironic.

[econ21]

Two offensive battles for 1302:

King Jan (Privateerkev):

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Army of Outremer North has intercepted a Turkish army marching on Edessa. You have been reinforced by three regiments of the Edessa garrison and a regiment of mercenary Turcopoles (whose speed may aid you in pursuing routing cavalry). Good hunting, my King.

Fredericus Erlach (Stuperman):

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Household Army Gerhard has pursued the rebel army east of Marseilles. Duke Lothar is eager that you earn your spurs. He is using the patented Lothar method of giving command to an unknighted general. He has given you command of the advance guard of the Army, below seven units in strength so not requiring an Army Commander. This is your chance to prove your quality to your Duke.

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1302-1.zip

Generals have 24 hours from the date of this post to play their battles, otherwise they will wait for next year.

Gamesmaster message for Duke Ansehelm (Stig):

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You have lost contact with the Prussian Household Army. Thorn is besieged by Russians. Your Teutonic Army is marching there at full speed, but will not be able to reach it before the Russians have a chance to assault. To cap it all - Tancred von Tyrolia has disappeared with the Vilnius garrison, as has one of your regiments of Teutons.

[Privateerkev]

It's been a looong time since I could say this but,

I have the save.

[Stig]

If you make anything happen to Ansehelm I'll kill you, know that. I didn't abstain in the poll for nothing.

[OverKnight]

Awkward Christmas at the von Kastilien's this year.

I'm shocked things have gotten off to such an early start.

[econ21]

God, you are a bunch of old women[1]. Lose two provinces and a couple of Franconians and you'd think it was the end of the world.




[1]Apologies for the sexism.

EDIT: ...and ageism

[Privateerkev]

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/kotr1302-2.zip

alright, fought my battle and uploaded the new one for SM.

Jan executed 3800 prisoners and exterminated the city of Baghdad.


.....just kidding.

[AussieGiant]

Oh dear,

anyone seen an army wandering around?

There seems to be an unofficial Duke's conference over tea and scones in the salon...I wonder what is going on there me boys?

[econ21]

Battle report up - it was a fun one.



But it has a very sad ending...

[Stuperman]

I'll take the save in about an hour and a half.

[Privateerkev]

I love the battle report. "My Duke Arnolds!!!" Almost fell off of my chair laughing.

[Stuperman]

OMG, ok, so 1.2 is almost on my computer (a 5400rpm drive does not help install times), and 1.3 is DL'd I might not be able to fight the battle till after class (3 aditional hours). I've got to get FH's patch working too. But it'll be done either way.

[econ21]

I've just posted up a co-op story with Privateerkev announcing religious re-unification in 1302:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...&postcount=160

[Ferret]

is this religious unification for the whole of europe is it it just a 'Roman' church because if it is for the whole of Europe then surely some other leaders shoul've been involved.

[econ21]

There's one Roman Catholic Church, so it is for the whole of Europe. It's a religious matter, not a temporal one, so the other European leaders would not be directly involved. Indirectly, they would probably oppose it, but the Pope is German and Germans dominate the College of Cardinals, so I think it is plausible that it went ahead.

The Russians are probably a different matter - we can say there is a Russian Orthodox church that splits from the Patriach of Constantinople. They can stay Orthodox.

In the mod that Factionheir proposed, the Byzantines will not recruit priests anymore and their populations will slowly switch to Catholic. We'll mod in some loyalty bonuses to their buildings to keep them loyal.

[Tamur]

Just a note: Fritz is highly anti-Orthodox if that hasn't been made clear already He's also rather dark and sarcastic. He might make some comments which will likely be offensive to practicing Orthodox Christians.

I wonder if this is ok? I know it is forum rules not to broach the topic of religion obnoxiously, and I've enforced that as an AM, so I'm a bit sensitive to it.

[TinCow]

ROFL. Classic battle report.

I admit a bit of jealousy... I've never had elephants on my side in M2TW.

[Privateerkev]

In my SP games I always go on Crusade and set up an Outremer. And I park a general in either Baghdad or Jedda who's sole job is to hire "Oliphaunts". If you get 2 Elephants and 2 Elephant Artillery, you can set up an awesome double enfilade fire down the enemy line from both sides.



As Econ showed, their also good for holding a weak flank pretty much all by themselves for a little while. Also you can park the regular elephants right behind your line and because they are so tall, they will fire down right on top of the engaged enemy.

[econ21]

He might make some comments which will likely be offensive to practicing Orthodox Christians.

I wonder if this is ok? I know it is forum rules not to broach the topic of religion obnoxiously, and I've enforced that as an AM, so I'm a bit sensitive to it.

The Org gives some artistic licence for stories in the Mead Hall and here. Personally, I still think we should keep this "Parental Guidance" - hence Elberhard's prolific @#$%^&!!!ing, rather than anything more explicit. But on religion, I think readers will see the context and realise it is in character, and not for real.

[RoadKill]

I sorta have a problem. I have a campaign on Stainless steal mod, that I have been playing for a while now, and I have no itention of giving it up, but it requires 1.2. Now this PBM requires 1.3. Is it possible to have an easier way, then unistallling, installing, uninsalling, installing, the patch?

[Northnovas]

You can load the 1.3 it will not affect your save games in the other mods your using.

[RoadKill]

Wht happens if I want to start a new campaign in the mod with the 1.3 already installed?

[OverKnight]

I am surprised that the HRE is the first to use Panzerphants.

Of course I am also surprised the usually parsimonious Prinz spent 3000 florins on them. I now understand why "financial constraints" led to limited building.

[Northnovas]

Wht happens if I want to start a new campaign in the mod with the 1.3 already installed?

You should not have a problem. You need the 1.3 for kotr without it you will not be able to open a save. You should not have any issues with mods you want to play especially a new campaign. If there was an issue I am sure the creator of the mod would have something on his first page for their mod and advise if there would be an compatability problems.

[Stuperman]

ok, guys, small problem I fresh installed m2tw on my laptop(vista), went to 1.2, then 1.3 all without starting a game. I then started a game, played a turn or 3 (england) and saved the game as england1. I did this to create the saves folder, but I cannot find it. In fact I can't find any of the saves that I had saved. When I search the Sega folder there is no saves folder, In fact searching *.sav yeilds 1 result on the entire computer, KOTR-1302-2 which is expected. Anyone have vista and can tell me where to look?

I can still fight the battle, but it won't be done till like midnight eastern NA time.

p.s. upon further investigation, there is no saves folder in my RTW directory either, but I have at least 2 dozen saves in a brutii campaign on Mundas Magnas. *scratches head* I'm assuming that it's vista as on my XP desktop I've had no such troubles.

[gibsonsg91921]

try showing hidden files

[AussieGiant]

Very nice Econ

You can imagine the stories I've got concocted in my brain about when I receive those "Arnold jewels" in the post.

[Stuperman]

try showing hidden files

it would hide the entire folder?

meh, I'm on my desktop so it's moot, installing kingdoms now, it goes so much faster on a 10k rpm Raptor than a 5400 rpm laptop drive.

and I have the save.

[AussieGiant]

it would hide the entire folder?

meh, I'm on my desktop so it's moot, installing kingdoms now, it goes so much faster on a 10k rpm Raptor than a 5400 rpm laptop drive.

and I have the save.

ahhh yes that would be an accurate statement Stupes