Need Help ASAP with rereating The Battle Of Hastings

[Ktadie]

well ca you help me out? been loking around, cant realy find it.

[imnothere]

hmmm, i will suggest longbowmen for the special effect. it maybe overkilled but peasant archers just don't have the same feeling nor effects. but still, perhaps peasants archers will still be OK since you are controlling it if you give the archers 9 chevron for higher damage.

i was thinking of Mayan jungle but too much plants. Try the other scenario that has jungle, but has slope and is in the new world. there are not enough trees on both sides but otherwise it is alot more suitable than the other scenario. unless you can somehow find and download scenario that will be the most suitable one.

just tell your class that thw world need to be more eco-friendly as the greenhouse effects + over-logging just killed off alot of the trees even at the time of William-the-Conqueror.

i will search it once i get home tonight in 7 hours time and let you know which one i was talking about.
(work and part-time study *sigh* )

for Harold's bodyguard, it is perfectly acceptable for either Huscarl, swordsmen, DFK or spearmen. Although I'd use the Huscarl for simplicity's sake, and then just move all archers to the LEFT side where he will be stationed. 1000 arrows can't be wrong.

historically, there are dispute about who really finishes off Harold - the archers or the knights. IMHO i think that Harold was downed by the arrow and mobbed by the Knights, so you can choose to go with either. if you want some humor, just mobbed the remaining bodyguard with 3 -5 units if he refused to go down.

the grunts on the Norman side can be the spears. you can add some swords but not sure about billmen. Normans are not depicted with two handed weapons (beside bow and spears) in the Bayeux Tapestry. just give your swords higher chevron to mow through the English spears(Denmark)

Edit:
Edelwais - not my ideal Hastings, but then again there is no definate place of Hastings. So pick any hill you like.

[ReiseReise]

Easiest way: Play the Hastings battle a few times, maybe a dozen times. Instead of showing a movie of the whole battle, simply edit together close-ups of certain events from the multiple battles and tell a story out of it. You can make the Saxons playable in the Hastings desc_battle file the same way you unlock factions in the campaign. Play as both sides to get them to do what you want, it won't matter what the whole battle looks like at the moment, all you have to do is show a close up of them them charging, holding spearwall, getting charged by knights, shooting arrows, getting hit by arrows, etc. That way you can use footage from any battle it happened in.

Terribly difficult way:
Perhaps with a little modding (of which I know next to nothing), you could make the SP Hastings battle into MP. Use the MP 100 Years War descr_battle as a template and replace the map and army information with those from the Hastings Battle.

Just a few ideas, I have never tried anything remotely close to this, but there must be a way. The History Channel had a series a few years ago where they recreated famous battles in RTW, which is the same.

[imnothere]

or maybe just get screenshots and do a presentation, with some extract of the movie for special effects if you prefer.

how did the project go???? do let us know!