Discovering new world in MTWII questions

[Barbarian]

Bring 6 regiments of cavalry and you can run them over.

Doesn't work. I had 6 units of the best available cavalry once. I beat 4500 aztecs ( the first two stacks) with ease. My grimace changed, when I saw 4 more such stacks coming.

Bring loads of artillery with you -aztecs don't have it, and you can outrange them.

The biggest problem is that aztec infantry scare everyone, so even heavy cavalry routs soon. It is better to not go into melee with them.

Aztecs are powerful. I played them in custom campaign mod, because It thought it will be a challenge or even impossible to take over the map with nothing but unarmoured infantry.
I landed at the shores of british isles, and rolled over the Europe with no problems. No knights or advanced technologies were able to stop me.

[FactionHeir]

I'm playing small unit sizes. Maybe that's why

[Emperor[1G]]

how do you change the turn format to make the game last longer? i tried looking it up in the FAQ's section but for some reason it doesn't display for me. New PC, I may not have something installed. It just seems like by the time you get to goto the New World, the game is all but over.

thanks btw for the answers.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

how do you change the turn format to make the game last longer? i tried looking it up in the FAQ's section but for some reason it doesn't display for me. New PC, I may not have something installed. It just seems like by the time you get to goto the New World, the game is all but over.

thanks btw for the answers.

Go to C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign (C = harddisk) and open descr_strat. Set timescale to 1.00 or 0.50. 1.00 gives you 1 year per turn and 0.50 gives you 2 years per turn.

[ReiseReise]

Timescale is number of years per turn, default is 2. Changing the time scale to .5 or 1 would actually make it take longer to get to new world, correct?
I think what you really want to do is change the dates for that event.
In the same folder as descr_strat is descr_events. Towards the bottom of descr_events you will find
; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic world_is_round
date 320 328

Change the 320 328 to something like 150 158 and you will get the new world in 150 years (75 turns) instead of 320 (160 turns)

Or you could change the timescale to 4.00 to make ALL the events (gunpowder, mongols, timurids) happen sooner

[FactionHeir]

Timescale is number of years per turn, default is 2. Changing the time scale to .5 or 1 would actually make it take longer to get to new world, correct?
I think what you really want to do is change the dates for that event.
In the same folder as descr_strat is descr_events. Towards the bottom of descr_events you will find
; ------------ CORE GAME EVENT --------------
event historic world_is_round
date 320 328

Change the 320 328 to something like 150 158 and you will get the new world in 150 years (75 turns) instead of 320 (160 turns)

Or you could change the timescale to 4.00 to make ALL the events (gunpowder, mongols, timurids) happen sooner

That was a good start but then went downhill. If he set the timescale to 4.0, his game would last only half as long as currently.

For detailed information on how to make the game last longer of change events, check link 1 of my signature.

[ReiseReise]

I don't see it as downhill, OP is complaining that the game lasts too long, I provided a possible solution to make it progress quicker.

At least you agree that my fix would work, I wasn't sure since I have never actually tried it.

[Ramses II CP]

Hrm, I brought almost a full stack of cavalry (Under 800 when they arrived IIRC) across the ocean as the Danes in my AAR and wiped out the Aztecs, killing around 10k of their men and losing maybe 250 of mine(Medium units sizes). I even released some of their men so I could pretend they were a challenge. The Aztecs have no answer for cavalry, in all of my engagements they routed almost on contact.

I did have a company of elephants for the last two battles or so, but they were the only men of mine to be affected by the Aztec's supposed fearsome attitude.