Stainless Steel 6.4 Hotseat - Wrath of the Khan 2

[Zim]

Unless we're talking about North Africa (which I'm not too concerned about, those provinces make me very little money and would cost too much to defend) that would seem to put your armies in both the Anatolia and Egypt areas. Previous is sensible enough but the latter is far off any route to the Mongols and has interesting implications that make me happier about my decision...

we're a little more spread out then that ;)

[Thanatos Eclipse]

Just north Africa this turn

[Zim]

Ah, good. So I have a turn or two before losing the other fortresses.

[SilverShield]

aw man whats that egypt attacked seljuks? that just a mistake or is that for real? i gotta know about that before im doing my turn


alright just checked the thread so its real. man thats bad. now the game is going hard already. thought of good fella Zim gone bad going with the evil mongo shepherd there. man some bad sr collabo.nasty. changing the entire game totally taking it to the red zone already. bad moment right now thought im just doing some minor troop movement and some recruiting and thats about it wasnt expecting that. im in need of a slight extension now. yea i said that before and i am kinda slow these days but theres just lots of stuff going on right now im in preparation for a competition in some weeks so lots of cardio and low carb dieting which is draining already and im working with a new junior team now which is cool but time consuming add to this the nonsense two jealousy issue having girls in a love triangle are giving u ,a minor legal issue and the day to day stuff and u just totally out of time and the mood for playing so thats why im kinda off from the game but the wotk game is still in my heart so im sticking to this especially now that game really is on. im having this up some time tomorrow

[SilverShield]

alright here it is already had a lil schedule change so got it done already. but man that turn really took me a while its a tense situation there. literally just looked at the screen for about 20 min thinking about the situation i mean the entire game changed now and im totally unprepared. its just bad. its been 20 min for sure before i started doing anything this situation really gets u thinking. the whole troop deployment took me ages i totally got caught off guard there.just bad. but thats what u getting for not following ur guts. but i really thought that good fella Zim would never be doing that but he did. he just been playing the nice dude here all along while hes evil at heart. its the zimperator.nasty nasty. now the evil mongo shepherd really got a shot at taking out anyone. but alright i mean actually thats fine its like that the mongols are way weaker than in the first wotk without egypt siding with them they d had a hard time probably going down in an roman egyptian onslaught. i mean im kinda surprised they still somewhat stuck there in kwarzy land. they are kinda lacking that bulldozer power from the first wotk. the pure mass of force and the units power still is over it but anyway they are lacking that lethal swag now. back then they really been unleashed rushing the entire map like a grizzly. no matter who d played them. its the shortened movement rate in this game that is tying them down kinda. in broken crescent the movement rate of the mongols was just insane. thats what was putting them ahead. and the enhanced movement rate of the generals also effected the trebuckets which is different in this game now aint it. in this game even if a general got an amped up movement rate all the siege weaponry still moves with basic speed or points or however its measured thats at least what i experienced. i mean with those level 3 roads of the romans i got a general that basically is moving from poland to constantinople in 2 turns but the generals movement rate got zero effect on the siege engines at least thats what its like for me. in broken crescent all the trebuckets got an enhanced movement rate as well once they been with a general. and some generals movement rate really been insane the khan as a sole unit covered the entire screen back then. that was just crazy. it lastly was his army that broke through the defensive line into iran cutting it for good. but whatever with the mongo pharao alliance the game changed 180. its really getting tough now. all of egypts bases are loaded. hes all ready. the next rounds are being decisive. totally caught me off guard. im putting some faith in that squadron of east roman heavy cav that i ve deployed to the region they capable of dealing some major blows but having planned and well positioned all his forces already egypt cleary got a better position right now and egypts forces are matching mine in numbers total. but whatever its still an open game there and my roman baby is fighting to the last man

moors up
http://depositfiles.com/files/uj6lw4j3w

aw yea Ezilknan is off so someone maybe is subbing the moors

[phonicsmonkey]

the mongols are way weaker than in the first wotk....they are kinda lacking that bulldozer power from the first wotk. the pure mass of force and the units power still is over it but ....its the shortened movement rate in this game that is tying them down kinda.

In Broken Crescent 1.05 the Mongols unit stats had not been changed from the vanilla stats and were massively higher across the board than the other factions, which had been scaled down in proportion to each other - hence they were near-impossible to kill on the battle map or in autoresolve and you could leave them in the open knowing it would take several enemy stacks to make a dent on one stack of yours. In SS the Mongols have been modified along with the rest of the factions so that they are tough but not superhuman.

Movement rate is another reason as you rightly point out and also the rules we have in this game restricting spies and the use of siege weapons.

All this means I have had to proceed slowly and with caution.

aw yea Ezilknan is off so someone maybe is subbing the moors

Need a volunteer please!

[Nightbringer]

I'll do it

[phonicsmonkey]

I'll do it

Let me know if you need the pw cleared, I can't recall if I have already done this last turn or whether he passed it on to you guys in private.

[Nightbringer]

Let me know if you need the pw cleared, I can't recall if I have already done this last turn or whether he passed it on to you guys in private.

It does need to be cleared :)

[Zim]

Cleared

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=205&id=9854

The Mongol-Egyptian alliance has been fairly long planned, although only firmly rooted whe I realized SS's mongols aren't quite as overwhelming as BC's. Figured they could use an ally.

I had forgotten I'd allied in game with the Turks and it threw me off a bit. I was certain my cancelling the alliance and moving troops towards Caesara would be noticed.

[Thanatos Eclipse]

I find alliance cancellations go unnoticed fairly easily in hotseats cause it doesn't give notifications like in single player :P

[Nightbringer]

kwarezmians up
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=205&id=9855

[Myth]

Denmark up. Their PW has been cleared, who is playing them now?

[phonicsmonkey]

I thought TCV was still playing - I think we skipped him last time because he was late

[The Celtic Viking]

Yes, I'm still playing them.

Fatimids' save file is here.

[Zim]

Alright, time to see how much of my empire has been crushed and or is staring down hordes of crusaders coming my way.

[Zim]

Hey everyone, can I get about one day's extension?

[phonicsmonkey]

Sure mate

[Nightbringer]

absolutely not, I demand you let me sub your turn so I can give all your settlements to m, I mean, MAKE YOU WIN.

[AsbestosGasMask]

Hi everyone, i'm having problems loading any hotseat campaign. I checked the twc forums, but they only have two posts on my issue, and when i tried what was suggested, it didn't work. If anyone can offer some advice about how to resolve this matter, it would be much appreciated. When I try to load the game from the load menu, the loading screen comes up, then seems to load again almost instantly and takes me back to the main menu, so it isn't a ctd. Thanks.

[Nightbringer]

have you updated kingdoms to 1.5?

[phonicsmonkey]

have you updated kingdoms to 1.5?

Exactly what I was going to ask.

Also, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything in order?

[Zim]

Done. In exchange for losing two fortresses we have taken two more.

A word to the wise, sometimes the comp is quite silly when deciding if you can build a fort or not.

Cumans!

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=205&id=9880

[slysnake]

Done. In exchange for losing two fortresses we have taken two more.

A word to the wise, sometimes the comp is quite silly when deciding if you can build a fort or not.

Cumans!

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=205&id=9880

Just imagine how I feel in End of Third Age, I can't build forts anyway!

[phonicsmonkey]

sly, do you know whether asbo has tried the things above?

[Zim]

At least in that regard we're all on an equal footing. None of us can build them that I'm aware of.

Just imagine how I feel in End of Third Age, I can't build forts anyway!

[phonicsmonkey]

AsbestosGasMask, how are you going?

slysnake, are you able to sub for him again while he works on it?

[slysnake]

AsbestosGasMask, how are you going?

slysnake, are you able to sub for him again while he works on it?

Sure, I'll play it tomorrow along with uploading my End of Third Age save :)

[slysnake]

Mongols

WotK2-12-Mongols.sav

[phonicsmonkey]

Seljuks

Many brave Kwarezm, Cuman and Seljuk men died this day