Historical games

Medieval TW with some heavy modification - the DLV mod.

I loved Age of Empires II, then i saw was very simple; Medieval Total War plus Shogun Total War wich i enjoyed very much, building cities games like "Emperor" and "Zeus", the old Civilization II, and in WWII: Call of Duty and Company of Heroes.

Software games are great, but I never had as much fun playing an historical game as in web-fora based role-playing games. I guess the human factor counts for a lot here.

Ah, about Hanseatic League, Patrician III was very funny, i built my commercial empire with Stocolm exporting tools xd

I play Europa Barbarorum all the time. If you like RTW give it a go. Far and away it is the best RTW total conversion mod. It's a completely new experience. It's a much better, far more rewarding (albiet slower paced, 4 turns/year) game. It has hundreds of units, better AI, more... uh, stuff to do, and it's REALLY accurate historically speaking. RTR is also good, and the combat system is just as good as EB if not better. RTR doesn't give you much to do on the campaign map tho. EB's regional recruitment system is really cool.

Stainless Steel for MII is my default mod for whenever I want to play that game. Sicilian Vespers would be my honorable mention.


Edited by nova roma - 17-Jan-2009 at 03:06

Yeah same here I have played HOI but I cannot find II anywhere, isn't there a 3rd coming out?

What is Universallis like?

I still think that there should be another asian based "total war", preferably China, with its numerous ancient kingdoms, maybe even south asia, bringing India and the surrounding islands into the fold. An Asian campaign would definately have endless possibilties.

As far as I am concerned AoE II was the best for sheer enjoyment of gameplay. When you go online and play multiplayer, it only gets even better. I miss that game a great deal - AoE III just didn't have the same superb gameplay.

I dislike most video/PC games because I like a game to be educational - which usually means history.

A mod is a modification of a commercial game by an individual or team. They vary in scope, from enhancement mods (maybe making things a little more historically accurate, for example) to full conversions whereby the whole world is changed from one period to another. Mods can take literally thousands of hours to create, depending on the game engine. Modders alter the softcoding of a game to adapt gameplay, visuals, audio and text and transform the player's experience into something quite different to the vanilla (original) game. I am not 100% sure about what you mean about how they work, but in the case of nost it is something like this: you install the mod like any other  game. After installation you find a new icon on your laptop. Generally mods sit in their own folder under the game file. In the case of the mods mentioned above, they do not interfere with the original game files so it's like having two games running of the same engine (the same .exe file). Is this clearer?