**Medieval total war 2**

Originally posted by olkiej turkish janissary archers (without improvements such as muskets,armor etc)   Medieval total war 2 , The game for the History lovers! - super realistic - awsome graphics - and with more than 21 playable factions! including: England, France, Scotland, Holy Roman Empire, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Milan, Venice, Papal States, Sicily, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Byzantium, The Turks, Egypt, The Moors, The Mongols, The Tumurids, The Aztecs.     i'de like to hear your voices about this immense and awsome game

My thoughts about this game are:
poor tactical choises
bad A.I.
unrealistic unit speeds
very poor research on medieval armies (notably those from Eastern Europe)
some units are phantasy ones
West Euro centric view
poor historical accuracy
etc etc

btw there won't be 21 playable factions, so don't get overhyped. Instead there will be only 6 or 5  playable factions  (info from CA).

The game isn't released so I hope that many of my point will be wrong(expecially those dealing with tehnical and programming aspects of game).

Originally posted by Batu you havent played it yet so dont be harsh

Well you don't have to play the game to get all the information.
There are tons of previews, interviews with devs, blogs, Total War community forums from where you can get most of information.

Originally posted by Batu its true that there are 5 starting factions.but then other factions became avaible(there is also a trick to do that).i heard that A.I is much much better from the blogs you said.

Yes, the trick to unlock other factions is to go to campaing generating file(*.txt) and move the faction you want to play with to playable zone or whatever it is called.
I have also heard that AI is better, though unit speeds seem to be too high and it can sometimes ruin your tactics and battle turns into the clicking fest.


Edited by axeman - 24-Sep-2006 at 03:37

Originally posted by Batu its true that there are 5 starting factions.but then other factions became avaible(there is also a trick to do that).i heard that A.I is much much better from the blogs you said.

Axeman, keep in mind that Rome TotalWar starts with only 3 factions.

It is much better for them to devote more time to gameplay and have less than 21 factions to make it a more worthy gaming experience. Aztecs don't need to be there , its stupid and makes the game historically inaccurate.

Will be an amazing game expcept FOR CA NOT DOING THIER RESEARCH PROPERLY, to put the right factions in......... NO BULGARIA or SERBIA IN

Has anyone seen any more pics of the Byzantines for MTW2?  The only ones I have seen are of the "Trebizond Archer" unit and of what appears to be a kataphraktos or pronoiar cavalryman on the totalwar.com page.  Google searches have proved to be fruitless.

Originally posted by Imperator Invictus I believe the armor on the Byzantine heavy cavalry is exaggerated because it shows them wearing rear horse armor.

Originally posted by Byzantine Emperor Originally posted by Imperator Invictus In general, MTW2 seems to exaggerate the amount of armor. In actuality, very few units had the armor depicted in the units of some of the screenshots.   Yeah, probably.  I read that the developers did not want to make the game too historical, to where it would be uninteresting to the "gamers," who are uninterested in extreme historical accuracy.

Yes I have read that too. I fail to see how can historical accuracy be uninteresting for the gamers.
Appears that CA is targeting for 12-14 age gamer group who like arcade games and cliking fest.
This is wierd.