Medieval Total War

Interesting...

I never even went into this much detail...mind you I have never played the Turks.

I would suggest you make a post regarding all this in the forum I linked in the post where linked the 2 versions of this mod:

Originally posted by Jazz http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwarfrm9.showMessageRange ?topicID=836.topic&start=1&stop=20

The creator of this mod "VikingHorde" is pretty good about answering questions and responding to comments anyone has pertaining to it.

OK, more beef with the mod. In order to build the three Janisserry units (as the Turks), you need the various weapon buildings (archer, sword and spear shops) of the right level, and a military acadamy. Sounds good, but to be able to build the military acadamy, you need a grand mosque, and you can only build one grand mosque anywhere on the map.
So usualy, the province that is most developed in the begining of the game, is the one that will be the first to have the necessary buildings to train the janiserry units, Rum.
But this province will be the only one, georgia's bonus is wasted as it takes much longer to get to the point that you can built jannisery archers there, no other province will be able to train/retrain them, and they will never recieve weapon upgrades from a metalsh*th (iron province).
Other factions don't recieve that sort of handicap with their top-of-the-range units AFAIK (baring province specific units).
Also, is there somethign wrong with Turkish genetics? I'm getting lousy royalty command stats, some monarches are even producing half their offspring with no command points

Saxon Huscarls appear briefly in Englands troop building lists, only to disappear again? Whats with that. Also i think only Wessex could build them.

I've been thinking of adding more specialist provinces to the map, namely provinces that offer a valour bonus to troops trained there, to make the map a bit more intersting, anyone got any suggestions?
Ideas i've had so far:
-Bring back bonus for Cogs in Wessex.
-Bring back the Caravel bonus in one of the Portugese provinces.
-Assuming no change to Turkish tech tree, Georgian Janissery archer bonus to be replaced by something else, maybe Ottoman Infantry, or switch Georgia and Rum's bonuses around.
-I can't renember, but i don't think Ireland and Scotland have bonuses, they should for one of their unique units.
-Castile's Inquisitor bonus seems very lame, should be something else IMHO, i mean, whoever uses them other than the computer? And the computer ones usualy rack up serious valour in no time so that bonus for them isn't needed.

I've also been thinking of adding some Iron to a province in the UK, the island was traditionaly very rich in iron, and this shaped its historical development, hell the presence of iron is what intrested the Romans. I've already added some Iron to Syria, which seems to make sense to me at least.
I havn't looked at the rest of the map two closely yet, but anyone got any suggestions.

Edit: Hmm, the startpos file has changed with VI, anyone know how to edit province bonuses?

Edit 2: The big install promised new music, but i havn't noticed it


Edited by Cywr

 The AI on RTW is shockingly bad, theres also a million little things that make the fact the graphics are brilliant less impressive. The stratergy map looks brilliant, but the fact you can only move a tiny distance each turn is infuriating, it can take years to reach north Italy from the south on foot, unless you have highways even then its a couple of years.

 Battles in MTW generally have longevity, battles in RTW last about 2 minutes if your lucky, as many units flee after about 20% casualties.

 Sieges look great on RTW, but the weakness of the AI becomes even more apparent when half their army stands well in range of arrow towers and gets mowed down for example, sometimes the AI attempts to storm with just a battering ram, which is destroyed and the army just stands there getting shot. To be honest sieges are way way to common in RTW for my liking, especially when they are so effortlessly easy to win most of the time.

 One of those little things that bug me on RTW is the auto calculate, I have a choice to either fight 10 stupid little battles that i'm sure to win thus wasting my time or I can auto it. The problem is when you auto you tend to lose 10 times more men then you should do.

 I could hijack this topic totally and rant about RTW forever so i'll stop there

 I havent played Medieval in ages

 I still think its miles better than RTW, I use the XL mod and must have played the Byzantines about 50 times, but it's different every game, so it has infinite replay value.

 Gonna go play it later

 

I tried the game for the first time in a long while over the weekend and continued a game I started as the Irish earlier this summer - haven't noticed any issue with heirs yet (started EARLY game, now in year 1341), and with my conquest of North Africa, my priests have reached at 100% conversion percentage in both Tunisia and Cryencia (sp? - Libya).

What did the Med mod do to the game?

I always relish in the glory of playing the Mongols in the XL mod.  Try them - they kick A

The new map and extra factions is grand, as are the extra units.
I'm playing a game as England, again i'm noticing some of the 'newer' and better ships cost less to build and maintain, not sure why this would be.
Still, finaly got longbowmen (seems the only trigger when crossbows do for whatever reason), and i like the way that regular (English) and Welsh longbowmen are seperate, presumably so that England can always build them AND who ever controls Wales gets the Welsh ones (plus the extra valour).
Its good, huge improvement on the vanilla game, but yet without changing ot to much like the Med Mod does.

Hmm looks good.
I tried a game as the Papacy, and there are a few minor oddities. First off the way the hiers thing works. When the first pope dies, some random peasant soldier *becomes* pope, that is to say, a unit will dissapear from somewhere, and a pope will appear with pretty much the same stats, which Basicly means Monarch units with no command stars
Also, my bishops seem to have a magical ability to not only convert a province, but make it so that the entirely of the population is 99%.

And Dromons are more expensive than Galleys, even though they are crappeir. I guess is should be emailing the creator but meh.

I'm not, i've just taken up their cooking, and like the flag, and the accent.

And i meant the campaign, sorry my bad. Does it replace the existing one, or add a new one?

Just Add new one