Medieval 2 is coming! - History Forum ~ All Empires

Originally posted by Temujin

and they could start using actual symbols and not fantasy ones....i mean chinese dragon for Golden Horde was ridiculous...

steppe people hate dragons

I rather be a nomadic barbarian than a sedentary savage

Originally posted by Urungu Han

They like wolves =)

Total war historians are good at only european history.

Western European to be more precise. And even then they aren't very good.

That video looks awesome, Byzantine Emperor, thanks. Noticed some Aussie accents in the background, probably at their testing labs up in Brisbane. There were a few things I didn't quite like, it was a good deal more chaotic than in RTR (but then chaos is more realistic anyway). Still, they have plenty of time for tweaking.

It is not the challenges a people face which define who they are, but rather the way in which they respond to those challenges.

Originally posted by Constantine XI

That video looks awesome, Byzantine Emperor, thanks. Noticed some Aussie accents in the background, probably at their testing labs up in Brisbane. There were a few things I didn't quite like, it was a good deal more chaotic than in RTR (but then chaos is more realistic anyway). Still, they have plenty of time for tweaking.

You're welcome!

I noticed the Aussie accents too. I think this is a video from some kind of gaming exhibition - maybe it was held there?

I agree about the chaos. The soldiers looked like they were moving a bit too fast for humans or men wearing armor who have been fighting a battle for hours.

But the general "chaos" was awesome! A lot more action than MTW1. Did you see when the cannon shot landed in the group of infantry standing in the breach? OUCH!

Originally posted by Goban

Awesome!

Have they published the minimum system requirements yet?

Now I want to and go play RTW!

If you go to the totalwar.com site and look at the forum, there are several threads that talk about improvements from the original and the system requirements. Supposedly you will not have to "buy a brand new computer" to run MTW2. Somehow I still think my ancient Gateway 2000 will not be able to handle it!

Late Byzantine Military
Ottoman perceptions of the Americas

Axeman, I think you mean a 128 MB videoacrd(I have never heard of a 126 MB).

Ah, oh well, only a 2MB mistake. Smile

Wrong version of TW i know, but is STW:Gold edition effectivly the same as the Warlord edition? (original+Mongol Invasion)?

Arrrgh!!"

that huge ottoman gun was ridiculous. it blew away a complete unit of knights...

I got a Nvidia 6800 Gs a couple of weeks ago, currently im busy playing the highly demanding Oblivion which runs pretty well on my dell 4600 but this game should run ok too.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief - Le Bon
Destroy first and construction will look after itself - Mao

Originally posted by Temujin

not to mention the trebuchets that had a reloading speed of an automatic gun...

Yeah, I agree with you on that one. And the infantry were running a bit too fast for men wearing armor and who have been fighting for a while. Maybe it was because they were running the game on a company supercomputer and not on a Neolithic PC like the rest of us have!

Edited by Byzantine Emperor - 18-Aug-2006 at 00:18

Late Byzantine Military
Ottoman perceptions of the Americas