Total War Campaign Reports

SmokinTep · 03-12-08, 07:33 AM

I always get my generals involved in the fighting rather than sit back and watch. Gets them more experience and stars to be able to attempt night attacks.

If you have a city that has the plague, recruit a spy then send him with the plague into your enemies city.........

Dowly · 03-12-08, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokinTep

If you have a city that has the plague, recruit a spy then send him with the plague into your enemies city.........

Ah yes, I remember you told about this in the other thread... just too bad my cities have never had plague.

Raptor1 · 03-12-08, 08:02 AM

I believe Macedonia gets a scripted plague about 10 turns into the game, so if you play as them (think you need to mod the game tho), it's pretty easy to infect your enemies

SmokinTep · 03-12-08, 11:58 AM

Don't build any public baths, etc to get squalor up, I'm sure the plague will find you..........

Raptor1 · 03-12-08, 12:08 PM

*Cheers for the Plague*

Biggles · 03-12-08, 04:16 PM

In MII:TW, the plauge WILL get to you eventually, when the great mortality strikes Europe, you'll know what I mean...
"Bring out yer dead!"

BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War?

Oh and on topic....

I've been playing a short campaign as England in MII:TW. Here is a short summary:

Started by smashing the Scots out of my island, didn't want the buggers to harrass me later on. When I was about to take the province that exists in the area that we nowadays calls "Wales", I noticed that it'd been taken by (and you can guess how surprised I was about that) Portugal! I didn't want to start a fight with Pope Gregory (he was rather pissed off when I smashed Scotland) so I didn't bother about them. I took the rest of the islands, and then went on to take some land in inland Europe.

It didn't take long before Portugal tried to take York from me. I threw them away, and then took Wales from them, for good measures. Then we were at war, which lasted until 1402 or something like that. It wasn't much conquest really, mostly it was their fleets harrasing my ports, and then they tried to take back Wales over and over again...always ending up with a defeat and an army less.

I managed to stay out of global war for about 70 years. Then France attacked Caen, but I chased them off like nothing. For good measures, I took Paris from them. Then the usual happened: "Don't kill Catholics or I'll do this and that", yadayadayada, the war raged on for 200 years, with many things going on around that honestly was more interesting than this war.

I happened to get into war against the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, Denmark and Poland. The only one that I took seriously was the one against Denmark, 'cause really, those buggers can ruin any empire in a snatch. After a long and careful conquest, I wiped them out when taking over Stettin. I then owned the major ports in the Baltic sea. Ka-ching!

The Holy Roman Empire attacked Antwerp, I took Metz, then nothing happened for a very long time. Poland blocked the port of Stettin, but that was it. Nothing else.
Milan tried to take Paris from me. Fat chance mate, I chased them off myself (killed 200 of 'em, zero losses for me).

After some fighting with the pope(s) and some random stuff to take care of, I managed to take Genoa, Milan from the Milanese, and Florence and Bologna from the HRE. That gave me a good position to the Med. Sea. Most of my provinces are cities, so my bank account is bigger than my massgrave of Assassins.
So eventually I managed to make peace with the HRE, Milan, Portugal and Poland. At the present time, I just try to sort out any problems in my huge kingdom, and reinforce the borders. I'm ally with Spain, the Mongols (I stay out of the Middle East, best way to avoid trouble), also giving the Papal States some 10000 gold or so from time to time to keep the big guy happy.

So at the present time, things looks pretty good for me!

Dowly · 03-12-08, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Biggles

BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War?

Nope... but I know of the few on MTWII! :p

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...72466738&hl=en

03-12-08, 08:02 AM	#3
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	I believe Macedonia gets a scripted plague about 10 turns into the game, so if you play as them (think you need to mod the game tho), it's pretty easy to infect your enemies __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

03-12-08, 12:08 PM	#5
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Cheers for the Plague __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

03-12-08, 04:16 PM	#6
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	In MII:TW, the plauge WILL get to you eventually, when the great mortality strikes Europe, you'll know what I mean... "Bring out yer dead!" BTW, did you know that there is a minor Monty Python reference in Rome: Total War? Oh and on topic.... I've been playing a short campaign as England in MII:TW. Here is a short summary: Started by smashing the Scots out of my island, didn't want the buggers to harrass me later on. When I was about to take the province that exists in the area that we nowadays calls "Wales", I noticed that it'd been taken by (and you can guess how surprised I was about that) Portugal! I didn't want to start a fight with Pope Gregory (he was rather pissed off when I smashed Scotland) so I didn't bother about them. I took the rest of the islands, and then went on to take some land in inland Europe. It didn't take long before Portugal tried to take York from me. I threw them away, and then took Wales from them, for good measures. Then we were at war, which lasted until 1402 or something like that. It wasn't much conquest really, mostly it was their fleets harrasing my ports, and then they tried to take back Wales over and over again...always ending up with a defeat and an army less. I managed to stay out of global war for about 70 years. Then France attacked Caen, but I chased them off like nothing. For good measures, I took Paris from them. Then the usual happened: "Don't kill Catholics or I'll do this and that", yadayadayada, the war raged on for 200 years, with many things going on around that honestly was more interesting than this war. I happened to get into war against the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, Denmark and Poland. The only one that I took seriously was the one against Denmark, 'cause really, those buggers can ruin any empire in a snatch. After a long and careful conquest, I wiped them out when taking over Stettin. I then owned the major ports in the Baltic sea. Ka-ching! The Holy Roman Empire attacked Antwerp, I took Metz, then nothing happened for a very long time. Poland blocked the port of Stettin, but that was it. Nothing else. Milan tried to take Paris from me. Fat chance mate, I chased them off myself (killed 200 of 'em, zero losses for me). After some fighting with the pope(s) and some random stuff to take care of, I managed to take Genoa, Milan from the Milanese, and Florence and Bologna from the HRE. That gave me a good position to the Med. Sea. Most of my provinces are cities, so my bank account is bigger than my massgrave of Assassins. So eventually I managed to make peace with the HRE, Milan, Portugal and Poland. At the present time, I just try to sort out any problems in my huge kingdom, and reinforce the borders. I'm ally with Spain, the Mongols (I stay out of the Middle East, best way to avoid trouble), also giving the Papal States some 10000 gold or so from time to time to keep the big guy happy. So at the present time, things looks pretty good for me! __________________

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03-12-08, 07:33 AM	#1
SmokinTep Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Suffolk, Virginia Posts: 1,027 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I always get my generals involved in the fighting rather than sit back and watch. Gets them more experience and stars to be able to attempt night attacks. If you have a city that has the plague, recruit a spy then send him with the plague into your enemies city.........

03-12-08, 11:58 AM	#4
SmokinTep Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Suffolk, Virginia Posts: 1,027 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Don't build any public baths, etc to get squalor up, I'm sure the plague will find you..........