Medieval Total War

[Skii]

Anyone see that wargame programme on TV last night ? They were re-enacting ancient Battles - I wondered if it was Total war they used for it

[Moby-Dick]

I think it is - TiG said it was mentioned in the credits afaik.

[no1sdn]

Yup, they are using the rome total war engine. Looks so sweet, can't wait for it to come out.

[Skii]

THIS GAME r0x0rs !!!!

Best strategy game EVER

I've only got the demo of it but I haven't had so much fun since my cat looked a me funny when I was holding my BB gun.

The demo is very good tbh - it takes you through all of the training scenarios until the ultimate battle - playing King Richard the Lionheart vs Saladin - took me 3 attempts but eventually won with only 6 nights and 3 archers left having been outnumbered about 5 - 1 !!!!!

And laying seige to castles - how much fun is that !?!?! your catapult hurling boulders into heavily concentrated troop formations - splat LMAO


I need to buy this game NOW

[Russ]

http://www.freekit.as.ro/download/download11.htm

if any1 else wants to try, im d/l now

[Skii]

Nice link Russ

[Zak33]

the Original Shogun was also truly amazing...you MUST fight with the right troops and use your head and read....

Sun-tzu's Art of war

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthurs...sm/suntext.htm

I'm not kidding..... it is the bible...

[Zak33]

Be unpredicatable in your predictability

The attack should look normal but be otherwise....and the unusual attack should turn out to be quite mundane.....oh I cant word it right.....

hold on....

Facing the enemy is CHENG, making lateral diversion
is CH`I.

Chia Lin: "In presence of the enemy, your troops
should be arrayed in normal fashion, but in order to secure
victory abnormal maneuvers must be employed."

Mei Yao-ch`en:
"CH`I is active, CHENG is passive; passivity means waiting for an
opportunity, activity beings the victory itself."

Ho Shih: "We
must cause the enemy to regard our straightforward attack as one
that is secretly designed, and vice versa; thus CHENG may also be
CH`I, and CH`I may also be CHENG." He instances the famous
exploit of Han Hsin, who when marching ostensibly against Lin-
chin (now Chao-i in Shensi), suddenly threw a large force across
the Yellow River in wooden tubs, utterly disconcerting his
opponent. [Ch`ien Han Shu, ch. 3.] Here, we are told, the march
on Lin-chin was CHENG, and the surprise maneuver was CH`I."

one of theonly reasons I EVER survive in IL-2....is this book

[elneckio]

Played the demo through last night.

Noticed something interesting on the last level, playing tactfully using units properly and everything I managed to win, but as an experiment I ran it again but as soon as battle started I selected everyone, made them run up the hill and attack the first thing they found. Strangely enough this tactic worked as welll !

[Skii]

Originally posted by elneckio
Played the demo through last night.

Noticed something interesting on the last level, playing tactfully using units properly and everything I managed to win, but as an experiment I ran it again but as soon as battle started I selected everyone, made them run up the hill and attack the first thing they found. Strangely enough this tactic worked as welll !

I found this too - you can actually un-nerve a larger force by rushing them, depending on the tide of the battle - amazing !

[Russ]

grrr my d/l is korrupt

[Russ]

gawd im still downloading again, i might just buy it, only 16.99 at play.

[Skii]

Originally posted by Russ
grrr my d/l is korrupt

yeah mine was first time round - (Kazaa)

[Russ]

im downloading the mtwbattledemo.exe now :/

[PanzerKnight]

damn medieval total war is such an awesome game, I took an entire week off uni, couldnt put it down. The music is cool to

[Russ]

omg this is immense fun... brb charging sum arses