Total War: Rule Britannia, literally.

[The Romulan Republic]

I got similarly screwed with Empire.

[The Danish Confederacy]

FFS! First Rome total war didn't work in windows 10, and now that I finally got Medieval 2 (on the cheap from a charity shop in good nic), that doesn't seem to run in windows 10 either.
God dammit I was really looking forward to finally getting to play Medieval as well :/

Das vy I use Windows 7.
For all my Holy Roman extermination needs.

[Zanera]

Large sieges tend to be choppy and slow with a low fps. It gets better as the battle goes on though.

[Genivaria]

So does anyone here play Third Age TW?
Do you know if the latest update would work with Baron Semedi's submods?

[Mirakai]

On a whim, I dug out my old copy of M2TW and tried inputting the cd key into Steam.

It worked.

Hell.

Fucking.

Yes!

[Ganos Lao]

On a whim, I dug out my old copy of M2TW and tried inputting the cd key into Steam.

It worked.

Hell.

Fucking.

Yes!

That's been a policy for a while now. In fact, if you have a copy of Rome 1, you can input it there too.

[Mirakai]

On a whim, I dug out my old copy of M2TW and tried inputting the cd key into Steam.

It worked.

Hell.

Fucking.

Yes!

That's been a policy for a while now. In fact, if you have a copy of Rome 1, you can input it there too.

Well, it finished downloading, but when I launched it, I heard the menu music, and could see the cursor, but all I could see was a black screen...

[Landenburg]

I've been playing around with Rome 2 Emperor Edition, though it feels quite different. It has a bit of a Shogun 2 feel to it but at the same time it's much different.

Any tips? I do enjoy playing Syracuse, it has a really good starting point.

[Knokkeheist]

Here is my latest video of my Poland Luthuania campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjtOmJwn0o

[Seba Kemet]

Seems the latest Attila patch broke the siege AI...my Aksum campaign was great fun until I found myself facing a Sassanid army of 10,000 men who...did the accordion dance outside my walls for an hour. I guess I'm gonna have to lower my siege battle time limits.

[Great Houses of Xie]

That's unfortunate; I just finished installing it on my new comp. NO MATTER. HERE WE GO.

[Seba Kemet]

Aksum has proven pretty challenging so far. Essentially the ONLY way you can expand is either to take on the ERE or attack the Sassanids. And either one's going to be a bugger. I decided to go after the Sassanids myself, since I had good relations with the ERE and Nobatia, and awful relations with the Sassanids and their puppets...figured they would attack me anyway.

It went well for a while, but now the ERE is, as usual, at war with half the planet while the Sassanids just have to fight me and the Romans. Of course, they (and their puppets) have chosen to concentrate on me. I've won quite a few stunning victories, but the AI's using the tactic of laying siege to my port cities with armies that can't possibly win, which damages the port buildings and results in my income plummeting. Try to attack them with the garrison army and they just run away. I didn't know the AI could cheese, but apparently they programmed dirty, game exploiting tactics into this one. So basically, despite winning the war handily, I'm on the verge of collapse due to debt and the loss of food from my Arabian colonies.

[The Huskar Social Union]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK0BMkKmwB4

CA letsplay of Warhammer Total War with a battle between the Dwarfs and Greenskins undergound, pretty cool.

[Alaizia]

So does anyone here play Third Age TW?
Do you know if the latest update would work with Baron Semedi's submods?

I play Third Age but I haven't got any Baron Samedi submod. I heard that they slow down the amount of time it takes to end turns in the campaign map. However if I had to download a BS mod it would probably be the "Immortal Nazgul" one.

There is also the Divide and Conquer submod. Is it any good?

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

I've been playing around with Rome 2 Emperor Edition, though it feels quite different. It has a bit of a Shogun 2 feel to it but at the same time it's much different.

Any tips? I do enjoy playing Syracuse, it has a really good starting point.

I think the Seleucids provide a good faction for mix of units, opponents and difficulty for a beginner, I'd say. It units a predominately Hellenistic feel with some eastern influence, including some utterly sweet cavalry and access to Indian Armoured Elephants, as well as straddling the eastern and Hellenistic world tends to give you a good mix of factions to fight, and even some Gallic if the Galatians survive, which they have a tendency to do. Even the Steppe factions aren't far away.

Difficulty wise, I've found that although your opponents tend to be numerous they're also generally relatively easy to defend against with your units and geography working towards your advantage. It is actually easier than it use to be, where I was simply having to fight every single faction east of Mesopotamia which mean't I had about two armies stationed there having to fend of 12+ enemy armies. Eastern spearmen maybe garbage, but pikemen can only handle so many javelinmen and slingers. Now it is way more manageable.

[Great Houses of Xie]

As the seleucids, armored elephant generals. Nuff sed. 1000+ kills per battle.

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

As the seleucids, armored elephant generals. Nuff sed. 1000+ kills per battle.

I never went with elephant generals as a Selecucid player. I think Hellenic Cataphracts are way sexier.

Maybe if the Syrian Elephants were an option, perhaps.

[Great Houses of Xie]

Welp, you're missing out. Cataphracts are sexy, but not nearly as insanely effective and crushingly winning.

[Knokkeheist]

Will the total war developers make a modern total war soon? I mean the time between 1830 and about 1900?

[Onekawa-Nukanor]

Welp, you're missing out. Cataphracts are sexy, but not nearly as insanely effective and crushingly winning.

My men are trying to emulate Alexander! Generals should not debase themselves by riding such a beast!

It ain't fighting if you can't touch the enemy with your spear!

[The Danish Confederacy]

Will the total war developers make a modern total war soon? I mean the time between 1830 and about 1900?

That isn't exactly modern.
And, that would be cool to see "Victoria: Total War".

[The Two Jerseys]

Will the total war developers make a modern total war soon? I mean the time between 1830 and about 1900?

That isn't exactly modern.
And, that would be cool to see "Victoria: Total War".

Napoleon does have American Civil War and Zulu/Khartoum mods.

[Seba Kemet]

That isn't exactly modern.
And, that would be cool to see "Victoria: Total War".

Napoleon does have American Civil War and Zulu/Khartoum mods.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdis ... entury-Mod

Released a beta fairly recently, too

[Redemption-America]

Will the total war developers make a modern total war soon? I mean the time between 1830 and about 1900?

That isn't exactly modern.
And, that would be cool to see "Victoria: Total War".

That was my idea for the next one, incidentally. Revolutions of 1848, Franco-Prussian War, Austro-Prussian War, Scramble for Africa, whole world map with all Opium Wars, American Civil War, etc.

They didn't ask for my opinion, though. Hah.

[New Zepuha]

So I must pose a question, inspired by the poll on this thread. What about the Imperium of Man draws so many people into it's sphere of influence? On NS I personally see a lot of Imperium lovers and am myself a person who enjoys the rigidity of the Imperium. I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.