Medieval 2 Discussion

[Rasix]

You need to encourage the Venetians to go on an anti-Moorish rampage throughout the Med. ;)

Yah, I need to definitely start ramping up other aspects of the game other than "STOMP, KILL, SACK".  The first time through a Total War campaign for me is usually an interesting combination of just ramping up your war machine, killing your way across the map, and showing a complete disdain for alliances of any sort.

[eldaec]

As far as creating family members- is there any benefit for waiting to marry off male faction members? How about adoptees? Should I take any and all comers? With my princesses, I try to wait for a decent general for a good fit, but I can't see any reason not to marry the men at first opportunity so they can start cranking out governors. I mean children.

Marry the men asap.

Don't accept crap adoptees.

Consider keeping princesses if you want to use them for diplomatic reasons.

Unlike previous Total Wars the adoption system seems to give you more opportunities to adopt whenever you have fewer family members. I think it's to prevent cheesy all-family-members-dead defeats as a result of the black death or an unlucky run with inquisitors.

Fucking Council of Nobles

Fuck the council of nobles - the money they give is trivial and afaik nothing bad happens if you ignore them.

France

I found France to be one of the shittier factions, you can pretty much ignore their ineffectual whining even if they do declare war.

[Paelos]

NECRO!

I picked up this game in "Gold Edition" with the kingdoms expansion attached. I read through this thread and a lot of the issues yall seem to have had were patched out or fixed.

-Merchants are awesome now. Two of my merchants in Antioch have a Cotton monopoly and are pulling in 320g a turn each.
-Assassins rule. I've cranked out about 12 of them and they patrol around with my spies owning things. As a plus I'm the most dreaded guy on the face of the earth. As a downside, the Popes all hate my ass.
-You can actually execute massive populations of the cities instead of just sack them ala Rome. Not sure if that was an option before.
-The religion thing is bizarre to me. I'm having a hard time skilling up my priests because they can't find any heretics.
-I love the changes to buildings and the city/castle feature. It's much more strategic to have my front line cities as castles and my interior empire acting as cities.
-I also like the Guild House addition. It's another way to further specialize my cities.

[WayAbvPar]

I loaned my copy to my brother, but have been itching to play it again. I am assuming that if I buy the expansion, I can use that CD as the Play disc? Anyone know for sure?

[Johny Cee]

May have to give this another shot.  Played through it once,  but didn't find the game more engaging than TW: Rome, which I still fire up every few months to play through.

[Rasix]

I think it may be humorous/fun to put together a Turkish "tenescowri" army and see how that plays out.

Edit: I'll give this another shot, but what I really remember most is that this one didn't click with me like Rome:TW did.  Something was just off.   At least now I don't anticipate the stability problems I had with my old vid card.

[Johny Cee]

I think it may be humorous/fun to put together a Turkish "tenescowri" army and see how that plays out.

I don't remember corpse-rape in that game.

[eldaec]

-The religion thing is bizarre to me. I'm having a hard time skilling up my priests because they can't find any heretics.

Ignore heretics, they are a waste of time and energy, just dedicate one out of the way province to population growth, churches, and churning out priests.

You need the concentration of piety to attract the guild of awesome chruchyness. At that point, combined with a huge cathedral, your priests are born with piety that omfgwtfpwns all of europe, and you have control of the council of cardinals, and can declare crusade whenever you like.

[Paelos]

-The religion thing is bizarre to me. I'm having a hard time skilling up my priests because they can't find any heretics.

Ignore heretics, they are a waste of time and energy, just dedicate one out of the way province to population growth, churches, and churning out priests.

You need the concentration of piety to attract the guild of awesome chruchyness. At that point, combined with a huge cathedral, your priests are born with piety that omfgwtfpwns all of europe, and you have control of the council of cardinals, and can declare crusade whenever you like.

Aha, thanks. I'll do that with Dublin then. I don't do diddly shit with that province anyway.

[NowhereMan]

Ireland a centre of rabid Catholocism? You're starting early.

[Paelos]

Ireland a centre of rabid Catholocism? You're starting early.

And yet, it's working. I've got 3 Cardinals already. I'm THIS close to getting a Pope within another generation.