The Total War series

[Soviet Heavy]

Part 3 of the war against Milan and Sicily. After an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Milanese Leader in Genoa, a counterattack was launched against the green bastards. A huge army of Armored and Regular Sergeant Spearmen sailed from Ragusa, and wiped out Genoa without major casualties. Two armies of Urban militia from Venice waged a land war, crushing two full stack Milanese armies, before taking Milan itself.

In lower Italy, the army from Naples moved and is currently besieging Sicily.

 

[The Harkinator]

Currently playing the Grand Campaign on N:TW as Great Britain.

Don't you just love how all the initial (and most of the subsequent) generals/admirals were historic figures? The paintings were a nice touch as well. I kept sending George de Dreiberg into fights before continually raging: why won't you get your fourth star?!

And why did Adm Cornwallis have to be in a freakin' fourth rater?!

Serious question: did you raid the French trade routes or attack their ports?

To answer your question, I raided the french ports from time to time but my main way of cutting off their trade income is to conquer or scare all their trade partners so they cant do business with France, then conquer most of their regions and make peace so their still massive armies have to leg it out of my new lands. End result, France has massive armies it can't pay for but needs to defend against my Protectorates and its own unrest at being reduced to three provinces and I can focus on my other objectives, removing Spain is really the clincher though, take Spain and you get access to the trading ports in the Med and if France is cowed they can't disturb your American trade posts, basically giving me a monopoly over all trade resources, I currently make 17,800 a turn out of trading with Austria.

Despite some of my generals taking hundreds of square miles of land and defeating multiple armies several times their own number my generals struggled to get above three or four stars.

And yes, it is really annoying that Cornwallis was in a fourth rate ship, they should have made it possible to transfer admirals from ship to ship. I know I'd put him in a first rater ASAP.

 

[maninahat]

I murdered my way to pope. i got a highest level assasin next to rome, and just kept killing the pope until it was only my cardinals that were left. this lead to a 5 year period where there was 10 different popes. you would think after the 6th one got assasinated by crossbow while giving mass they would check for assasins, but apparently not.

I remember taking Rome once. The subsequent Popes kept trying to retake the city with armies consisting entirely of the 24 mounted bodyguards. I must have murdered a half dozen Popes in open field battles that way.

My favourite trick in general is played during siege defences. I put a ballista on the inside wall, aim it down the main street, and fire on the enemy as they finish bashing their way through the doors. With some careful funneling through spearmen on either side, you can kill over 30 men per flaming ballista bolt.

 

[SckizoBoy]

To answer your question, I raided the french ports from time to time but my main way of cutting off their trade income is to conquer or scare all their trade partners so they cant do business with France, then conquer most of their regions and make peace so their still massive armies have to leg it out of my new lands. End result, France has massive armies it can't pay for but needs to defend against my Protectorates and its own unrest at being reduced to three provinces and I can focus on my other objectives, removing Spain is really the clincher though, take Spain and you get access to the trading ports in the Med and if France is cowed they can't disturb your American trade posts, basically giving me a monopoly over all trade resources, I currently make 17,800 a turn out of trading with Austria.

In my last playthrough, I sent Wellington to capture Hannover... big mistake, because I ended up having a permanent fullstack army there because Prussia basically did like the 4th Coalition, but somehow managed to keep hold of Hesse. I spent the next year crawling through Spain.

Did you bother with the Brittany mission at all? I always felt that it was a waste of resources for a place that doesn't offer that much and you can only do some cursory raiding...

Anyway, I'm up with Prussia... for the umpteenth time.

Despite some of my generals taking hundreds of square miles of land and defeating multiple armies several times their own number my generals struggled to get above three or four stars.

And yes, it is really annoying that Cornwallis was in a fourth rate ship, they should have made it possible to transfer admirals from ship to ship. I know I'd put him in a first rater ASAP.

Yah, not that it really mattered, always fight the battles myself and I'm sure that 'transferring the flag' would be a simple mechanic to put in. In any event, I'm always interested in the names.

As Prussia, my thirteen corps commanders were (and probably will be again): Blucher; Gneisenau; Prinz Ludwig Ferdinand; Friedrich zu Hohenlohe; Scharnhorst; Thielmann; Bulow; l'Estocq; Clausewitz; Muffling; von Grolmann; Friedrich Emmanuel Bogislav; and Massenbach (even though he was a complete ponce in real life). The amount of idiotic glee I get from that is ridiculous!

 

[srm79]

God damn you guys! After reading this thread, I went and spent all of yesterday rebuilding and reformatting my PC which had been lying gathering dust for a few months purely so I could play R:TW - Roma Surrectum II again!

 

[Whyso]

i remember in roman empire (i was like 10 so i barely knew how to play at all) i got like 2 incendiary pig squads to besiege a city with a garrison of like 500 gaul troops and their faction leader and decided i wanted all the pigs to be killed, so i simply auto attacked with them, every turn. I got so many draws that eventually i starved them out

 

[Mrmac23]

So i tried to start playing Empire again. Played as Prussia, and decided to attack Saxony since they only had one city. At which point the moment i declare war on them half an army's worth of millitia appear with no warning in the city.

I just suddenly remembered why i fucking despise this game.

 

[SckizoBoy]

So i tried to start playing Empire again. Played as Prussia, and decided to attack Saxony since they only had one city. At which point the moment i declare war on them half an army's worth of millitia appear with no warning in the city.

I just suddenly remembered why i fucking despise this game.

' ... but the militia (which auto-generate as a 'last-ditch defence' of sorts) suck major-league balls, man! They're not worth bothering with when accounting for opposing strengths. Give them a couple volleys and they invariably go running. Besides, don't bother starting with Saxony, Poland-Lithuania will inevitably join on their side. Better go with Hannover, get a quick peace with GB the next turn then turn on Denmark since Copenhagen's worth a lot of money. Best way to expand.

I always did a 'sickle-cut' through the German provinces, Hannover, west, south along the Elsass-Baden border and back until Saxony is surrounded by Prussian held territory. Then you can either take on Austria (Schliessen being the historic sticking point) or the PL-Fed. I try doing it in a 'one-turn war' that either I pull off like a baws, or it tanks and I spend a few turns trying to salvage Warsaw/Vilnius... or something...

Either way, it always saddens me when I have to fight (& kill) Prinz Eugen!

 

[Grimsinger]

So this is a little bit off topic, but I cant think of a better place to ask this. So, I've played every total war game except Empire and Napoleon,right now I'm playing Shogun 2 but I'm getting a little tired of looking at samurai, so which of those two would you recommend and why?

 

[SwishiestB0g]

So this is a little bit off topic, but I cant think of a better place to ask this. So, I've played every total war game except Empire and Napoleon,right now I'm playing Shogun 2 but I'm getting a little tired of looking at samurai, so which of those two would you recommend and why?

Empire is bigger, like a lot bigger and is more of a classic TW game.

Napoleon is much more story driven for the campaign. It's still fun but to me Empire was better simply because you could rule the ENTIRE world.

 

[Grimsinger]

So this is a little bit off topic, but I cant think of a better place to ask this. So, I've played every total war game except Empire and Napoleon,right now I'm playing Shogun 2 but I'm getting a little tired of looking at samurai, so which of those two would you recommend and why?

Empire is bigger, like a lot bigger and is more of a classic TW game.

Napoleon is much more story driven for the campaign. It's still fun but to me Empire was better simply because you could rule the ENTIRE world.

Thats a big plus, I love the grand campaigns, and I'm not sure how well something like total war would work as a story driven game.

edit: What do you think about all the DLC for Empire by the way?

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Playing Medieval 2:Total War right now as Spain. I've beaten the Moors and Portugal, and I control all the African territories, Sicily, Ireland and couple of other places scattered about, as well as the Holy Land. I'm the most powerful nation and for ages pretty much all of the European nations were close allies or vassals, and I was pretty much completely top dog. Annoyingly, I've been betrayed by The Holy Roman Empire (who are the most powerful nation besides us) and lots of other nations are joining them. I've gone from being everyone's best friend to being the enemy of the entire world, except for England and Denmark, who are still on my side. Seems to be distracting everyone from The Mongol invasion too, so I guess that's going to be left to me to sort out. I'm training up assassins right now by killing lots of diplomats and princesses, hopefully I'll be able to start eliminating royal families soon.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Medieval 2 - Being fairly confident of entering a battle with superior troops and numbers, for some reason that I don't remember I sent in my faction leader to accompany, the battle was joined with a foe I also do not remember, they had catapults, but I knew their use in battles on foot, involving a lot of cavalry, was dubious, so I was confident.

After sending my heavy cavalry (including my faction leader) charging at some speed forward into soft lines of defence, in loose formation; one volley from one enemy catapult - Faction Leader is DEAD.

Amazing.

 

[GraveeKing]

Oh medieval total war 2 and how I miss it.... That was probably the best in the series (when I could get the bloody thing to work) just manic general fun.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Got fed up with being excommunicated, massacred Rome, and started attacking Milan like crazy.

 

[srm79]

A few days into my new RTW: Roma Surrectum II campaign and I've started to expand west, with the aim of capturing Iberia (Spain) from the native Gallaeci and driving out Carthage. The mini map shows my progress so far (in red)...

Once Carthage have been driven out of Continental Europe, the plan is to cross the Gibraltar Straight and push in from the west. I also intend to land a couple of Legions of troops right on the door step of Carthago itself and begin a two pronged attack. If I can put the right infrastructure in place in Iberia before I begin, I should be able to support operations on both fronts. Once Carthage are out of the picture, I'll probably go and fuck up Macedon and Greece's shit respectively.

And for those of you still thinking in terms of vanilla Julii, the reason I've not touched any of Gaul, Germania or the rest of the regions to my immediate north is that there's fuck all up there worth having at this stage, and because of the way RSII re-does the entire game the Senate missions are gone, so there's no annoying distractions trying to keep them happy with forays into territories that have little or no material use to me. Northern Europe is only worth going after once everything else has been taken over and it's the only thing left to plunder.

 

[redisforever]

What am I doing? Downloading my Steam copy of Rome: Total War, and telling myself I'm not going anywhere until I know what I'm doing. Haven't played much, bought it because, hey, RTS for $5, apparently a good one...BUY.

 

[jonyboy13]

Quite basic, but still one of my favorites.
Defended against a huge army with a few archers on a hill in a forest. Just broke their moral with well aimed fire arrows.

 

[srm79]

What am I doing? Downloading my Steam copy of Rome: Total War, and telling myself I'm not going anywhere until I know what I'm doing. Haven't played much, bought it because, hey, RTS for $5, apparently a good one...BUY.

For $5 (that's what, about £3.00?) it's an absolute steal. Still the best Total War to my mind, but then I've always had a fascination with classical history, and in particular ancient Rome.