This is the best picture off french military prowess at its finest!

[Warcat]

Stainless Steel is great, but I'm more of a fan of King_Kong's other mod, Third Age Total War. It's a great mod and the next version is going to have a bunch of realistic settlements. Nothing quite like holding the line againist an unending flow of orcs, shooting down your enemies with elven archers, or charging forth with an army of ents to crush Isengard.

[Tears of Destiny]

King_Kong is amazing. Everything he touches turns to gold, him and PointBlank are among the best I have seen.

[Xant]

Shogun 2 was fun for a week. Nothing pulls me in the way M2TW w/ SS does.

Exactly.

And yeah, Third Age is also amazing.

[Siiem]

Shogun 2 was fucking gay. Damn weabo shit. Whish I never spent money on it

[Xant]

Shogun 2 had a multiplayer campaign, which was a huge plus.

Until you were at turn 50 and it stopped working, every single time.

[Oberyn]

I tried Third Age. Did a pretty awesome Dwarf campaign where I reconquered the entire chain of mountains, including Khazad-Dum, beating Orcs of Gundabad and Goblins of Misty Mountains. Sent 2 stacks to help Rohirim against Isengard, Isengard got raped. Then I started helping a battered Gondor against Mordor, ran into those armored troll units, underestimated them and got some of my best, most veteran units destroyed along with my faction leader...then I GTX. Still have the save somewhere.

[Warcat]

yeah, I've found that often Gondor gets owned by Mordor before anything can be done to save them.

[Xant]

Depends on the campaign, in mine Gondor's been doing fine, until at turn 150 or so they finally lost Minas Tirith.

Thing about Third Age is.. it's very easy. Every faction has something that completely rapes the opposition. It was actually fairly intimidating to start up Stainless Steel after all the ez-mode Third Age battles, haha.

Elves have archers (kill 3000 orcs with 300 elves, 0 casualties..) and the best units in the game, Mordor has Nazgul and trolls (Nazgul alone can rout entire armies, trolls are basically godlike if used properly..), Rohirrim has cavalryspam, etc..

[Siiem]

Ezmode Stainless Steel. English. Spam longbowmen when you get them = win!

[Ninja_Khorin]

yeah, I've found that often Gondor gets owned by Mordor before anything can be done to save them.

As Rohan, I rode with my horde to the fields of Pelennor and routed the foul orcs of Mordor and pushed them back to Mordor and now my scouts are assisting in keeping the orcs at bay outside the mountain walls of Mordor.

While doing tihs i roflpwn'd Isengard. 

[Siiem]

3rd age is not really difficult until you encounter Balrogs -.- fucking assholes.

[Oberyn]

I actually didn't have any problem taking down the Balrog in Moria (well I did sacrifice a large part of the army) but I came in expecting a ridiculously tough fight. I had no idea the armored trolls would be so frigging dangerous though. After posting this I hit up that save, just gave up on Gondor (I was actually coming to try and relieve Minas Tirith, since a couple of the outer forts on the ring wall had already been taken, but it fell before I could send out another of my big home protection armies, all the way north and west beyond the Wood Elf forests.

[Xant]

Wood elves can steamroll Moria, too. They can recruit ents, which are basically trolls on steroid, and one unit has 20 ents.

If you're Rohan, I suppose trolls are the hardest..

[Lezard]

Yer all n00bs. I played SS hotseats, BC hotseats, HRE hotseats and Americas campaign hotseats like a pr0.

I used to be a god of MTW: II. Keep feeding my e-peen with your "OMG longbow winz"

srsly

Anyway, most of you probably know, but Broken Crescent is a brilliant mod as well. For anyone who wants to experience medieval warfare in the eastern parts of the world, try it.

[Gnjus]

Never knew that you're such a geek, Oby. 

On a more serious note: how the hell did you manage to find the time in your short life so far to shag all those french resistance chicks AND play all these mods you're blabbing about ? Seems to me that at least one of those jobs wasn't performed very.....ehm....thoroughly.....either the gaming or.......?