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

[B3RS3RK]

AI will only fail you empire:TW and newer Total wars.It was fine before and when you had good chances to win you won.

[Christo]

AI will only fail you empire:TW and newer Total wars.It was fine before and when you had good chances to win you won.

Yeah, but I never liked the casualties the AI takes.

[B3RS3RK]

Weird, for me the AI always fights perfectly fine with acceptable Casualties What do I care really if 400 Spearmen and Peasants die in incredible Pain :d

[Christo]

You are a careless leader then.

Oh well, that is realistic. 


Btw Peasants? I never had to use pez's in an actual fight. Poor Fodder.

[Tears of Destiny]

Btw Peasants? I never had to use pez's in an actual fight. Poor Fodder.

Good for pushing battering rams into place during the start of the Early Era.

[B3RS3RK]

Well I always throw everything I have at my foes, no matter the cost > : D

And I sometimes use Peasants when I have few money. 8 Units of Peasants with 1-2 Units of light cavalry can inflict good damage to a enemy host(And overall that kind of army costs almost nothing and is easy to maintain).

[Christo]

Good for pushing battering rams into place during the start of the Early Era.

I use archers for that.

" Push that ram, you Scum! " 

[NuberT]

why would someone play native medieval 2 when there is the stainless steel mod? 

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=314

[Christo]

Good Question.

I played SS mod too, but native m2tw before I knew about it's existence.

Also if you're a RTW player, DON'T play native, it blows. Grab either RTR(Rome:Total Realism), or Europa Barbarorum.

I had way more fun with RTR though, it just felt better, EB's way of naming everything was too confusing for me.

[Oberyn]

Europa Barbarorum> other mods.

I never, ever autocalced, unless it's a merc army I can't retrain anyways. I usually had just a few main production centers for troops and the rest are just economic colonies, I hated having understrength stacks and the AI wasted a ridiculous amount of troops. Plus I tended to have relatively small, extremely elite armies. Losing even a few troops to stupid autocalc was a pain.

Anyways, Total War battlemap and tactical AI has been retarded since RTW. Original Shogun, good AI. Original MTW, good AI. Then bam, totally moronic AI and useless diplomacy for every following game. Playing VH/VH is the only way to give the AI enough of a handicap that it sometimes ends up as a challenge, and it's totally artificial. Most good mods used Darth's formations, which made tactical AI a bit better, but I haven't run into anything that'll make the AI pull it's head out of it's ass on the campaign map.

[Christo]

The only thing I didn't like in EB that every kingdom/unit had it's authentic name.
(It's a good thing by the way, I just need to get used to it, imo.)

It was kind of a mindfuck to command the húbzwarlishígzar os nowujziwisk, unit names I didn't even understand.

Maybe I'll give it another go a bit later.

[Xant]

Stainless Steel doesn't have useless diplomacy, Oberyn. Vanilla M2TW blows.

[Oberyn]

Stainless Steel doesn't have useless diplomacy, Oberyn. Vanilla M2TW blows.

Yup, agreed. The rant was mostly about the crappier quality of the vanilla games released since and including RTW. The modding community made it palatable.

[Teeth]

If they would just remake Rome or Medieval but then properly, instead of making a noob friendly Total War that is Shogun 2. I couldn´t stand the complete lack of unit variation in that one. Too bad everyone liked it, now Total War is probably ruined forever.

[Mechanix]

Total War was ruined the second people bought unit packs in E:TW. The day that people paid FULL PRICE for Napoleon: TW right after paying full price for E:TW.. Napoleon was what E:TW should have been, you paid twice for the patched version of E:TW. Thank you morons.

Shogun 2 was fun for a week. Nothing pulls me in the way M2TW w/ SS does. RTW does too but that's only when I'm in the mood for some Roman carnage.