In terms of killing power, musketeers in favorable circumstances deliver more damage than any other ranged unit. They're a little finicky compared to archers and crossbowmen (putting them in two...
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In terms of killing power, musketeers in favorable circumstances deliver more damage than any other ranged unit. They're a little finicky compared to archers and crossbowmen (putting them in two...
I've read that Gavin Menzies claims that Zheng He's voyages were not afflicted by scurvy, because they had good vitamin C sources (such as sprouting stored soybeans throughout the voyage) it seems to...
There are no dismounted mailed knights in vanilla, although there are dismounted feudal knights.
Unit Roster
Sicily's roster is in many ways a variant on the "standard Western Catholic" unit roster -- i.e., strong heavy infantry, hard-charging heavy cavalry, decent long-ranged light infantry,...
Long-ranged crossbowmen and archers all have the same range (160). Musketeers have a bit longer range (180). Mongol horse archers, like all horse archers, don't have long range (120). Their foot...
Angons, which were functionally fairly similar to pila, were used in the dark ages, although not as commonly as the pilum/spiculum was by the Romans.
My general impression is that, as a whole, slavery was far more common in ancient Greece and Rome than in, say, Bourbon France or the Ottoman Empire, except for in areas far from the core such as in...
My copypasta for "next TW game" threads:
My favorites:
1. Total War: Reformation (1517-1697) -- Somewhat European-focused, but could include some areas beyond. An age of bloody religious...
I'm trying it out.
I don't know.
The whole thing feels much more like Generic Medieval Low Fantasy land than 9th century England or whatever. The landscape is full of stone castles that look...
Xicalango -- an American town near the Mayan starting territories, on the eastern coast of the Yucatan, but politically independent (i.e., rebel).
Well, that does sound like extremely bad luck.
Spear units are pretty badly nerfed in M2TW (at least vanilla). (Exercise: try finding of a unit that costs about as much as armoured sergeants...
So, how were the Almoravid armies actually armed/organized, contra Wikipedia?
Wikipedia claims the Almoravids used pike phalanxes. I can't verify the sources, though:
I believe the current consensus is that each faction gets one vote. It's uncertain how tie-breakers work, but it probably involves piety, purity, and eligibility. (If number of cardinals is a...
Is there a good source for an overview of the events of the Red Turban rebellion from a military perspective, or notable battles?
The only significant battle I can find on Wikipedia is the Battle...
I decided to do a little research on ransom values.
I started a game as the Turks, gave my sultan 10 dread (5 battledread, 5 strategy dread) and put him in a stack with 9 maxed out qapukulu and 10...
I suppose I can see how the papal states were militarily weak, for a variety of reasons (cultural and other), but to me, it seems as though their weakness wasn't just military. They appear to me to...
It seems like Medieval Papal States were pretty weak. Is this a misconception?
When they faced Imperial forces at Tusculum with a massive numerical advantage, they were humiliatingly defeated....
Very specific on what not to do, but irritatingly vague on what to actually do. 3/10 would not recommend for Scriptorium.
Which rule?
Your assumption is correct.
This is determined by descr_mercenaries.txt, a pre-unpacked file in data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign. Different regions get different mercenary pools,...
One potential extra challenge might be to exclude crusade/jihad mercenaries.
The Cutie Mark Mujahideen?
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Coming back to this OP, my impressions of the books I've read on this, from broadest to narrowest focus:
The Art of War in the Western World, by Archer Jones (1987). This is a rather sweeping,...
If the border horse manage to get off a formed charge, they can beat jinetes, in spite of having about 6 lower defense (if the jinetes don't skirmish away and javelin them to death, of course). On...
Fast ponies are the fastest mounts in M2TW. This makes them particularly useful for pursuing routed cavalry -- particularly general's bodyguards, considering the size of the ransom a captured general...
I doubt typical peasant levies also could withstand a charge of well-trained, well-equipped infantry like Anglo-Saxon huscarls either. I don't think "can this unit take on the least trained and least...
Philippe Contamine's War in the Middle Age seems pretty good to me, but I haven't gotten through all of it. It's not in the public domain, but you can get it for about $2 used in okay condition.
My response is sort of "I don't think I'd be offended, but some people might be, and quite frankly, screw 'em."
Maybe you can dig up some Kotaku reviewer who will find something offensive about...
Have you tried making a copy of medieval2.exe and renaming it kingdoms.exe?
I've heard a fair amount about the Hussite military and its leadership, but I really don't understand how Bohemia was governed overall during the Hussite Wars.
Was it a sort of military...
For reference, Bodyguards of M2TW:
Aztec
Byzantine
Mongol
Muslim
Northern Catholic
Russian
Southern Catholic
Most bodyguards are only trained, whereas Byzantine and Mongol bodyguards are...
Byzantine and Russian horse archers (Dvor and Vardariotai) are probably better. Mongol heavy horse archers and mamluk archers are pretty much identical, although the Mongols are more disciplined and...
S/he could be playing multiplayer and/or custom battles as the Mongols or Timurids without modding; there was nothing saying that it was a single-player campaign game.
For what it's worth, Sun Tzu wrote:
I'm not sure how you do that in TWR2, though.
I don't know which mods increase this, but if it is increased, it would be in export_descr_buildings.txt. The recruitment slots (with a few exceptions, such as Apachean villages in the Americas...
If you want to get into really historical Turkish stuff, wasn't a janissary a type of kapikulu? (I.e., soldier-slave of the court.) What the game calls qapukulu seem like they should "technically" be...
Thank you! This is very interesting info! (TWCenter won't let me rep you though -- says it's been too soon since last time.)
Javelins have shorter range than bows, but crossbows don't -- at...
Hmm.. it's possible I forgot how it actually worked. I'm going to have to test it later.
If the faction has an eligible princess, and you have an eligible faction heir or ruler, any diplomatic contact with the faction should enable negotiation for a marriage alliance. You don't have to...