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    Re: Usefulness of musketeers in M2TW

    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...
  2. Were Zheng He's voyages afflicted with scurvy? Did the sailors know how to prevent scurvy?

    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...
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    Re: how recruit footman knights?

    There are no dismounted mailed knights in vanilla, although there are dismounted feudal knights.
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    Re: Favourite Faction?

    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,...
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    Re: Fighting Mongol horse archers

    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...
  6. Re: Why did dark age armies not use the pilum? When did it stop being used?

    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.
  7. Why is it that, although forced labor and slavery in general were very common in classical antiquity, most galley slavery became much more common in the early modern period?

    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...
  8. Poll: Re: What Historical era would you like to see in the next total war game?

    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...
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    Re: Total War Battles: KINGDOM

    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...
  10. Thread: M2TW A-Z

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    Re: M2TW A-Z

    Xicalango -- an American town near the Mayan starting territories, on the eastern coast of the Yucatan, but politically independent (i.e., rebel).
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    Re: Cheating Peasants?

    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...
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    Re: Pikemen in the Medieval period

    So, how were the Almoravid armies actually armed/organized, contra Wikipedia?
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    Re: Pikemen in the Medieval period

    Wikipedia claims the Almoravids used pike phalanxes. I can't verify the sources, though:
  14. Re: Electing the Pope: How are the votes counted?

    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...
  15. Information on the forces of the late Yaun dynasty, the Red Turban rebels, and other rival rebel groups?

    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...
  16. Thread: Ransom values

    by Maklodes
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    Ransom values

    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...
  17. Re: Why were the Papal States (*not* the papacy as a religious authority) so seemingly hapless in the Middle Ages?

    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...
  18. Why were the Papal States (*not* the papacy as a religious authority) so seemingly hapless in the Middle Ages?

    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....
  19. Re: How would Sun Tzu deal with heavily garrisioned fortresses?

    Very specific on what not to do, but irritatingly vague on what to actually do. 3/10 would not recommend for Scriptorium.
  20. Re: How are eras / unit availability determined?

    Which rule?
  21. Re: How are eras / unit availability determined?

    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,...
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    Re: Mercenary Challenge

    One potential extra challenge might be to exclude crusade/jihad mercenaries.
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    Re: Fast Ponies of M2TW -- a few notes

    The Cutie Mark Mujahideen?
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    Re: Medieval era military tactics

    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,...
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    Re: Fast Ponies of M2TW -- a few notes

    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...
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    Fast Ponies of M2TW -- a few notes

    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...
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    Re: Medieval era military tactics

    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...
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    Re: Medieval era military tactics

    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.
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    Re: Would this be offensive?

    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...
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    Re: Kingdoms.exe not found! = STEAM version

    Have you tried making a copy of medieval2.exe and renaming it kingdoms.exe?
  31. How was the civilian government structured in Hussite Bohemia?

    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...
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    Re: Mongols/Timurids are totally underpowered

    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...
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    Re: Mongols/Timurids are totally underpowered

    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...
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    Re: Mongols/Timurids are totally underpowered

    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.
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    Re: Impossible to win a fight on walls

    For what it's worth, Sun Tzu wrote:



    I'm not sure how you do that in TWR2, though.
  36. Re: How do you train more than 3 units at a time

    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...
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    Re: Missing Unit for Turkish Infantry Rooster !

    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...
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    Re: Tests on Projectile Scatter & Experience

    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...
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    Re: Picking up princesses

    Hmm.. it's possible I forgot how it actually worked. I'm going to have to test it later.
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    Re: Picking up princesses

    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...
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