SS Screenshot Thread

[Roman Heritage]

Here are some screenshots from my Byzantine campaign (which is the one over which is based the AAR in my sig., if anyone wonders)

First, we've got a nice view of the inner fortress of Adana

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Then, one from my siege of Ragusa

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And then one of my favourite ones, the fight for Belgrade

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[Treaper]

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Yeah, it's only rebel army, but after that battle I had my way to Thorn clean...

[Grabbin_Megroin]

I wonder if the Papal States suspect anything...

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[Treaper]

No way they can suspect you +rep for this

[prima legio]

I wonder if the Papal States suspect anything...

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AHAHAHAH Great!!!

[Lifthrasir]

I'm sure you came there only for the weather and the wine

[HaHawk]

I wonder if the Papal States suspect anything...

LOL!!! Would you mind if I were to share this on Reddit?

[Grabbin_Megroin]

go ahead m8

[Grabbin_Megroin]

After waiting 20 or so years for all of my armies to journey to Italy, I've finally started the invasion:

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Here is the battle I had after I took this screenshot. I took one of my "main" armies (one commanded by a general, comprised of 4 heavy cavalry, 5 archers, and 10 heavy infantry), and two "support" armies (20 infantry units, because the AI tends to suicide charge their cavalry, and no archers because of how much friendly fire they dish out) and attacked the Papal armies that were clumped together. My AI armies unfortunately set up in a disadvantageous position, so I took my force and extended the line up the hill hoping to be able to crush whoever came at me and then wrap around to relieve my allies:

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Here's an up close shot of my infantry fending off the extremely tough Swiss Gaurd unit, with the more enemies approaching:

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Here is the aftermath, thousands of dead men scattered among the hills:

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A wide angle shot:

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Here's the battle summary:

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Some unit stats:

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I know they're not the best screencaps, but I had to post them because this was the largest battle I've had yet in the campaign. I also didn't take more during the battle because I was having so much fun playing it, and I needed to focus because the enemy Swiss Guard units nearly obliterated me. If not for repeated cavalry charges into their flanks I would have been done for!

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Some late era Templars;



Best polearm texture in game by far.

[Grabbin_Megroin]

Here's an album I compiled from a nice battle I recently played:

http://imgur.com/a/d2cAA

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

Ribaults, stopping Jihad's since 1339;

Was that from a siege?

[+Marius+]

Was that from a siege?

Even worse, river crossing

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

The SS6.4 battle AI is very well made but the later units have such high attack that it is still easy to abuse the AI. I had a couple of fun nights giving the AI a hard time, you can see the results below.

Why play as anything but the Turks? They are indestructible even in early game.

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The Italian factions probably have the best late technology. Death to the AI stacks!

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The Byzantines are an average faction except for the flamethrowers. Their missile units are not strong enough to stop the AI stacks from crossing the river and then the routing units flooded their artillery that could no longer shoot - still, they did ok. The bombards took out 2500 men apiece.

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[Treaper]

How is this even possible?

[Lord Lancelot]

You have great victories there. Good Luck in your conquest!

[Ser Gareth]

How is this even possible?

It's all about picking the locations of your battles wisely. Flamethrowers while your enemies are crossing a river can cause massive casualties lol.

[+Marius+]

The flamethrower units are OP as hell, the grenade throwers should not have more than 3-4 ammo and the napalm dudes should have just 1 "ammo" or an extremely low rate of fire to keep it in any way realistic.

[SPOILR][/SPOILER]

You should set the cannons right in front of your front infantry line, there is no reason for them to be so far ahead of your melee units.
This way only a couple of them die if the enemy gets to your line while the rest are protected by the melee force, also this way the cannons disrupt the enemy charge while your units can still engage without moving forwards to much.

Insane casualty numbers btw, what are your PC specs if I may ask?
I am considering upgrading my own atm.

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

The flamethrower units are OP as hell, the grenade throwers should not have more than 3-4 ammo and the napalm dudes should have just 1 "ammo" or an extremely low rate of fire to keep it in any way realistic.

You should set the cannons right in front of your front infantry line, there is no reason for them to be so far ahead of your melee units.
This way only a couple of them die if the enemy gets to your line while the rest are protected by the melee force, also this way the cannons disrupt the enemy charge while your units can still engage without moving forwards to much.

Insane casualty numbers btw, what are your PC specs if I may ask?
I am considering upgrading my own atm.

The melee units did nothing except drink Turkish coffee in that battle. Perhaps they were not even needed. The only 2 casualties were from friendly fire. The various units, including the cannons, re-arranged themselves a little during the battle, they were probably more nicely laid out at the start.

These were custom battles, and they were set up with just a few missile units for the AI.

Musket and arquebus units are a little OP too. The vanilla attack values around 13-17 would be enough. On the other hand it is fun to have these units, most of the time they do not do much in open battles, but in certain kinds of battles they can be devastating. Indeed, a lot has to do with selecting the place for a battle as Ser Gareth said.

The computer was an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop with 8GB RAM from a couple of years ago. Some battles crashed because of the numbers, not all went to the finish.

[AleksiMizaro]

Such a good looking mod... Might have to try it again