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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    Bleh. Micromanaging other factions just seems so boring. I don't WANT to be in control of everything. That's why I like starting as a faction at the edge of the map (like saba or the pritanoi) and...
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    Sticky: Re: Post Your Screenshots

    The Ethiopians sure know a thing or two about starting positions.

    http://i62.tinypic.com/mbsvuw.jpg

    Seriously. It was literally impossible to get up there.
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    That still doesn't make them predestined to win no matter the circumstances.
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    So this is my campaign at 200 turns on h/m and as you can see the tables have really turned on nabataea: antioch, bostra, seleukeia, babylon, all of them have been taken back and they have once again...
  5. Thread: New factions

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    Re: New factions

    I believe John Cleese would have a word or two to say about that

    Sorry, I had to. Please don't hurt me. :(
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    Haha I might actually try an AAR (Though for someone who aspires to making a living out of writing, i always make sure to never actually do any :laughter:)

    Should be quite interesting. Especially...
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    Medium probably isn't the best difficulty to be playing this game on.
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    Well this is the current state of affairs. I'll also post what happens after I overcome my own cowardice and declare war on them.

    http://i62.tinypic.com/2iblv05.jpg

    Slightly worried about the...
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    Sticky: Re: EB 2.X AI Faction Progression Thread

    I'm playing as the sabaeans and the nabataeans are really starting to worry me: they've taken both gerrha and Qarnawu and penetrated right into the heart of the seleukids, taking both seleukeia and...
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    Re: New factions

    Oh you mean the tang dynasty that started in 618 AD? Not very likely.
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    Re: General impressions

    He's scottish you twit
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    Re: General impressions

    Deleting the graphics mod got it working. Yay!

    Also I second the notion that people take too long to kill. Seriously, a trained, well-armed sabaean nobleman should not take next to 20 hits to cut...
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    Re: General impressions

    JUst tried out vanilla m2tw and I got the same lag on loading screens, so evidently it isn't this mod's fault.

    Maybe I need a reinstall or something.
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    Re: General impressions

    Just tried putting all the the graphics settings to the lowest and, as I figured, it didn't work.

    Dunno what's wrong with the campaign. Battles presumably take more power and they run really...
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    Re: General impressions

    Battle performance is fine, although I do notice a settlement I was attacking in a quick battle against hayasdan seemed to mostly consist of medieval buildings.

    I have lands to conquer installed...
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    Re: General impressions

    No, I mean it didn't work. And my computer can easily run most newer games so I'm not really sure what's going on.
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    Re: General impressions

    I should probably have explained better: the framerate only tanks when I move around the map or a loading screen ends. Still pretty debilitating.
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    Re: My first turn as Carthage.....

    So if I played as numidia, would I get hordes? :3
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    Re: General impressions

    Would love to play it, but it currently appeears to be running at 5fps :(
  20. Re: Please join together with all other small bug reports into an (un)official non-game breaking bug thread

    I've not heard anyone complain about this, but I'm getting horrific slowdown whenever a loading screen ends or I scroll in the campaign. I can only imagine what battles would be like.
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    Re: Will there be new death poses?

    Admittedly I do despise medieval's stock fall-on-knees animation for every death regardless of circumstance, but I don't know what the EB team can really do about it.
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum 2.0 released!

    Wonder if AI rome will make it through without being squashed like an ant this time :laughter:
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum 2.0 released!

    I wanna leave this on overnight but I don't wanna be so mean to the planet like that.

    Am at a loss right now.
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum 2.0 released!

    what the hell is with all you getting massive download speeds

    uwaaaaaa~ I want it now. :crying:
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    Re: Europa Barbarorum 2.0 released!

    There should be name for those of us who created an account purely because of EB2's impending release. So excited about this.

    But 6 hours holy :wub:.
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    Re: Who will you play as first?

    I just find it funny how people are much more willing to question evidence under certain circumstances. :)
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    Re: When you start a new faction

    I was just thinking, what with that whole memory-editing thing I heard about, would that mean that we'd no longer need to migrate factions since we can go over the faction cap? Or is that whole thing...
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    Re: Is there something I'm missing?

    To be honest my eyes kind of glazed over reading this discussion, so the joke went right over my head.

    I'm tired ok
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    Re: Economy buildings in EB2

    Oh thank god, I was wondering about the restricted recruitment thing. (Hey, remember when CA was actually ADDING features to their games?) That should make things a hell of a lot more interesting,...
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    Re: Economy buildings in EB2

    So what with the AI getting cash bonuses, will fighting against, say, the seleukids become a constant grind of wave after wave of stacks? Because i always thought battles were a bit more decisive...
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    Re: Lorica Segmentata - fact or fiction?

    Is it like a tradition to bring this up every 6 months or something?
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    Re: Is there something I'm missing?

    That's an odd connection to make. They also raped and murdered and exterminated entire civilisations, but last I checked most of us (most being the key word) would find that disagreeable.
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    Re: Is there something I'm missing?

    You leave Shogun 2 alone aight.
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    Re: Is there something I'm missing?

    Because total war fans really like being disappointed so obviously expectations will be high.
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    Re: Release Date & Units Q&A

    I'd laugh if they spent all this time making the game and then another five years just getting the bloody installers to work.
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    Re: Who will you play as first?

    I've never gotten this revisionist attitude a lot of tw fans seem to get when the subject of anyone who isn't them appears.

    "WIMMINZ?! NOPITY NOPE NOPE NEVER HAPPENED NEXT YOU'LL BE LETTING QUEERS...
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    Re: Important Question

    But then I also heard that not going on hard sacrifices the AI's aggression. Is it one or the other?
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    Re: This is ridiculous

    Pfft, you old people and your actual problems.
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    Re: Release Date & Units Q&A

    And the spam, oh gods the spam.

    I've never wanted to play a middle eastern faction for precisely this reason.
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    Re: Important Question

    Are we still giving the AI money, then?

    I don't know what kind of gelatinous creature would actually enjoy fullstack spam, but it made fighting factions like the ptolemies kind of a grind.
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