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  1. Sticky: Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II v2.4 released!

    First make a backup of your original medieval2.exe, before you use the large address aware (4gb patch as you call it).

    Go to the ebii folder, inside m2tw/mods, and you will see an executable named...
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    Re: Bactrian Phalangites

    Alexander the Great showed interest in the west during his lifetime, so far as the sources mention: Araby and the coast up to Carthage and Sicily....
  3. Re: Wondering about Roman dates while reading the building scrolls?

    @Wulfburk, thank you kindly for letting me know what my feelings are when I write a post. You are obviously very well informed about me and my personal life, so thanks for that.

    I explained to the...
  4. Re: Wondering about Roman dates while reading the building scrolls?

    You`re right, according to you writing the letters BC is a declaration of faith, so we need to add an extra letter to make it non religious. Have fun, I guess.
    Please do close your eyes when using...
  5. Re: Wondering about Roman dates while reading the building scrolls?

    CE and BCE are euphemisms from the XXIth century, part of the politically correct trend of renaming things. They are the same dates as BC and AD. The point is to keep christmas and easter because...
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    Re: Koinon Hellenon House ules

    It is based on the Achean league, which was relatively successful historically. Specifically the KH take the short lived Chremonidean league, whose members were a lot more powerful that the acheans,...
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    Re: A few questions about EB2 campaign

    The whole point of rebels is to delay expansion of both player and AI, so that the map remains "historical" (emphasis quotation marks) for longer. If you don't have the galatian rebels then what?...
  8. Re: Curious about Pontos Mercenaries and Noble more numerous than locals?

    You answered it on your first post, those units are tribesmen and not the mainstay units of pontus. For example the "anatolian light cavalry", they ride ponies and are basically brigands. Pontus'...
  9. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    Here are the 2 patches for 2.35A

    Install first the one named Final R1, then second the one named R3.5

    https://letsupload.io/1Fek5/EBII_v2.35A_R3.5.zip...
  10. Re: The thing I don't like about hard difficulty...

    Do you know that as the player, your turn comes before the AI, so effectively you get the first in the line to pick mercenaries? Each turn that they refresh, the player always has the privilege to...
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    Re: Questions! Questions that need answering!

    Does the Makedon AI have the same limitations?

    If you wish to play a historical Macedonian campaign and stay within the borders of where the antigonids remained, does this mean you lose access to...
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    Re: Questions! Questions that need answering!

    You need to download Java on a computer with internet, then move the downloaded file (executable, named .exe), to the gaming computer and install java there.
  13. Re: How 'accurate' is the new successor system in 2.35?

    This is because the heir was already chosen. I'll explain how the mechanic work by steps
    1. The Faction leader dies, and the game replaces him with the Faction heir - the old FH is now the FL.
    2....
  14. Re: Enemy who attacked me is not attacking during battle

    This happens when the AI and you are closely matched and it isn't willing to suicide itself by attacking your stronger position. Some ways to get the AI to move are:

    - Play with limited battle...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    @Quintus, I was refering to the bactrian horse archers (Baktrioi Hippotoxotai).
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Hippeis Baktrioi now have good stamina, where in previous version they didn't. If their armour is increased to 5, then it would be the same as many heavy cavalry units (lydian lancers, thessalians,...
  17. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    I agree, I doubt that greek sheepherders were using lead bullets as part of their daily lives, which is what the sphendonetai unit sort of represents (a levy of peasants). However I can imagine the...
  18. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    As the AI is programmed to deal with the vanilla game, and not mods, consider staying close to default values when possible.

    For movement points, the vanilla value for characters is...
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    Re: Elephants merc recruitment

    I've never gotten a single elephant from the after battle events, I guess it's only a small chance to capture them?
  20. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    I agree, I don't like the increased movement point for armies (for agents I think it's fine). The reason is that geography and army positioning matters very little when you can just go around the...
  21. Re: Best strategies for maintaining public order and explaining what exactly causes unrest

    Regarding influence: EB2 uses the alternative piety mode from Brittania Kingdoms campaign, so what you're seeing is an improvement in public order through a decrease in the pips of cultural...
  22. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    1. They switch to the secondary melee weapon, as long as the primary is a ranged weapon. No unit in EB2 has two melee weapons so no need to cover that. In M2TW entities switching weapons is bugged,...
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    Poll: Re: In-Depth Unit Analyses

    IMO the advice you give on the guide is not useful because it's too generic. I'm not going to quote verbatim but there was no clear guidelines on how to use them, which is what the thread claims to...
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    Poll: Re: In-Depth Unit Analyses

    Yes, I wanted to see if you would elaborate on their combat and non combat uses. I know a few myself but I am sure there are far more. One example, pantodapoi are great as underpaid workers for that...
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    Re: Thoughts on the Total War Remaster

    https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-rome-remastered-patch-202-notes/

    Increased Limits


    A number of files have had their limits raised from their original limitations to become...
  26. Re: Siraces Riders replaced by Bosporan Horse Archers in the Caucasus?

    At that point I would prefer seeing two unit slots used, given how many variations of other units exist. Keltic mercenaries for instance, lots of paralel units just to represent them.
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Perhaps in the files they have the same speed values. However I tested this extensively on custom battles in a grass plain, and these 2 units outrun most light cavalry. I make them run the whole map...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Aspidiotai hippeis and Lonchoporoi hippeis (the reformed hellenistic cavalry, west and east variants) have insanely fast horses that outrun many skirmisher and light cavalry units. I think the...
  29. Re: Was the sarissa/pike really so ineffective in inflicting casualties on the foe?

    You should go back and check M2TW pikemen in vanila, see how they performed there. The devs have not made them useless on purpose, if anything phalanxes are vastly improved from vanilla.

    The main...
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Makedonian peltasts carry silver shields as well, I think they represent these.
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    Re: Rad compares units - a thread for balancing.

    Revise the shield values of phalangites to be consistent for each class. For example makhimoi have shield 4, but carry a leather shield like pantodapoi which is 3. Mercenary phalangitai carry a...
  32. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    You're right, it makes sense that this application should use 32 bit libraries. However the instructions seem to give different links based on your operative system, and not on the game itself.
    ...
  33. Re: Announcement: Europa Barbarorum II 2.35A R3.5 released!

    In the 2.35 main thread (which is closed, can't post this there), the link to the 2008 SP1 leads to a x86 version of it.


    5a) For 64 bit Operating Systems:
    Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1...
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    Issues creating steam default folder

    I'm trying to install M2TW:K on my laptop, and I must resort to Steam as these PCs no longer have slots for CD/DVDs.

    I'm following this guide:
    http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?749098...
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    Re: Dardanion refuses to be renamed

    If Pontus holds Antioch it can't be named in greek Antiocheia, but it is called Antakiya. Greek was the official language by the time of Mithridates VI, is there a reason why Antioch can't have a...
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    Re: Seleucids tips and tricks?

    I almost never abandon settlements, only sell or exchange them for alliances or other settlements. One move I usually do as AS is to ally with Pahlava by giving them the far eastern settlements that...
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    Re: EB-Twitter updates Discussion

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2bJYvbWQAAOahk?format=jpg&name=small
    Are some of those iberians tonsured, or is that just graphical glitch?
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    Re: Loyal Antigonid trait

    @z3n, I am glad to hear that you know about these issues like stealing FMs, and have plans on how to work around them.
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    Re: Loyal Antigonid trait

    I've never heard of it. Can you source which royal princesses of the period defected to other nations?

    I also would like to know why the so-called "spear of achilles" would produce insanity on the...
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    Re: Loyal Antigonid trait

    I hope you're aware of all the meme behaviour behind princesses as implemented in M2TW, like eloping with their target and going to the other faction.
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