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  1. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    English Campaign

    I think some guidelines about a campaign with England would be useful here, since the new players tend to pick this particular faction as a starting point in M2TW.

    Let's just...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I wanna say a few words about assassins, the relations-level and reputation:

    It's a common misconception that assassinating a lot decreases your reputation, everybody hates you, Faction Leader...
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    Re: Do you adopt?

    Although I started to play this game 11 years ago (not constantly but with big breaks, sometimes not touchin' it for more than 1 year), only recently I begun to pay more attention to those details,...
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    Re: Useless and useful buildings

    I'm currently running a couple of test-campaigns with England (long, VH/VH) and I got an offer regarding the Woodsmen's Guild to be build in Toulouse, but from I read here it seems it's useless so I...
  5. Re: Vampiresbane's Guide to Gathering Religious Relics

    For all those who dearly miss the location(s) of the Holy Prepuce, despair not, for there is hope for you as The Almighty has indeed heard your weak miserable prayers and decided to throw the dog a...
  6. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    And since today it’s the Day of the Dead, a couple of words about suicide.

    If irl that is the ultimate solution to get rid of the pain of living (in situations like when you have terminal cancer,...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    Here’s another way to use diplomacy in order to get what you want in this game:


    Sometimes, when you’re feeling generous enough or are just role-playing, you just have a great desire to defend...
  8. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Although the point I was tryin' to make using Milan as example was that in this game you get hated even from the start for absolutely no reason, lemme address a couple of things here:



    Mmmm,...
  9. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    If you mentioned that, you know what I actually observed? (and I'm sure others that paid attention to details did as well)
    When an AI faction sends a diplomat that just bows before one of your...
  10. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Lemme share a (yet another long) story with you.
    If you’ll be brave enough and keep readin’ till the end, you’ll definitely learn some new, interesting things. :laughter:

    A few months ago, I...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I feel like I gotta share some stories with you:

    In my english long campaign on vh/vh at one point there was a very interesting battle for the Papal Seat, with political implications (ofc)....
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    Re: Vampiresbane's Art of Diplomacy Guide

    I’m curious about some things regarding the vassals.

    First, did you know that is possible for a vassal to have his own vassal? Very rare situation, I encountered it only once in those 60+...
  13. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    It's a good thing that you went into details regarding the composition of the moorish army, it's something new players need to know and so far I barely touched this vast subject in my writings, I...
  14. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Some advice regarding the best defense strategy during a religious war against you.

    As muslim, don’t attack any crusading army. Just let them siege your town/castle and they’ll break like water on...
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    Re: Question about diplomatic relations

    Your observations are obviously correct and represent one more proof that diplomacy is the weakest link of this game.
    And the questions you're asking don't really have a right answer.
    I'll try to...
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    Re: Useless and useful buildings

    Yup, that's a good strategy. Plus, it gives me the idea that we should go a lil' further in this thread and also explain a little the good or bad traits that governors get, related to building...
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    Re: Russia campaign and setting up 3 fronts

    I think it has to do with this new 1.52 Steam version of the game. On CD-version (1.05 was called, iirc) things were a lil' different, just one example - the Pope called crusades mainly on Jerusalem...
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    Re: Ideal tax policy

    I prefer to keep them at low until my towns develop to huge cities (raise them only if there is a financial emergency and only temporary), after that I set them as high as the public order allows me...
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    Re: Knights of Honor 2...Does this exist?

    Maybe some of you found out already, but to those that didn't yet lemme give you the good news: after all those years, they finally decided to make a sequel to KoH, called Knights of Honor II:...
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    Re: Merchant Mechanics

    @OP Excellent findings, grateful for sharing that with us. +rep, mate. :thumbsup2




    What do you mean, your merchants bein' put out of business by AI's merchants?
    And speakin' 'bout merchants,...
  21. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    The third (and final) “playing with muslims” part is an AAR-like long post regarding the

    MOORS

    As you can see below, my moorish campaign started quite slow, for a various number of reasons....
  22. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    The second part of my “playing long campaigns on VH/VH with muslims” – saga refers to

    EGYPT

    Gonna confess straight ahead that in my egyptian campaign I made a terrible mistake that delayed my...
  23. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Thanks for the appreciation mate, glad that my (long) posts are still helping people after all these years.
    That’s why I keep updating them when I discover new things, I’m offering informations that...
  24. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Taking it a step forward after you gain a lil’ experience with this game, one of your interests might be related to the Pope, more precisely if and how can you use His Holiness in your advantage. Or...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    About diplomats, I found some new things:

    The diplomats should be used to negotiate in a certain order, if you want to raise their skill.
    When you go around the map having the intention of...
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    Re: Wall (upgrade) not working

    You definitely don't have enough people in that settlement in order to be able to upgrade it. You need to have patience until that happens. In the mean time, to speed up the process, set the taxes...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I discovered a new trick and I wanna share my findings with you:

    While playing the long campaign with Scotland on VH/VH I owned Pamplona, Zaragoza, Toledo and Valencia, while Leon, Lisbon,...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I play Vanilla only and everything I write is about the original version of the game (on very hard level), that's why I didn't make my topics in the numerous mods-sections of this forum.

    Did...
  29. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    Thanks for the appreciation, I tried to sum everything up without exaggerating with writing too much, but there are always more things to say, details to point out and discoveries to make.
    I'd like...
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    Sticky: Re: share your Tricks and Shortcuts

    My tricks, strategies and ideas are pretty much summed up in those topics (and the links I refer to):

    Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only) and How to manipulate diplomacy in...
  31. Re: Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    I forgot to say something important, to sum it up in one important conclusion, (almost) NEVER attack anyone if you don't have a material profit out of it.
    Read this for more details, I suspect...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    Another thing, if their finances are at (just one example) "Meagre", but they refuse to pay you 1.400 to attack Rebels, it means that they're at the edge of being Bankrupt, so try ask for less next...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I feel the need to insist on certain advantages offered by manipulating diplomacy the way I do:
    You don’t need to give money to AI factions in order to raise relations-level; you actually don’t...
  34. Guidelines for new and inexperienced players (but not only)

    I decided to open this topic hoping that it will help new (or inexperienced) players, because I remember how hard this game can be when you’re trying it for the very first time and have no experience...
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    I feel the need to point out another thing about that "Attack faction" option:
    It's funny that if you only promise but don't keep your word, the AI doesn't get a penalty (reputation wise). But it...
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    Re: "Who am I?" M2TW version

    Cumans, the forefathers of brothers Ronald and Erwin. Koeman.
    :laughter:
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    Re: "Who am I?" M2TW version

    From this topics experience I'd chose the Crusader States as I noticed they usually get pwnd rather than thrive.
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    Re: Mongols addicted to Antioch?

    I suspect it's because of the game script.
    In Vanilla, if they invade north they go for Kiev and if they invade from south their target is Antioch, no matter how many towns they exterminate along...
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    Re: "Who am I?" M2TW version

    Madness?
    MADNESS?!




    THIS

    IS
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    Re: How to manipulate diplomacy in M2TW

    "And we ask the stranger not to kill us in our beds tonight for no damn reason at all"



    Marching further with my opinion that diplomacy is broken (allow me just one more rant, I can’t help...
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