Some Questions

**Darchseraph** · May 26, 2009, 06:16 PM

Sorry if this is in the wrong place:

I recently got into the Total War Series (Friend lent me RomeTW/Barb/Alexander) and since I'm a LoTR fan, I quickly found the mod for that game.

Now about a month later, Im getting a bit tired of it and decided to go and purchase Medieval II+Kingdoms. when I came across Third Age and want to play it but I have a few questions:

1. What version of Medieval II/Kingdoms should I have patched to play?

2. My computer specs are:
E8400 3.0 Ghz Dual Core
9800 GTX
4 GB ram
Will I be able to fight epic battles on the Medieval II engine? Or do I need to tone down detail/unit sizes for it to be playable?

3. For anyone who has played the Rome Total War version of the LoTR Mod (LotR Total War), what are the major balance/strategy differences in Third Age Total War? Am I going to get pwned if I use similar strategies? (It seems archers are quite a bit weaker here). I know there's no One Ring quest here (yay, no longer have to worry about Frodo getting his worthless self killed and Sauron being nigh unstoppable), but other than that, I can't tell any differences from just reading. (Waiting for the Mod to download, I have a really slow internet).

Thanks, and again, sorry if this thread was in the wrong place, feel free to move it.

**lord0thief** · May 26, 2009, 06:22 PM

Your computer specs are pretty good, you'll be able to play epic battles to a certain extent, (probably no going over 8000 units per battle on everything maxed)
You need latest updates in both m2tw and kingdoms.

**Haldir** · May 26, 2009, 06:38 PM

I never played LOTR: TW but the archers on this mod are by no means weak. The ones on LOTR: TW must have been pretty powerful

**Darchseraph** · May 26, 2009, 06:59 PM

Thanks, I based that last statement on the fact that even the weakest LotR: TW Archer has 15 standard attack in the EDU, the better ones having like 25, maybe they balance out the same.

Also: What exactly is the "latest" versions? I have Medieval and Kingdoms as separate boxes (not gold). I think it updated Medieval II when I installed kingdoms, so im downloading the Kingdoms 1.5 Patch. Does that sound about right? Or do I need the Medieval 1.3 patch as well (Im pretty sure 1.2 was autopatched when I installed kingdoms, but im not sure about 1.3), sorry, the process is pretty confusing.

**killerqueen33** · May 26, 2009, 07:45 PM

1.3 was not even necessary for US players (someone correct me if I'm wrong). You don't actually need 1.5 to play TA:TW, but it is highly recommended. When patching, make sure you look for the NON-GOLD version of the patch, otherwise the patch will fail. I got SO frustrated when doing this. Eventually found the non-gold patch. So basically, as long as you have Kingdoms installed, don't even worry about M2TW, just make sure you have Kingdoms patched to 1.5. If you need a DL link for the non-gold patch I can find you one, just pm me.

**Darchseraph** · May 26, 2009, 08:15 PM

Many thanks, I got it working now, and played a few skirmishes. But whenever I try quick battle with a settlement, i get a CTD with an "unspecified error" this happens on the quick battle setup screen the moment I tell it to make a settlement exist. Is this a known bug? Or is there something I did wrong?

**Haldir** · May 26, 2009, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by Darchseraph

Many thanks, I got it working now, and played a few skirmishes. But whenever I try quick battle with a settlement, i get a CTD with an "unspecified error" this happens on the quick battle setup screen the moment I tell it to make a settlement exist. Is this a known bug? Or is there something I did wrong?

~~Custom battles with settlements don't work. It's a known bug.~~
Read below.