Does Stainless Steel balance the AI army?

[Apolloa]

Does Stainless Steel balanced the AI army?
The original version of medieval 2 total war....AI usess cavalry more than infantry.....
How many turns before the game end...?Can it be still be edited the desc_strart?
And does the Family members breeds more children faster?

[Ferdiad]

Does Stainless Steel balanced the AI army?
The original version of medieval 2 total war....AI usess cavalry more than infantry.....
How many turns before the game end...?Can it be still be edited the desc_strart?
And does the Family members breeds more children faster?

Fairly balanced.
Infinite, the game goes on until 1500 in early and 1620 in late.(thats the time to win the game.)
If you have lots of settlements you'll have more children.

[Apolloa]

Fairly balanced.
Infinite, the game goes on until 1500 in early and 1620 in late.(thats the time to win the game.)
If you have lots of settlements you'll have more children.

Oh if 1500 to 1620 that means i have 120 turns...?
or its really infinite....?means more than 120 turns?
sorry...for bad english

[Asterix]

no, the game will start in 1100 and go till 1500 if you choose the Early Era Campaign. 400 turns.
Late Era campaign will start in 1220 and go on till 1620. 400 turns.
you have plenty of time.

[Théoric HämmerHörde]

i like that MTWII uses lots of cavalry, and that knights are waaay stronger than most Rome Total War heavy cav,. It gives MTWII "flavor" of sorts. SS ai does use a lot of cavalry, usually as much as it can recruit.

but the ai is woefully ignorant on how to actually use cavalry. give me a generals bodyguard and two units of feudal knights, and i can destroy. whereas the ai will just send them straight into some pikes, and understands little about withdrawing cavalry for multiple charges

[Apolloa]

Can i start at the early campaighn still continue at the late campaighn?Continuing the game
Sorry..i ask too much but im still downloading thru torrent 1.09GB 1.80GB to go...

[Asterix]

Can i start at the early campaighn still continue at the late campaighn?Continuing the game
Sorry..i ask too much but im still downloading thru torrent 1.09GB 1.80GB to go...

no, you can't. sorry. late and early campaigns are two separate things. you should definitely be able to win in 400 turns.

[Henry X]

The question is: are you really going to play that many turns? You'll probably win by 1500 unless you are completely inept.

[Verranicus]

Some people play -very- slowly, roleplaying out their games. Has nothing to do with their command ability.

[Henry X]

Well then I'm even more confused. If we roleplay, then they would feel even more pressed to expand since the game's sense of scale and time are a tad mismatched.

[k/t]

You can play for as many turns as you want, but if you complete the campaign objectives in 400 turns, you get a message saying "Victory!". You can keep playing after that.

[Asterix]

You can play for as many turns as you want, but if you complete the campaign objectives in 400 turns, you get a message saying "Victory!". You can keep playing after that.

huh? really? obviously i've never gotten this far. so the campaign goes on ad infinitum?

[Point Blank]

Lots of interesting technology changes in 16th century.

[Ichon]

Lots of interesting technology changes in 16th century.

I've only managed the patience to sit and click end turn repeatedly from a late era campaign to arrive at that point though... did it with Venice once and gave up everything except Venice and Ancona and then waited 300 turns auto winning battles to get there. Was quite fun when finally started playing but it wore out my patience to ever try it again with another faction. Really, really looking forward to WIP.

[k/t]

I've never played to infinity either, but yeah, there's no limit.





No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no.

[Henry X]

At that point though you might as well switch to Third Age Total War; your technology is advancing at about the same rate.

[Point Blank]

Yes a good Late Late Era campaign at 1370 would be excellent. I doubt I'd play anything else.

[Ferdiad]

Yes a good Late Late Era campaign at 1370 would be excellent. I doubt I'd play anything else.

Same here, the early era bores me to tears.

[Asterix]

Same here, the early era bores me to tears.

its great the first couple of times, but then eventually you want to see the nice shiny units you dont see for 200 years EE.

[Tears of Destiny]

Yes a good Late Late Era campaign at 1370 would be excellent. I doubt I'd play anything else.

Hmm . . .

Anywho, moving on.

As to the original poster, I have tested this, and the time limit for winning is only that, the time limit for winning.

I have played along until I reached the year 1800+ before I got truly bored of hitting "next turn." While you can exceed the time required to win, it will not end your campaign, just like if you win you can click "continue playing."

The last technological change however is in the year... Actually it is random. it will happen anywhere from the year 1580 to 1600.