IB2 BRITANNIAE III DOWNLOAD AND DISCUSSION

[clone]

this mod is a bit unbalanced on family members. not only you generally get very slowy family member but laso some factions even if they have 5 regions they start with 3.(scots)

[benczeb90]

what would be a balanced lineup then?

[clone]

what would be a balanced lineup then?

when a nation has 5 settlements it should have at least 4 family member. make familie members apearence a bit quicker at the start at least

[ezopus2]

when a nation has 5 settlements it should have at least 4 family member. make familie members apearence a bit quicker at the start at least

I mostly play with Regnum Britonum, and if family members are few, than the game offers to adopt generals into the family almost every turn. I think it is balanced enough. A family member cost too much, so if you have too many of them, it slows down your economy to a halt (at least for roman factions, a famly members companions/bodyguards cost too much to keep them)..I often chose to reject them and manage 5-8 settlements with only 3-4 family members...

[Riothamus]

I mostly play with Regnum Britonum, and if family members are few, than the game offers to adopt generals into the family almost every turn. I think it is balanced enough. A family member cost too much, so if you have too many of them, it slows down your economy to a halt (at least for roman factions, a famly members companions/bodyguards cost too much to keep them)..I often chose to reject them and manage 5-8 settlements with only 3-4 family members...

This is true but it's the dilemma this time period experienced especially if you were a Roman or Romano type faction. The mod is set up for you to concentrate on your economy always as you attack, create your empire, and all the while carefully choose family members. A field army, maintaining a settlement and its ruling aristocratic family members became parasitic during this time. In the mod, it was our hope to create this situation with the possibility of developing your empire with certain economic developments to eventually counter the decay of its time. It is meant to be complex and difficult. Although after saying this, we want the mod to be playable and enjoyable. There is a fine line with mod difficulty, realism and enjoying the mod and if the mod needs further tweaking, we as a team certainly can review it.

[demagogos nicator]

This is true but it's the dilemma this time period experienced especially if you were a Roman or Romano type faction. The mod is set up for you to concentrate on your economy always as you attack, create your empire, and all the while carefully choose family members. A field army, maintaining a settlement and its ruling aristocratic family members became parasitic during this time. In the mod, it was our hope to create this situation with the possibility of developing your empire with certain economic developments to eventually counter the decay of its time. It is meant to be complex and difficult. Although after saying this, we want the mod to be playable and enjoyable. There is a fine line with mod difficulty, realism and enjoying the mod and if the mod needs further tweaking, we as a team certainly can review it.

I like how the game is set, player can feel the atmosphere of the period and valuate his commanders highers when there is not that much of them while AI does not seem to be harmed by this either as it seems to be able to produce countless anount of family members from nothing.

[Riothamus]

I like how the game is set, player can feel the atmosphere of the period and valuate his commanders highers when there is not that much of them while AI does not seem to be harmed by this either as it seems to be able to produce countless anount of family members from nothing.

The AI has been difficult to simulate and balance...its certainly flawed when modding around this. It has been overcompensated with Germanic invasions. I think the AI will not build in the best progressive pattern as the local player can or fight and maneuver as well, but it's certainly a conundrum on where to keep the game seem real and when trying to balance the game. We are thankful for any input or help around this.

[doop]

hey! i've just finished my first massive battle.. and i did not expect to win it! my raiding party (as eotnas) had been sacking the cities in the frisian lowlands with only success, but my reckless behavior left me trapped, as a full frisian levy army & a second half-stack engaged me as i was besieging a city. my movement points allowed me to withdraw outside the city limits, but i was still entrapped in the same turn. the two frisian armies were fortunately placed on the map in a way that would allow me to prepare my units in a similar direction. i've not had enough battles to understand how each unit in my roster functions versus other units.. all the same, i had two lines of middle-tier units in the center of my position, and two of my four bodyguard units on each flank, along with two horsemen units (the cheaper one - sounds like erodas and makes me think of the rohirrim).

and i was lucky enough to sit atop a hill.

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here you can see from the bottom of the hill, and in the following image, from the top

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and here are the results!

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very unfortunately, king hergist fell to veteranii on the flanks within the first minute or two of battle! which i felt was prophetic, but slowly, the bodyguard (and scylding?) units were able to peel around the flanks on both sides, and in coordination with my cheap cavalry charging away, the frisian flank units began to panic.

luckily, among the two enemy armies, they had but one cavalry unit, so i had a lot of headroom to hack away at their flanks

really this was one of the most exciting battles i've played in any total war game, and though my faction leader died so early on in it, yet i have very high hopes for the eotnas and this campaign. my contigent is sailing back up to jutland to clear out some rebels and then head north to scandia, i've heard there's a settlement up there that wants to join my faction

and then, paris!

[ezopus2]

nice glad to hear your on the battlefield again

[doop]

i was wondering, what unit size do you all play on? what's the most realistic v. balanced?

[doop]

also, sorry to double post, but what difficulty?

[ezopus2]

HI, due to my hardware limitations I play with only large unit sizes (not huge), and difficulty is hard/hard. AI is sometimes dumber than dirt (we are used with this playing TW games, arent we?), but still a LOT better, than vanilla AI.

[doop]

oh man, the DBM mod does not work well for me so far. at least for paris, i can't climb up ladders and the gates don't open after crushing them

the city looks pretty though! much better than the default medieval. i suppose i'll only have city battles when i can wait for the garrison to sally out

[Reno Melitensis]

also, sorry to double post, but what difficulty?

Always VH -VH. there is nothing better than a good fight.

Cheers

[ezopus2]

oh man, the DBM mod does not work well for me so far. at least for paris, i can't climb up ladders and the gates don't open after crushing them

the city looks pretty though! much better than the default medieval. i suppose i'll only have city battles when i can wait for the garrison to sally out

DBM doesn't work for me either, never did, looks good but the whole wall/gate/towers/paths system is bugged, as if one would put a totally different city above a different path layout

[Mr Kriegtooth]

So, whats the news with IB2? Ive just reinstalled M2 on my new gaming PC Been playing lots of Shogun 2 Morning Star mod and Fallout New Vegas. Gonna check out Rome 2

[doop]

So, whats the news with IB2? Ive just reinstalled M2 on my new gaming PC Been playing lots of Shogun 2 Morning Star mod and Fallout New Vegas. Gonna check out Rome 2

i think i like it even more than third age total war, you need to check it out if you haven't recently. i can't remember having this much fun with a game before! maybe when company of heroes game out 8 years ago

[Mr Kriegtooth]

I think I got the most recent version Might give it a go tonight

Medieval 2 took forever to install, then I installed IB2 and 1648

[doop]

alright man

the cool kids play eotenas

[Ixor_Drakar]

Back to Medieval after a few years and this is the first mod I am re-installing. Looking forward to playing it again.