Stainless Steel 6.3 or 6.4?

**Green Warrior** · April 04, 2015, 10:40 AM

I would like to hear from SS lovers (and I include myself the group of SS lovers) whether they prefer SS 6.3 or SS 6.4 and why.

In the past I myself shifted back and forth between the two. I've had to take a little more than a year's break from SS and M2TW due to heavy work requirements. And now I'm getting ready to dive back in and enjoy some SS campaigning; and I'm trying to choose between setting up for 6.3 or 6.4 on my new laptop.

By the way, I usually play as the Byzantines in the Early Campaign.

Many thanks to all who contribute to SS and who post on this forum. You guys are the best!

**teks** · April 04, 2015, 11:14 AM

6.4 with gryms mod on in the late period. As the byzantines prepare to feel the pain of running a large empire with enemies on both sides. I don't know much about what 6.3 has over 6.4 at all, but early period is just a spear militia love fest. I wanna play with the real units.

**Green Warrior** · April 29, 2015, 08:15 PM

Teks, you're right about the Byzantines -- I love playing that faction and fighting wars on multiple fronts! I generally play the early campaign; but I'll have to goive the late campaign a try some time.

Yet my original question remains: Does anyone prefer 6.3 to 6.4? If so, why?

**Treaper** · April 30, 2015, 05:59 AM

I am still playing 6.3 because i cannot force the game to launch normally, still only in little window like 1/4 size of screen... So that's why I prefer 6.3

**Dekhatres** · May 10, 2015, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by Treaper

I am still playing 6.3 because i cannot force the game to launch normally, still only in little window like 1/4 size of screen... So that's why I prefer 6.3

i had this problem with a mod a while ago, found out there was some sort of cfg file inside the mod's folder, opened it and there was something like "windowed = true" changed it to false and game launched normally, you should check if that's your case, i dont have SS installed right now so cant help with more info

**Geoffrey of Villehardouin** · April 30, 2015, 06:03 PM

My feeling was that the battle AI improved from 6.3 to 6.4. I seem to remember that with 6.3, if you had a front, the AI would try to send everyone to your rear. So sometimes you had to scatter your units, or form in 3 or 4 lines deep or squeeze your army into a map corner, or form your army into a square or turn your units around when the AI had moved to your rear - you had to do these weird things in open battles and in the end the AI still lost. The AI had also trouble with late period battles with pike and shot units. Units would get in the way of each other and some AI missile units would not shoot.