Tired of the expansions?

**Wurfspiess** · November 24, 2006, 02:08 AM

Hello there
to be honest i dont like any of the TW expansions, they add little to nothing to the game.
So i ask myselfdo the most people like it that way or would they like an expansion wich increases the main game with new features?

**Spart** · November 24, 2006, 02:27 AM

Yeah, I didn't like BI that much, since there's just so few provinces and not many units.. And I really didn't like a single unit, they were just boring. So I went back to the original Rome.
Viking Invasion was pretty good, I even played the campaign. =D It also updated the original game.
If the expansion of M2 will have like 20 provinces and 5 different units.. I'm not getting it. I want it to add something to the original, maybe continue where M2 ends, or at least put some new features and lots of units there. Then I'm satisfied and might even pay 30€ for it.
Although I doubt that will happen.

**GeneralAsh** · November 24, 2006, 03:45 AM

I liked Viking Invasion - in fact I wish it had been bigger.
Barbarian Invasion was ok
But I was very disappointed with Alexander.

**rastak** · November 24, 2006, 05:24 AM

I'd perfer some additional factions and such for the Grand Campaign.

**Drakan** · November 24, 2006, 05:31 AM

I liked Alexander's only.

**Dutchpower** · November 24, 2006, 06:19 AM

I liked the expansions because they mostly go into era's i really like.

But i hope the expansion for mtw2 will be special like around 1500 or so.

**Aldaris** · November 24, 2006, 06:38 AM

Come to think of it, I never really liked the expansion scenarios. Mongol Invasion for Shogun for a start. Then came Viking Invasion for Medieval, and I played it maybe once or twice. The tech tree is too limited in my opinion, and I don't mean where it ends, but the variety thereof. However, I liked the changes VI made to the main Campaign like new units (like Swabian swordsmen! HA! Being a swabian myself and living near Stuttgart, I made it my duty in life to include some in every field army...

) and the fact that now besieging armies took casualties as well as the besieged. Encouraged assaults that.
Barbarian Invasion? Welllll... I absolutely hated the horde thing. I mean, you have an opponent by the throat, and his king sits alone in a tiny remote settlement wth 50 inhabitants. You kill him, and from his grave spring 10000 men eager for battle. Yech. Best strategy was to leave every faction one settlement instead of exterminating them. And that sucked, because sometimes these were good ones...
I didn't play Alexander, but from what I hear, I am not too eager to try it out. What I am hoping for is an expansion that expands the scale of the grand campaign and does not focus on offering an alternate scenario to it. I want new factions, new units and the renaissance included. That would be great.
*shrug* Well, however it's themed, I'll most likely get it anyway...

**vikrant** · November 24, 2006, 06:26 AM

i dint like any of the two expansions {ATW ,BI}
as compared to rtw {which i liked more than mtw1}
but we need expansion from modding point of view which mini camapigns from ca cant provide .and for mini campaigns we have modders ,dont we??

**Delexit** · November 25, 2006, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by vikrant1986

i dint like any of the two expansions {ATW ,BI}
as compared to rtw {which i liked more than mtw1}
but we need expansion from modding point of view which mini camapigns from ca cant provide .and for mini campaigns we have modders ,dont we??

Amen !

**Shaggy1973** · November 24, 2006, 06:27 AM

how about his expansion changes the map to one twice the size and adds another 10 factions into the game? A real "expansion"

**VaultDweller** · November 24, 2006, 06:28 AM

I liked the Mongol and Viking Invasion expansions, but not BI or Alexander. The RTW campaigns really didn't enhance the primary campaign in any significant way.

**spirit_of_rob** · November 24, 2006, 06:31 AM

My opinions

Shoguns mongol invasions was good
Medieval viking invasions was good
Romes Barbarian invasions was good from a modding stand point only
Romes Alexander was a bad joke
Medieval II? lets hope they get back to form

**Nats** · November 24, 2006, 06:48 AM

I didnt like Shogun (not an interesting era for me) nor RTW for that matter (no proper formations). I didnt like Viking Invasion (Barbarians are boring to play) nor Barbarian Invasion (same reason). I really liked MTW though and really like this new one. I guess medieval warfare is really interesting compared to anything else as it allows me to play as the English and attack France which has got to be the best war to play. I doubt I would be interested in any other era other than perhaps the Great War. But that would have been far better if we had attacked the French then as well.

**chris watton** · November 24, 2006, 07:09 AM

I'm of the exact opposite opinion as the previous poster, I love RTW, the expansions (the latter partly because I was privileged enough to play the best mods for RTW because of it),, I love RTW most (and the Alex/BI expansions to an admittedly lesser degree, not because I think the game's are better than MTW 1&2, but because I simply love the period more, and the in-game music. Because I love the period, I still find it more immersive than the latest and greatest, purely personal and nothing to do with game mechanics.

**Wurfspiess** · November 25, 2006, 06:46 AM

Yes i thought also that from a modding perspective its better to implement new features in the grand campaign
Besides that i found also viking invasion the best expansion so far

**the Black Prince** · November 25, 2006, 06:53 AM

i'd prefer expantions that add more stuff to the main campaign than giving us an extra little map to play on. in that regard, the BI expantion was quite good, but added next to nothing to the main campaign, i think night battles and a few bug fixes was it.

**SIlver General65** · November 25, 2006, 06:59 AM

bi was a serious waste of time so was atw rtw was the best and I joine late rome so rome besides m2tw i the only game I tried but I hear vitw is good so I bet there probaly redoit it with even more features or go to a colinal like period with less units or do renisances donno ill only get it if its really good..

**Slaxx Hatmen** · November 25, 2006, 08:26 AM

Gameplay wise, VI was the best.(I didn't play Shogun) BI offered alot to the modders, but it was horrible to play.(The skins, the AI, the map. It all sucked!)

**abaris** · November 25, 2006, 08:46 AM

Actually I'm more for the large mods. They go for realism instead of more of these fantasy units and settings. I'm waiting for that, not for any official expansions. MTW II has a great potential, but as long as I'm forced to do the rule the world thingy, it's not my idea of absolute fun. A mod depicting the actual age with it's strives (real units and provinces) would do more nicely for me.