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Got out my new old XP laptop and fired up Medieval Total War Gold Edition. I haven't played this for at least 7 years, probably longer. I was straight back into it and am currently dominating the Mediterranean sea routes and in possession of all islands.
What I did forget was how obnoxious this game was. I watched helpless as the Pope died 1 turn before the ex-communicated Italians were about to feel my wrath (death of a Pope cancels ex-communications). I facepalmed as an earthquake robs my primary unit-producing country of its Port, a stack that was about to invade another island left stranded for 6 turns. But what really made me dig-out the autosave button:
Once the Italians were gone, the Pope decided to invade me in Naples. I'd completely forgotten the Pope was pro-active as well as being just annoying. Without putting barely a foot wrong all game this one move by the AI, that took less than one full turn to put into effect, sent my entire empire into civil war. I now have to choose which 4 counrtries to automatically lose and which 4 countries to keep. After... all... that... hard... work... (and just as I'm about to launch my Crusade to Palestine for big, game winning points).
It's no wonder I snapped the disk in two when I first played the game when it was released. It's not getting me this time though, I've got years of experience under my belt after re-buying it a few days later. Now I just invoke anti-bullshit tactic numero uno and click *load autosave* and put a nice big stack in Naples, should (hopefully) keep him quite until I can get my Inquisitors into Rome.
This is still the only Total War game I've liked so far, but you don't see or hear much about this game because it was one that got shafted by Windows 7 (or Duel Cores), its not on Gog.com and while it's on Steam, it's lost in a list of hundreds (ex.) of Total War games. There's barely any love for it on Youtube, for example, another game that came just before that generation.
If I need to explain what a Total War game is to anyone then I doubt you'd be interested anyway
What I did forget was how obnoxious this game was. I watched helpless as the Pope died 1 turn before the ex-communicated Italians were about to feel my wrath (death of a Pope cancels ex-communications). I facepalmed as an earthquake robs my primary unit-producing country of its Port, a stack that was about to invade another island left stranded for 6 turns. But what really made me dig-out the autosave button:
Once the Italians were gone, the Pope decided to invade me in Naples. I'd completely forgotten the Pope was pro-active as well as being just annoying. Without putting barely a foot wrong all game this one move by the AI, that took less than one full turn to put into effect, sent my entire empire into civil war. I now have to choose which 4 counrtries to automatically lose and which 4 countries to keep. After... all... that... hard... work... (and just as I'm about to launch my Crusade to Palestine for big, game winning points).
It's no wonder I snapped the disk in two when I first played the game when it was released. It's not getting me this time though, I've got years of experience under my belt after re-buying it a few days later. Now I just invoke anti-bullshit tactic numero uno and click *load autosave* and put a nice big stack in Naples, should (hopefully) keep him quite until I can get my Inquisitors into Rome.
This is still the only Total War game I've liked so far, but you don't see or hear much about this game because it was one that got shafted by Windows 7 (or Duel Cores), its not on Gog.com and while it's on Steam, it's lost in a list of hundreds (ex.) of Total War games. There's barely any love for it on Youtube, for example, another game that came just before that generation.
If I need to explain what a Total War game is to anyone then I doubt you'd be interested anyway
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