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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2007, 10:14:04 pm »
Does your laptop meet the minimum requirements?




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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2007, 10:39:31 am »
I say only one thing,.. Boehmian Knights..

You gotta share more then just that Bro. You know when it comes to strat. games, your opinion means alot to this casual player.

I've gotta get warhammer back from my son in law this year.

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seeing you've played War Hammer,  Have you played Dawn Of War?  I just got the gold edition for X-Mas and I am sold!!  I need to get the Dark Crusade expansion.

I actually got a chance to try out ME2 and I must say, I might have to pick this one up if World in conflict gets delayed.
 

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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2007, 06:36:31 pm »
Does your laptop meet the minimum requirements?
Yes, it meets the minimum requirements.  I think it may have something to do with the graphics chipset (It uses a Mobile Intel 945 Express chipset).  I have the graphics settings on the lowest possible settings and still nothing happens when I try to load a battle.

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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2007, 09:56:13 am »
I say only one thing,.. Boehmian Knights..

You gotta share more then just that Bro. You know when it comes to strat. games, your opinion means alot to this casual player.

I've gotta get warhammer back from my son in law this year.

Stephen
seeing you've played War Hammer,  Have you played Dawn Of War?  I just got the gold edition for X-Mas and I am sold!!  I need to get the Dark Crusade expansion.

I actually got a chance to try out ME2 and I must say, I might have to pick this one up if World in conflict gets delayed.

Indeed i have from start on.. get the anthologie version if you can there is everything in it,.. even a strategical campagne.. A must buy.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2007, 09:58:23 am »
Does your laptop meet the minimum requirements?
Yes, it meets the minimum requirements.  I think it may have something to do with the graphics chipset (It uses a Mobile Intel 945 Express chipset).  I have the graphics settings on the lowest possible settings and still nothing happens when I try to load a battle.

The game is Nvidia optimized,..could very well be the case what you are suspecting.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2007, 10:11:15 am »
WEll i thought i post a few pics of the game..hmmpf:)
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2007, 10:13:13 am »
Ok desperate times..
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2007, 10:14:50 am »
No words..

Edit use fulllscreen view for that one ,on opera its  F11.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2007, 04:11:03 pm »
wow, those are some pretty sweet screens but righ now I'm really into Dawn of War.

I'm just breaking into the winter assault campaign stuff.  I'm really loving Eldars but I'm wanting the new expainsion for the Necrons


An Eldar unit of mine.  Love the paint option.
 

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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2007, 06:47:04 am »
WEll i thought i post a few pics of the game..hmmpf:)

That would be the Agincourt scenario wouldn't it?

I love the game, I just wish the grand campaign wasn't so...I don't know what the word is.. it's horribly hard to manage a large empire in the latter part of the game... Spend as much time putting down rebellions as conquering neighbors.. and the AI isn't very good at managing large numbers of towns.

I'm finding I prefer the "short scenario" victory conditions.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #30 on: January 20, 2007, 06:07:55 pm »
Here is one where England Rheims France (snicker)..

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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #31 on: January 20, 2007, 07:59:55 pm »
This one is "The Price of Rebellion"  or maybe  Roast Peasant.

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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2007, 08:43:26 pm »
Yeah, I do love it when they flame on. ;D




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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2007, 12:09:38 am »
Oh yeah, I forgot to add that I have gotten Dizzy and Diehard hooked on Medieval 2: Total War. ;D




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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2007, 11:27:42 am »
Dracho, how did you get 120 Bowmen in a unit?   Mine are limited to 60.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #35 on: January 23, 2007, 11:45:30 am »
DH, I think that it is through upgrades for the archers, though I could be wrong. :)




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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2007, 12:22:20 pm »
Does your laptop meet the minimum requirements?
Yes, it meets the minimum requirements.  I think it may have something to do with the graphics chipset (It uses a Mobile Intel 945 Express chipset).  I have the graphics settings on the lowest possible settings and still nothing happens when I try to load a battle.

The game is Nvidia optimized,..could very well be the case what you are suspecting.

This game runs Excellent in "Medium settings at 1600x1024 on my Sager 3880 laptop (2 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB RAM, Geoforce 6600 Go) 

Do English knights just suck?   I need to know if it's me but al they seem to be good for is chasing routed troops.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #37 on: January 23, 2007, 09:46:33 pm »
There is a slider for unit size under the performance options.
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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2007, 06:25:53 pm »
There is a slider for unit size under the performance options.
Now he tells us. :P




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Re: Who here has bought Medieval II: Total War?
« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2007, 06:45:26 pm »
Does your laptop meet the minimum requirements?
Yes, it meets the minimum requirements.  I think it may have something to do with the graphics chipset (It uses a Mobile Intel 945 Express chipset).  I have the graphics settings on the lowest possible settings and still nothing happens when I try to load a battle.

The game is Nvidia optimized,..could very well be the case what you are suspecting.

This game runs Excellent in "Medium settings at 1600x1024 on my Sager 3880 laptop (2 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB RAM, Geoforce 6600 Go) 

Do English knights just suck?   I need to know if it's me but al they seem to be good for is chasing routed troops.

The Mounted ones aren't great- the English foot knight upgrade are fantastic ground troops though.
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