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Ricky B
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 04:36
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Greetings all, this is my first post to these forums. I would like to introduce myself as Ricky Brown.

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I would like to find out, if any one else here, likes to play strategy games? I have recently bought Medieval Total War and it is awesome, I highly recommend it to anyone. The battles you have are really detailed and exciting to play, you kind of forget that you are sitting at a computer.


Ricky out.
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andrey d
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I love strategy games also, all of the C&C series and also I liked AOE 3, though it took forever to do minimal damage to bases, but I still liked it. It amuses me when my friends try to sit down and play and get totally squashed and then get off saying this game sucks or it's boring, but I think it's more of them not knowing what to do or sucking too bad at it
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Fallout
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The Total War series is the best strategy series imo. It's a true strategy, unlike games from the C&C ilk. Even now C&C is still about building loads of tanks and just clicking attack, with a few other distraction thrown in to fool you into thinking you're some sort of battle strategist. In Total War you have to think about morale, fatigue, high ground, unit pace, unit vs unit effectiveness, combination, exactly when to release a unit and along what route, and you spend a lot of time maneuvering troops into position to execute precise attack/defence strategies.

Total War ftw!!


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El Goorf
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<3 total war ftw. i have rome total war. other favourite rts's are company of heroes and age of empires 2. everything else shadows in comparison

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Darth Vader
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Yes I agree the total war series are great. But not the greatest in my opinion. Civilization! Man that game is so addictive!


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BatVink
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 15:15
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I played Shogun Total War, but I think my PC at the time wasn't up to it, and destroyed the gameplay.

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Fallout
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 16:21 Edited at: 17th Jul 2007 16:22
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So basically you have no honour, and you ran from the battlefield like a whipped dog?




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Benjamin
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Quote: "In Total War you have to think about morale, fatigue, high ground, unit pace, unit vs unit effectiveness, combination, exactly when to release a unit and along what route, and you spend a lot of time maneuvering troops into position to execute precise attack/defence strategies."

Sounds extremely tedious and boring to me.

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Fallout
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Quote: "Sounds extremely tedious and boring to me."


*Throws Benjamin a few stamps for his collection and watches him salivate*


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Benjamin
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Quote: "*Throws Benjamin a few stamps for his collection and watches him salivate*"

Ahaha..

No.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 17:24
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Haven't play Rome, but Shogun Total War was quite fun - though you really sit there as a war lord plotting out what you do - it can be quite fun and addictive. Though Ben say's its boring because he's a jealous nancy pants who thinks standing up isn't an extreme sport, though it clearly is.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 17:25 Edited at: 17th Jul 2007 18:39
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Quote: "Though Ben say's [sic] its boring"

Say owns something?

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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 18:36
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sic or [sic]
adverb

1. A term used in brackets after a word or phrase in a quotation to indicate that it is quoted accurately, even if it appears to be a mistake.


I believe it stands for "said in context"

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Benjamin
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Quote: "1. A term used in brackets after a word or phrase in a quotation to indicate that it is quoted accurately, even if it appears to be a mistake."

Hence why I added it.

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Quote: "Quote: "Though Ben say's [sic] its boring"
Say owns something?"


[insert witty remark]

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Snowblind 44
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 20:35 Edited at: 17th Jul 2007 20:41
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Total War rocks. Medieval II Total War ftw.
Quote: "In Total War you have to think about morale, fatigue, high ground, unit pace, unit vs unit effectiveness, combination, exactly when to release a unit and along what route, and you spend a lot of time maneuvering troops into position to execute precise attack/defence strategies"

I just make up huge armies and sic them on my enemies.
The only strategy I use is this:
Sword Infantry against Spear Infantry
Cavalry against Sword Infantry and Archers
Spear Infantry against Cavalry
Archers against Sword and Spear Infantry
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Posted: 17th Jul 2007 21:10 Edited at: 17th Jul 2007 21:11
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Fair enough. But if you spend a lot of time refining your battle tactics, you can kill hundreds of enemies and only lose 3 or 4 men, and I'm not exaggerating. I've defended against armies twice the size and only lost 3 or 4 men. Attacking requires more man power, but you can get similar results.

My fave tactic when you're drastically out numbered in defence is to rout and regroup. So you organise your troops in a pincer formation, with the exception of a few reasonably fast moving non-mounted units, which you attack the enemy with. Get the front lines of the enemy involved and engaged, lose a few men, then rout them. Your troops leg it through your pincer formation, and their troops leg it after you and get strung out and out of formation. Then you regroup your routing troops, execute the trap and crush the chasing troops in a matter of minutes. As the rest of the chasing troop flee, you execute a full charge, which keeps them on the run. It takes a really powerful general and high morale troops for the remaining forces to stand their group as the rest of their army legs it with your whole army bearing down on them. Normally they run, and then you can cut them all down.

Really really satisfying game when your battle tactics pay off and you turn what is mathematically certain defeat into a complete victory.


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Luciferia
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cossacks is better than medieval two
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