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| New NTW Mappack - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 | |
| The Lordz have released a new mappack for their mod, Napoleonic Total War. It can be downloaded here. | ||
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| Test of Time Tournament starts - Saturday, February 21, 2004 | |
| The Test of Time Tournamen has begun! To see which 32 warriors will compete check http://www.totalwar.org/tourney. After the first few battles have been fought, you can also find the replays&logfiles there. Good luck to all who compete and most of all, have fun! | ||
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| MTW_VI_MP_MapPackVolume 2 - Thursday, February 19, 2004 | |
| This is a smaller update of just 39 maps, but it contains small, medium and large sized steppe maps: (fS)_Green, (fM)_Green and (fL)_Green. Thanks for the hint Kansuke. MP MapPack volume2. 562 kb. Enjoy. | ||
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| New building description added - Wednesday, February 18, 2004 | |
| Over at the official site They've added another building description. Click here to read all about the Wooden Palisade. | ||
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| Test of Time Tournament. -1v1 - Tuesday, February 17, 2004 | |
 The Test of Time Tournament has begun. It's a 1v1 tournament for everyone who plays MTW Viking Invasion. Players will play in early, high and late era, in the 1st 3 rounds and the last 2 rounds are played in the era agreed upon by the players themselves. Any money left after purchasing your army will be transferred to the next round. To read all about it visit : http://www.totalwar.org/tourney To sign up visit either our forums or,if you for some reason can't post there, these forums. | ||
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| TWC FanSite - Thursday, February 12, 2004 | |
| all members, TWC is having problems with our server, and the site is currently offline. any members who want to stay in contact until we can sort things out... TWC Forum this is the total war forum at the Total War Library, part of and hosted by strategy informer. the library of course being the location of all the strategy articles. all information about TWC will be posted there and i encourage all members who wish to stay in contact with each other to sign up there and we'll let you know whether we can recover TWC or complete the move to rev gaming. the TWC admin apologise for any inconveniance caused. thanks the Black Prince, TWC admin | ||
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| To all who play MTW online - Wednesday, February 11, 2004 | |
To all who play online, read this post to ensure you can join most games. After fiddling with it for nearly 2 months, its time to open it up for those who are interested. Balance. A word used often and we have seen long discussions about how to achieve it and what really is balanced or not in the current game. The primary ideas in this mod is: -Encourage players to use more than just the few units used in the current game. -Make missile more important so rush armies wont be so strong. -Encourage players to use the 3 infantry unit types(swords/spears/polearms) in a combined arms tactic compared to the dominance of swords in the current game. -To remove or lessen the effect of the unintuitive upgrading (pumping up cheap units) So how can this be achieved? Some people might have other ideas of how to do it, but based on my experience with 5k-15k I dont see how it can be done in any other way: -Make sure that unitcosts and florin level used is done in such a way that players cant buy 16 of the best units. -Missile units need to cost less compared to melee units. -Swords need an increase in cost compared to spear/polearm units. -The cost formula that CA uses gives way too high cost difference between cheap and expensive units creating some "loopholes" in upgrading. So a change in that formula is needed. So what has been changed? Because we cant reduce missile unit cost without running into the upgrade discount, and end up gaining money when buying upgrades for missile, we have to increase cost for all units. Although trying to achieve a nice florin level to be played at (10K) rounding off issues meant 11K is the level that suits balance the most. In effect the mod is played like 5k as you focus on unit choice and not upgrades. I know thats gonna put off some people but its the only way to ensure that a majority of the units actually can and will be used and that the "lighter" factions have a chance. Specific changes. Apart from the cost changes a few units got different stats/weapons. If people want a list of all new unitcosts I can make that available too. -Urban Militia and Militia Sergeants now have polearms. Their default combat stats changed by -1 attack/+1 defense (polearms compared to the axe they had before) and of course the +3 attack/+1 defense v cavalry. -Crossbows/Arbalesters have 2 less defense -All javelin armed units now have darts (8 ammo instead of 4) to give them better range and hopefully make them more useful. -All bows now have 36 ammo (instead of 28), crossbow/arbalester have 30 and handgun/arq have 12(instead of 10) -All units except crossbow/arb have +2 morale -Handgunners and Mamluk Handgunners are now a High era only unit. -Mongols are now a High era only faction. -Byzantines now have basic spearmen. How to install and use this mod: The installer should be able to find your primary MTW installation automatically but if something goes wrong or you want to install it into another MTW directory then you can manually change it by pointing to the MTW folder you want. Example: If your install is located in say C:\Program Files\Total War\Medieval - Total War, then that is precisely where the installer should point to in the destination directory when installing. This mod does not require any statswapping so you can use it with your normal game. When hosting you will have 3 new eras to pick from: Early+, High+ and Late+. Picking these eras gives you the new stats and anyone who has the mod installed will be able to join your game. If you want to play a normal game of MTW then you just pick the default eras as you normally would do. Uninstalling is easy too with the uninstaller that comes with the mod. You can find the uninstaller both in your start menu or by opening your main MTW folder(file called CommunityModUninstall.exe). This is still a beta as there might be some balance issues left to fix. I know its unfortunately impossible to make all satisfied, but as it is now it should fix most of balance problems we have in the current 2.01 game. You can download the mod here: Download A list of unit costs here. I hope you will try it out and give some feedback. CBR
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| Hall of Fame 2003 Results - Monday, February 9, 2004 | |
| The results for the Hall of Fame awards are in, and can be accessed either at the Guild (forums) here or at a specially made website here. Congratulations go to not only the winners, but also to all the runners up and nominees. Many thanks to all who took part and helped in the awards. | ||
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| CLAN WARS COMPETITION 2003 FALL GAMES - Monday, February 9, 2004 | |
| ALL HAIL THE CHAMPIONS OF THE CLAN WARS COMPETITION 2003 FALL GAMES After a fierce contest with 16 entrant Clans, we have a winner. The Final Round between our finalists, the Taiwan Cavaliers and the Grey Wolves, yielded our undisputed Champion for the Season. A Grand Salute to the  Very strong contenders in our Summer Games, they finally made it to the top! We wish them the happiest Chinese New Year’s Celebration ever, as they celebrate their CWC Victory along with the beginning of the New Year. CONGRATULATIONS CAVALIERS!!! Our CWC 2004 Winter Championship will begin this Tuesday, February 10th. We have another 16 Clans already signed up, and raring to go for that event. --- Other news from the CWC. Our Pre-Championship Tournament monthly series started this January. This is a “come as you are” casual contest open to all Clans, with no Registration required! Logfile submissions for January included teams from Validus Dux Mundus and Warlord Clans, with the highest score for the month going to VDM. January’s Contest was for 4v4 battles only. But for February and beyond, we are opening the PCT to three Leagues. We will be accepting logfiles from Clan vs. Clan teams in 2v2, 3v3, as well as 4v4, battles. At this writing the PCT Rules have not been updated to reflect this, but are virtually the same for all Leagues. --- Our sincere appreciation to all who participated in the above Championship and Pre-Championship Games. Clan Wars Admin http://www.clanwarscomp.org | ||
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| New wallpaper - Saturday, February 7, 2004 | |
Click the following thumbnail to start downloading the wallpaper made by yours truly. | ||
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| New wallpapers by Ky Kiske - Thursday, February 5, 2004 | |
Ky Kiske has made 5 more wallpapers.2 of them are a remix of older ones and there are 3 new ones. Click the thumbnail to start the download. | ||
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| New building description added. - Thursday, February 5, 2004 | |
Over at the official site, they've added another building description. Shrine of Saturn: Roman Scipii only | ||
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| New Rome Totalwar Fansite Opens! - Monday, February 2, 2004 | |
| www.totalrome.com is the newest fansite for the upcoming Rome Totalwar. The new fansite has loads of information for Medieval totalwar, Shogun Totalwar and even the addons, one of its main features is the clan system you can organize your entire clan with your clan profile. Which will also come in handy when they start there string of tournements. It also has a Recorded game feature where you can upload you favorite recorded games and let other people download them, its has a great forum full of new and old people from the community, its Totalrome Gazette which is like a monthly newspaper for the coummunity about totalwar news. this is a great new fansite and i wish it the best of luck. Remember to check it out at www.totalrome.com | ||
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