April 2002

Some Answers....FAQ at the official site - Thursday, April 25, 2002
At total war.com they have started to write the FAQ for medieval: Total war, some interesting answers to interesting questions. The first five are up, more to come...

Thanks again to the Count of Flanders for keeping an eye open for us at the org.



Kuma

New screen shots - Thursday, April 18, 2002
Some new screen shots can be found at To the game. A few of us are wondering, we think that the sprites do look much better than in STW. What do you think?

Thanks to TosaInu for pointing out the link.

Also the Shogun at the second best forum for the Total War series :) (OK it's the official forum), is asking patrons to post medieval FAQ questions about the new game for the CA staff so they can build the FAQ for the game. This is your opportunity to get some of your questions answered.

Thanks to the Count of Flanders for the info and the link

Kuma

MapPack 303 - Saturday, April 13, 2002


 MapPack 303 is ready for download and contains 223 maps.
STWMapPack 303.exe contains all 223 maps in one installer. STWMapPack 302-303 (zipped) updates Pack 302 and Pack 303 is also available in 5 zipped parts of 2-3 mb each.

TosaInu

Med TW, some new stuff - Saturday, April 13, 2002
Some new stuff that you can look at and download can be found on the Total war official web site.

The Medieval Panorimage is pretty cool to look at. The Web marketing Manager wrote that the site will be updated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. So expect some new stuff on a regular basis. Thanks to YagyuKamiizumi for the info.

Also activision has put a Med TW site up. No links yet, but a site to check out once in a while for news. Thanks to oZoNeLaYeR for the link.


Finally, if you are interested in in medieval martial arts (Swordmanship) a new patron,William The Conqueror, has gave us some interesting links to check out (you could also check out his most informative post in the Japanese Samurai VS. European Knights thread). Here they are:

The association for renaissance martial arts
Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts
Sword Forum international





Kuma

Maps - Wednesday, April 10, 2002
New maps are uploaded, apart from maps made by polarbear, Eurolord and TosaInu, you'll find some original STW maps:
STW_Tosa, STW_Hoki, STW_Etchu, STW_Iwami, STW_Wakasa and STW_Tajima.

The record section has some new recorded battles.

The uploadscripts do not function, we try to solve this problem.

TosaInu

End of Clans Campaign - Tuesday, April 9, 2002
The Clans Campaign has finally ended after six months of tight play. The ultimate winner was the great Clan Elite-Force. The winner of the ronin competition was Orker Ii. Congratulations! Following is a quote from RageKrast who was one of the gamesmasters of the campaign.


Being reduced to only two participating Clans, we have voted to discontinue play and award the Victory to:

Clan Elite Force.

With the largest holding of provinces and a history of many victories, this Clan stands tall among the participants of the STW community with this great achievement.

Of particular note are HARALD and FOGOLIN, who, in their many posts here at the forum, provided the leadership to take their Clan to the end.

The Gamemaster also wishes to honour:

Les Marechaux de Napoleon,

who did not give up even when reduced to a very small holding of land partway through the game. You may note that the Marechaux made an extra effort in this game, having very few players who understood english sufficiently to understand all the rules and posts in their original language.

To remind you of the entire list of participants from the beginning, we also have:

The Grey Wolves
Ikebana
The Rusty Cowboys
Shingi Clan
Clan Luna Rossa
Clan Kenchikuka
Rage Clan
Torii Aku
Shades of Shogun
Yagyu Clan
Ninja of Hattori
True Samurais; and
Sommo Clan

participating in our game.

Of the eight players entering the game for the Ronin competition, we find

Orker Ii

the winner with a total booty of 2880 koku.

Also completing the campaign in the Ronin competition were:

Hamhock Toda with 1560 koku (and the "Krast's Favourite Ally" prize); and
Fucy Ii with 660 koku.

Ronin participants who left during the course of the game included:

Jemasze
MajorDump
WarlordLegend
Youssof; and
JerichoPrime

Please also note the contributions of CeltiberoSkullXIII, who gave us the finely coloured maps for the first turns of the game, Magyarkhan for the web hosting, LionGazoz for his excellent work as gamemaster and Cannon for his work as assistant gamemaster.

The original rules design team included Krast (George Duff), Cannon (Damon Fry), LionGazoz (Aziz Kaba) and Magyarkhan (Joska Paszli). Additional contributors to the rules discussion are too many to name.

Krast also wishes to thank all of the individual participants for taking the time to make this amateur gaming experience come alive.

As a participant up to the time RageClan left the game, as RageKrast this player experienced some of the most powerful, emotional moments in his online gaming life. The battles, fighting for your Clan, and having your teammates depending on you, made each game a more serious, intense and enoyable gaming experience than any other.

Krast invites you to congratulate yourselves for sharing this experience with each other.

Now, on to the next adventure .... Gah!



On behalf of TotalWar.Org we wish to say thanks to the organisers for the making and running of this great event which kept the community united!

Terazawa

Shogun Tournament - Saturday, April 6, 2002
Boromir is organising a Shogun: MI/WE tournament which is being hosted by The Org. The rules are simple. There will be 32 players involved in the tournament, in two sections of 16. Sixteen will be from the American and Australasian continents and the other sixteen will be from Europe and other parts of the world. In each section there will be four groups of four players.

The winner of American/Australian groups will play for that continent title and the same for European/Others Title. Those two winners will play for the overall title. Each player will play 3 games. Att/Def will be drawn at random. 3 group games MUST be played in the designated week. Simple format no real time zone clashes apart from final. The winner will be given a champion icon in the Sword Dojo forums. Any questions can be directed to Boromir or by posting in this thread.

Terazawa