Doing no justice to my epic games

[undercovergeek]

Dawdling thru Steam and my games library i realised id only completed 3% of E:TW and 1% of N:TW and feel a bit ashamed really.

I see on Steam a few of you guys still dabble with ETW, are you just playing the vanilla game with a Darth mod or so or are you playing game changing mods that revolutionise the game entirely?

im really shocked i havent given the game the time it deserves and may consider jumping back in - but then theres CK 2 which im enjoying, and im still looking at Wargame:EE - need to watch a few gameplay vids on youtube

[Gusington]

I'm playing an Ottoman vanilla campaign right now. The early game is still dreadfully slow but enough interesting events have occurred to keep me interested. If I do get fed up I just installed the newest Darthmod for NTW and will play either as Wallachia or Greece.

[Oche]

I just installed the latest versions of darth mod for ETW, NTW and Shogun 2...and i'm still hooked on stainless steel mod for medieval 2. I guess I'll start a campaign and go veeeeery slow with no time pressure. The total war series as you well described are just EPIC, I will always come back for more and more, best replay value with the ever growing modding community.

[Gusington]

Stainless Steel is still my favorite mod ever, even years later.

[jomni]

Total War is generally tedious to play because of the mix of strategic and tactical.  :(

[Sir Slash]

I'm still playing campaigns in both ETW with the American Revolution mod and NTW with the Napoleon Total Combat mod and enjoy both greatly. Right now I'm trying to coax Spain back to greatness in ETW along with other saves and trying to finish-off France as Britain in the Penisular Campaign. I'm a sucker for new units and both mods add hundreds of them to the game. For M2TW its Third Age Total War mod for me and it's damned hard to beat. I have bad dreams at night about charging Dwarf heavy infantry.

[undercovergeek]

i see theres a new darth mod due - 8, dear lord the last time i played it was 1b or something!

i may reinstall tonight - fancy some grand sweeping empire building - ill choose spain also

[bob48]

I'll most likely take some flak for this, but.....

I've been playing Total War since the first Shogun, and have Empires, Shogun 2 and Med II games in progress ATM. I have never ever used any mods on any of 'em. I'm obviously missing out somewhere. One problem is that there are so many of them, I'm not sure which ones are really worth the effort, although there are 2 which seem interesting, these being LotR and the Ice & Fire one.

Advice please, chaps.

[undercovergeek]

i choose darth because it just improves the gameplay/AI/forces - it isnt a 'now you can play as the Sioux', or 'now you can choose the colours of the flags, hats and uniforms', it just aims to improve the vanilla experience

but if your a 'what if' kinda guy theres plenty out there

[Sir Slash]

I'm expecting the Darth Mod for Rome 2 TW to come out any day(just kidding). The bad part is every new version, you have to un-install the old version first before you can install the new one. Kind of a pain. On the other hand, they do improve the games and don't just walk away from their mods. They must have quite a big team working at Darth. Anybody know any Darth-details?

[Father Ted]

Total War is generally tedious to play because of the mix of strategic and tactical.  :(

That's what I actually like about them!  I like that the extent of your victory (or loss) at the tactical level has repercussions at the strategic level.  Most games treat battles in isolation, but TW gives them context in a way that matters to the player.

[undercovergeek]

I'm expecting the Darth Mod for Rome 2 TW to come out any day(just kidding). The bad part is every new version, you have to un-install the old version first before you can install the new one. Kind of a pain. On the other hand, they do improve the games and don't just walk away from their mods. They must have quite a big team working at Darth. Anybody know any Darth-details?

it wasnt so long ago it was just Darth - a greek guy i think, and he 'retired' after rome, hence the 'i just couldnt stay away' leader on the empire darth mod page, but that was 2009, i think because he was on his own and was a modder he couldnt get his head around auto installers, and mod managers, and asked a few guys to help, then he added other peoples mods into darth and then came darth ultimate commander for the big battle look and it just steamrolled from there - i still get the impression its a greek guy in his office at home, talking to other guys in there offices all doing it in their spare time

[Sir Slash]

I remember when he retired and then when he came back out of retirement. I should've mentioned that new versions require you to un-install the old version first but all the Darths I've tried have made downloading and installing very easy and the mods run without a hiccup which is more than alot of other mods do.

[fran]

Empire I'm at 17% and Nap at 18%. Currently playing Portugal with Nap and the Darth Mod. Found the latest version of the mod a lot more stable, with my new campaign I had no CTD, and prev it crashed on a regular basis

Nap a more refined exp, with it's attrition in winter months etc. Shame they did not use make the regional map available as an option in NTW. Multi region map for NTW is one DLC I'll happily fork out for!

[Oche]

I'll most likely take some flak for this, but.....

I've been playing Total War since the first Shogun, and have Empires, Shogun 2 and Med II games in progress ATM. I have never ever used any mods on any of 'em. I'm obviously missing out somewhere. One problem is that there are so many of them, I'm not sure which ones are really worth the effort, although there are 2 which seem interesting, these being LotR and the Ice & Fire one.

Advice please, chaps.

If you have the Kingdoms Expansion pack for Medieval II, get the Stainless Steel mod, it it is an excellent mod.