Dammit, *I* Get To Start a Friday Thread This Time!

[Martok]

You really dialled the clock back on that one?

Well it's always been my favorite title in the series (although I continue to enjoy Rome II a great deal), and since I finally now got the game to play again without a CTD every other turn, I couldn't *not* give it a spin.  :) 

It's the same in M2TW. He's in Valencia but won't take a nickel to join you. So you got to ignore him or kill him. And he doesn't look anything like Charlton Heston.

LOL! 


A pity El Cid can't be bribed in Medieval 2.  In fairness, though, I wonder if that was for game-balance purposes, as I've long wondered/suspected that having him as a general in your faction early on (should be persuade him to join you) could be a bit over-powered. 

Of course, he generally doesn't come cheap in MTW/VI.  I managed to snatch him up by offering my entire remaining treasury at the time -- some 5000 florins -- and considered that a bargain.  Often times when your emissary actually reaches El Cid, you'll discover he's subsequently raised his price to ~9000 florins...and if he still rejects your bribe, later attempts will be even more lavishly expensive, depending on the quality of his army and/or Valencia province at the time of your bribe attempt.  :o