Strategy game inquiry

[Gusington]

^Thank you.

[acctingman]

Nothing to see here....move along....move along

Thanks again Grim for those links to Penguin

[Nefaro]

^Wow that was quick...thanks Nef. I will perform this operation a little later.

So beyond what you posted, I am hoping the rest of the installation is the same...

BTW Slash my CD stopped working for M2TW...I think it did for a lot of others too.

I installed the Steam version of M2TW Kingdoms earlier this year, and installed the Stainless Steel Mod. 

IIRC, that's all I had to do - make another copy of that exe and rename it to the original name.  Don't recall if it needed to also be moved up one folder level or not.. just depends on what folder the Mod shortcut is looking in (under it's Properties). 



That Steam install info is also listed in the Stainless Steel installation thread, at the TWcenter forums, but searching for specific stuff there has often been a needle & haystack nightmare.   But here it is, because easier to find via google search than their crappy forum search:

FIXING STAINLESS STEEL FOR STEAM INSTRUCTIONS:


#1 Go to your default medieval 2 folder

#2 Make a Copy of "Medieval2.exe"and rename that copy to "Kingdoms.exe"
or you can use the SteamModFixer.bat* to do this part for you.

#3 Go to your SS mod folder (mods\SS6.3\) and right-click on SS_Launcher.exe, open Properties and in the compatibility tab tick the "Run this program as administrator" option, don't forget to press the Apply button before closing.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?659966-New-Steam-Update-quot-fix-for-mods-quot

[Gusington]

The above worked for me, I fired it up yesterday. I have 6.3 installed. A few years back I tried to patch up to 6.4 but IIRC it broke my 6.3 installation, so I did not install it on this copy. The upgrades/benefits of 6.4 didn't sound worth it right now.

When I start playing I am going to take the Polish faction...I remember it being great fun, with an awesome roster, in a bad neighborhood full of a big variety of Germanic and Russian enemies to take on.

[Sir Slash]

I never played the SS mod but did try-out the Scilian Vespers Mod and the Darthmod for M2TW. Both were great but plain old vanilla is good too. My Kingdoms CD still works just fine but the Medi 2 doesn't any more. I never finished my 'Britannia' campaign but I just might give it another try.

[Gusington]

^Sicilian Vespers is another great mod.

The Crusades campaign for Kingdoms held my greatest ever victory. I played as the Egyptians and won in ~25 turns :)

[Sir Slash]

Crusades was a tough campaign. I won as Jerusalem but it was a long slog. I also beat the base game twice. As Spain and Holy Roman Empire. Spain was more fun. After gunpowder appears, you get Galleons and then can make it across the Atlantic to the New World full of rich, cities full of lots of very unfriendly Natives.

[Gusington]

The New World campaign was a separate campaign IIRC...

[Sir Slash]

True, I played that one too. But in the base game after tech had advanced to the proper level, you could build ships that were able to fully cross the Atlantic to the Americas. Which before hand had been un-crossable by the smaller ships you were only able to build until then. It was late-game stuff after gunpowder allowed building the first cannons and musket-type units.

[Gusington]

I don't think I ever got that far.