Friday Tock

[Gusington]

.69 caliber Belgian muskets  :o

I had to look up what gun cotton is too - you're right, that is surprisingly modern sounding for 1862.

What you describe above with the ancient vs. modern is what has always fascinated me about the First World War, too.

[Pete Dero]

How is Odyssey these days? Worth trying again? I'm having a blast Star Citizen....

Space missions are better than the ground missions Odyssey added.   It has improved a lot compared to the initial release but I have a feeling many switched to Star Citizen (e.g. on Twitch there are 200 viewers for Elite and 5K for Star Citizen streams).
I'm sure in time more content will be added but right now the Odyssey part is a bit barren.   I paid around $18 for the expansion in a sale and I feel it is worth that.  If I paid full price at release my sentiment would be different.

I also think for me Elite is easier to get into and right now I'm looking for a more relaxing kind of gameplay.

[Anguille]

Best wishes for 2022!

[Gusington]

Well I was forced to stop playing the 1212AD mod...tonight it just failed to load or crashed to desktop about a dozen times, even after verifying the game files. I was having some good fun with it too.

All is not lost as I found this '1100 AD' mod for Rome 2: TW:

[Gusington]

For anyone interested in both the 1100AD and 1212AD mods:

[Tanaka]

For anyone interested in both the 1100AD and 1212AD mods:

Nice post on these mods thanks!

[Gusington]

Sure thing. I'll be taking the 1100AD mod for a spin this weekend, either as Kievan Rus or the Holy Roman Empire. I didn't even know this mod existed until yesterday afternoon.

[W8taminute]

I saw that video in my YouTube feed yesterday too.  I just dl'd the 1212 mod for Atilla.  I'll try that 1100 mod as well for RTW2.

I will say this though, if you are a Total War fan there sure is a lot of user created content out there recently that has brought new life to these games.

[Gusington]

^I'm glad you're here. 'The Terminator' is absolutely gushing over The Great War 6.0 for Napoleon TW...check it out:

[Jarhead0331]

^Do they know there were trenches in World War I?

[Gusington]

Why you gotta bring me down, breh?

I had all but written that mod off years ago, I didn't know they were still working on it.

Don't know if there are trenches in the mod but it looks like they thought of everything else.

[Jarhead0331]

Why you gotta bring me down, breh?

I had all but written that mod off years ago, I didn't know they were still working on it.

Don't know if there are trenches in the mod but it looks like they thought of everything else.

The campaign/strategic element looks exceptional, but the battles are really just immersion killing for me.

[Gusington]

'The Terminator' was raving about the battles, but I haven't played the mod yet so I don't know if trenches are modeled or not. I do know that they modeled flamethrower troops. Flamethrower troops!

[Jarhead0331]

'The Terminator' was raving about the battles, but I haven't played the mod yet so I don't know if trenches are modeled or not. I do know that they modeled flamethrower troops. Flamethrower troops!

I don't know who "The Terminator" is or whether he knows anything about combat in World War I. I'm sure the tactical battles are "fun" but they will definitely be patterned on the 19th century model with units duking it out in line formations out in the open. That is what I can tell from all screenshots and videos I have seen. I do not think the Total War engine is capable of modding in the kind of entrenchments and fortifications that were common on the Western front.

Play around with it and let us know what you discover.

[Gusington]

 :-[

You're getting crotchety in your old age.