vanilla party anyone?

this is going so well...

almost as good as the Armenia swap

Just to prove how well it's going - EoJ got onto the non-kingdoms version, so I tried to load that - but just got the usual gamespy errors, so I'm back on on the teutonic campaign.

Gamespy and it's implementation into m2tw does a lot to ruin the online experience...

Edit : Boetje and I made it onto kingdoms with the same version and... "NAT negotiation failed".

We're trying again with vanilla - anyone who hasnt given up may want to try that again

[This message has been edited by SwampRat (edited 08-03-2008 @ 03:00 PM).]

i'm trying to go vanilla so impspy if you read this, you'll know where to go.

Gamespy sucks!!!

i tried all afternoon but only got on once, then i had to get off.

anyone want an unofficial kingdoms game, any of them will do.

Well, it turned into a fairly pleasant night for me in the end. Boetje and Swamp's computers don't like each other, so I played the former in a quick game, then Sub and impy (yes ) logged on. Swamp and Sub had a battle, which I'm not sure of the result, or what happened in it, and Imp Boetje and I had a 2v1, wherein Impy had to go, so I had to kill Boetje with a 20K army against his 15k. Took a surprisingly long time due to his norse clerics, but I disconnected or something just after I routed his army and had to start on the AI (Which was, of course, sitting doing nothing).
Sub and I then had a battle, sub at first disconnecting which left me firing at pikemen and hospitallers wondering why the hell she doesn't do anything until I run out of ammo and finally twig that she's been disconnected. We then had a battle, which quickly turned into a scrap after I advanced a bit too close for Sub's liking, and she completly crushed my left while I sounded a general charge. In the end my roughly 13 hospitallers (two units of 7 and 6) managed to charge her pavaise crossbows into submission- a good job, because I don't think my infantry could have caught them very easily, although my archers could have shot them.

Then poor impy came back on, not having had a game all evening. Unfortunatly, he was on Kingdoms, meaning I couldn't play him, and Sub had to go. I hope he managed to get a game

Quit calling me impy, or suffer the wrath of these guys.

[This message has been edited by impspy (edited 08-03-2008 @ 06:14 PM).]

Swamp and I had a game where I took the Byzantines and he the HRE. He started out on a big hill, which would have been suicidal for me to attack. So I pulled my army back out of his cannon range. Eventually he came forward, and I decided to gamble and charged all my cavalry at one of his flanks while he was getting his army redepolyed on the flatter, lower slope. But my infantry could not support because of being so far away, so eventually my cavalry was worn down, and basically that was it for me.

[This message has been edited by SubRosa (edited 08-04-2008 @ 12:27 PM).]

I hadn't realised there was such a large hill on winter war - but seeing it there it seemed a shame not to start off using it. The cavalry charge was a good plan, but I think I was quite happily deployed before it got too close allowing pikes and spears to join in - most of my units started at the bottom of the hill so hadn't had to move up very far. Those guard archers were vicious though, admittedly there were 4 of them, but they chewed through my 2 foot knights and one mounted knight unit I sent after them very nicely.

Oh... I could have made it if it was one o'clock... stop confusing me >

Sorry, Wolf If you want a game, e-mail me, and I'll make it up to you

Have fun guys. Don't forget to save your replays! Since I finally released my Mongolphobia Mod, I now have time to review them for public pleasure. In fact I just downloaded SwampRat's replay vs. Sub Rosa.

I can't find my one against Sub- I think it must have not saved properly

As a slightly side issue - was it right that I didnt get an email from the mailing list thingy that went around for m2 multiplayer stuff?

Yeah. I think that got overlooked so we'll make sure the email goes out next time.

keep those replays coming guys, I already finished SwampRat vs. SubRosa one.

EoJ, have you saved our second battle? i'd like to see it and let it be reviewed (el_bandito will probably flame me because of my many mistakes, but hell...)