I even wrote tools to mass crack tens of simple formats with statistical analysis. I was so annoyed by this state of events that I researched format after format, and wrote decoder after decoder - not just for Empire, but for all Total War series going forward. Even Creative Assembly couldn't really mod it, they had some extremely convoluted build system to duct tape everything together overnight, and that was it. Rome and Medieval 2 were very moddable, but then Empire came with a new engine, and moddablity was nearly zero. A lot of links I googled were dead or led to tools for newer Total War games. Figuring out how to activate them took a while. I had some old mods - one I wrote to remove walls, and another someone else wrote to fix diplomacy based on my research. It's still completely ridiculous that publisher-paid whores rated this game as better than Medieval 2.Īnyway, regardless of its many flaws, I mostly enjoyed this game, and it's been so long since I last played it. Hating someone before it was cool is even more hipster cred than liking someone before it was cool. It's nice to see I hated "professional game reviewers" years before Gamergate made it mainstream to do so. Overall Medieval 2 is fun, but damn it's easy. In all Kingdoms campaigns merchants are somehow worth many times more than vanilla, so they're actually good. "Culture" replacing "religion" was a cute idea, but then London was 50% Welsh in 5 turns of me holding it, so maybe nobody looked at the numbers. They add just enough new mechanics to make things fresh for a few sessions, but don't do anything crazy. I actually lost a few battles, but most of them were me sending a single unit to grab some fort (forts in Britannia campaign are small permanent castles) and that unit getting ambushed or attacked. In 10 turns it was basically over, with England being reduced to Nottingham and some Irish towns. The only problem was paying all those troops, but then there's loot button. I was the strongest country almost right away with barely any recruiting. I'm not really sure how they reached this conclusion - Wales gets enormous event stacks during first few turns. I didn't play that much Medieval 2 recently, and the manual claims Wales is the most difficult country, so I picked only hard / hard. I only played Britannia once before, but I played the hell out of Medieval 2. So first, Medieval 2 Kingdoms - Britannia campaign - as Wales.
This post will be about Empire, but first I did a bit of Medieval 2. I finally have a bit of free time, so I decided to revisit some old games.
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