There's Shogun Total War and Medieval II Total War.

I played Medieval I, Rome, and now Medieval II.

There was that God of War ripoff Total Warrior game XD Good rental.

I would have loved it if Spartan: Total Warrior was more of a ripoff of the Dynasty Warriors series rather than a rather linear hack'n slash. The engine can handle so many people on screen and in the areas that pit side vs side and at the time, that looked more convincing than the latest Dynasty Warriors game.

Well for the vandal battles, their entire horde came down upon one of my provinces on the border with the eastern roman empire. The first time they attacked, I beat them at the walls, because my shitty troops were helped by catholic priests and my general's cries for victory and no retreat, so they never got routed and stayed fighting which beat them down slowly. The second time they attacked was right after, and the walls were taken lightning quick. So I pulled back to the center and used my general and remaining foderti cavalry unit and was trying to just do as much damage as possible... I wasn't expecting this, but I managed to kill his general. After that, his troops started getting more startled and startled, and eventually I managed to rout and chanse down alot of their remaining troops.

For the frankish battle I think I made a mistake. Instead of pulling back to the center, I choose to try to defend the walls. On one side it was working, but the other side collapsed. So I pulled the troops from the defened side back to the center and defended through the streets. The only really I one it was because I was sarmation cavalry constantly charging one side and then the other until the until was fully killed off. Then my general's unit as well. After their remaining units had poured in, I didn't have much of a chance. I was outnumbered 1:10 probably, and all I had left was bunch of beaten down and exhausted limenti (frontier militia) and my general unit which was at about half strengh or probably lower, like 9 or 6. Lucky Their general rushes in to finish off my weak militia and push them out of the center so they will rout. While he charges, I sneak my weakened general's unit in the back of him and charge. After my forces are even further mauled by that bitch general after a minute of fighting, he dies. The battle wasn't over though. My remaining troops slowly killed off the raming franks, along with my tuff as nails general who by now has almost no bodyguards.

It was surely my greatest moment in TW history.

Well the game manual and advisors did say that was the weakness of Hordes, low morale.

And yeah, in TW you could really feel like a god =D

So far my Denmark campaign is really chaotic. I like keeping everything organized, having one enemy at a time.

I can't post shots (maybe later, when I feel like sifting through a shit load of screenshots), but here's how it went:

1. After elliminating the Scots I was faced with either invading mainland France (but only attacking the English provinces of course), and finish off the English, or ignore/make peace with them and concentrate all my forces into the invasion of Spain. During that time, being excomunicated for attacking Scotland, I had a hectic time with public order, and Poland and Portugal (which gave me context to invade Spain).

2. I had a pretty cool miss up, where after defeating the Portugese in a series of naval skirmishs, I finally got my 2 main armies into the fleets and sailed onward to the Spanish maindland to quickly eliminate Portugal (who should only have a few provinces). Somehow Portugal snuck one of their fleets behind me, and it contained an entire stack, ready to rampage across a completely defenseless Britain. I wheeled back my King, who had max command ability, while his Prince continued to invade one of the Portugese provinces.

3. Defeating the isolated army, the Portugese lost an entire stack, and my King was on to invade the second and last Province (the original location of Portugal). The Prince already took the castle in one turn, and the new Pope demanded me to not attack Portugal for 3 years, which was perfectly fine since my Prince can't march through Spanish territory yet.

4. My king saw an incoming fleet of Portugal filled with an entire stack. We were prepared to attack them, but the fleet pulled back. I decided to ignore them, and simply attack the final province to eliminate the faction. And lo' and behold the castle was EMPTY. What a huge blunder. My King took and sacked the place without a single loss of troops.

5. After a few turns, I soon turned my attention to Spain. My plan was to blitzkerg towards their two castles, allowing me to retrain my military troops and prevent the Spanish from training military units. Finally I got excomunicated for my actions, but by then Britain and Spain has fallen to me.

6. The problem began when I decided to attack England. My plan seemed simple and flawless, send 2 armies with artillery, and take 2 settlements. A captain, leading a smaller force easily took an almost undefend castle. Only 1 castle to go. Even if I'm excomunicated, I'll have a lot less chance of being attacked by England's ally, France, if I eliminate England in one turn. AND MY FUCKING GENERAL, with more stars than the enemy, more men, LOST, UTTERLY. He even died in the process, and so many troops died.

7. And now I'm stuck in a clusterfuck. Germany, Milan, France. I've taken, and lost Paris. I'm holding my ground, but that is all I could do. I did not intend to capture France and mainland Europe, because of how indefensible it is, and I'm already in a indefensible position. I'm fighting a war with huge border, surrounded by many potential enemies. Any time now, Poland (who's skirmishing with the Golden Horde), can descend upon my homeland provinces. I've blocked the strait with a Navy so the Moors can't invade the Spanish mainland. I'm training as many troops, and holding back all construction (except for gunpowder in my highest Castles [I don't have a huge city yet] so I can bomb the fuck out of them when I get cannons and Serpentines). My money supply I got from Spain's conquest is dwindling though. From 30,000 to 10,000 now.

The only outcome I could see now is the total anhiliation of France, Germany, and Milan, and a huge border to defend from then on, while the Golden Horde descends upon Europe, and possible wars with other Catholic nations.

The Catholics have finally united against the nation of Denmark... but I will prevail... I will.

Edit: Should I make this an new thread?

I want to try out something I thought would be unique. I want to try an interactive AAR, so I'll be at a crossroads, and you guys decide what I do:

So right now I'm playing as Portugal, and they've finally defeated the Moors, taking North Africa, and the Spanish being long gone, giving me the entire area of Spain. France has attacked my frontiers and ports numerous times, and the Pope has gone on an excomunication spree, excomunicating Milan, Sicily, France, and the Holy Roman Empire. I am allied with the English.

Should I attack the French? Or should I attempt to take Italy in one sweep, as it is in complete turmoil, divided by numerous, excomunicated factions? I'll be able to get near to the Papacy, and take a more direct role in politics with assassinations and bribery.

I don't know how rich Italy is in Medieval II, but I'm going to assume for now that it is a trading centre only rivaled by the likes of Constantinople, and the Eastern coasts of the Turks and Egypt.

If I do attack France, I'll have to fight a longer war, and try to take the Rhine, which is still hard to defend itself.

If I do take France though, I'll be able to take England and Denmark quicker.

So:

1. Attack France, using its excomunications to my advantage and finally put an end to its harrasment.

2. Attack one of the Italian factions (A) Milan, Western Italy, B) Sciliy, Southern Italy, C) Venice, D) Holy Roman Empire [strongly discouraged, since I won't be able to end the war for a while]) and work my way towards taking the entire Italian peninsula.

3. Other (Go towards Egypt, England, etc).

An expedetion towrds the Sahara in search of possible riches.

Allied with the English, war with France, who is allied to close neighbor Germany.

Papal Politics

So Akdvod and the rest, are you playing any of the real-time battles or just auto-calculate them? (I know Munkeh just calculates them, he told)

If I can win by auto-calculate (or can't be bothered to fight it) then auto-calculate it is. If not I need to intervene and crush the enemy myself!

I can't really play the battles because my shitty comp can't handle it >.<

I usually leave sieges (attack) to computers though... since I'm a more slow type of person (I like to play more defensive, and maximize the use of archers, artillery, etc) I'll lose more men on the manual than auto. I'm probably getting this computer, can anyone tell me if it's able to handle M: TWII with decent graphics and no lag?

BTW, anyone want to participate in my interactive AAR?

lol if you get that comp you will still not be able to run the battles on manual/real time. Where'd you get this idea?

IDK, that's the computer my dad told me he wanted to get. I have ZERO knowledge on computers, so if you could recomend one that would at least play with no lag (don't care about graphics really) then that'll be nice.