Medieval: Total War

[Pweisger]

Pardon me if this has already been mentioned, but I am very much interested in seeing a run of Medieval: Total War on Campaign, or even battles. I wish I could do one myself, but I am just no good at these games without cheating, maybe with practice and time. I am unsure about how this would be timed, wether it be by years or by actual game time (though I would figure years, because of battles). Any thoughts? (I know strategy games are a rare find, sans Starcraft around here, but I am just throwing the topic out there). And yes, I already mentioned this on the Speed Run Request Thread.

[mephisto]

I would much rather see a Shogun: Total War run. Since that´s the only Total War game I´ve played =)

[netics]

Medieval Total War. I realy want to see it!!!!!

[Pendrokar]

Ressurected! Cause I am already starting a speedrun(segmented offcourse) following the rules of Pweisger Bounties
http://speeddemosarchive.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=main;action=display;num=1178952360
(Hard Difficulty(On expert rebels have giant armies ); Morale=On; Fatigue=Off; Limited Ammo=Off; Restrict Camera=Off(Cause i'm allowed to change options!))(video resolution 400x300)

I have started a speedrun with the Byzantine Empire have conquered 35%(killed turks/egyptians) of the world in 35 min.(including loading screens, save/load moments). Total manual battles 1, cause I use a trap trick(block armies retreat province by attacking one with overpowered army and another just to catch the whole army)
How should I show the videos? In every segment I load->play->save should I show how I do it and can I fasten up the loading screens? Cause I had a better PC, but my motherboard broke so I needed to switch to an old one!  

I'll upload some soon!  

[Pweisger]

Speeding up the loading screens is ok since it depends from comp to comp how fast things load.

[Pendrokar]

K I uploaded the start. Others will come up soon.
Check Here - http://hosted.filefront.com/Pendrokar
Note. That in much later segments I use Escape to skip announcements making the viewing even more boring for anyone
If I make the same moves in a turn then in the next turn it wouldn't have any random events, so testing if I cheat can be done by going through my moves. Though there is one strange thing about Medieval: Total War is that when I launch the game and load a save then the loyalty in cities are a bit popped up than if I would after loading the save load it AGAIN! But The diffrence(~5/10 %) ain't so serios to keep in mind!

[Pendrokar]

added two more vids.

Why Am I mostly use the automated is not only because it saves time, but it can do things that I normally couldn't in battle. Like there will be this time where I attack 100 horses with 400 Spearmen and in battle I lose cause spearmen flee, but auto wins with minimal casualties.
If This was Rome:Total War things would be MUCH DIFFERENT, because auto in Rome wins in a worst way possible!

[Pendrokar]

 ok 20 segments thats all that I have for now. They are uploaded/uploading. Now (segment 21) there's just problems with power control, because if I conquer too much then loyalty across all empire takes a hard hit that even a 1000 peasants(huge scale) couldn't handle! So I , though could do it easily, won't rush on this conquest!
Btw Pweisger will you need savegames from which to verify the run+one replay(the one where russians fight the rebels and I stay behind)?

[Pweisger]

Yes, if you could send me those I can run them to help verify. Thanks.

[Pendrokar]

//(Two new segments)(Im lazy but after no worries of king dying from "illness" I can plan more easily WUUHUU)
Strange. The King loved his new matured son so much that he made him heir to the throne, but ignored other brothers! Might be a bug but as king dies(~81) and the 19 year old heir takes the throne the royal brothers no longer appear in the royalty list, though they are still of royal blood(This is good for me cause then the great fighters will never die naturally)! Another bug that occurred was that a ship sunk in a storm and left an island isolated. Momently the island had (0% loyalty) so Ill need to suppress(Rhodes island)!
Last provinces to conquer will off course be the pope, because if I capture Rome then after a few turns a new pope comes with a massive army

[Pendrokar]

//One new seggment(24) I'm pretty close now that I made an Global Naval Trade Route, because it just raised the loyalty everywhere at least twice and there were no loyalty casualties even if the Sicilians attacked! Segment 25 will contain a secondary even greater invasion of Europe!
//uploading segments 22/23/24
BTW sry to say that the 21 segment will be in a bad visual quality(codec fault) that I didn't notice and when I did was too late(deleted uncompressed vid). Now that I found a way to finally combine the compressed videos with compressed audio(mp3) the videos will be less in size not losing any visual quality!

@ Pweisger - I hope you have some Ipod or another portable device that could play videos, because then it would be easier for you to do step by step like I did to get the same result(Pressing shift, which shows the loyalty in color's, even counts(sometimes the game does not check the info and after ending the turn creates rebellions in places that have over 100% loyalty))!

[Pendrokar]

//two last segments
Well I'm done! The bigger the empire the longer the video segments  :-/ !
I ended the game attacking at full scale ignoring loyalty anywhere, because I have a victory before riots start !
Total Byzantine 100% victory Speedrunning time: 1:18:55(counting video times together)!
Edit: Uploaded the two segments - http://hosted.filefront.com/Pendrokar ! I wanted to combine all videos in a one full video but some programs can't somehow handle all those videos and they are forced to close?!?!

[SandsZebra]

Wow that is great then, I'm happy to hear a run of "Medieval:TW" has been done, I hope it get verified soon and I'm gonna see it at your profile - I hope that someone can tell you how to append your video segments here, otherwise you can go search/ask at the Tech Support forum here : http://speeddemosarchive.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=other - It should help

[Pendrokar]

I hope that someone can tell you how to append your video segments here, otherwise you can go search/ask at the Tech Support forum here : http://speeddemosarchive.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=other - It should help

Actually the program crashing was after starting to load the 21 segment(which has a quality problem ), but it can still be viewed without any problems.
I am combining them all as we speak (Onw LQ(400x300) another HQ(I will just enlarge the res to about 700x6..))

EDIT: The "HQ" didn't look so good(Too much sharpening! Not worth the effort), but I have uploaded an combined video that sadly lost some quality(stupid software want render while I just want to combine the video and audio)!
EDIT2: I reuploaded 1-20 segments! Better Compression(VEry very little quality loss)
At - http://hosted.filefront.com/Pendrokar

[ZenicReverie]

Well, I just watched one of these and I have to say, I have absolutely no idea what's going on.    Nice to see someone attempting to claim more of Pweisger's bounties.  Not that I want to see him giving money away, but it's nice to know he's getting what he wants.