oh alas! my turn comes in a matter of days, say three. the privileged life brakes to a halt, only to be replaced with that of toil and turmoil. anyway, to 'induce' me into the mood, i got this game which totally rocked, and puts me into the mood. medieval 2: total war, puts you in the seat of the one man controlling one of the varied factions. don't be fooled by the short/long campaign differences:a typical 'short' campaign WILL take at least a week for the casual gamer, and at most three days for one who plays about 12 hours a day! i've already finished with the English short campaign by conquering Scotland and France, but it's no walkover-the Papacy constantly intervenes. There was a point where my mortal enemies-the French, and the Imperials(Holy Roman Empire=Germans) dragged on an endless war, not only a military, and also a diplomatic war-ceasefire and declare war, rinse and repeat until done. The half-assed thing about this is that, they had allied with the Papacy, and had my faction excommunicated. Now the mad thing about being excommunicted by the Pope is that the Inquisition will then take place. In the game, all the Inquisitors do are to root out and exterminate your governors/generals all because they are not pious. In fact, they leave you murmuring the words 'unfair' and pump up lots of blood to your eyeballs. Hence, the Papal States, while not possessing the full territorial powers of empires, actually does have a very annoying and undeniable form of lowly existence. War is that cheap. Hah, anyway here are some screenshots. 1. enemy army being flanked on its right, so good day. 2. sign of the cross-let's take it as a homage to the whole lot of religious elements in the game. 3. arrownage. a hail of arrows on a fleeing soldier(at least he was before i took the screenshot). i noticed he had a headshot too. good game, i say. I have seen more, but failed to take related scenarios, such as the whole cavalry unit charging down on the sole swordsman etc..it just makes me laugh maniacally...the best thing is that you get to capture prisoners. I wanted my generals to build on their dread level, so i unswervingly had them summarily executed all at once, instead of ransoming them. i was even happier when i saw the royalty member on the top of the list, himself being worth 1000 florins in ransom, which in itself can buy you a fleet of quality warships already. of course i was glad to have him rest in my prisoners' camp, at my pleasure. i'd mouse over the execute button several times to hear all their pleas for mercy. Regardless, i know the last i heard from them was a painful death throe. and it makes me lol. (rhymes)
"plak!";
x 2:50 am
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