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  1. Cool to see another update! I'm especially happy to see that special units are going to be more available, it will lead to fewer 4 spearmen 4 bowmen armies for me... I hope some of the network problems were addressed as well in this patch? The last major patch did address some, but my friends still had problems playing multiplayer since then. I guess if there were hotfixes since then I missed them. Still, pretty cool to hear 🙂
  2. Awesome news, we've been waiting for this!!!! Can't wait to try out multiplayer after the fixes!!! PS I think there was a bit of a formatting break after the final screenshot, the font is in a smaller size after the final screenshot which makes it harder to read.
  3. Maybe so, but I have heard players regularly report trouble with THQN servers in particular in the context of being unable to play multiplayer.
  4. I was there, a wee teenager at the time, under the name Shane. Came over from Anno 1602 forums, everyone was interested in KOH. Edit: Or actually, may have been the KOH section on the Sunflowers forums. Interestingly enough, there's an archived version of these forums I found: http://www.annomuseum.de/webseiten/SF/forum.sunflowers.de/archive/index.php/f-16.html
  5. I'll try and give a quick rundown on the points. Basically I rarely have time for most things.... In general, most of your criticisms are things I also didn't like for like the first 5 hours, then found that the changes they added, added a lot of depth to the game. 1. I like the new building system. The old system had just barely enough slots, but each province seemed pretty much self-reliant. The new system where you build up your trade goods, has trade good dependencies that spread throughout the empire. Not to mention cathedrals are actually achievable, instead of being available in only a handful of provinces. 2. Towns being walled right off the bat actually make the pace of a war make sense. Gone are your crazy early game blitzkriegs with peasants just assaulting a relatively undefended village. Now you need to siege them, which is more realistic. I do agree it was cool specializing the defenses for your provinces in KOH1. But I rarely did since building slots were so limited. 3. Partly answered by 2, but also it would really suck if enemies can attack and immediately storm your province, take it over and you need to retake it. In actual history, siege battles lasting potentially a long time were super common. It feels more like IRL (also more like Paradox games) to have to siege down settlements. With siege equipment, it takes time to wear down their battlements. I appreciate when I get a town sieged, I can get reinforcements from a distance away, which lead to some fun battles. Like sieging with 1 army, then 2 reinforce the enemy, now I'm 1v3 on 3 sides with the two armies and the garrison attacking. 4. Honestly, I have never understood the "you need 9 marshals!" argument for KOH1 or KOH2. Maybe if you love to paint the entire map, but that's never been how I play. Even with a very large empire, like a fullsize Ottoman Empire, 3-4 marshals are enough for me to make things work. Thanks to sieges lasting a bit longer, and garrisons, you can make do with less. Don't forget your other knights, your merchants etc. can also lead armies in a pinch which seems more efficient than fielding 9 armies. 5. Partly answered before. AI is a bit smarter with their general than KOH1 - they get exposed sometimes, but in KOH1 it was a joke to lure them out, surround them with peasants and immediately win. Not to mention they had a smaller general squad size. In KOH2 you can charge the enemy with your general and they will last a while. So I often just kill their army first, which makes more sense. 6. Specialization of provinces, and governors, adds depth as if every province was able to be developed with governors, you'd just upgrade them all with no thought. Here you need to pick your specialized provinces, and that list will change as you expand your empire. There's plenty of reasons to keep expanding though. You need to expand further for more trade goods for your kingdom advantages. You may want an empire shaped in a reasonable way. You want to conquer the holy site for your religion. Or you are trying to unite Russia, so you want to conquer everything in Russia. 7. You totally can offer peace and demand vassalization of your opponent in war. I do it all the time. You just say offer peace and demand tribute. Unless you offer white peace, someone needs to get something to end the war. Also I think you misremember KOH1 - if you want a trade route, you can just offer a trade route, and that's that. Demanding gold would be a separate action, and can't connect that to the trade deal. I played most of a KOH1 campaign two days ago so it's fresh in my mind 😉 8. Dunno about quick battles, I never did them in KOH1 or wanted to in KOH2, but if they totally have no option for it in KOH2 that is indeed a downgrade. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in some menu somewhere. Or maybe you can start a multiplayer battle and select AI opponents. I haven't looked at it myself since it's not what I'm in to so you may have a point here. 9. Double right click is charge, I haven't tried to run that way so unsure on that. I haven't paid too much attention to the unit cards or the battle UI, I could ask on the discord and get back to you. I'd be surprised if there's no stamina anywhere. I swear I remember seeing some number or bar go down when running - I do charge with double right click, and run by hitting a destination, then hitting R usually. I like to hold down the right mouse button and drag to set the location and depth of my units, so it makes more sense to hit R after that. And that holding down thing is a BIG upgrade over KOH1 where it was super finicky to make them face a specific way in a specific depth. I also tend to fight defensively since spears and archers are OP so I mostly only run to charge a few feet. In the end most of the things I disliked about the game initially, I found out that I was wrong about, or found out new info to mitigate them, after playing longer, getting more experience, coaching from viewers and just learning all the new, in-depth systems. I also played like 4 hours of a Normandy KOH1 campaign recently, in 4 hours I conquered and formed England, got all trade goods, became 2nd strongest empire (after Byzantium which is super strong in that start) and pretty much was more than halfway to winning the game. KOH2 has a more "grand" pace, in 4 hours I'm just picking up speed, building my empire, not even getting all the trade goods yet. I encourage playing more, I got totally hooked after like 10-15 hours. And after playing some KOH1, it really feels like KOH2 is the deeper, more fulfilling game. I love KOH1 for nostalgia, but KOH2 will keep me here.
  6. I kinda disagree with a lot here after playing a bunch of hours, but should specifically call out point 5. In KOH1, if your opponent started a battle with a general, and you sniped the general, you won the battle. With the bad AI, it was even worse, you could have their army chase your general to one corner, and surround their general with peasants and win the battle that way.
  7. Your link's expired, could you provide a new one that doesn't expire?
  8. I agree, a wiki would be awesome. List the units for each kingdom, the requirements for forming a nation (there's guides online but the province titles are different than in-game), etc. I've thought about trying myself but I have no idea how to make a wiki. An official wiki (linked from the Royal Library in-game!) would be even better.
  9. Name/Handle: Lisotte Country: United States Games I like to play: I like an eclectic mix of games. Strategy games were my bread and butter growing up, like KOH1, AOE 1, 2 and 3, and Starcraft 1 and 2. I still am a big fan of strategy games such as Paradox grand strategy games. I've also put way too many hours into fighting games like Street Fighter, and MMOs such as FFXI and FFXIV. I've also more recently gotten into horror games, I'm a pretty big fan of Fatal Frame. I love Japanese games as I used to live there. I should mention that I've been trying to share the games I love lately by streaming on Twitch, particularly KOH2 and KOH1 lately. Pets: No pets, but we do have 2 kids, do they count? xD
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