#Medieval 2 stainless steel stack spam Patch
#Medieval 2 stainless steel stack spam series

This is supposed to force you to be constantly picking fights with your neighbours just to keep your armies from falling apart which is nicely characteristic of the faction, however you can just set them to raid your own territory which keeps everyone happy and has negligible downsides. The flipside is supposed to be that if your army doesn't find enough fights they start infighting, causing attrition. The summoned armies tend to be low quality but the massive numbers advantage they give is more than enough to turn any battle into a trivial speedbump. When one of your orc armies does enough fighting it declares a 'Waaagh' and summons up a friendly, max-stack AI army that will follow it around joining in fights. Lastly, Greenskins seem rather OP in the campaign. The only thing that stops a mass infantry rush is a bigger, better infantry mob. I am yet to encounter a situation that couldn't be solved by throwing a max-stack army of mid or high tier infantry at it. The game doesn't really reward use of combined arms.

Which kiiiinda brings me to my next point. Most of the finer details are of limited use compared to building a max-stack army and auto-resolving everyone to death. It's not terrible, but there's little depth and lots of busywork. The strategy layer of the game is decidedly meh.

Barring a massive disparity in unit quality, the biggest army will win so the battles are effectively decided on the campaign map before they're started. I'm not saying auto-resolve shouldn't exist, it's great for saving time on easy fights, but it renders the actual battles no more than a formality. There's no reason to actually play them yourself instead of just hitting the auto-resolve button. Playing the battles is completely pointless.

#Medieval 2 stainless steel stack spam series

So I might be talking about problems that have been with the series since forever and not know it. I haven't touched the multiplayer and probably never will.Ģ - I'm not a Total War regular. Even I wouldn’t have written this tool if someone didn’t explicitly ask me to.Before I board the complain train, I want to make two things clear:ġ - Everything I say relates to the single player. This tool was written because not everybody is an insider, and most probably a lot of people don’t even know that this can be achieved. This is, of course, very easy for insiders who do it every day with the CFF Explorer. In order to achieve this, a flag has to be set in the file’s internal format. On 圆4 these two other GB can now be accessed by 32bit applications. On x86 applications have 2GB of virtual memory out of 4GB (the other 2GB are reserved for the system). Why things are this way on 圆4 is easy to explain. It automatically creates a backup copy of the original executable. It can be used by clicking on it and choosing the file or through command line (e.g.: “4gb_patch file.exe”).

#Medieval 2 stainless steel stack spam Patch

To gain these 2GB, you just have to use this tool to patch the executable (*.exe file) of the software you want to have these additional GBs of virtual memory. This tool comes very handy for applications which need a great amount of virtual memory like games, 3D renderization, multimedia etc. This very little tool patches x86 executables in order to let them have 4GB (instead of only 2) of virtual memory on 圆4 platforms. I originally wrote this tool for a friend of mine who needed it.