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Gusington

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Reply #60 on: February 02, 2025, 08:15:07 PM
^Why thank you. The Pict campaign ended ignominiously - around 945 AD, I was in debt about 35k IIRC, one province, barely any military left and the game hit some kind of bug that would lock up the game totally, each time I tried to play through the turn :/

Oh well. I'm surprised I enjoyed this old game as much as I did too. Very much looking forward to a larger campaign of XL, starting in the late period...around 1320AD (I think?)...maybe as Kiev :)

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Reply #61 on: February 03, 2025, 12:38:39 AM
^Why thank you. The Pict campaign ended ignominiously - around 945 AD, I was in debt about 35k IIRC, one province, barely any military left and the game hit some kind of bug that would lock up the game totally, each time I tried to play through the turn :/

Bummer -- both regarding your Pictish kingdom's abrupt collapse, and that some dumb technical glitch prevented you from doing anything to recover from it (or at least go out in a blaze of glory :biggrin: ). 




Oh well. I'm surprised I enjoyed this old game as much as I did too. Very much looking forward to a larger campaign of XL, starting in the late period...around 1320AD (I think?)...maybe as Kiev :)

Ha, that would be awesome.  I can't really offer much in the way of advice for a Kiev campaign, though, other than perhaps try and take out the Cumans ASAP.  ;D 

And without actually googling it (or firing up the game), yes, 1320 does sound about right for when the Late period starts, give or take.  I can only ever remember that the High period begins in 1205 for some reason.  ??? 



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Gusington

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Reply #62 on: February 03, 2025, 07:01:46 AM
Have you run into any game-stopping bugs?

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Reply #63 on: February 03, 2025, 06:52:16 PM
No, not so far.  I've occasionally encountered repeatable CTD's when choosing the option to manually fight a battle (auto-resolve usually gets around the problem), but that's been it, thankfully. 



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Reply #64 on: February 03, 2025, 08:20:25 PM
^Excellent.

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