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mablung of the heavy hand
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(7/9/04 10:08 pm)
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Book
How far have you gotten so far Dave?
Or is that classified?
Edited by: mablung of the heavy hand at: 8/13/04 8:45 am
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Dave P
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(7/11/04 12:47 am)
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Re: Book
10,000 words up to now, final count will be in excess of 100,000.
Been a bit lazy recently but I've picked up the pen again now.
Nice to see this is still around.
Edited by: Dave P at: 7/11/04 12:50 am
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mablung of the heavy hand
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(7/11/04 8:47 pm)
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Re: Book
Bloody hell! That's a fair bit!
Yeh I bumped it after a few questions about it.
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Stonewall382
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(8/1/04 12:54 am)
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Re: Book This is REALLY weird.
I was just thinking about bumping this thread no more than 20 minutes
ago! I was out weeding, and I started thinking about Dave P's King's
Diaries, and I was gonna bump it. I started thinking to myself, "is it
'King's Diary,' or is it 'King's Diary Archive?'" Weird how those
things work...similar DNA, I guess.
Edit: Mablung, you dog you! I just found where you edited your post.
Edited by: Stonewall382 at: 8/1/04 3:28 am
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mablung of the heavy hand
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(8/1/04 6:21 am)
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Re: Book
*Grins sheepishly* Yeh I did it
I was looking at views then though how the King's Diaries had heaps the wow! Why not bump it
Can't let such a great thing slip away!
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PrussiansInTheWoods
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(8/1/04 3:38 pm)
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Hey it's back kings diary
haven't seen you in a while. This kept me entertained for a week or so
reading one or so reigns a day. I was actually surprised at the end
though, i'd read the lands Dave had conquered but i hadn't really
realised that he owned whole map,till link to pic. Thanks again Dave. |
Dave P
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(8/2/04 11:23 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back Hi guys,
hows things? You know although it was a lot of hard work writing the
kings diary, and I was kinda glad when it finished, I sort of miss it
now.
It was a lot of fun and a lot of that was down to the guys who took an interest in it.
I'm not playing MTW at present so I dont come over here that much, but
I do pop in now and again just to see if this is still around. I've
noticed there are a lot of new guys here now, I wonder if they might
keep the old kings diary alive for a full 12 months, ie until jan next
year.
Cheers Dave
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Stonewall382
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(8/3/04 2:23 am)
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Re: Hey it's back
Dedicate your book to me, and I'll bump it daily. Uh, lemme rephrase that...
Anyhoo, yeah, it was fun, Dave. How's it goin' along now? Do you have a
title yet? Oh, and you could still come over to OT, couldn't you?
Ducky's callin' himself everyone's uncle now, even though you're his
elder, aren't you? We could have a question-off, to see who the real
wise guy is!
Hope ya come back and see this soon, and hope you do well with the book.
[Insert promotional cliche here.]
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Dave P
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(8/3/04 11:17 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back
No title yet, I'm hopeful that one will come out of my writing.
I'm just about to nip over to OT and see if there is anything interesting.
BTW, Duck is older than me. I think he is 47, or was it the other way around 74, yes I think it was 74.
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Stonewall382
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(8/4/04 2:49 am)
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Re: Hey it's back
And how old are you Dave?
Anyhoo, it's good to see ya again.
P.S. I had to put it somewhere--I'm gonna be gone for a few days now,
so please no one direct any comments at me, 'cause I won't be able to
see 'em (at soccer camp). I suppose, if you wanted to, flame away!
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Arkatsson
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(8/13/04 10:01 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back
so DaveP is a great writer right?
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mablung of the heavy hand
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(8/13/04 10:26 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back
Yes indeed he is, this started just after I joined I think (around January IIRC) and had a really big following.
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I am zelda12
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(8/13/04 10:32 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back What I have
no comprehension of is why Dave didn't sign up at the org and use the
mead hall as an expression of his brilliant writing skills which I can
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mablung of the heavy hand
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(8/13/04 11:01 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back
It was .coms own little story, it recieved more attention here than it would have over at the .org.
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I am zelda12
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(8/13/04 11:08 pm)
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Re: Hey it's back
You have a point...
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Arkatsson
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(8/14/04 11:56 am)
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Re: Hey it's back
and now he is famous.
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Darius
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(8/16/04 4:00 pm)
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A King's Diary
DaveP,
Just finished reading your diaries - working my notice and so I've
nought else to do. Great stuff; can really relate to some of the
bizarre decisions that the AI makes, the ancedotal stuff did make me
laugh and the death of the first king, I must admit did raise a lump in
my throat but hey ho.
On the matter of your battlefield tactics, if I were completely honest,
I would have two criticisms thaty I hope that you see as constructive.
Firstly, I did think that your use of the 'English Defence' was, well,
quite wasteful. You had strength in breadth (i.e. across the
battlefield) but little in depth. It seemed that as a consequence, you
had to rely on holding reserve reinforcements as a second defensive
position too often. Many of your victories were pyhrric - you won the
day, but at a greater cost to you than your enemies. For example, I
personally would not engage cavalry with militia - either using
shieldmen or one the upgrades to this unit. Secondly, your descriptions
of the battles and the screenshots lead me to think that your tactics
are quite linear. By that I mean, you deploty troops either parallel or
perpendicular to the main line of advance. I find that this leads to
holes being generated in a defensive line and in attack, troops lose
cohesion and mutual support. When faced back cavalry threatening to
outflank you, try refusing your flank. It looks like this:
SSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSS S
SSSSSSSSS SSS
SSSSSSSSS SSSS
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It means that your flank from the right is protected and the cavalry would find it very much more diffucult to outflank you.
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GreyFox
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(8/17/04 12:17 am)
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waste of soldiers He said in
an earlier post before to the same question about his choice of tactics
(IIRC) that he didnt want to get the usual kill ratio of, say, 500
kills and 900 captures for his 90 brave dead soldiers.
Btw Dave, great story, read them all, been with you since chapter three, but never posted. Until now.
Edited by: GreyFox at: 8/17/04 12:19 am
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Dave P
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(8/17/04 1:31 am)
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Re: waste of soldiers
Yeah I think we had a discusion about tactics whilst I was still writing the story.
Thing is using that tactic I dont think I lost many battles. Now if I
had really gone all out to use the best units and tailored my armies to
what units the AI was using, then the battles would have been even more
one sided, and therfor wouldn't have made for a good story.
You tell me guys, did you feel that during some of my battles there was a chance that I might get beaten?
A few other reasons I used that particular army make up.
1. I had around 8 of those standard armies and it is easier to keep track of reinforcements if they are all of the same make up.
2. I wanted to try and use all the units available to the English, and that was the system I came up with to utillise them all.
3. I have had some stunning sucessess in the past with the English defence particularily against muslims.
Actual battle tactics are very personal, some might want to give the AI
a thrashing everytime others might want to take a beating now and again.
Something that should be taken into acount is the fact that I was
playing on expert, and so the AI gets some fairly ridiculous bonuses
during battles, and on more than one occasion the English defence broke
because of this.
Dave.
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Shats
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(8/17/04 1:41 am)
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Re: waste of soldiers
keep it up bud
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