Tuesday, August 26, 2008

GK4 Scenario 2 Year 1271 Select your Ruler

After toiling through a sad sorry attempt at playing GK4 effectly as the Burmese PAGAN empire with Naratyapate(I pronounce it NAH-RAT-YAH-PAIT) I have a good grasp on the basics of the gameplay. This update of BWH will focus on the ruler/country selection screen for 1271 Scenario 2 of the game. With 27 different rulers and crazy Koei portrait swapping makes this more difficult then I thought going in.

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Rulers from Top left to right; Kublai Khan(Yuan), Du-Zong(Song), Baibars, Rudolf I, Minomoto(Kamakura), Abaga*(Ilkhanate), Henry 3(Angevin), Phillip 3, Mangu-Temur*, Borqa*, Balban(Delhi), Lorenzo Tiepolo*, Sheng Zhong(Daiviet), & Micheal 8

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Rulers from Top left to right; Alfonso X(Spain), Adu Yusuf Yaqub*(Morrocco), Istvan, Khaidu, Malvarman, Al-Muntasir*, Magnus(Norway)*, Charles I, Yaroslav, Boleslav, Hphags Pa, Won-Chong(Korea), & Naratyapate(Pagan)

*Potrait trouble

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Looks like Abaga right? Its not Abaga! Its the leader of the Golden Horde Mengu-Temur!

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This is Abaga!

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Looks like Baybars in GK2, right? Its Al-Muntasir.

*New guys

Mentioned before we have Magnus of Norway joining GK's huge cast. Dandolo was in GK2 but I don't think Tiepolo was. In fact I am 99.9% sure he wasn't in the SNES version.
Why does Dandolo matter? He is the Doge of Venice a new country/ruler of GK4. 1271 Doge is Lorenzo Tiepolo.

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Tiepolo

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Hphags Pa rules Tibet and is not under Yuan's complete command unlike GK2.

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Morocco makes an appearance in GK4. Abu Yusuf Yaqub rules in 1271

All the other "new" faces were there in GK2 just not as a selectable ruler. There is no ruler within the game that is not accessable.

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