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Americanus
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Topic: ROME TOTAL WAR Posted: 16-May-2006 at 13:42 |
Ive been playing this game for about 2 years now and I find it to be one of the best stragety games around does any else have it.
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Frederick Roger
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Posted: 16-May-2006 at 13:58 |
Yep. It's almost as good as Medieval, but with a lot more flaws.
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xristar
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 12:14 |
Originally posted by Frederick Roger
Yep. It's almost as good as Medieval, but with a lot more flaws. |
I agree. Good game, great graphics, still not as good as medieval (at least not as addictive). Medieval II is now under development! I can't wait to smash everyone with the mighty byzantines!
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Lmprs
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 13:26 |
I think Medieval was much more realistic than this game. RTW is still good though.
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Americanus
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 13:48 |
Actually I think RTw was way more relistic bc you can actually put archers on the walls
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Lmprs
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 14:26 |
Originally posted by Americanus
Actually I think RTw was way more relistic bc you can actually put archers on the walls |
That may be so, but considering the battle scenes I think RTW was meant to be more "arcade" and less strategical.
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Digenis
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 14:52 |
Its awsome. The only game in pc i play
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Cywr
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Posted: 17-May-2006 at 21:37 |
The EB mod and the extra 128MBs of memory have made this game so much more playable for me.
Kudos to all those modders who saved a game with great potential that was poorly implimented in the box.
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Americanus
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Posted: 18-May-2006 at 08:55 |
I like the more stragetic value of Rome Total war plus the 3d cities and map.
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Cywr
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Posted: 19-May-2006 at 01:20 |
What is it you change in the preferences.txt (?) to make RTW battles look like MTW ones, interface wise?
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Flipper
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Posted: 19-May-2006 at 02:28 |
Isn't Medieval and Rome made by the same software house? I love Rome Total war. I think it's time for the second edition of the game.
Edited by Flipper - 19-May-2006 at 02:29
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Elerosse
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Posted: 25-May-2006 at 21:28 |
great game, though there's some units whom were made out of the air. For example the "legion cavalery", or "Praetorian cavalery".
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mamikon
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Posted: 25-May-2006 at 22:20 |
There is an Armenian faction in the game!!!
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Cywr
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Posted: 27-May-2006 at 14:16 |
One of the more fun factions to play, even if you run in to trouble fairly quickly in the strategic game.
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mamikon
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Posted: 27-May-2006 at 16:20 |
you do? why is that? Parthia and Mithrades
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Cywr
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Posted: 28-May-2006 at 07:11 |
Between rebels, pontus, selucia and eventualy the parthans, and not
having very good infantry, eventualy logisitcs takes its toll.
A faction with good heavy infantry can take a good beating, and move
onto the next battle. With the Armenians, sure, their cavalry is godly,
but there supply of arrows is not infinit, and you need infantry to
clean up the enemy's spearmen. After a battle your infantry are trashed
and you need them to go back to a city to recharge.
I find that expansion is often slow on the harder levels, and cash sparse, and that tends to put a damp on things.
In the vanilla game the Armenians apparently eventualy get their version of a legionare, but i've never seen one.
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Emperor Barbarossa
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Posted: 28-May-2006 at 08:19 |
Originally posted by Cywr
Between rebels, pontus, selucia and eventualy the parthans, and not
having very good infantry, eventualy logisitcs takes its toll.
A faction with good heavy infantry can take a good beating, and move
onto the next battle. With the Armenians, sure, their cavalry is godly,
but there supply of arrows is not infinit, and you need infantry to
clean up the enemy's spearmen. After a battle your infantry are trashed
and you need them to go back to a city to recharge.
I find that expansion is often slow on the harder levels, and cash sparse, and that tends to put a damp on things.
In the vanilla game the Armenians apparently eventualy get their version of a legionare, but i've never seen one.
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The legionarries come after the Marius reform, which is pretty late in the game.
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Posted: 28-May-2006 at 10:14 |
As far as i'm concerned RTW is unplayable without a mod, my personal choice is Rome Total Realism, but theres a ton out there that make the game playable.
However there are so many problems with this game that I wouldnt call it the best strategy game, on the contrary, one of the worst, for sheer disappointment and frustration.
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Americanus
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Posted: 30-May-2006 at 14:12 |
There are bugs here and there in the game. but overall the playing exp. and the things you learn are well worth that.
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Emperor Barbarossa
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Posted: 31-May-2006 at 11:56 |
Originally posted by Heraclius
As far as i'm concerned RTW is unplayable without a mod, my personal choice is Rome Total Realism, but theres a ton out there that make the game playable.
However there are so many problems with this game that I wouldnt call it the best strategy game, on the contrary, one of the worst, for sheer disappointment and frustration. |
Yes, the mods are the only reason that I play RTW. If it was more realistic, it would be the best strategy game.
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