Rome Total War....like computer "crack"

[nkhera1]

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I know this is an old thread, but I was thinking of picking it up and had some questions. Does the game remain true to what actually happened in real life meaning if I play as the Julii, I would get Caesar and Octavian as potential children and heirs. Do they include any of the conflicts between the trimuverites(sp?)? Also at about what point does the game start and what point does it end?

[Bravesfan47]

Re: Rome Total War....like computer "crack"

I know this is an old thread, but I was thinking of picking it up and had some questions. Does the game remain true to what actually happened in real life meaning if I play as the Julii, I would get Caesar and Octavian as potential children and heirs. Do they include any of the conflicts between the trimuverites(sp?)? Also at about what point does the game start and what point does it end?

I pretty sure you don't get true to life childern/generals. Medieval 2:total war is their newest game. I liked it better then Rome but their both really good games.

[Dallasin2K3]

Re: Rome Total War....like computer "crack"

I know this is an old thread, but I was thinking of picking it up and had some questions. Does the game remain true to what actually happened in real life meaning if I play as the Julii, I would get Caesar and Octavian as potential children and heirs. Do they include any of the conflicts between the trimuverites(sp?)? Also at about what point does the game start and what point does it end?

It's been a long time since I played it since my PC now doesn't have a good enough graphics card, but I had Caesar as a general as the Julii when I played.

The trumivirates also go through conflict during the game. I forget exactly how long the period of time of the game is, but it's deep.

[McLite]

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I just got a new graphics card for MTW:2. The 1.2 version patch should be coming out any day...and with some of the mods out there already this game in outstanding. Lands To Conquer off the Total War Center website is my favorite mod by far. The depth and replay it gives you is amazing. I've put more hours into MTW, RTW and MTW2 that probably all other games combined for all my systems.

In my mind it's always...one more turn...just one more turn...

[dossier]

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I wish they has a mod out for ME 2 so that you can units that have the skin of the Spartans from 300 (I've renacted the fight like 9 times) that would be sick

[nkhera1]

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Do you guys suggest using the Rome Total Realism mod?

[Rodster]

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Do you guys suggest using the Rome Total Realism mod?

I've never tried it but I hear it's great.

[bkfount]

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I hate to bump old threads, but I just got this game real cheap.

It's fantastic, and is one of the reasons I haven't touched my 360 for a week or so. I love the strategy involved
along with the fighting. I'm early in the game as the Julii, so I'm going after the Gauls. I got Spain on my side and now they declared war on the Gauls, who now have a two front war. They offer me a cease fire, and I demand a province. Then I break the cease fire anyways. I also sent a spy with the plague into a city of theirs.

This is great.

And this game is from 2005..I've really neglected the PC side of gaming.

[coffeeholic]

Re: Rome Total War....like computer "crack"

I hate to bump old threads, but I just got this game real cheap.

It's fantastic, and is one of the reasons I haven't touched my 360 for a week or so. I love the strategy involved
along with the fighting. I'm early in the game as the Julii, so I'm going after the Gauls. I got Spain on my side and now they declared war on the Gauls, who now have a two front war. They offer me a cease fire, and I demand a province. Then I break the cease fire anyways. I also sent a spy with the plague into a city of theirs.

This is great.

And this game is from 2005..I've really neglected the PC side of gaming.

I've played em' all-from Shogun to M.E.2. Except for Shogun they are all still on my hard drive. When I had enough of "next gen" for a while,these are my go-to games. Also,Company of Heroes-another future timeless classsic.

[McLite]

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Do you guys suggest using the Rome Total Realism mod?

Yes for RTW this makes the game so much more immense. I wouldn't play Rome again without the Realism Mod. Just as I wouldn't play MTW2 without the Lands to Conquer mod.

[bkfount]

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I should have never started playing this game. It consumes my time.


How stupid are the spanish and the gauls in this game? I have mst of eastern europe now, with the spanish spilling out of their hole to attack my settlements with tiny armies. Gaul only has their capital left, and now the Britons are jumping on me too.

These groups are like gnats against my army. What's the point in sending tiny waves of people to die pointlessly? It's not like they gain anything from doing it, it just makes me bulk up those fronts more than I would otherwise...

[jackson]

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I am considering picking up medieval total war. I have a laptop with specs amd turion dual core tl50 with 1.6 each running at 3.2. 1 gig of ram. windows vista basic. ati radeon x1150 with 128mb dedicated vid mem and 256 shared vid memory. Do you think this setup will be alright for this game. By the way, it is a dell inspiron 1501. Thanks

[coffeeholic]

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I am considering picking up medieval total war. I have a laptop with specs amd turion dual core tl50 with 1.6 each running at 3.2. 1 gig of ram. windows vista basic. ati radeon x1150 with 128mb dedicated vid mem and 256 shared vid memory. Do you think this setup will be alright for this game. By the way, it is a dell inspiron 1501. Thanks

Like any game,it depends on how much you want to crank up the extra "stuff". I have a Emachine(don't laugh,please) with a AMD3000+ processor. A BFG Nvidia 256MB card-1024MB of RAM. Now,my rig will go good with everything at least at med to high resolution. Normal unit size troops too.The only time I get some slowdown is when I got about 1500 guys bottlenecking all of a sudden. It's not a gamekiller though.
BTW-are you talking about the Medieval War 2 or the first one? Also-Rome TW runs silky smooth on my rig,another great series. I don't really understand the specs of your vid. card. maybe someone else could comment on that.

[davin]

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I should have never started playing this game. It consumes my time.


How stupid are the spanish and the gauls in this game? I have mst of eastern europe now, with the spanish spilling out of their hole to attack my settlements with tiny armies. Gaul only has their capital left, and now the Britons are jumping on me too.

These groups are like gnats against my army. What's the point in sending tiny waves of people to die pointlessly? It's not like they gain anything from doing it, it just makes me bulk up those fronts more than I would otherwise...

Man what difficulty are you on? I go on the hardest and the Gauls are quite simply a massive pain in the *** as Julii. They will always outnumber you and if they have anybody survive the thousands of battles you will fight, you end up facing veteran troops. The Britons (as Julii) should never be trusted. I know in this game that it's dumb to believe the alliances will actually last (the point of the game is to beat everybody else), but the Britons always attack despite an alliance at first right when it seems like my campaign against Gaul is looking up.

I always thought the Brutii (well for Roman factions) was the way to go. It's harder but going into Greece and such, I actually feel like I'm facing an army and not just a rabble. Also city battles can be quite fun, and the northern barbarians do not build stone walls so that isnt as fun.

[bkfount]

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Man what difficulty are you on? I go on the hardest and the Gauls are quite simply a massive pain in the *** as Julii. They will always outnumber you and if they have anybody survive the thousands of battles you will fight, you end up facing veteran troops. The Britons (as Julii) should never be trusted. I know in this game that it's dumb to believe the alliances will actually last (the point of the game is to beat everybody else), but the Britons always attack despite an alliance at first right when it seems like my campaign against Gaul is looking up.

I always thought the Brutii (well for Roman factions) was the way to go. It's harder but going into Greece and such, I actually feel like I'm facing an army and not just a rabble. Also city battles can be quite fun, and the northern barbarians do not build stone walls so that isnt as fun.

the gauls are annoying, but nothing more. If you sit and let them build up and attack you, then I guess they can be bad. I ran them back to france pretty early, and now most of my troubles come from the two front war with spain and briton. I've probably moved too fast, since I have a huge army and invested huge in the new era infantry, calvary, and archers so my economy is ****. A lot of my cities keep revolting, and I can't bump my taxes up high to make up money.

I did take advantage of diplomats by offering cease fires to the gauls in return for them giving me a territory. I then break it later to keep them from building up much.

I don't know what I did to piss off spain or briton, as we were allies and had opened trade rights. They've both backed the gauls...go figure. A fight against three factions is hard as hell.