Conspiracy_Victim

Got mine. Fandago can be awesome sometimes.

That's what I'm doing against the Gauls. I'm simply overrunning them with lancer and Macedonian Cavalry (Heavy). I had a battle with about 650 (them) vs. 400 (me). Yeah I use small armies, my video card can barely keep up. I had 3 cards of archers, 4 cards of levy pikemen, and the rest cavalry. The Gauls had 2 cards of archers, 2 Noble Cavalry (the 2 captains) and the rest a mix of swordsmen and warbands. He tried breaking his cavalry out wide to my flank. I pulled my archers to form an "L" to my hoplites and broke 3 cavalry units out to them. His leadership got massacred while the rest of his army was still getting into position. I then turned my archers back against their archers and rushed my cavalry around both flanks. I smashed his archers and bullrushed his infantry from behind with a horde of horsemen. They all panicked as soon as the initial rush hit, and I spent the rest of the fight chasing everyone down. Total casualties: Gauls-607, Macedonians-56. The only hoplites I lost were to archers, and his infantry never came into contact. My cav took a bit of a beating, but it was hilarious watching band after band break and run as I smashed into them. I still don't have a surefire way of beating wardogs though. They scare horses. I guess I have to hope my archers wipe out the handlers and they run amok. Either that or fire arrows.

The only problem I can see with Carthage is that it's awfully spread out. You've got Carthage in N. Africa, then all you've got are Sardis and Palma on the islands and the city in south Spain. I guess you can look on the bright side and say that it just give you more room to spread out. You can attack Spain, Numidia, Egypt, and even the Gauls and Italy if you work fast enough. I don't know. The Pontus seem pretty fun with the chariots and the Armenian cavalry seems pretty good too, although I think their infantry pretty much sucks balls. I'll have to play around a bit after I beat the Macedonian campaign.

The thing is with the Macedonians once you knock the Greek Cities off Greece (limit them to their 1 or 2 cities in Turkey) you've got a heckuva economic base because Thessalonica, Sparta, Athens, Byzantium, Corinth and all those all produce boatloads of money once you get the markets and docks upgraded. Plus Athens starts off as once of the most advanced cities in the early game. You should have just enough time to take over Greece and form an alliance with Thrace and maybe Pontus (even Armenia if you get a boat with a couple diplomats out quick) before the Romans go after you. But they're still so early that their Hastati don't stand a chance against a phalanx/light lancer attack. It's if you let them hang around until after the Marus reforms that they become more difficult (as I'm finding out to my sorrow). I lucked out by knocking the Brutii out and made Rome a Protectorate, automatically ending my war with the families and giving me trade and military access. Now I've just got the Gauls, Brits, and maybe the Egyptians on my case. It's hard to tell with the Egyptians because they'll form an alliance with you then break it the very next turn. Plus I accidentally ended my alliance with the Armenians (who are actually pretty good cavalry) when they went to war with Egypt and now I can't re-up the alliance because they're paranoid. I'm trying to find someone with a good balance for my next campaign. Maybe the Carthaginians. Elephants might be fun.

It's hard to get all the way to Triarii before the Marus reforms turns them into Legionary Cohorts (I believe). They are fun to use though. I started a Macedonian campaign. Fun to use, the phalanxes kick ass holding people up then the lancers come in a kick ass. Only problem is everyone comes after you quickly (Greek Cities, the Romans, Pontus) and it's hard getting anywhere once the Roman navies come after you. Plus the Pontus chariots are hard as hell to kill off.

It doesn't say it does on the box, but then again mine isn't supposed to work at all so it might work. For the record the Radeon cards it SAYS it supports are the 8500, 9000, 9500, 9600, 9700, and 9800.

hmm I have the copy of the requirements from the box itself and it said nothing of a Geforce 3 anything? Perhaps that is for a different system.. What is the Geforce 3? The last listed requirement on the bottom of the box is the video card. It lists ATI Radeon 8500-9800 and "all NVidia Geforce 3 and higher". I still got it to work again last night after I posted. *shrug* I'm still going to look into anew card, but man some of these prices are insane.

Actually, while trying to determine the cause of my problem, I noticed something. The minimum requirements are a GeForce 3. I have a GeForce 2 MX/MX 400. I've had the game since Christmas and I never even noticed that my system didn't meet the "minimum" requirements. I'm trying to figure out why the game worked at all. I guess they didn't put the aboslute minimum. Still, though, sucks that I've got to go get a new card so everything will run correctly.

OK for some reason my game stopped running. I had to delete it and reload. Unfortunately, I lost my Selucid campaign because I'm not sure if the empire unlocking mod caused it. So anyway, I'm starting over with the Julii. I've stomped the Gauls and moving onto the Germans. Anyone know a good way to deal with the dogs? I use them to great effect (put them on the flank of an engaged troop and start laughing) but it's not too much fun when my cavalry gets chewed up by them (Rome is SO freakin' short on heavy infantry at least until the Marus Reforms). The last time I won with the Julii I simmed almost all the battles so I never ran into the dogs. Any pointers would be helpful. BTW, some of the general's speeches are absolutely hilarious. I have yet to run into someone nicknamed "the Mad" (I heard they're especially amusing) but lines like, "An extra ration of hay for the bravest horse on the field!" and "The Gauls are fearless, wild, and hairy beyond all reason!" caused me to crack up.

So... They've got 10 minutes. I guess it's time to recap? I gotta watch Bonnar/Griffin again once this is over.

Edit: My bad, that was a slip. G'night Kenny.

I didn't even post because I was just staring at the fight. I was playing Rome: Total War during the fluff and having my DVR record anything I might have missed. I almost missed the beginning bcause I thought there'd be a feeling out process to start. Instead, they started at the bell and just NEVER stopped. 15 minutes of brawling. Outside of a few kicks it looked like 2 guys fighting in a parking lot. Punches, knees, takedown, everything. Dana White should thank his lucky stars these two made it to the finals. Plus you had the added bonus of them being able to talk a good game too. "I can pawn this for a LOT!" "Damn I'm ugly!" "I've even been cutting down on the sex. I'm hungry now..." "I went home and got really really drunk a few times." "I don't have medical insurance and I get beat up for a living." Just a few of the classics.

Yeah once they start telling you to suicide it's time to get it on, Insanity. They'll have you suicide your leader every turn or two until, well, I guess until there's no family members left. The first time I beat it, I had to suicide about 4 members of my family until I could set up my armies right around Rome because it's a hard nut to crack. I ended up having to link 3 armies because SPQR had Rome full of soldiers and 1 or 2 more armies in the immediate area. The one thing I don't get is how they balance the armies. When I auto fight a battle against another strong faction (such as another Roman), it's usually pretty close and I have to have overwhelming numbers to win. When I fight it on the map, I can steamroll generals with some frequency (on normal difficulty, at least).

Dammit I missed it. Any chance there's a replay?

You start the application and it asks you where the game is (it goes to the default location automatically). It saves everything to the game folder and asks you to restart the system. You restart and voila, there you are,

I downloaded it and it seems to work fine so far, albeit I'm just starting a Briton campaign. Man it's tough getting started with the Brits. Three town (one across the Channel), rebels that pop up all the time from Ireland, and you've got the Gauls and Germans right up on you, neither of who are particularly fond of you. I'll just consider it a challenge. I'm assuming since I'm not under the Senate's control I don't have to kill my leaders at the end before I get fed up and flatten everyone.

Well I must say I'm disappointed. I downloaded all 5 episodes of Zero and watched them. IMO, it kinda comes unglued in the last couple episodes. Everything goes to crap, characters jump locations from scene to scene, then they have to have flashbacks to show HOW the characters got to the new location. Then of course, we get the "Man is irresponsible and destroying the environment" morality lesson that seems to happen ALL THE FRICKIN' TIME in anime. Plus, Heaven forbid they should have a purely happy ending. Yes I know the Japanese see this differently from us and have a different mindset, but come on! Would it kill them to pander to the U.S. crowd once in a while? (yes that's sarcasm but also frustration)

There was actually an episode where House was wrong until it was too late to do anything for the patient. They eventually figured it out in time for the bittersweet ending, but the patient did die.

*points to next thread over* Pssst.... Over there, man.

Forrest looks strange with hair in that promo.

Triangle Choke/Armbar combo. Ouch.

Huh. The big knee lift ended it.

Well, Forrest landed more, but Sam hit the bigger shots. Sam seems to be saving himself, picking off Forrest's shots, and looking to land the one BIG shot.

Well if Forrest does get to fight, it's going to be a big ol' bullseye for Sam to aim for. I could see a Florian/Leben ending in there. On the upside, Buh-bye Bobby, go back to whining. At least he's not verbally abusing Dana this time.

Kenny looked like he was going to wet himself when they announced the decision.