Rome Total War

[Guest Trivia247]

anyone with Beginner's luck story on your Rome experiences?

[The Ill One 0]

I just beat the Imperial Campaign and I got to admit, I'm disappointed I can't pick it up again to finish off the rest of the world. I wasn't paying attention when I beseiged a small Germanic town and took it that it made fifty provinces. Onto the house of Brutii or Scipii.

[Guest Trivia247]

When I started out with the greek states I had taken a general and army to sicily and took the southern town, along the way the general fricken died. So the lowly Captain had the lead the bulk of the army towards Syracuse ran into a Scippi Army and actually beat it, laid siege to the town and captured it, then a Scippi army along with a navel fleet came to destroy my group, so manage to get a dilopmat and on the last day of the siege the Dip manage to bribe the Scippi. and the army and the ships vanished. whew!

[The Ill One 0]

Has anybody used that "use any faction" download? I'm considering it but if it's filled with bugs then I won't bother.

 

Oh I defended my town with 40ish spearmen with a General and kicked a 200ish Pontus army's ass. I was shocked.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

Has anybody used that "use any faction" download? I'm considering it but if it's filled with bugs then I won't bother.

 

Oh I defended my town with 40ish spearmen with a General and kicked a 200ish Pontus army's ass. I was shocked.

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.

[Guest Trivia247]

So what do you after you download it? do you go through the game to add it or do you have to change stuff in the guts of the folders?

 

I get timid doing stuff like that thinking im gonna crash something

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

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,

[The Ill One 0]

I downloaded it and it works very well. Just avoid the whole Senate campaign thing. Anyway I just can't get into the swing of things with the exception of the Roman families.

[Guest Trivia247]

I downloaded it and it works very well. Just avoid the whole Senate campaign thing. Anyway I just can't get into the swing of things with the exception of the Roman families.

Thats for the SPQR your talking about, I heard somewhere someone edited it so it can work.

[Downhome 0]

*EDIT*

 

Damnit, I thought this was the GOW thread.

[The Ill One 0]

Don't worry man, I just posted in the God of War thread thinking it was this one.

 

So if you choose to make your leader commit suicide does the peace be kept? 'Cause next time I should advance a bit 'fore taking them all on.

[El Psycho Diablo 0]

Not really. They can keep making you suicide your leaders..or will turn on you the next turn anyway. The AI's kind of odd when it comes to diplomacy..

[The Ill One 0]

'Kay glad I did the right thing. I still can't get into the swing of things with the other factions though. Which is odd 'cause I'm starting to get decent at the game.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

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).

[The Ill One 0]

Yeah I'm replaying the campaign with the Julii house because I wanted to do every battle, run every town. Before hand I'd never really had problem with autosolved battles 'cept here or there.

[Guest Trivia247]

there is a natural evolution with the Romans that as soon as the Senate start threatening you to attack settlements instead of asking you using incentivies, you know that sooner or later you have to turn your military war machine towards rome.

[Guest Trivia247]

i think its time for somemore screenshots!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

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.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

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.

[Guest Trivia247]

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.

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?

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

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.

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.

[Guest Trivia247]

I had found Requirements stating ATI Radeon 7200 also will work is that true?

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

I had found Requirements stating ATI Radeon 7200 also will work is that true?

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.

[El Psycho Diablo 0]

Actually, on the official site, it lists:

 

# 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers*.

# ATI® Radeon 7200

# ATI® Radeon 8500

# ATI® Radeon 9000

# ATI® Radeon 9500

# ATI® Radeon 9600

# ATI® Radeon 9700

# ATI® Radeon 9800

# All Nvidia® GeForce 2 and higher

[Guest Trivia247]

Actually, on the official site, it lists:

 

# 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers*.

# ATI® Radeon 7200

# ATI® Radeon 8500

# ATI® Radeon 9000

# ATI® Radeon 9500

# ATI® Radeon 9600

# ATI® Radeon 9700

# ATI® Radeon 9800

# All Nvidia® GeForce 2 and higher

thank you! that just took some stress off me for gettting a brand spanking new puter and worrying about this thing being too slow on it.

[El Psycho Diablo 0]

No problem.

 

I'm thinking about starting a new campaign...probably Egypt. *loves chariots* They're the next best thing to Elephants when it comes to plowing through infantry..

[Guest Trivia247]

No problem.

 

I'm thinking about starting a new campaign...probably Egypt. *loves chariots* They're the next best thing to Elephants when it comes to plowing through infantry..

I got an egyptian campaige going at my dad's house. you get the Nile Spearmen upgrades in like three or four turns, plus the desert ax and cav also quickly.

 

Im hoping with the 7200 that the game will run normally i just need what I can play from out the box, not go into the mod stuff just yet

 

heres whats coming to me currently as a video card

 

128MB PCI Express x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE

[The Ill One 0]

I'll need to upload some images because I recently have a nice screenshot of some Samnites taking down these Chosen Swordsmen and I caught it as an Onager suddenly nailed their men with a fireball. Also Rome's pretty much being burnt to a crisp.

 

Since this thread I've been a full-fledged addict.

 

Edit: Love the capture with the man flying into the air. Also I'll use The Smart Mark's opinion of who to use for the next campaign. Also edited for coherency.

[Guest Trivia247]

thats the one thing I want to create as a Roman shock troop, a peasant army with a number of Gladiator units embedded within them.

 

Gladiators kick ass all over the place just drop them in a spot and they can eliminate whole units. they are ideal for taking the walls.

[Guest Trivia247]

I wonder if the classic roman formation would work in the battles?

 

Velites

 

Hastati

 

Principi

 

Triari

 

 

General and Cav in the back