Rome: Total War

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:05 am

Broken them with my Noble Scythian Horse Archers (and a couple other units). Admittedly, it takes two units of archers to decimate their ranks at long range, and then a heavy infantry unit to charge in and cut them up once they're weakened. (If you can charge a heavy cavalry unit into them from the rear once the infantry engages from the front or flank, it helps a lot too.

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Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:14 pm

My Spartans broke quickly in my battle last night, which was uncharacteristic of them. Then I realized, I hadn't bought them any experience! I guess that has an effect on how long before they break, aye?

Post by **Nathan** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:12 am

yeah, experience increases every attribute, including morale.

Post by **Warmark** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:28 pm

how do you buy them experience? i thought you earned it in battle.

Post by **Nathan** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 1:33 pm

in multiplayer and custom battles you pay for it when building your army.

You earn it in the campaign

Post by **Warmark** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:38 pm

ah gotcha

Post by **Warmark** » Tue May 03, 2005 3:59 pm

Woo Hoo! the roman Julii fraction has just conquered 50 states, i win!

i now own all of Spain, France, Germany, Britain, half of north africa, half of asia and all of the area east of greece!

Post by **Nathan** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:03 pm

I never completed a campaign. I always got bored when it became obvious I was inevitably going to conquer the world.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:06 pm

I finally started playing again. It was getting difficult holding on to all my territories (35, I think), and I lost one to rebels yesterday, but also gained a new one. I'm working on a new strategy. On one front I have a diplomat bribing every army he sees, on the other a small army running round capturing rebel cities in the far east. Going to surround the Brutii and wipe them out.

Post by **Warmark** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:58 pm

On one front I have a diplomat bribing every army he sees

i did this in north afric and then sent them to attack their origonal fraction.

Post by **Warmark** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:43 pm

ok, i need some help.
i can no longer load up a campaign, it simply crashes to desktop.
i can play cumston battle etc but not campaigns
any ideas?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:22 pm

Do you have the 1.2 patch?
What is your graphics card?
Do you have Windows Media Player 9 or 10?

Post by **Warmark** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:35 pm

media player 10 and patch 1.2, i think heh.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:07 pm

First of all, Rome doesn't work very well with WMP10 - something to do with the newer codecs. Made mine crash quite a lot. Try rolling it back to WMP9 if you can.

Post by **Warmark** » Sun May 15, 2005 11:08 am

dont know whats hapened but it is now working
thanks anyway murrin.

Post by **Warmark** » Mon May 30, 2005 12:39 pm

i just downloded a mod which adds more historical battles to the game, pretty cool.

Post by **Nathan** » Mon May 30, 2005 12:58 pm

I downloaded the Rome Total Realism mod and it made it amazingly difficult, I can barely survive, let alone conquer anybody playing as the Thracians.

Post by **Warmark** » Mon May 30, 2005 1:00 pm

thinking of getting it, is it hard to install?
i attemped to get chivarley TW but could not get it to work.

Post by **Nathan** » Mon May 30, 2005 1:14 pm

it was very easy to install, so simple I don't even remember what I had to do to install it. It was probably just a simple "run the setup file and you're done" job.

Post by **Warmark** » Mon May 30, 2005 1:33 pm

this is where you can learn about all the mods.

p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwarfrm31

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