Kevin's Watch

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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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?

yeah, experience increases every attribute, including morale.

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

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

You earn it in the campaign

ah gotcha

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!

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

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.

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.

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?

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

media player 10 and patch 1.2, i think heh.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

this is where you can learn about all the mods.

p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwarfrm31