Rome Total War question

[diablodelmar]

Errr, no. In both cases they were freshly recruited units of Hastatii. Maybe it has to do with the level of difficulty? They definitly were not understregnthed at all!

How many men do you have in one of your units?

 

[Midwinter]

If it's not an under-strength unit, then it's got to be a change in the 'unit size' setting, which is in some options screen somewhere (can't be more specific, but it's there). All Romans should get the same units (save gladiators) of the same sizes.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Edit: Also, how do I bribe????????????????????? Please...

You can also bribe cities. When you bribe units I think theres a "disband" is for non-aligned armys (wandering barbarians) and recuit for normaly armies

 

[Krupo]

A few comments:

bribery: you need enough cash for the bribe to happen. If they say no, it's probably because you don't have enough cash. And you tell your diplomat to walk up to the unit rather than the drag-and-drop interface of the older TW titles.

Go to "graphic options", play with "unit size." It has a very real effect on gameplay, because if you have huge units the game will 1. have a bigger load on your computer (it better be a fast machine!), and 2. your cities will lose population faster, naturally, if you need to use more men to create a large unit. You have been warned.

withdrawal: gah, never ever ever let the computer auto-withdraw to end a battle. Order your general to retreat if you have to, but don't let the computer do it.

If you find yourself consistently losing battles, consider avoiding them in the first place if possible - withdraw before the battle starts, that way you avoid any casualties, unless your enemy catches you with a second attack attempt, of course.

To avoid ambushes, send a spy ahead of your armies, to catch any sneaky little units hiding in the trees (bastards!). And if it's an especially dangerous area, consider building a fort for your units to stay in between turns.

 

[diablodelmar]

thanks a lot Krupo! I didn't know about unit sizes! How many men do you have in a unit? I currently have 40, but I would like about 50, so I guess i'll change it next time i go on.

 

[diablodelmar]

also, I had another few questions (yup, you guessed it!):

How do I get a general's (and a unit's) experience up?

Regarding multiplayer: Should I get many units or just a few but with high experience levels?

 

[Krupo]

Depends on the unit - each one has different standard sizes. Short answer, 80 and 120, regulars and peasants. On a 2.5ghz-type system battles run nicely. I think that's regular or large size, but I forget if that's correct.

Regarding generals, 2 things to keep in mind, there are "command stars" and "valour experience" (the bronze/silver/gold chevrons").
Command stars are based on winning battles - just win lots of battles with the same general, especially when fighting outnumbered and crushing the enemy to get faster upgrades.

Second, there's the "valour experience" - pretty easy, but a little dangerous: send them into the fights to gain more experience - same way all units gain experience, really.

The danger, of course, is that he gets killed. But if you just let him hang around until it's time to mop up the retreating enemy the chance that he'll get a promotion is understandably lower.

Ideally, try and keep one or two extra cavalry units around to offer support in case the general gets stuck in a particularly nasty fight.

As for multiplayer, I haven't played much - but if I had to guess, I'd say 1. experiment and then 2. play with what works for you.

 

[Dell19]

Cavalry are my flanking troops. I never use them in a frontal charge, they are there to break enemy units from the rear so that they rout and then to charge down the survivors. I've rarely lost generals except when my cavalry has been hit by the Seleucid general cavalry and I've been outnumbered.

Also whilst it is a management headache, don't let your cavalry get bogged down. You should charge, then retreat and then charge again.

My favourite tactic is once the phalanx are engaged, is to charge into the back of one unit, then charge into the next and then charge back into the first one until one of them routs and then my infantry can surround the rest of the enemy.

If half the enemy is routing then I will either use light cavalry to chase the enemy down, or use an archer unit which can generally catch up. I use my heavy cavalry when the majority of the army are routing.

 

[diablodelmar]

i'm having trouble tearing myself away from aoe3 to play rtw! It seems to be really hard to play the campaign!

 

[Dell19]

Get RTR mod since it unlocks all the empires anyway. Having to unlock new nations or cheat was probably the biggest factor that turned me off Rome Total War. Its a really bad concept for a strategy game as the criteria was silly since you only had to take the last city and if you want to start a new game you are limited to empires you recently defeated. I like to switch dramatically for a new challenge so after getting bored of Bactria I will probably switch to Iberia.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Easiest non-cheating, non-modding way of getting all the empires was to play the short campaign. Once you win you get access to all factions.

 

[diablodelmar]

well i might do the short campaign but im put off RTR mod for now because I like to have a goal to work towards when im playing a long winded campaign (such as unlock a civ).

AoE III is soooooo cool. For now I think I'll stick with getting my home city level up in that. I recommend that you all buy this brill RTS game.

But I will eventually complete Rome total war. Its one of my immeadiate goals in life.

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

Question: I have rome total war gold edition. (but im just playing the regular game) How do I unlock other nations then the romans, the gauls and the carthaginians and the greeks? Im playing a game and I already have 30 territories....

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Was answered a few posts above, but I'll repeat what i know:

Without modding the game, you unlock factions by conquering them during a game, or actually completing a campaign and achieve victory.

I recommend doing the short campaign if you want all factions unlocked - you just need to conquer 15 territories and defeat (i think) two other specified factions. I used the Julii, all you really need to do is conquer Gaul, and there's no need to worry about the naval game.

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

K, im in a game as greece, 2 macedonian cities left. I played the long campain game before as greece, I killed them off fast, and Thrace got killed by Dacia almost before i could nick a city.

 

[Dell19]

Started a new game as Rome.

First task was to try Phyrrus out of southern Italy - He was killed in the first battle after getting surrounded.

After taking a couple of other cities the Illyrian campaign began since I wanted those cities to be the first Romanised cities.

Signed peace with the Greek cities who were being beaten by Macedonia

I ally with Carthage after they offer

Macedonia declare war - They retreat a lot so the first engagements are wasteful.

Defeat the Illyrians

Accept alliance offer from Germania

Conquer the last Italian city (except for the one next to Sicily)

Blitz Macedonia and take Athens and the cities above except for one Greek City.

Thrace declare war, lose a battle and then offer peace. I accept.

Realise I've been at war with Gaul and thus take the first Gaulish city north of Italy.

 

[diablodelmar]

Was answered a few posts above, but I'll repeat what i know:

Without modding the game, you unlock factions by conquering them during a game, or actually completing a campaign and achieve victory.

I recommend doing the short campaign if you want all factions unlocked - you just need to conquer 15 territories and defeat (i think) two other specified factions. I used the Julii, all you really need to do is conquer Gaul, and there's no need to worry about the naval game.

i actually think it is 50 territories

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

i actually think it is 50 territories

thats for the long game

BTW, 2 thracian cregions left till all nations are playable (cept those you can never play as)

 

[Krupo]

AoE III is soooooo cool. For now I think I'll stick with getting my home city level up in that. I recommend that you all buy this brill RTS game.

Yeah, I got the collector's edition b/c somebody got Futureshop to match/beat another store's price when it came out, so the brand-new regular edition price was roughly equal to the unusually low collector's edition price - had a good time with it, but the campaign was way easier than RTW.

Still, it's fun to build up a Home City, I agree... on the whole I like the richness of RTW more, but AoE3 is also fun in its own way - in a "we have firearms" kind of way I guess.

 

[diablodelmar]

Krupo you should play on ES online: it is a really fun and rewarding game. my ESO name is "diablodelmar". play me sometime! btw I am in time zone gmt+0

what civ do you like to play as? I am the Spanish and Germans, and I am starting as the portuguese soon.