Rome Total War

[Dell19]

I play it rarely but its more an issue that I don't have the time to really sit playing a game for several hours so I've never really got stuck into playing it regularily.

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

I played thr 3 roman factions and now I'm thinking of Carthage...
the turn based part is not impressive, but the combination with RTS is really fun...
I was waching the time commander series in the UK which was based on the same engine.Has any body tried the historical battles? Teutonenburg forest on hard level is an absolute carnage...

 

[Dell19]

If you look though the thread several people have at least attempted the historical battles.

 

[SunTzu]

Do you prefer to Occupy, Enslave or Exterminate a settlement once u capture it?
I was going the nice way and just occupying it, but after alot of rebellions in Gaul and Germany i've started exterminating everyone i occupy
But its allowed me to capture Gaul, pretty much all of Germany and the northern balkans, and i've started capturing rebel territories in eastern mediterranean.
And i'm playing as the Julii, this game rules

 

[Dell19]

I tend to just occupy settlements in the early game and then enslave populations later on when the risk of rebellion increases...

 

[Drakan]

At the start of the game I enslave them so as to increase population in my home cities quickly, plus I get some income.

Later on in the mid-game I always exterminate them to get all that juicy cash. Plus when taking over cities of 30,000 people you cannot enslave them, because your home cities tend to get filled with squalor which leads to unrest and unhapiness due to all the the filth. This allows me to move easily from city to city conquering them.

I only occupied in my first game and a gaul city, to put an example, flipped back five times to the Gauls. The sixth time I exterminated the population and I've never had problems since. When taking over large cities it's best to exterminate them. I conquered Athens, exterminating, and it still gave 4,000 gold per turn (I had the Great Wonder The Colossus; up 40% sea commerce).

I doubt this game will have a long replayability no matter how good it is in the beginning. I hope the add-on works wonders.

I've played Carthage on the hard/hard and found it extremely easy. By 235 b.C. The Senate, the Julii and the Scipii are all gonners. There´s only one Brutii city left next to Athens. Way to easy, all Africa, except Egypt, and modern Italy are mine. Now that I can finally build the large war elephant (the one with 36 or 37 units not the starting smaller one with 12 units) Rome is no more, big deal.

Strangely enough I have three carthagian generals with 9 or more stars and lots of inffluence (9 or more). When I played as the Julii I only had one guy with 9 stars (the faction leader normally or the heir), the rest had 7 or less, hmmm ?

Civ is way much harder at Deity or Emperor.

 

[Amenhotep7]

In the early game, Extermination. Later, Enslavement. I almost never pick "Occupy". Call it cruel, but it's difficult to show mercy on the harder difficulty levels.

 

[WickedSmurf]

I don't have any trouble at all with unrest and/or rebellions, playing on normal/normal. I've occupied all settlements in modern France, Germany and Spain, no problems.

I ehm got just the game the other day so I haven't tried a higher difficulty yet, is the difference in unrest/rebellions *that* big on let's say hard/hard?

 

[Dell19]

I think so although on normal I did occasionally find problems when taking far away cities in SW Spain and Britain.

 

[WickedSmurf]

A great remedy is to demolish the existing buildings when you capture a city and build your own. I also relocate my capital to the city most central in my empire.

 

[Drakan]

How do you demolish buildings WickedSmurf? Are you using an onagre to achieve this ? Is there an option to destroy buildings hitting a button or something ?

 

[Drakan]

I don't have any trouble at all with unrest and/or rebellions, playing on normal/normal. I've occupied all settlements in modern France, Germany and Spain, no problems.

I ehm got just the game the other day so I haven't tried a higher difficulty yet, is the difference in unrest/rebellions *that* big on let's say hard/hard?

Yes I find it's impossible to occupy a large city (say 18,000 pepole and over). You just have to either exteminate them or enslave them (which in the mid-game is not feasible IMHO because of squalor). I'm taking over anywhere between two to three cities in the mid game each turn and If I enslaved them, my own core cities would revolt because of squalor, there's no other option when conquering so many and such large ciries so often other than to exterminate them, at least in my experience playing hard/hard with Julii and Carthage.

 

[LLXerxes]

How do you demolish buildings WickedSmurf? Are you using an onagre to achieve this ? Is there an option to destroy buildings hitting a button or something ?

yes, you can assault buildings with any siege weapon and battering rams

 

[WickedSmurf]

How do you demolish buildings WickedSmurf? Are you using an onagre to achieve this ? Is there an option to destroy buildings hitting a button or something ?

When you are in the city screen and can see the buildings at the bottom of your screen, right-click the building, a new window opens on the left of the screen, click the HAMMER button and KA-RASH.

 

[storealex]

The fact that you must exterminate all the time is greatly unrealistic. I've heard many complaints about this, and on http://www.twcenter.net/ you can download many different realism mods, that greatly decrease squalor and such.

I downloaded mods that:

- Gave each unit a Centurion and a standard bearer
- Made all factions playable
- Gave legionaires their missing shoulderarmour

 

[Drakan]

When you are in the city screen and can see the buildings at the bottom of your screen, right-click the building, a new window opens on the left of the screen, click the HAMMER button and KA-RASH.

Thanks !

Hmmm, yes Storealex I've seen the mods, thanks. I'll have to try them some time.

 

[storealex]

Remember to have a backup, in case you are disappointed with the mod.

 

[WickedSmurf]

Anyone else here just looooove the Arcani? Talk about efficient killers!

 

[storealex]

Yeah, especially in multiplayer. I had an army with lot's of firepower, so he had to come to me, once our armies was engaged, my Arcani charged from behind.
They're like Roman Ninjas

 

[WickedSmurf]

Yeah I usually make sure they are on the flank, and since they're damn invisible, the enemy just walks by, gets hit by my arrows and then by the arcani at either the side or the back! Pure slaughter!