RTW Help

[t047]

Hey guys, new to RTS games, just got RTW recently, brilliant tho.
I need some help with the prologue, did any of you guys finish it and if so how?
I cant defend against the gauls and attack the settlement in the mission and earn money!
On a game using cheats I had to kill myself. Can I stop this somehow?
Also wanted to ask if you could increase number of soldiers in a unit. eg after a battle 15 of my archers died, could i somehow get more?
Thanks

 

[salty mud]

You could just try the Imperial Campaign. You'll find that is unlocked now.

But to answer your questions, AFAIK the Gauls mainly use warbands and basic light cavalry. Try using archers and heavy infantry to combat them. Be sure to build big walls in your towns/cities - these give you a better advantage if the Gauls attack you. To earn money, build traders and markets in your settlements and roads between them. I can't remember how many factions therer are in the prologue but try and get trade rights - this gives you extra trade income. And finally, to get more units, e.g. archers, take the unit to a city what has the facilities to train them (archery range) and click 'retrain.' I don't really know what your cheat question is about, though...

Welcome to CFC.

 

[t047]

thanks for the advice, my last Q was about when the senate orders me to kill myself, is there a way to stop this because when i rejected their order, my leader died...

 

[kibbles]

LOL does the senate actually ask that? Would have never guessed. I never actually did the prologue. But if you have some basic questions look in your manual and don't forget to turn advice level to "High". BTW good choice moving to RTS and TBS best video game genres!

 

[WumpusCivName]

LOL does the senate actually ask that? Would have never guessed. I never actually did the prologue. But if you have some basic questions look in your manual and don't forget to turn advice level to "High". BTW good choice moving to RTS and TBS best video game genres!

Yes, Strategos--the Senate asks that. In many different games/campaigns, if you play one of the 3 Roman factions and you get to be quite powerful/ successful/popular in Rome, the Senate will ask you to kill yourself. The right response in the game is, gather your forces and attack Rome herself. If you were asked to kill yourself, maybe you have now reached the stage in the game when you are ready to become the next Imperator!! Good luck. Hawooh.

P.S. Normally I don't play any Roman faction--I usually play Greek Cities, then beat the pants out of one and all Roman factions later in the game (as well as the Seleucids and Gauls).

 

[Kentharu]

I would say focus heavily on economy first. Build roads and traders and ports, not in the order of course, but generally roads and traders tend to have impact as i have seen, on economies. Look at the the roads and see how many of those little cravans go from place to place. If they go to towards other cities, then your best bet is traders or roads, if they go towards ports, then obviously ports.
If you pick the Julia then i advise you play very defensively, building walls as much as you can, let the Gauls attack you and use that to your advantage.

 

[flyingchicken]

If it's Vanilla RTW I would second Kentharu's suggestion of building the economy, but only to a point where you can build literal hordes of the "basic" units (non-peasant/militia guys like hoplites and hastati) every turn in maybe one-third to one-half of your cities. Once that is done you'll never, ever have go into tactical battle mode.

Seriously, once you have 2-5 full stacks of hastati/hoplites/warbands (under increasingly skilled-at-auto-resolving generals) you can just auto-resolve everything to hell as you replenish/reinforce continuously. You might be defeated every now and then by enemy stacks, but as a general rule you'll still win in the long run because you are just so awesome.

 

[Kentharu]

in vanilla RTW (only thing i have currently) the comp is a joke. It only gets remotely challenging when its on very hard and even then they aren't that great.