If you have not already done so, try the Rome Total Realism mod, and the Europa Barbaricum mod. Both add so much more flavor and realism to the vanilla game. I like to play as Ptolemy's Egypt, Rome or Carthage. As a Ptolemy give me 8 phalanx units, 4 units of Ptolemaic Legionaires, 2 units of Nubian spearmen, 3 Egyptian archer units, and my general (e.g. companion cavalry) and I can beat the A.I.'s tail up and down the map. This grouping also works well in multi-player. Right now I cannot wait for Medieval Total War II. I so understand your distraction.Dionysius said:could you provide a map? will get it done by and by,
am now addicted to Rome: total war so i am a little distracted![]()
Oh that's a bummer. What about Europa Barbaricum? Do you have the same issue with that one? There is a forum (many in fact) that deal almost exclusively with RTW; I will look one up and will PM you with the details. These two mods are too good be thwarted by a gold/combo install. I never had the problem because I bought the original game 5 minutes after it became available, lol. And I then bought the barbarians expansion when it came out. Barbarians was a disappointment to many of the fans of RTW in that it was too "cartoony" and unrealistic. I uninstalled the expansion on my desktop; restored the original game with patches and reinstalled Total Realism. And I was in heaven.Dionysius said:thanks, but on the Rome total realism site it says you need to uninstall
RTW and reinstall it it as v1, but i bought Rome Total war gold with both barbarian invasion and all the patches. not sure if it will work![]()