Which do you own?

[Truronian]

Thinking about it, I haven't really bothered with the Barbarian Invasion expansion either. Something just didn't seem quite right.

I found it that there were not enough territories, and that the setting was quite depressing. I've mainly played the original as it feels more epic (Establishing a great empire > destroying a corrupt one)

 

[Sashie VII]

I found it that there were not enough territories, and that the setting was quite depressing. I've mainly played the original as it feels more epic (Establishing a great empire > destroying a corrupt one)

I agree. Plus the original has lots more 'civilized' factions

Though I keep thinking about civ every time i see the cities and territories...hmm..

 

[diablodelmar]

D'ont bother. I got RTW complete, and to date I still havent bothered with barbarian invasio.n

Same here. The Barbarian Expansion is much harder and I recommend only to play it if you really are an expert and have beaten every aspect of Vanilla Rome.

 

[#1 Person]

My family has both Medieval Total War and Rome Total War. No expansion packs (if there are any...), nor Shogun.

I play neither.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

RTW and MTW.

 

[Sashie VII]

Same here. The Barbarian Expansion is much harder and I recommend only to play it if you really are an expert and have beaten every aspect of Vanilla Rome.

A little harder, yes. Only for experts, no (IMHO, of course).

 

[toxicseagull]

every title, played them since they came out

currently have 7 versions of TW on my pc, MTW, MTW-VI, RTW (v1.2), BI, RTW-EB, RTR, fully patched RTW.

 

[The Thracian]

I have all the Total war games. All are a joy to play apart from Barbarian Invasion. A canditate for worst expansion ever

 

[Swiss Bezerker]

I agree

 

[Sashie VII]

And the other candidate(s) are..?

 

[diablodelmar]

I have all the Total war games. All are a joy to play apart from Barbarian Invasion. A canditate for worst expansion ever

ooooh thats a bit harsh!

 

[Sashie VII]

BI is not much fun, I can honestly say that.. the Romans are too big and the rest are...barbarians. Some barbs can't even build ports and ships

 

[diablodelmar]

BI is not much fun, I can honestly say that.. the Romans are too big and the rest are...barbarians. Some barbs can't even build ports and ships

I own it so I know what I'm talking about when I say that it isn't that bad! Its a little less balanced than original Rome and I like Rome better but it's still pretty good.

 

[Sashie VII]

I have it too diablodelmar.. and what I said in my previous post is from personal experience..

I guess some barb factions are not bad though, the challenge is there especially when you're going after the Romans right away.

 

[diablodelmar]

Yes I never meant to accuse you of not having it, what I'm saying is that its still a worthy game!

 

[Sashie VII]

Worthy, yes Fun, not to me

 

[shortguy]

I disagree about the prevailing opinion wrt Barbarian Invasion. I think it's a nice expansion pack. It brings in religion, the new troops are nice, the low province count and specialized victory conditions are superior, and the horde dynamic works well. I actually have more of a problem with regular Rome. To this date I haven't finished a vanilla RTW campaign. After a certain point it just becomes really boring. The farthest I've gotten is about 15 provinces; it took so long that I lost interest. I didn't really have that problem with MTW.

 

[Sashie VII]

Ever tried the Short Campaign?

 

[shortguy]

Ever tried the Short Campaign?

I have actually finished a short campaign. It was fine, though I missed out on the whole "civil war" deal.

 

[Sashie VII]

You don't need the civil war thing to end a short campaign. Fulfill your objective, and you win