[Stunaep]

It's out! Yes! And it's good! Yes!

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/rome-total-war/550385p1.html

[Grug]

Indeed, been playing it for ages.

ROFL at the Incenedary Pigs and War Dogs! (Especially when the general gives a speech to an army of animals )

[karajorma]

Why do you think I've been posting less often the last few days?

Seriously though the game is brilliant There a few little glitches that need some work in the v1.01 patch but nothing too dreadful or which can't be worked around.

I've already completed a short campaign as the Julii so I'm probably going to try a long campaign next so I can see the roman civil war. Might try some of the historical battles first though

[IPAndrews]

I'm looking forward to playing this game so much. One day.

[DamoclesX]

I love this game, the battles are just so coooool, its the first game I actually find myself using some sort of tactics.

I -LOVE- the calv..... so many times I have beaten an enemy that had a rating of 4-1 on me by waiting till he did his infantry rush then cutting him down with calv charges, right down the throat:)

I"m playing the red romans doods... got all of france and spain, britian, and parts of africa, right now i'm just trying to keep everything stable.

[SadisticSid]

Best moment so far - when my onagers blew open a city gate, then one rock bounced through and killed a 10-star Briton general as the first casualty of the battle

"Rocks don't respect rank"

[karajorma]

Originally posted by DamoclesX
I -LOVE- the calv..... so many times I have beaten an enemy that had a rating of 4-1 on me by waiting till he did his infantry rush then cutting him down with calv charges, right down the throat:)

I have to say that while that is fun nothing beats an elephant charge!

I keep replaying that historical battle with the Egyptians just so I can press delete and ride in with my kataphract elephants

Last time I played I sent them after the Egyptian chariots. You should have seen how quickly they ran away When they finally did catch up they proceeded to stomp the chariots into the ground. Wiped out an entire enemy unit with no loses whatsoever

[kode]

I haven't played it much yet, but it has potential, and a lot of it.

[karajorma]

My favourite moment so far was when my 2000 soldier strong army managed to surprise a gaul general who was out on his own. The second the mission starts I send my own general and three units of equite after him knowing that he'll try to run away from my vastly superior force. Only he doesn't. Instead he charges straight at me.

Battle lasted about 20 seconds from start to finish. The gauls weren't victorious

[kode]

ah, I just happened to have a battle slightly like that. it started with the attacking enemy general charging me with his 11 men big bodyguard.

only, the rest of the army was superior in numbers and strength and there was another general of theirs out there too. I got slaughtered

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Awesome game, no doubts about that.

I'm currently fighting as Scipii against Numidians, Egyptians and the remains of Carthage Empire. The only problem is that my settlements keep rioting and the public order is pretty low 90% of the time. I've built just about every single PO raising building  (even a few Colosseums), but apparently the ungrateful idiots still hate me

I managed to find out that reducing population reduces squalor. So I built a huge army of peasants and sent them against a Numidian army of about 400 spearmen. I ordered all 2000 or so peasants to charge blindly at the enemy. And to my surprise, I won after a huge massacre

[Ypoknons]

Addictive. Closer to real (classical) warefare tatics. Yummy. Not completely true to the time period but I don't mind the artistic license too much. Numindian Infantry, btw, is quite crap and mostly just meat shields for its cav - your peasant army was big, at least

I really like the new unit file structure - the listing of units reminds me of the versitility of the FS2's .tbl format, but only with a lot more files and interlinking than FS2 - so messy, but oh well.

[kode]

cannonfodder: I had syracuse riot on me. I remedied it by slaughtering them when my army returned. they haven't rebelled since then...

I'm currently on a kill carthago campaign. the fricken numidians keep stealing my diplomats, though.

[aldo_14]

Just bought it.  Not played yet, but the demo was fun.

[Blue Lion]

The Gauls charged at me while I was on a bridge. They didn't use the bridge and ran straight into the water. They all drowned and I won.

[Ace]

Originally posted by kode
cannonfodder: I had syracuse riot on me. I remedied it by slaughtering them when my army returned. they haven't rebelled since then...

I'm currently on a kill carthago campaign. the fricken numidians keep stealing my diplomats, though.

My first game was the long campaign as house Scipii.

I managed to make an alliance with the Numidians early on and after I took over Sicily I managed to kick the butts of the Carthaginians. It then led to my taking over most of the Iberian peninsula.

I started a campaign against Egypt, the most powerful nation in the game (I was second place) and then the Numidians betrayed me.

Needless to say, they were all put to the sword.

It was tricky fighting a war on two fronts though. Especially with the constant Egyptian attacks.

[Blue Lion]

I have yet to face Epypt. As Julii you almost have to go through Rome to get to them.

[an0n]

Originally posted by Blue Lion
The Gauls charged at me while I was on a bridge. They didn't use the bridge and ran straight into the water. They all drowned and I won.

They're French. What did you expect?

[GoulMeister]

what kind of specs do u need to play this game, my comp sucks
p4 1.6, 320 mb sdram, ati radeon 9000 pro 128.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
My favourite moment so far was when my 2000 soldier strong army managed to surprise a gaul general who was out on his own. The second the mission starts I send my own general and three units of equite after him knowing that he'll try to run away from my vastly superior force. Only he doesn't. Instead he charges straight at me.

Battle lasted about 20 seconds from start to finish. The gauls weren't victorious

Oh my God!  You killed Asterix!

I had something like that first run through,  'cept had my 800 or so army against 500 Gauls.  Sent a couple of light cavalry to draw them into my legions and flanked them with another couple of units on the right side, up a mountain pass.  Then, just as they're 'wavering', unleashed 90-odd wardogs on their arse.

Hehe.

Originally posted by GoulMeister
what kind of specs do u need to play this game, my comp sucks
p4 1.6, 320 mb sdram, ati radeon 9000 pro 128.

ypou might be able to manage (albeit on lower settings) with that.  I'm running at 102*768 with most settings on high, with a Athlon 2400+, 512MB RAM & GF5600, although I've only had battles with <2000 units total so far.  Try the demo.