Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gai Daigoji on March 30, 2005, 08:39:41 am

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: Gai Daigoji on March 30, 2005, 08:39:41 am

I've been playing a campaign for the best part of a month now and realy enjoying it. However it says you can have upto 10,000 units in a battle at once but all I can manage to put into an army is around 250 units.

This means all across my campaign map I have armies everywhere, does anyone no how I can group all these units into one massive army?

Thanks for any help.

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: Ashrak on March 30, 2005, 08:39:50 am

dont think the engine would handle 10000 blokes on the same camera angle ... so its like 2 = 4 i think

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: Ghostavo on March 30, 2005, 08:42:10 am

I think there's an option that modifies the number of units in a batallion

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: aldo_14 on March 30, 2005, 08:53:46 am

Firstly, the number of units is IIRC capped by your specs.  Offhand, my biggest army is 2000 strong.

Secondly, you can merge armies by selecting one, and right-clicking on the other; although you need to wait for the army to reach the target one.  You can merge units within an army - assuming they're not over their unit cap - by dragging them over each other.  (i.e. combine a 30 and 40 strong unit of Pricipe to get a single 70 strong unit).

All that stuff is explained in more detail in the manual :)

Finally, the 10,000 strong army may include supporting armies.

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: Luigi30 on March 30, 2005, 09:18:30 am

I bribed a Gaul army and created the strongest one in the game. A few city takeovers later, I took over Gaul and most of Brittania. :)

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: Swamp_Thing on March 30, 2005, 09:47:44 am

There´s also something that i call a bug, where for example if you have 2 armies attacking a city or another army, that places the bigger army handled by the AI, and you are stuck controlling the smaller army. Pissed me off several times. So make sure the army you want to control is the only one around in case they attack you. The AI will always attack your smaller army, even though you might have 1000 men just next to it.
When it´s you attacking, select the army you want to control in the battle, don´t just select any you have next to a city. You might end up controling that single unit that you couldn´t fit in the bigger army, while the AI throws your precious army against the walls as cannon fodder.
:D

Title: Question about Rome Total War
Post by: karajorma on March 30, 2005, 11:27:27 am

Get the second patch from their website. It will allow you to control both armies. You'll have control of whichever army was attacked and the second army will appear as reinforcements (Or you can leave them as AI controlled and have both armies present at the same time!).

As for the big battles, Their is a setting available from the main options menu that allows you to choose the unit size. Whack it all the way to the top and you end up with something like 250 peasants in a single unit. You must set this option before you start a campaign game though because otherwise when your city is attacked you'd just whack it up to maximum and build a relief force in a couple of turns that was bigger than the entire enemy army attacking you.  :)