[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14
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.

I love wardogs. The thing is that once you've let slip the "dogs of war" you can't get them to go back to their handlers as far as I can see.  So quite often my men have been in trouble and all of a sudden a bunch of now well fed wardogs have charged in from elsewhere on the battlefield and saved the day

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma


I love wardogs. The thing is that once you've let slip the "dogs of war" you can't get them to go back to their handlers as far as I can see.  So quite often my men have been in trouble and all of a sudden a bunch of now well fed wardogs have charged in from elsewhere on the battlefield and saved the day

Or even when storming a town.... I wanted to send cavalry through the  gates to attack, but the enemy had long-pikey-blokes ready there.  So I sent in the wardogs into them....and they legged it away at full pace to god-know-where.  Nearly pissed myself laughing at that one.

[kode]

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.

I'm running it fine on a 1800+ with 256mb ram and a gf3ti200.

[aldo_14]

what's the unit cap in Rome TW, bytheway?  I've had an army of something like 1200 max so far, but i'm very early into the game.

[kode]

Originally posted by aldo_14
what's the unit cap in Rome TW, bytheway?  I've had an army of something like 1200 max so far, but i'm very early into the game.

depends on your settings, I think. not entirely sure, though, but my friend said it was something like that in shogun, IIRC.

gotta get that game too

[aldo_14]

Very rarely do I feel sorry for my vanquished foes, but there are always exceptions.

Imagine the scene... a massive army (mine) baring down on you... the gates burst open in second.  So you grab your swords, and prepare to fight to the death to repel the assault at the chokepoint of the gates........

and out come 180 snarling rottweilers at you.

Needless to say, they ran like hell.  And once the dogs had finished with them, they ran into the enemt general in the square, and killed him.

I love this game.

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by an0n
They're French. What did you expect?

I expected them to run away, not at me thinking they could walk on water.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Imagine the scene... a massive army (mine) baring down on you... the gates burst open in second.  So you grab your swords, and prepare to fight to the death to repel the assault at the chokepoint of the gates........ and out come 180 snarling rottweilers at you.

I don't feel that sorry for them to be honest. I usually arrange things so that they start the war off. Then I look like the injured party when my diplomats are trying to make alliances rather than looking like an untrustworthy backstabbing bastard.

I'm playing the full campaign finally and I left one of my cities virtually unguarded for a little while to see if I could tempt the gauls into attacking me. Sure enough they were stupid enough to besige the city although they ran away when they suddenly saw a a huge army march straight towards the city to kick the crap out of the backstabbing bastards

[kode]

ah well... I've given the greeks what they deserved now. along with carthage. and the spanish too, as "innocent" bystanders.

now I'm gonna take care of the backstabbing numidians. ah, they'll pay for sieging my city. and then my former allies, the egyptians, will feel the wrath because they attacked my other allies.

halfway to the throne.

[aldo_14]

I've discover war-dogs are shockingly useful for killing effy-lumps, in my horribly one-sided capture of Carthage.  Slow at it, though.

[Fear]

am i missing something? can i build and recruit without an goverment inside the vilage\city?

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Fear
am i missing something? can i build and recruit without an goverment inside the vilage\city?

It depends on your auto-management settings, I think.  You can, however, get your general to hire local mercenaries when he is outside a city (right click on his head icon, IIRC).

Normally my army has a general of some sort anyways, so it's heasy to move him in, build a few units, then move out as they're queued.  Albeit it is annoying that i only have one city that can recruit archers and a coupe who can build legionnaire cavalry.  That and my 8-star general faction head died of old age.

[Grug]

Muhahah I love this game.

Carthage is mine, Sparta is mine, after I finish of the pitiful gauls I'm going to take the damn Spanish out. They are as annoying as they were in Medievil Total War.
They had these massive fleets hindering any blockade missions I had from the Senate. How the tables have turned!
Turns out an entire fleet of Quintrimines scares the poor itty bitty spanish. Mwuhahahha!

As for the Game Engine, it runs better than Medievil Total War did! Plus it looks a thousand times better.

Favourite battle so far: My army of <250 Julli Romans holding fort against an army of over 1000+ Gauls! A few histati to hold the line and a couple of equilites to guard the flanks. I swear to God, I thought I was going to lose, my goal was to kill as many of them before I died, yet I won! I Won! Ahahhaha!

Now that the Marius Reform has occured, my new armies are undefeatable once more!

In summary:
-Wardogs rock
-Incenadary Pigs are funny
-The trait Bloody incures some rather hilarious speeches
-Spain is a mongrel
-Spartans are the best unit in the game!
(try a custom battle with a handfull of spartans as one army)
(have to use missile units to kill em off with efficiency)

Oh and...

"FOR ROME!"

-I love Rome Total War ~Grug

[karajorma]

I think my best battle to date was taking on a 3000 odd strong pair of gaul armies with a 2000 strong roman army. I kept thinking I was f**ked but the idiots didn't rush me which gave me plenty of time to turn them into flaming pin cushions

3000 came to fight. 38 left

I've got the gauls completely on the ropes now and once they're gone it's probably the germans next since they are allies of the gauls and I don't like the way they've been marching around.

BTW anyone know how back stabing the Brits and Dacians are? I'm allied with both and I'm wondering how smart an idea it is to leave them alone.

[01010]

I picked this up in the shop on sunday but decided against. I am feeling like I made a very, very bad decision. What to do, Fable is out on friday and I *really* want that bad, I now also want this bad.

Both is possible but not desirable. God damn you whoever decides the release schedules.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by 01010
I picked this up in the shop on sunday but decided against. I am feeling like I made a very, very bad decision.

You did.  I was just invading a small settlement with a big cheesy grin from watching the masses of troops march through, replete with the big 'clump-clump' marching noises and dust clouds.  

And then trapping and encircling an ambushing Gallic army, feinting them with a unit of cavalry and light infantry before crushing them with a flanking attack.....

genius.

[karajorma]

Don't know if you've played M:TW but this blows it away (and M:TW was voted the best RTS game ever several years running!)

The only thing bad I can really say about it is that it has a habit of sucking in all your free time

[aldo_14]

I've never player the other TW games, and I'm not even a pariticularly massive fan of RTS', but Rome stands out by a clear mile as my best game of the year.

[Blue Lion]

Originally posted by karajorma

BTW anyone know how back stabing the Brits and Dacians are? I'm allied with both and I'm wondering how smart an idea it is to leave them alone.

If you've cornered off the Brits by taking the Gauls, they'll probably come after you soon. They're pushovers though, just use cavalry mainly.  The Dacians should be kept idle with the eastern side. I'd crush the Brits first.

[karajorma]

Well the brits are history. I tried to be nice. They had a huge army parked outside Samarobriva which had been taken over by the Germans. They sat there for 8 years or so doing nothing. They even sat there when I drew up an equally large army and offered to help them attack the germans.

So I took the city myself and that round they attacked me. So I bought them off and used their turncoat general to invade Britain

As for the Dacians they were enslaved in less than a year after the Brutii attacked them. Enslaved by me. I got the Brutii to do all the hard work and then just marched in and too the cities over