Rome: Total War. And Shogun for that matter. And Viking Invasion. I've never (in my mind) legitimately finished any of these. And it's my fault, in the sense that, for these particular games at least, I'm an obsessive perfectionist. I have to command every battle, shuffle all my troops around so that they all get max training experience and armour, even my garrison troops, and the same with my generals so the good ones only keep good or appropriate ancilliaries. I finally gave up on all the above and just massed my armies and computer resolved all the battles till the end. But I hated doing it. Because those games, more than most, aren't about the end itself but the process of getting there. And they DESTROYED my process. I hate the battle engine. The way you have to pause-play battles because there's no unit AI at all, or general battleline orders. If you try to assign attack orders at the start the enemy line just runs around senselessly and your battle line turns itself inside out and gapping holes open that cavalry smash through. And the fact that the enemy AI is rubbish and obviously cheats in battles and grand strategy.
And yet I'm currently working through Barbarian Invasion. I don't know why, I just have to. But I've only been playing this for maybe 6 months, and not solidly all the way through. If that sounds shocking then Rome:TW was probably a good year of playing.
I'm not going to play Medieval 2. I'm not!
I've downloaded a few mods for rome. Are any of them good? I mean, do they change it enough to make it likeable?
