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Title: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on April 25, 2012, 08:33:01 pm
So, i know that a lot of you play Rome:Total war, so i made this topic  where you can discuss your favorite play style,faction or just neat tricks that you want to share in this game, with mods or without them. Let's get started, shall we.

My favorite faction is the Germans, they are pure awesome and actually kinda over powered. This is the on;y faction with whom i have conquered Rome and 50 other settlements, but the - is that you can't play after you reach your goal. I was kinda sad,but i had a lot of fun, because it has so much mixed units, and it's most basic unit, the German spearmen (?) were one of my main soldiers, with who i destroyed Roman armies.

In my opinion, it's pro's and con's are:
+ wide variety of troops
+ it's troops had high morale
+ it's economy is fairly good
+ not much squalor (which is a major problem for me)

- bad fleet (same for the most ''barbarians'')
- bad armored units
- although the economy wasn't bad, it wasn't great neither


And some tips that i learnt:
If your city has high squalor, you can just take the army out,retake it and then execute the population.
Keep your taxes on ''Very High'' so the city doesn't overpopulate and gives you much money at the same time.
Use war dogs when against barbarians in mid-fight to cause chaos.
Keep your general near your main bulk of the army,and send the cavalary to surround the enemy army from the flanks,or take out the archers,if they are left unperpared.
Make as much alliances as you can,so you wouldn't have to worry so much about your neighbors, you can break alliances later anyway.
Always play on very hard for must fun (and frustration)!!!

Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: B3RS3RK on April 25, 2012, 09:03:52 pm
I remember one time in barbarian Invasion I held a city with a wooden wall with only a bodyguard unit and 2 town watch´s against a whole barbarian army.The last 4 Units I had to kill with my bodyguards only, constantly charging them into the enemy and drawing back until they routed.

Went on for about 2 hours.

But It was ridiculously fun and one of the most remembered moments of my videogaming history.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Opium.dk on April 25, 2012, 09:06:32 pm
Playing Rome Total War without the Roma Surrectum mod is goddam sad.

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Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on April 25, 2012, 09:11:56 pm
I only tried RTR mod, it was alright.

Played as Carthage and the Greek Cities for some time, never really expanded though.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Laufknoten on April 25, 2012, 09:18:44 pm
I don't think the germans are op. The only factions which are really op are the roman factions imo. They have a great infantry from the beginning on and a good cav later (you have the generals unit anyway, which is one of the best cav units).
I like to play the babarians from time to time, but it sucks that they don't have the variety of units the romans have.

Currently I try to rebuild the roman empire in babarian invasion. Just had a big siege battle against the huns. It was like 700 romans against 4000 huns, but I only lost like 20 men. :D Because it was in a city all their mounted archers were useless and their infantry isn't that good. I think I could have won the battle with only 2 foederati infantry units and 1 general unit, cause 50 or 60 percent of the huns were killed by the watch towers anyway. The streets were plastered with dead huns. :D
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Teeth on April 25, 2012, 09:42:22 pm
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Get a mod you nub!

Try Europa Barbarorum or Roma Surrectum and you'll never return to vanilla.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on April 25, 2012, 09:49:46 pm
Quote from: SgtTeeh on April 25, 2012, 09:42:22 pm
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Get a mod you nub!

Try Europa Barbarorum or Roma Surrectum and you'll never return to vanilla.

I guess i should install those mods,because RTR didn't really impress me :/
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on April 25, 2012, 09:58:14 pm
Yeah, I'll probably give a shot for Roma Surrectum, RTR is just too.. bland or I don't know.

It's fine though.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Zanze on April 25, 2012, 10:59:55 pm
I actually enjoyed vanilla. The mods were awesome, but when I wanted a quick conquer the world...straight to vanilla I went. Brutii had to have been the easiest faction i've ever played in any game. Once I took Greece I had so much money I couldn't spend it all. (Having more than 50000 gold = bad traits for generals). I had every possible building queued, every possible unit queued and it just wouldn't work. OP faction is op.

Scipii is the funnest, Parthia is annoying simply because of its pajama infantry. Thrace's infantry charge is completely overpowered. Egypt. F Egypt.


RTR is fun to play one of the many minor factions in the east trying to compete with the Seleucids. Just PRAYING they don't fully turn their attention to you...
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on April 25, 2012, 11:09:52 pm
Actually, RTW AI is retarded. Especially when it comes to diplomacy..

This happened during one of my carthago campaings, Iberians stabbed me in the back (as usual), besieged 2 settlements, then came this offer:

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Mindf*ck.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: HUtH on April 25, 2012, 11:10:59 pm
I only play Rome with Europa Barbarorum. It's just one of two best strategic mods ever with action before XX century(the second one is Magna Mundi for EU3). I'm now during a Bactria campaign on Alex.exe engine(and with submods pack)... so hard at the beginning of the game... Seleukids everywhere
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Teeth on April 25, 2012, 11:18:54 pm
Quote from: HUtH on April 25, 2012, 11:10:59 pm
I only play Rome with Europa Barbarorum. It's just one of two best strategic mods ever with action before XX century(the second one is Magna Mundi for EU3). I'm now during a Bactria campaign on Alex.exe engine(and with submods pack)... so hard at the beginning of the game... Seleukids everywhere
Bactria was fucking awesome, so much cool troops.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Butan on April 26, 2012, 12:12:50 am
Quote from: Christo on April 25, 2012, 11:09:52 pm

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Mindf*ck.


Lol, I try to picture a guy begging not to be killed while trying to be threatening about it  :D
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Vibe on April 26, 2012, 07:48:42 am
Quote from: Zanze on April 25, 2012, 10:59:55 pm
Parthia is annoying simply because of its pajama infantry

IRL Parthia was "annoying" and deadly effective because of their Horse Archers :D

Crassus' legions were defeated at Carrhae (modern Harran in Turkey) in 53 BCE by a numerically inferior Parthian force. Crassus' legions were mainly infantry men and were not prepared for the type of swift, cavalry-and-arrow, attack that the Parthian troops were particularly adept at; the same type of attack that Genghis Khan later utilised to great effect. The Parthians would get within shooting range, rain a barrage of arrows down upon Crassus's troops, turn, fall back, and charge forth with another attack in the same vein. They were even able to shoot as well backwards as they could forwards, increasing the deadliness of their onslaught.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Oberyn on April 26, 2012, 08:18:09 am
Welp others have already said all there is to be said I think. Vanilla Total War is ridiculous once you've played some of the other mods. And the retardedness of the AI is not present only in diplomacy. Movements on the campaign map rarely if ever make any sense (although sometimes, seemingly out of sheer luck, they would do something clever. I'm chalking it up to monkey with a typewriter syndrome). The worst though is the battle map AI. Even with Darthmod (most mods have it) outmaneuvering and fucking up a much large enemy forces is way too easy. And hard/hard is the stupidest artificial handicap ever, it doesn't make the enemy any smarter, just makes their troop stats/gold production have bonuses compared to yours.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: B3RS3RK on April 26, 2012, 08:43:59 am
Quote from: Christo on April 25, 2012, 11:09:52 pm

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Mindf*ck.

That happens alot, also in Vanilla M2

Seriously, AI attacks 1-2 Settlements, maybe even takes one and immediately wants peace.From an strategic point of view ingame, not even so stupid, but realistically viewed totally retarded.

Also, Stupid thing in M2: When OTHER christian factions attack you and you strike back, wanting to reconquer your lost territority, the Pope excommunicates YOU....Fucking retarded :D
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: bruttus on April 26, 2012, 03:48:34 pm
playing Roma Surrectum II
atm got 5 legions( 1 1st cohort, 9 normal cohorts + general, archers or velites , and 4 cav in each legion) and 1 preatorium legion, guarding rome
playing it like the romans did it on the batlefield (4 cohorts-3 cohorts- 3 cohorts) and cav protecting the flanks

got some epic fights with the barbarians, where i defeated one barbarian army after the other with 1 single legion (playing it at normal)

vannila game, didn't played that for years
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: GauisMarius on April 28, 2012, 09:22:15 am
I like to play in the buff, leading a hoard of Naked Fanatics to go put a whoopin on the Romans.

Edit: Oh, and I also consume a considerable amount of alcohol prior to get myself worked up into a frenzy before I right click on them mother f****ers. Though I have since stopped, as I usually have to replace my monitor, as it bears the brunt of my rage when my army of naked drunk berserkers get routed.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Adamar on April 28, 2012, 04:29:31 pm
Macedonians are awsome, because they start surrounded by all types of factions and they have phalangite type armies.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on April 28, 2012, 05:13:55 pm
I remember my first play of the game, with the Julii faction. After some fights with gauls, i marched a small/medium sized army (4-5 principes and hastati units, 1 archer unit, faction leader and one cavalry unit) into greek territory. Shortly before Athens, my force was intercepted by a combined greek and macedonian force (2 greek armies, 1 macedonian army), some 2000 men in total against my 500 or so. Mostly militia hoplites with some regular hoplites in the mix and lots of archers and other stuff, 3 generals as well.
I lost half of my force, killed 1500 of the enemy, as well as their generals. Felt so fucking epic :D

I've tried most factions in Vanilla, once i even went ahead and did a full world conquest with the greeks (lol @ the hidden amazon city).
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: To Kill A Dead Horse on April 29, 2012, 08:23:22 am
Greeks are OP when defending castles. Easiest way to win is to get a group of 2-4 hoplites put them in phalanx formation and stack them in front of main gate, you also need to open the gate and watch the AI drop all their siege towers and what-not and rush the gate and just get slaughtered.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Zanze on April 29, 2012, 06:13:07 pm
IRL, people didn't have to deal with those Pajama Infantry the way you do in RTW however. They charge your towns with maybe...8+ groups of pajama men and 2-3 horses. Then they retreat away after half their force gets slaughtered. Half way out the route, they come back in and repeat this until they are all dead. Takes forever, even with speed on when it looks like ping pong. I'd chase them down, but the usual cav I leave to garrison is the crappy militia cav. Parthia cav eats mine up when I try and kill the routers. Annoying.

That gate open trick with phalanx is how I survived early game as Seleucids in vanilla. Seriously felt like that guy that made his Portugal nation a line from Lisboa to Korea in Eu3. Leaves my defense threadbare. Completely expected my 3-4 Militia Hoplites to hold off hordes and hordes of Pajama-men, Egyptian Naked Fanatics Warriors, Greeks, Romans, and Pontus peeps.

I will have to try this new mod you speak of for RTW, total realism was cool but eh sometimes. The east was simply overcome the Seleucid Empire, because they keep the other factions down in the dirt for you. The West was either take over Italy or Africa and Spain is now completely open for you. After that, you win the game as Seleucids will most likely have crumbled while the other nation split it so evenly they don't stand a chance. (Also, Illyria in RTR is famazing =D )
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Lemmy_Winks on May 06, 2012, 11:54:46 pm
Mods make it better but its hard now with the graphics being outdated, im still waiting on europa barbarium 2 which is the same thing as the first one but its made with the medieval 2 engine. IMO the selucids are the most powerful, huge variety of very powerful units, lots of land, profitable land, weak opponents around them to expand in to. Is serrectum 2 made with the medival 2 game engine?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Oberyn on May 07, 2012, 03:25:22 pm
Seleucids should've had tons of scripted events imo, rebellions, uprisings, etc. It didn't disentegrate out of pure happenstance after all, and under a human player it's almost always immediately a humongous unstoppable powerhouse.

I never much liked macedonian type phalanx armies in RTW 'n mods, they often bugged out in weird ways. Especially if the other side was also composed of phalanx types, it could make for some pretty tedious battles, but still usually really easy to just roll up an entire flank since the AI isn't exactly the best at covering flanks or keeping reserves or committing cav charges at the right time and target.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on May 07, 2012, 08:23:43 pm
Quote from: Oberyn on May 07, 2012, 03:25:22 pm
Seleucids should've had tons of scripted events imo, rebellions, uprisings, etc. It didn't disentegrate out of pure happenstance after all, and under a human player it's almost always immediately a humongous unstoppable powerhouse.

Same could be said about the Ptolemaic Empire, they are insanely overpowered.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Elmetiacos on May 18, 2012, 01:07:56 am
Quote from: Lemmy_Winks on May 06, 2012, 11:54:46 pm
Mods make it better but its hard now with the graphics being outdated, im still waiting on europa barbarium 2 which is the same thing as the first one but its made with the medieval 2 engine.
And much more historically accurate.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on May 18, 2012, 04:48:15 am
Quote from: Elmetiacos on May 18, 2012, 01:07:56 am
And much more historically accurate.

Couldn't agree more.

After trying Europa Barbarorum I just dropped RTR instantly. It's an amazing mod.

As Carthage I got like 2-3 scripted historical events that made characters appear and stuff, it's amazing how much historical detail is in the mod itself.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Germanicus on June 20, 2012, 05:36:37 pm
favorite faction : germans

play style : kill n conquer them all
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on June 20, 2012, 05:50:19 pm
Right, so i'm playing EB as the Greek states, whatever they're called there. Wiped Macedonia, Pontos, driving Seleucids out of Anatolia, etc, etc.
The factional/local recruitment system has me confused, though, thought i'd get Cretan Archers by building type IV government and regional barracks up to max, thought wrong lol.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Tibe on June 20, 2012, 05:54:37 pm
Julii mainly but also Greek and Gauls. Thou the Britons give me massive hell every time I play Julii due to completely retarded auto-battle AI.

 In Vanilla fighting other factions with auto-battle worked fine....but when I let the AI fight with my armies against Britons it always fucked up soo bad that I lost atleast 1000 guys every time even when it was against like 200 men. When I told the AI to go fuck itself reloaded and fought the battle myself, I lost like 50 men in same battle.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: gazda on June 20, 2012, 06:59:40 pm
the way i played it,

stack up 20 legionary units and attack
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Baggy on June 21, 2012, 03:47:54 am
Quote from: Christo on May 18, 2012, 04:48:15 am
Couldn't agree more.

After trying Europa Barbarorum I just dropped RTR instantly. It's an amazing mod.

As Carthage I got like 2-3 scripted historical events that made characters appear and stuff, it's amazing how much historical detail is in the mod itself.
Just reading the descriptions of the Units and Buildings itself is a enjoyable experience.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on July 02, 2012, 01:59:37 pm
Regarding EB: How the hell do you play as Casse? You start out with one small town with next to no income, small starting gold and a small, shitty army, surrounded by neutral towns, each with a garrison a ton more powerful than yours and an incoming eleutheroi army from the north...
wat
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on July 02, 2012, 02:02:15 pm
Very good question.

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?58560-Casse-Gameplay-Guide-by-QwertyMIDX-*SPOILERS-INSIDE* (http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?58560-Casse-Gameplay-Guide-by-QwertyMIDX-*SPOILERS-INSIDE*)

This might help you.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on July 02, 2012, 02:09:23 pm
Trading with the Eleutheroi? O_o
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Teeth on July 02, 2012, 02:12:37 pm
FFS, now I want to play Europa Barbarorum.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on July 02, 2012, 03:14:58 pm
Quote from: [ptx] on July 02, 2012, 02:09:23 pm
Trading with the Eleutheroi? O_o

Never played as Casse, also the guide is quite old. However it tells you to disband armies and fleets, and grow economically at the first few years. If you're neutral with the Eleutheroi, which is a big O.o for me as well, you should use that to your advantage.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: ManOfWar on July 10, 2012, 01:43:12 am
Hey guys which mod is better?

Europa Barborum or Roma Surrectum?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: GauisMarius on July 10, 2012, 02:26:24 am
Quote from: ManOfWar on July 10, 2012, 01:43:12 am
Hey guys which mod is better?

Europa Barborum or Roma Surrectum?

They are both really good. Depends on what faction you like to play as I suppose. If you like non Roman factions, then Europa Barborum. If you like Roman factions, then Roma Surrectum. I play Roman factions, so I am partial to Roma Surrectum myself.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on July 30, 2012, 04:42:01 pm
Okay, EB is totally addictive, even after having played R:TW, R:TW - BI and M2:TW with all expansions ad nauseum.
Still, some things i find annoying, even retarded. Not being able to get a good overview of a factions troop tree is irritating, for example.
Roving defender armies, however, are full-on retarded? A full-stack of elite-quality troops, lead by a super-general, patrolling around a small town, able to move at least twice the distance of a normal army, that RESPAWNS TO FULL STRENGTH every turn, even after getting completely wiped? Uh, okay...
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on July 30, 2012, 05:07:25 pm
Good god, RTW/EB campaign map "AI" is just irritating like that.

Is that supergeneral an Eleutheroi army leader? Those are ridiculously powerful, celtiberia comes to my mind for an example.

Even worse if you set the difficulty way too high, it just cheats even more.

Also the diplomacy.. total garbage.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: gazda on July 30, 2012, 08:27:06 pm
my way of playing it:

"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "process_cq_x"

 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: bruttus on October 26, 2012, 02:46:35 am
Quote from: gazda on July 30, 2012, 08:27:06 pm
my way of playing it:

"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "add_money_20000"
"shift+¨" "process_cq_x"

 :mrgreen:

you do know that you can add_money 40k?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Kirbyy on October 26, 2012, 10:58:19 pm
Quote from: Opium.dk on April 25, 2012, 09:06:32 pm
Playing Rome Total War without the Roma Surrectum mod is goddam sad.

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Ahhh the quote from Julius Ceasar, I may be mistaking, but I thought 'Of all the Gauls, the belgae are the greatest.'
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Kafein on October 27, 2012, 12:13:55 pm
Quote from: LookItsMountNBladeMan on October 26, 2012, 10:58:19 pm
Ahhh the quote from Julius Ceasar, I may be mistaking, but I thought 'Of all the Gauls, the belgae are the greatest.'

Iirc Cesar meant it as "Belgae stoopid", so "brave" fits better. I am probably mistaking though.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on February 09, 2013, 06:10:22 pm
Sometimes, EB is just retarded.

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Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Christo on February 11, 2013, 07:24:55 am
Quote from: [ptx] on February 09, 2013, 06:10:22 pm
Sometimes, EB is just retarded.

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 I remember that  :lol:

Also: is that the how to say.. celtic faction that starts on british isles you're playing?

Nice.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on February 11, 2013, 10:06:45 am
Yes, it's Casse. Have conquered the isles and most of north-west Europe.
Now at war with Rome in central/south France territory, fighting against superior numbers of somewhat superior troops and the entire region is fucking forests like this. Also, autocalc, even with odds like 2:1, gives me only crushing defeats. Basically, fucked.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: okiN on February 11, 2013, 12:35:11 pm
Heh, I remember you telling me to suck it up when I complained about the shitty RTW autocalc. Who's laughing now? :lol:

As for the terrain and Roman issues, they're not so tough. Here's what I've been using to hold off constantly attacking numerically superior stacks of Roman elite troops. I originally had only one of them down there in Mediolanium, then I added one to Massalia after they started attacking there as well, and finally I added the third when I took Patavium. I still only use one of them at a time, but I rotate them around for retraining purposes. Meanwhile my main armies were taking indies in France etc and are now fighting the Germans.

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I fought through those same areas you're having trouble with now -- just don't fight in the forests. Fight only at cities. It's the easiest way to avoid the bullshit trees. When you DO have to fight in a forest (this should never be an important battle against a big enemy army), just put your troops in a group formation and move them around together, zoomed in. You can let them do most of the fighting on their own.

Also, get the reforms you nab. Just spam great markets, fortress temples and large cities.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on February 11, 2013, 12:40:37 pm
I don't have a choice, i must fight them in the open, since they are blocking the way for my stacks to get to cities that are currently near undefended, as well as impeding any forward progress. And it doesn't seem like it is possible to get anything other than forest battles in the entire region, since i get the same, no matter if i fight near hills, on roads or whatever.

Quote from: okiN on February 11, 2013, 12:35:11 pm
Heh, I remember you telling me to suck it up when I complained about the shitty RTW autocalc. Who's laughing now? :lol:
That is not what i said :?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: okiN on February 11, 2013, 12:45:00 pm
First you tried to say it wasn't a big deal:

Quote from: [ptx] on February 05, 2013, 10:53:38 am
Well, nah, you can actually get better results than expected with autocalc in R:TW, especially when sieging something. Taking a walled city that has a general unit + some 2 regiments in it whilst losing just 50 troops (with huge unit sizes)? H'okay.

Then when I explained the exact thing you're complaining about now, you told me to just deal with it:

Quote from: [ptx] on February 05, 2013, 11:01:23 am
The price for lazyness.

Don't try to deny it! Your hubris is known!

Anyway, I'm sure there's some way for you to do it. Maybe just let them come to you first, then crush them when they siege your settlement. Or go around them and attack somewhere else. Whatever.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on February 11, 2013, 01:30:10 pm
Well, their armies are blocking the way south, if i went around them, that would leave those armies free to go siege the regions i left behind.

And you were talking about autocalcing small and weak enemy forces, not fighting armies in forests, where it is impossible to fight them normally.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Xelaris on May 01, 2013, 09:00:15 am
I am on a campaign with Carthage and i love these dudes, the only problem is the random crash. Most annoying after 5+ fight battles on map, i feel like throwing my computer out the window.
Do you guys get that?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: okiN on May 01, 2013, 10:24:04 am
Very much so. Just quicksave before and after every battle.

I also find there's some kind of correlation between loading saves and crashes. When you start the game and load up for the first time, you can probably play for quite a while without a crash, but if you reload and then keep playing, it somehow seems to become more likely to crash. At least that's what it feels like to me.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: JackieChan on May 02, 2013, 08:13:16 pm
Nerf Eleutheroi plox
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Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Xelaris on May 02, 2013, 10:01:10 pm
you must of pissed them off really bad, i never seen that before
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on May 02, 2013, 10:03:22 pm
Errr, cheats? I don't think that is normally possible even, there is like 1-2 guardian armies over there, that respawn and defend those regions. Maybe they built in some easter egg for cheaters in that mod?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: JackieChan on May 03, 2013, 01:30:13 am
Quote from: [ptx] on May 02, 2013, 10:03:22 pm
Errr, cheats? I don't think that is normally possible even, there is like 1-2 guardian armies over there, that respawn and defend those regions. Maybe they built in some easter egg for cheaters in that mod?
I used toggle_fow as you can see, auto_win for battles i won but CTD'ed right after, and also im using a mega mod pack for EB which contains a forcediplomacy mod. Dunno if it counts as cheats
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Oberyn on May 07, 2013, 08:43:38 pm
Am I the only one who actually likes forest battles? The minimap is more than enough info to plan it out properly. Hiding half of your army in positions to flank or even surround as their entire retarded army heads straight for your general (the only unit that cannot hide) have been some of my most satisfying battles, tactics wise. Also most of the "barbarian" factions get big bonuses when fighting in forests.
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: [ptx] on May 07, 2013, 09:06:07 pm
Really? You can't even see anything on the screen apart from blurred out tree tops... Minimap is enough??? How do you order your troops to attack something you can't see?
Title: Re: Your way to play ''Rome:Total war''
Post by: Oberyn on May 07, 2013, 09:12:43 pm
Hovering over enemy units brings up information, even through trees...and zooming in closely merely to get a better sense of which unit is where exactly is more than doable. If you set up the trap properly (which is easy to do in all forest maps) you can just move units in general directions rather than charge directly, but that loses the charge bonus so I prefer either of the former methods.