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Title: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on December 27, 2011, 03:05:23 am
I hit the search button with a couple of diffrent keywords,nothing showed up

Rome:Total War

Here it is,Rome:total war has it's own little thread :)

Personally,i think it's one of the best in the world,simply because it drains so many of your lifes hours,trying to perfect you tactics,learning how to build the most effiecent cities and build the strongest army.The game just throws so much at you,it's hard to keep up with it
(it's even harder with mods like http://www.rometotalrealism.org (http://www.rometotalrealism.org))

I have wasted hours and hours into this game(not less than 100h of playtime(in 3 weeks)),and only beat it with one faction (whitch was actually op).

Still,i count as a newbie to this game. :/

I would really like to see your expierience with this game,because it is purely amazing for me!

Discuss!
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Oberyn on December 27, 2011, 03:21:06 am
Europa Barbarorum.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on December 27, 2011, 03:35:22 am
Europa Barbarorum.

Looks cool,but i prefer the vanilla  :P
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Christo on December 27, 2011, 04:07:27 am
RTR mod for me.  :wink:

Looks cool,but i prefer the vanilla  :P

Seriously, Vanilla? That's such garbage in my opinion. The whole "three families" thing is stupid for an example, Roman units look totally inaccurate, let alone Egyptians, I could go on, and on..
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: [ptx] on December 27, 2011, 09:04:17 am
It is the best of the series, still. Old as hell, though.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Angantyr on December 27, 2011, 09:16:51 am
Europa Barbarorum.
This. Most accomplished historical mod for any game, only thing that supersedes the AD1257 module for WB in terms of level of research that has gone into it. Great balance and atmosphere, too.

Other than that I think Medieval I was the the height of the Total War series (where the new Shogun dlc 'yanks vs samurais' must be the absolute low point in regards to theme and fantasy elements), but Rome was quite good, if more arcadey than the previous games.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Oberyn on December 27, 2011, 10:51:07 am
Out of the box Medieval 1 was the best of the TW series, agreed. With mods Rome beats it though. But even with mods the AI constantly fails in the campaign and battle maps. There are mods that improve the battlefield AI but nothing seems to be able to fix the retardedness on the campaign map. Diplomacy might as well not exist too.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Christo on December 27, 2011, 10:52:52 am
Diplomacy in RTW is a joke.

I agree with that.

In M2TW it plays a bigger role, though.
It's actually useful.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Ganner on December 27, 2011, 12:00:55 pm
TRIARII!
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on December 27, 2011, 04:16:54 pm
I'll try out Europa Barbarorum,give it a go :)
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on December 27, 2011, 04:52:39 pm
So are there any mods like these for medieval 2 total war?
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on December 27, 2011, 05:07:43 pm
Roma Surrectum II

Prefer it much more over Europa Barbarorum these days.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Franke on December 27, 2011, 05:27:51 pm
Didn't try out any mods for the TW games and like Medieval 2 most. The unit design is just better than in Rome. But Rome was kind of a quantum leap compared to Medieval and Shogun and thus was also a lot of fun (and drained time) for me!
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: B3RS3RK on December 27, 2011, 05:37:19 pm
medieval 1 was the best TW game /discussion.

With each part the series went downhill.It goes like this(After shogun)

medieval I>rome>medieval II>Empire>Napoleon>Shogun II

Medieval I was just perfect.I so wished to play it with everything the same except for the combat map graphics.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on December 27, 2011, 06:02:35 pm
Lol nvm my earlier question, i found a mod for me:  http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=479322  8-)
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on December 27, 2011, 06:26:29 pm
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Daggerwank!
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on December 27, 2011, 06:41:57 pm
Oh btw guys,if you play RTW on steam,do you have a problem with Multiplayer,because it show's ''Failed to connect (GS)''.

It's really bugging me,because i really really wanna try multiplayer :(
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Count_Curtis on January 01, 2012, 04:35:28 pm
I'm chuffed this game has its own thread.

Deserves it
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 01, 2012, 04:48:42 pm
RTW is the better of the TW series, followed by ETW imo, Medieval 2 just annoyed me by the fact they attempted death animations but they either died with their arms outstretched on their front or back, no curling around the arrow like in RTW haha, NTW never enjoyed it, it just seemed like a bad mod for ETW, and Shogun II well its not great, the only think lacking is the adaptability of units, samurai beats ashigaru you have an army of the former early on your unbeatable (also ranged spam always wins)
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: bilwit on January 01, 2012, 09:23:23 pm
Shogun II well its not great, the only think lacking is the adaptability of units, samurai beats ashigaru you have an army of the former early on your unbeatable (also ranged spam always wins)

Shogun II's multiplayer is unmatched despite it's horrendous imbalance issues. The upcoming expansion is going to be a disaster though.. gatling guns and iron clad ships? /facepalm
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Teeth on January 01, 2012, 10:41:13 pm
Shogun 2 was a disaster, every faction had the same units and like 5 types. No unit variety. That was what I enjoyed about Total War, finally getting those Zweihanders and see them rampage through the enemy infantry. Using your faction's strength and weakness to build an asskicking empire.

Shogun 2 didnt do any of that, and it was hugely well received. It was basically a dumbed down version of the cool ones like Rome and Medieval 2. They will probably continue down this road. SERIES = DEAD!

So I'm stuck with playing Medieval 2 mods for the rest of my life.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Franke on January 01, 2012, 11:25:12 pm
They will probably continue down this road. SERIES = DEAD!

Not Sure how they could continue the series. Rome 2 maybe, or something new? Empire 2 (set in the 19th century)?
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Overdriven on January 02, 2012, 12:09:07 am
RTW is the better of the TW series, followed by ETW imo, Medieval 2 just annoyed me by the fact they attempted death animations but they either died with their arms outstretched on their front or back, no curling around the arrow like in RTW haha, NTW never enjoyed it, it just seemed like a bad mod for ETW, and Shogun II well its not great, the only think lacking is the adaptability of units, samurai beats ashigaru you have an army of the former early on your unbeatable (also ranged spam always wins)

Interesting, unusual views. I personally thought Napoleon was everything that ETW should have been. ETW was buggy as hell and they changed aspects of it every few days with patches. Napoleon was the finished product, polished and interesting from every aspect. MW1 was probably my favourite of all the games, I was to young to really understand the original Shogun. After MTW comes Rome, then NTW, then Shogun 2 and then M2 and ETW.

Shogun 2 was a disaster, every faction had the same units and like 5 types. No unit variety. That was what I enjoyed about Total War, finally getting those Zweihanders and see them rampage through the enemy infantry. Using your faction's strength and weakness to build an asskicking empire.

Eh? Did you ever play the original shogun? All the units were relatively the same then. It's because Japan didn't have an entirely large variety of units in that period, it's got nothing to do with whether the future TW games will have variety or not. But everyone wanted them to remake Shogun...so that's why it was so well received.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Dezilagel on January 02, 2012, 12:27:21 am
I was quite the opponent in multiplayer 1.5-2 years ish ago. Wonderful game.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: B3RS3RK on January 02, 2012, 12:47:34 am
Not Sure how they could continue the series. Rome 2 maybe, or something new? Empire 2 (set in the 19th century)?

Still plenty to do.

Although, judging from the last games, it will probably be Rome 2 or something even more early(You know, there was that Rome addon called Alexander, I think they could stretch that timeline a bit and make a wonderful new game out of it).

Otherwise, they might even try out a fantasy setting or something more modern or even futuristic.

Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Ujin on January 02, 2012, 01:07:25 am
Shogun 2 was a disaster, every faction had the same units and like 5 types. No unit variety. That was what I enjoyed about Total War, finally getting those Zweihanders and see them rampage through the enemy infantry. Using your faction's strength and weakness to build an asskicking empire.

Shogun 2 didnt do any of that, and it was hugely well received. It was basically a dumbed down version of the cool ones like Rome and Medieval 2. They will probably continue down this road. SERIES = DEAD!

So I'm stuck with playing Medieval 2 mods for the rest of my life.
Teeth. Ugghhhh " insert a picture witha dissapointed face here " .
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: B3RS3RK on January 02, 2012, 01:10:28 am
Shogun 2 was hands down the worst of the series so far.It´s even slightly worse than empire was.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Ujin on January 02, 2012, 11:04:56 am
Shogun 2 was hands down the worst of the series so far.It´s even slightly worse than empire was.
Empire was the worst due to overcomplicating everything imo.

Shogun 2 was half-decent (closer to bad) because instead of paying a tribute to the original total war game they went for a more simplified version of medieval Japan and a completely unbalanced multiplayer (should've been called Monk :Total War). Blaming it for similar faction rosters is just plain stupid though, i don't recall Scipio, Brutus and Julius families in Rome having much unit variety between them. It's one nation after all. No denying though, they could've done their research better and SHOULD've improved the AI greatly to compensate for the lack of variety.

But  single-player wise Shogun 2 can be enjoyable after all, with mods (try DarthMod, improves the game (AI too) vastly) and  multiplayer battles can still be fun and tactical from time to time.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on January 02, 2012, 11:10:58 am
Im playing third age total war. One word: EPIC! unbalanced but hey, middle earth wasnt balanced XD

For instance if you play dwarves its just like they describe them in the books: Sitting in their mountains not giving a shit, having an occasional brawl with the orcs - thats what you will be doing.

Gondor is too hard imo, you dont get enough money to support a good defense. Have been playing dale now: Dale OP, their generals bodyguards are armored op long range archers/sword and board. I literaly have like 10 generals in one army, and generals bodyguard army retrains the soldiers on their own.  8-)
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: SirCymro_Crusader on January 02, 2012, 02:15:14 pm
Im playing third age total war. One word: EPIC! unbalanced but hey, middle earth wasnt balanced XD

For instance if you play dwarves its just like they describe them in the books: Sitting in their mountains not giving a shit, having an occasional brawl with the orcs - thats what you will be doing.

Gondor is too hard imo, you dont get enough money to support a good defense. Have been playing dale now: Dale OP, their generals bodyguards are armored op long range archers/sword and board. I literaly have like 10 generals in one army, and generals bodyguard army retrains the soldiers on their own.  8-)

Ye ive been playing TLD (the last days) and Gondor isnt too hard, ive managed to push Mordor out of E.Osgiliath and even taken Minas Morgul and am attacking Bara Dur, good Ol retarde Boromir and Faramir, however they are fucking expensive to upkeep and recruit (archers take 2 turns), my cities have like no defence in them so im kinda screwed if i get attacked

Interesting, unusual views. I personally thought Napoleon was everything that ETW should have been. ETW was buggy as hell and they changed aspects of it every few days with patches. Napoleon was the finished product, polished and interesting from every aspect. MW1 was probably my favourite of all the games, I was to young to really understand the original Shogun. After MTW comes Rome, then NTW, then Shogun 2 and then M2 and ETW.

Eh? Did you ever play the original shogun? All the units were relatively the same then. It's because Japan didn't have an entirely large variety of units in that period, it's got nothing to do with whether the future TW games will have variety or not. But everyone wanted them to remake Shogun...so that's why it was so well received.

I didint play the first Medieval or the first Shogun, but Rome was the first i properly played when it was released and so i kinda guess my love for the game has stayed with me for years, as for napoleon i dont know why i just didnlt like it overly, empire got boring after long periods of play but it was always a laugh to go back and play.

It also introduced the good and updated multiplayer, a wee bit buggy but it led to NTW and STW2 being able to adapt that and be the success they have been
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: B3RS3RK on January 02, 2012, 02:57:22 pm
With Empire, I had at least a BIT of fun, not much, but I had some.

I totally missed that with Shogun 2.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Tavuk_Bey on January 02, 2012, 04:59:00 pm
play m2tw stainless steel mod
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Christo on January 02, 2012, 05:03:48 pm
play m2tw stainless steel mod

This.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: B3RS3RK on January 02, 2012, 06:43:33 pm
Stainless Steel sucks.Play TATW instead.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Christo on January 02, 2012, 06:47:16 pm
Stainless Steel sucks.Play TATW instead.

I don't like fantasy stuff.

Opinions man :D
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Chagan_Arslan on January 02, 2012, 11:05:50 pm
after playing m&b i dont think i will ever play any TW game... battles in open fields with no roof campers are just not the same
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: bilwit on January 02, 2012, 11:32:32 pm
Stainless Steel sucks.Play TATW instead.

I did some hero skins that were officially included for that mod (Glorfindel, Legolas, Boromir and some others I think) :)
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Teeth on January 03, 2012, 01:07:43 am
Teeth. Ugghhhh " insert a picture witha dissapointed face here " .
I never get these responses of yours. You always do shit like this.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Huey Newton on January 03, 2012, 04:27:21 am
Roma Surrectum II

Prefer it much more over Europa Barbarorum these days.

THIS THIS THIS

was the mod that almost stole me away from cRPG

#foreveraddicted
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Leesin on January 03, 2012, 09:50:59 pm
Dominion of the Sword will soon be released for Medieval 2 TW Kingdoms and it will be the best mod ever made for a TW game, EVER.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Teeth on January 04, 2012, 12:33:57 am
Dominion of the Sword will soon be released for Medieval 2 TW Kingdoms and it will be the best mod ever made for a TW game, EVER.
Last time someone said to me that it would be soon released was 6 months ago.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Ninja_Khorin on January 04, 2012, 01:57:16 am
I stopped following their thread 2 years ago, so I can't say.

In any case, I'm happy with my:

Best mods for Total War, compiled for your amusement.

For Medieval 2(order of badassery, top 3 are equal):
Stainless Steel (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=417435) - Enhanced native campaign, basically.
Third Age (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=374565) - Lord of the Rings.
Broken Crescent (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=448564) - Eastern Roman Empire to Hindus. Medieval time period.
The Last Kingdom (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=467534) - Dark ages mod. British Isles.
Deus Lo Vult (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=219295) - Enhanced Native
THERA (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=343327) - Completely made up mod mixing many different cultures in to one map. Quite amusing.
Paeninsula Italica(beta) (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=457439) - Start of the Roman empire. Situated on the Italian Peninsula, in case your stupid.

Rome: Total War:
Roma Surrectum (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=386559) - Epic mod, nuff said.
Europa Barbarorum (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=207235) - Also an excellent mod. Both of these are enhanced native in essence.

Empire: Total War:
Darthmod (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=493773) - Enhanced native mod. Adds a ton of new troops 'n stuff.

Shogun 2: Total War:
Darthmod (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=494285) - Copy pasta. Enhanced native mod. Adds a ton of new troops 'n stuff.

Have fun.
Oh, 1648 - 30 years war (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=315422) is supposedly good, but it hasn't been translated yet. So waiting for that. They got deployable cannons on walls.

Just hoping that some of the mods I'm waiting for would be released at some point. Like:
Shizoku no Sensō (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1650)
Westeros: Total War (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=721)
Dominion of the Sword (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=492)
Europa Barbarorum II (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=454)

And this is just badass (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=361905)

And I've probably played Total War waaaaaaaaay too much in my time.
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Leesin on January 04, 2012, 02:17:59 am
Last time someone said to me that it would be soon released was 6 months ago.

That's because they made an estimate, but due to real life issues and things they wanted to do with the mod, it was of course a worthless guess. I've waited for this mod for over 3 years, soon to me is within the next few months, atleast if something doesn't happen to the members of the mod team lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nqdj-dSJbMg
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Mr. Hannibal on January 10, 2012, 07:04:16 pm
It's a good thing i have never bumped my posts  :rolleyes:

P.S.So much talk about other TW games,to which i have to say:''I don't fucking care''

But nevertheless,continiue!
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: ManOfWar on January 10, 2012, 08:30:54 pm
It's a good thing i have never bumped my posts  :rolleyes:

P.S.So much talk about other TW games,to which i have to say:''I don't fucking care''

But nevertheless,continiue!


Where do they go after shogun lol?

Rome total war 2?   Sea battles will be interesting.....
Title: Re: (RTW) Rome:Total War
Post by: Christo on January 10, 2012, 09:05:34 pm
Rome II and Medieval III.

Om nom nom nom.

Too bad that the Rome game can't be as awesome as the old one imo.

I mean the old game has an amazing atmosphere, same for Medieval.

I doubt they can totally recreate something that's equally awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlMaVYIzqw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlMaVYIzqw)

I mean this. I can't tell how many times I just stayed at the faction select screen only to watch the map, read about the factions and listen to the music.. it's beautiful.