My thoughts on the game

[Theredintheskyisours]

Well, after playing a couple of hours I decided to come back here. There's no map editor in the game, which I thought there was. The custom battles are less vast than MTW. Sieging Rome is not a good idea when you are the Sycthians, the tutorial campaign was kind of annoying to me. I already seen most of the stuff in the demo.

With that being said, there's less lag on my computer than in the demo. I put everything on high and used huge armies. I'd say with my 5,000 troops, I was receiving 5 FPS, which isn't entirely bad. I love the sieges. They are so fun. I have yet to play the imperial campaign, but I will tomorrow.

I just now finished playing a custom battle with thousands of chariots. It was pretty damn cool. The lagging however seems a little tiny bit worse than it did in MTW. Overall, I have been having an awesome time with this game, and I am sure you guys are just going to love it.


One problem. The game crashed when I tried to play multi-player. That sucks, but I'll try again tomorrow.

 

[Pancakes]

Lag is "a little tiny bit worse" than MTW and you're complaining? Dude! Full 3D!

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

Oh I am not complaining, I am just saying that you play huge battles with little lag.

 

[TB666]

It seems like most people with DVD drives and CDRW drives can't install the game(including me but I figured out how to install it after some annoying hours)
So I'm very worried about friday when I get the real copy

I love the game.
The gauls are alot more annoying then I thought they would be.
They just keep coming.
I'm gonna go to bed and play some more later

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

That's it time to invade TB's homeland! I haven't played the Imperial Campaign yet, but that is soon going to change. The Swedish (Germanic) barbarians better be ready for this.


Finally my dream of conquering Scandinavia, Briton, Gaul, and Germania may come true!

By fuckers! And I feel sorry for those who don't have this game yet. I'll try not to rub this in your face.

Keyword: try.

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

Ahahaha! There was a huge peasent revolt in one of my (Gallic) conquered regions. I brought in my 10 star general (this is on easy btw) and brought with him a few of my dogs of war. I sicked them on the stupid 2,500 peasents and they tore some shit up. It was like the people were fastly being eaten by 500 wild dogs. It was cool because this was a siege battle in one of my northern provinces. I only lost 3 dogs! I couldn't believe it. But they aren't uber dogs, and they can be killed by many types of disciplined armored units I believe.


Oh and by the way, there's no way I am reaching Scandinavia anytime soon. It is so far away. I have reached Scythia (Ukraine) by bribing the Dacians into giving me two of their provinces, but I didn't think, and they revolted pretty soon. So I sent one army in and crushed one insurrection. I just conquered Byzantium which is pretty cool for me, because I am trying to reach the Arabic desert pretty soon to try and take out the Parthians. God, the campaign is so fucking cool. The diplomacy absolutely rules! There so much stuff you can do in diplomacy. The senate missions are pretty cool too.

 

[TB666]

I have already crushed the gauls and started a german campaign.
Damn Britons, they wanna have a war.
I think we should unite against the common enemy, the gauls are in on it but not the british.
Man, I love those screaming women plus german spearman in a phalanx formation.
No barbarian army can beat that.

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

German Spearmen have the Phalanx formation!?

The Scythian Noble Archer Cavalry look so cool. They look like samurai's. I haven't fought the Britons.


TB666, how far are you into the campaign? And do you still have the CTD problem like you did in MTW?

 

[TB666]

No CTD problem at all.
The game runs as smooth as a baby's bottom.
And yes the german spearman have the phalanx formation.
Beingt the german isn't easy I tell ya.
The land you own aren't very rich and the gauls and britons keep pissing me off and I can't create an army big enough to invade Gaul because I don't get enough money.

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

Conquering Gaul was much harder than I would've expected. Well, it's not hard on easy, but it takes a long time. I think I am going to be Britannia. Or maybe Parthia. Or maybe Egypt.


P.S. By the way, when should we start organizing Clan tournaments?

 

[TB666]

I have to get the "real" game first but to the players that got the real copies go ahead.

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

The one thing that bugs me in Rome: Total War is the camera. You know how you could scroll up and down in MTW. You can't do that in RTW I think. All you had to do was hold the right mouse button in MTW to set the camera to your favorite angle. I am not sure how to do this in RTW if you can even do it at all.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Well it certainly has it's flaws but overall, I'm having a really good time with it. I hope it doesn't affect my grades too greatly this semester.

Perhaps I overly compare it to Alpha Centauri but it really does have some things in common; mostly that I have a very hard time making myself stop playing it and time just flies by. I keep saying to myself "Just one more turn" and the hours fly by.

 

[TB666]

The one thing that bugs me in Rome: Total War is the camera. You know how you could scroll up and down in MTW. You can't do that in RTW I think. All you had to do was hold the right mouse button in MTW to set the camera to your favorite angle. I am not sure how to do this in RTW if you can even do it at all.

You can do that.
In the controls menu it is the "free-look" option, I have the button E assigned to that.

 

[DE]

hay guys

I'm holding out on buying it until the guys at Cedega give word on how it runs on Linux. I can't really be arsed to boot into Windows just to play it =)

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

I am playing the Macedonia faction in the campaign, and I'd have to say that this one is my favorite campaign. I just won a battle in which I inflicted 665 (I wish I had killed one more person), and I lost only 22. It's so beautiful seeing those human meat grinders in battle. I didn't use them this battle though, only to intimidate the rebel army. Well I sent my 3 units of light lancers charging down on an army made up of Militia Hoplites (only 1 unit), peltasts, missile cavalry, and peasents. I had a great uphill advantage and just annihilated the enemy army within seconds. It was so beautiful. The scenery was awesome too. You could see all the countryside down the hill when it was raining out.

But I have yet to play at night during the campaign.

Oh yeah, and I played the multi-player mode, and I must say that it was pretty fun as well. I didn't help my ally out at all, but he got the job done for me. There was no lag at all with 4 players on there. I just wish I didn't have school tomorrow so I could play some more.

(Oh yeah there's a mod at www.twcenter.net where you can play all of the factions (all 20 or so of them!))

 

[TB666]

Yeah I got the game
MP is fun, I have already won a 2vs2 seige.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Questions!

1) What are Romans supposed to do after the Marian Reforms and they can no longer get Triarii? What are effective against cavalry after the Reforms?

2) WTF is up with squalor late game? Think this will be fixed in a patch?

3) Balancing. I have yet to play anything but Romans but I hear that playing a campaign is much harder as anything other than Rome. What do you all think of the balancing? It would seem a lot of people are changing their minds about Creative Assemblies balancing prowess.

 

[TB666]

1. Well you get shitloads of better troops. Urban cohort and the rest of the new units are pretty good at getting rid of cavalry. You just have make sure they don't flank them.
2. I never have any problems with this but you should let the city revolt then re-take it again and slaughter everyone.
3. I find the greek states easier then scipii. And the britons are pretty much safe on their
island allowing them to grow but the others I have played are tougher but you got to remember if you are playing as a roman faction is that all roman factions are allies in the begining making a full blow invasion on your lands a dangerous thing but the other
factions don't have any allies but will have to endure back-stabbing and those stuff.
But everything is random, like the first time I tried the Seleucids I got attacked by egypt,parthians and pontus(I lost btw) but now I tried them again. Now pontus is a very strong ally and parthians wasn't as powerful this time allowing me to crush them. Egypt is still a problem but everyone have a problem with those guys.

 

[Theredintheskyisours]

The Macedonians are pretty damn strong as well.

But if someone conquers the whole map with say Spain, Scythia, Briton, Germania, or Gaul, then that would be pretty impressive. It is going to be very hard to conquer that task. But for the other factions, you have a chance, to an extent.

Seleucids have a good range of Phalanx at their disposal, and you can use that to your advantage. Egypt has chariots and a wide variety of Cavalry and Infantry. Pontus has good phalanx units. Dacia will be hard, but does have Falxmen, which are extremly good. Thrace has about the same chance as Dacia or less maybe. I'm not sure on that faction. Carthage probably has the greatest starting army next to Rome (if not better than Rome). Numidia, well I don't think you have such a great chance in conquering the world, but I geuss it's possible. Parthia has pretty crappy infantry, but it makes up in it's cavalry. Greek City States have Spartans. What the fuck else do you need besides Spartans!? Oh yeah, they have more Phalanx units and limited cavalry. Macedonia has the same, but without the Spartans. They do have Companion Cavalry, which are one of my favorite units in the game. They tend to get the job done almost all the time. Armenia, well I've never even played them. Hell, I almost forgot that they were even in the game.