Rome Total War

[Jaglover]

Does anyone else think that the campaign section on Rome Total war is alot slower than the previous Total War games?

You never seem to have enough governors-and provinces are still unsettled decades after you conquer them.

[FourWheelDrift]

Just make sure you get Captains in the field winning battles, they will get promoted to General and be used as local governors.

If you are short on governors make sure you set in place build & recruitment programs before they need to leave. In rebel areas I tend to enslave the populace and spread them around the empire. Plus keeping them occupied on games or build programs is usful. Don't be afraid to turn disolve armies in safe province they become citizens in the city they leave the army in and can add to the population, grow it and make it a happier place. You can always re-recruit or bring units in from other areas if you need to.

Big Navies are important, especially in blockading the area bewteen Italy & Greece, setup a large fleet there (can be used to shuttle troops across the sea between Tarentum and Appollina (in one move) but will stop enemy naval ships from accessing Eastern Italian and Yugoslavian provinces. Keeping fleets at maximum strenght and using allies fleets to assist in battles should always gurantee a win too.

I always have a very big and well set up captial (where your heirs will be born) and a good way of getting them out to regions, by boat or buy shuttling them and armies from city to city.

I have also found that fighting as the Brutii family is better than the other Roman families, although I also have games saved as the others and also the Macdeonians.

If you gain all the provinces needed for overall victory, save the game at that point then reload and you can continue to conquer Europe. Since this screenshot was taken I have Southern England, most of Germany and chasing I'm the Egyptians around the Middle East



Although you do need to win some big battles to get there


>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 26th March 15:03

[Jaglover]

FourWheelDrift said:

Just make sure you get Captains in the field winning battles, they will get promoted to General and be used as local governors. If you are short on governors make sure you set in place build & recruitment programs before they need to leave. In rebel areas I tend to enslave the populace and spread them around the empire. Plus keeping them occupied on games or build programs is usful. Don't be afraid to turn disolve armies in safe province they become citizens in the city they leave the army in and can add to the population, grow it and make it a happier place. You can always re-recruit or bring units in from other areas if you need to. >> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Saturday 26th March 15:03

Thanks for the advice FourwheelDrift-I can see partly where I have gone wrong by not putting more captains in charge of Armies in order to gain promotion.

I also could move the governors around more and stack build orders.

All in all an interesting game-I will have to play it a bit more I think to see if I prefer it to others in the Total war series-One problem I have found is that most of my battles are me storming an enemy city-which can get a bit monotonous.

PS That looks one big battle.

[FourWheelDrift]

Jaglover said:

PS That looks one big battle.

You can get some pretty big battles by maxing out an army and having 2 or 3 of them moving together in formation, never too far apart in an invasion. Then when a large enemy force attacks one of them if the other 2 forces are close by you will control all 3 in the battle.

I mainly use this when planning to conquer a region, if a city I lay siege to has a large army and you only have one army attacking you may get into some trouble if a relief army appears. So it pays to have more than you need in reserve. It also means you can go further quicker, dropping troops off at each conquered city and pressing on to the next target still with a large force even if you lost numbers in the last battle

[FunkyNige]

Is there an expansion pack for R:TW planned? I always buy these games with their expansion pack so all the bugs have been ironed out and new balancing units are added.

I'm still playing Medievil:Total War, gotta love playing as the Vikings:


Check out the name of the 5th unit down -



What a guy...
9 star general to boot

[FourWheelDrift]

There's loads of add-ons on here for Rome - http://rtw.heavengames.com/downloads/index.php

I've only installed the Historic Battles V2.6 - Adds battles like Silarus River, Guagemela, Cannae, Pharsalus. I've also modified the:-

/Data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/descr_strat.txt and then just cut the unlockable and non-playable factions and pasted them in the playable section and save it off so I can play as any faction in the game. Don't copy the main Roman Senate over as playing as them can crash the game..

[BrianDaGangsta]

Aquired Rome total war earlier tonight myself. Seems to be a great game, but I seem quite crap at it. Any tips for starting off in campaign mode?

[FunkyNige]

BrianDaGangsta said:

Aquired Rome total war earlier tonight myself. Seems to be a great game, but I seem quite crap at it. Any tips for starting off in campaign mode?

Just bought it myself, what bits are yhou having difficulty with, the campaign map or the battles?

[JagLover]

BrianDaGangsta said:

Aquired Rome total war earlier tonight myself. Seems to be a great game, but I seem quite crap at it. Any tips for starting off in campaign mode?

Have you played the previous Total war games or are you a complete novice?.

[pastor brian]

JagLover said:

BrianDaGangsta said: Aquired Rome total war earlier tonight myself. Seems to be a great game, but I seem quite crap at it. Any tips for starting off in campaign mode? Have you played the previous Total war games or are you a complete novice?.

complete novice, but not completely stupid.
I started off having problems with the campaign map stuff mainly, like being stupid and leaving no troops at any of my towns and sending them all to attack one city.

Getting better now though, love this game.

[JagLover]

pastor brian said:

JagLover said: BrianDaGangsta said: Aquired Rome total war earlier tonight myself. Seems to be a great game, but I seem quite crap at it. Any tips for starting off in campaign mode? Have you played the previous Total war games or are you a complete novice?. complete novice, but not completely stupid. I started off having problems with the campaign map stuff mainly, like being stupid and leaving no troops at any of my towns and sending them all to attack one city. Getting better now though, love this game.

Some quick tips then

Produce at least three units of town watch and leave them in each city, they are the cheapest unit to maintain

Produce mixed armies- missle units, infantry and cavalry

Armies fight better with good Generals.

[pastor brian]

What about the build train. What should I focus on building first for each city?

also, is it just me or do the arches cause some really bad lag?

[JagLover]

pastor brian said:

What about the build train. What should I focus on building first for each city? also, is it just me or do the arches cause some really bad lag?

You focus on building what is needed

Default you build money raising improvements

If you need more advanced soldiers build better training facilities.

if the city is unhappy build public order buildings.

I've encountered graphics problems only a few times-but then I did buy a new computer recently just to play this and a few other games.

[FHCNICK]

Jaglover said:

Does anyone else think that the campaign section on Rome Total war is alot slower than the previous Total War games? You never seem to have enough governors-and provinces are still unsettled decades after you conquer them.

Just noticed this thread. you've had some good advice but another good way of keeping places happy is to change your capital as often as it will help especially as you start expanding along way out. look at your provinces relative happiness then change your capital nearer to your worst hit ones and note the difference (you can always change it back).
I haven't played for a while but i found the parthians the hardest of all

[JagLover]

FHCNICK said:

Just noticed this thread. you've had some good advice but another good way of keeping places happy is to change your capital as often as it will help especially as you start expanding along way out. look at your provinces relative happiness then change your capital nearer to your worst hit ones and note the difference (you can always change it back). I haven't played for a while but i found the parthians the hardest of all

Thanks FHCNick-I tried this already and it does help, it also increases your income as places can have higher tax rates-I think a central position for your capital is best.

[FHCNICK]

JagLover said:

Thanks FHCNick-I tried this already and it does help, it also increases your income as places can have higher tax rates-I think a central position for your capital is best.

as a general rule of thumb i think that is a good way of managing the situation but if you can really be bothered to keep looking at your governers traits and can move your best governors to one general area then you can move your capital away from a central position, close to where you are expanding really helps with newly captured provinces.

as for not having enough governors then bribery is your best weapon, use spies to check out opposition generals and then send an experienced diplomat to "encourage" good leaders onto your side.

bribery is also an excellent way to gain forces on the cheap, again use a spy to check that the army you want to bribe has troop types that you can train (these are the only ones that will join your force) and then bribe them, it is cheaper than training them yourself.

regards
Nick

[Leicester Loyal]

This is being remastered and released at the end of April.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/revisit-a-classic-with-...

Delighted with that, probably my favourite game of all time.

[SanjayG]

Leicester Loyal said:

This is being remastered and released at the end of April.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/revisit-a-classic-with-...

Delighted with that, probably my favourite game of all time.

Excellent!

I never tried the original as I was first introduced to the series with Total War: Rome II. I have sunk a few hundred hours over several campaigns but eventually got bored.

Have you played II and how would you say it compares to the original?

[Leicester Loyal]

SanjayG said:

Excellent!

I never tried the original as I was first introduced to the series with Total War: Rome II. I have sunk a few hundred hours over several campaigns but eventually got bored.

Have you played II and how would you say it compares to the original?

I tried 2 but I just couldn't get into it, same with a lot of the other later games, they got too complicated for me.

The original was basic but wayyy ahead of it's time, I remember playing it round a friends house, I think I was 11 and I couldn't believe it was possible to have a game like this. Updated graphics, slightly more units and new factions, with a few small tweaks to the campaign map/menu and it'll be the perfect game.

Already pre-ordering it tonight for £12.50 (as I own the original), bargain!

[Leicester Loyal]

This is pretty decent, although I'm struggling to get used to the modern screens and layout, I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

It's pretty slow to load the campaign and battles up on my laptop (Acer Nitro 5), but other than that I don't really have an issues. I'd imagine on a new pc it'll be class to run, which reminds me I must invest once I move out in a couple of months.