Rome: Total War, Bitches!

[Loxleyhood]

A: The official list is: three Roman factions - the Brutii, Julii and Scipii families - along with Carthage, Egypt, Seleucia, Parthia, the Greek Cities, the Gauls, the Germans and the Britons. The non-playable factions are: the Senate, Macedonia, Pontus, Armenia, Dacia, Numidia, Scythia, Spain, Thrace and the rebels - and what would a Total War game be without rebels? These decisions are based on what makes the game challenging and fun to play, not on trying to offend anyone! We have divided these into a set of broad 'cultures' who share architecture styles and units, but individual factions within each culture can still be added. We've had major arguments about exactly who and who isn't a 'Greek/Macedonian' at different times in history. This isn't quite a simple as it sounds, given Alexander's ability to conquer everywhere he fancied.

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Fine.

Forum bitch.

Yeah, you.

 

[Fedaykin]

whicih period of rome is it set?

early?
republican?
or imperial ?

 

[Loxleyhood]

whicih period of rome is it set?

early?
republican?
or imperial ?

Republican I believe. Not sure of the game's start date, but it ends the year Augustus died.

 

[Loxleyhood]

As any TW fan knows, your major characters; for the most part, generals, have vices and virtues. Loxleyhood has selected his favourite vices and virtues from R:TW.

Strong Language
Foul Mouthed
Swears Like A Trooper
Irredeemably Foul-mouthed
Aggressively Perverse
Grotesquely Perverse
Casual Adulterer
Blatant Adulterer
Womaniser
Won't Take No For An Answer
Sexual Predator
Gate Breaker
Wall Breaker
Into The Breach!
Gate Keeper
Strong As Stone
None Shall Pass!
Shieldbiter
Tedious Speaker
Boring Speaker
Boring Beyond Belief
Boring Little Tit
Survivor
Expert Survivor
Immune to Death?
Murderer
Inept Poisoner
Ham-fisted Murderer
Immoral
Degenerate
Foul Practices
Debauched
Perverse
Not Safe with Man or Beast
Weak-chinned
Swivel-Eyed
Feeble of Brain
Thin-Skulled
Bad Bloodline
Drooling Inbred Idiot
Plain
Homely
Ugly
Repellent
Scares Small Children
Pawn of the Gods
Falling Sickness
Touched by the Gods
Sane
Hooting
Hiding From the World
Unhinged Loon
Loaths Conviving Greeks
Despises Trouser-wearers

 

[harebear]

Tbh M:TW was a sick game, I kept getting all my daughters married to my sons, 300 years of incest for the win oO R:TW demo is cool but too small, I wanna play full game XD

 

[harebear]

Hopefuly multiplayer in the full game lets you have real games with the main map etc in it, then I can pwn you there Lox ! (uninstalled Sacrafice now :<)

 

[Dillinja]

As any TW fan knows, your major characters; for the most part, generals, have vices and virtues. Loxleyhood has selected his favourite vices and virtues from R:TW.

Strong Language
Foul Mouthed
Swears Like A Trooper
Irredeemably Foul-mouthed
Aggressively Perverse
Grotesquely Perverse
Casual Adulterer
Blatant Adulterer
Womaniser
Won't Take No For An Answer
Sexual Predator
Gate Breaker
Wall Breaker
Into The Breach!
Gate Keeper
Strong As Stone
None Shall Pass!
Shieldbiter
Tedious Speaker
Boring Speaker
Boring Beyond Belief
Boring Little Tit
Survivor
Expert Survivor
Immune to Death?
Murderer
Inept Poisoner
Ham-fisted Murderer
Immoral
Degenerate
Foul Practices
Debauched
Perverse
Not Safe with Man or Beast
Weak-chinned
Swivel-Eyed
Feeble of Brain
Thin-Skulled
Bad Bloodline
Drooling Inbred Idiot
Plain
Homely
Ugly
Repellent
Scares Small Children
Pawn of the Gods
Falling Sickness
Touched by the Gods
Sane
Hooting
Hiding From the World
Unhinged Loon
Loaths Conviving Greeks
Despises Trouser-wearers

I liked insanity. One of my generals liked to paint his servants blue and dance in the moonlight.

Was funny how some of the vices would give plusses on some stats. A lunatic might be less likely to run from battle, for instance.

Sometimes I'd spend hours just clicking on different generals, reading their vices and virtues. Ah, the enjoyment.

 

[Loxleyhood]

Boring little tit is my certain favourite.

 

[Downanael]

Well after trying the demo im veeeeeery impressed,war elephants -> all

 

[HerculesPluto]

"Touched by the gods"

"OMG JEBUS TOUCHED MY WILLY!"? or
"BEING GOOSED BY BUDDAH" or
"JAHOVA RUBBED HIS BELL-END ON ME"

whats the multiplayer like on these TW games btw? and does zerging quickly win most battles?

 

[HerculesPluto]

Tbh M:TW was a sick game, I kept getting all my daughters married to my sons, 300 years of incest for the win oO R:TW demo is cool but too small, I wanna play full game XD

LOL

 

[Loxleyhood]

"Touched by the gods"

"OMG JEBUS TOUCHED MY WILLY!"? or
"BEING GOOSED BY BUDDAH" or
"JAHOVA RUBBED HIS BELL-END ON ME"

whats the multiplayer like on these TW games btw? and does zerging quickly win most battles?

I think the multiplayer is just battles, a campaign map would take too long. And zerging quickly is precisely what gets armies killed.

 

[HerculesPluto]

hehe its so tempting tho

 

[Loxleyhood]

Red - Julii
Lilac - Britons
Blue - Scipii
Green - Brutii
Brown with red Edging - Gauls
Dark Purple around Denmark - Germans
Light Purple far East - Parthians
White with blue Edging - Carthaginians
Yellow - Egyptians
Orange - Scythians (?)
Grey - Selucid Empire
Light Brown Spain - Iberians
Dark Brown in the Balkans - Dacians
Blue/Green East of Black Sea - Armenians
Black with orange Edging Greek Peninsular - Macedonians
Turquoise - Thracians
Tan with red Edging Turkey, Greece, Sicily - GCS
Dark Blue (south of Black sea) Pontic Empire.

Unlike the previous two games, there are no provences. Only cities. Only major cities are shown on this map. I think.

 

[Raven]

looks very impressive - just hope its not another "tank rush" = win game

 

[Loxleyhood]

looks very impressive - just hope its not another "tank rush" = win game

Play the demo and you'll see that it couldn't be any less like that.

 

[harebear]

Plus tanks werent around in roman times <3

 

[Raven]

just playing the demo, very nice indeed though sometimes i find the cavelry milling about which is annoying

 

[Raven]

are there any other demo levels around? played the one you get on the demo 5 or so times now want more!!

 

[Loxleyhood]

just playing the demo, very nice indeed though sometimes i find the cavelry milling about which is annoying

In the full game you can put units under the command of their officer, and they go around slicing people up as they see fit.

are there any other demo levels around? played the one you get on the demo 5 or so times now want more!!

There are several mods around for the demo, play as Carthaginians which is linked somewhere in this thread, and my favourite, the very challenging play as Gauls, which I will link to later on.

 

[Loxleyhood]

http://home.earthlink.net/~axel44/PlayAsGaulsTutorialMod.zip

Play as Gauls in tutorial mod. It is fucking hard, almost defeated the Romans but these Gauls just refuse to stay and fight. Cowards I say!

Check out this thread if you fancy yourself a modder.

 

[Dillinja]

Which difficulty were you trying it on?

I'm going to give it a go now. I'll try medium first.

 

[Loxleyhood]

You can't choose a difficulty in this mod, because it's the tutorial. Problem is, as the tutorial, it's been made rediculously easy for the Romans.

There's also a Gauls vs. Carth mod around, but I haven't found it.

 

[Sissyfoo]

Kinda enjoyed it but I found it a wee bit too easy. Dunno if I would buy the full game yet.

 

[Raven]

just ordered Medievil total war and its expansion (new to the series) that should see me through to the Rome release, 1st October according to play.com

 

[Coccas]

I tried the gaul mod and i must say that was alot more difficult than the river map with cartha, you kinda had to think a bit to win on that one
Btw anyone care to tell me the best way to kill spear infantry?

 

[Loxleyhood]

I tried the gaul mod and i must say that was alot more difficult than the river map with cartha, you kinda had to think a bit to win on that one
Btw anyone care to tell me the best way to kill spear infantry?

Archers, heavy infantry, fat ass elephants.

 

[Raven]

i was routing the enemy, just a few elephants left and the fuckers ran over a load of my men nerf elephants the DF of RTW

 

[Loxleyhood]

I believe I shall be playing mostly as the Parthians.

 

[pez]

didn't realise there was so much pink in the roman times