Rome: Total War

[Stuie]

I've been playing (and modding) RTW again. Being a Roman history fan, it's the one game I keep coming back to.

A lot of the expansion changes can be modded into the original game, which is nice - night battles, loyalty, etc. I'm also helping test what will probably end up being my favorite RTW mod (with my own TFT mod coming in a close second ). It's called Arthurian: Total War - the map is changed to focus on England, Ireland and part of France. The units are all new and reflect the historic units available in the area in 480AD. Very cool thus far. It's a closed beta test, but keep an eye out for the public version to get some more milage out of RTW. Their forum:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=107

[Main_Brain]

Night Battles can be modded in the Original Game?
Elaborate please =)

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Main_Brain
Night Battles can be modded in the Original Game?
Elaborate please =)

Just takes a little bit of modding:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=41936

[Main_Brain]

Many Thanks will try it out =)

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Stuie
I've been playing (and modding) RTW again.

Me too. I think Civ4 is a great game but the combat is annoying (and now more critical than ever). I got rid of BI since it was too annoying and tried RTR. I wasnt impressed with that either but of course it was based on the 1.2 version (which was crap) and doomed to failure. I'm now playing a 1.5 version (with the player1 fixer) campaign and I just dont think its great. It may be false memories but I think 1.3 was better. There are just so many critical gameplay issues with RTR that I find myself wondering just how bad (or good) MTW2 will be.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by SpencerH


Me too. I think Civ4 is a great game but the combat is annoying (and now more critical than ever). I got rid of BI since it was too annoying and tried RTR. I wasnt impressed with that either but of course it was based on the 1.2 version (which was crap) and doomed to failure. I'm now playing a 1.5 version (with the player1 fixer) campaign and I just dont think its great. It may be false memories but I think 1.3 was better. There are just so many critical gameplay issues with RTR that I find myself wondering just how bad (or good) MTW2 will be.

A Freudian slip?

[Quillan]

There was one major problem with 1.3 of the RTW game that broke things for me: it screwed up Roman diplomacy. In my first 1.3 campaign, playing the Scipiones, I had taken Halicarnassus, while Sardis was still held by the Seleucids. The Seleucids were allied with the Bruti, and they attacked me. In normal circumstances, since there are alliances both ways (Scipiones-Bruti and Bruti-Seleucids) the attacker would have broken his alliance. Instead, the game broke the Scipiones-Bruti alliance and along with it, the SPQR-Scipiones and Julii-Scipiones alliances. I quit at that point and didn't play again until 1.5 was released.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by DrSpike


A Freudian slip?

It could look that way, but Freud wasn't involved (and you leave my sex life out of it) . It's just an example of me leaving out a few details ie. I stopped playing RTW to play civ4 but have gone back to RTW.

[DrSpike]

Sure, sure.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I got rid of BI since it was too annoying...

Me too! I actually had to buy it again when I got back to modding the game. True - the AI leaves something to be desired. But TFT makes up for it in various ways ( ) and ATW is fun no matter what if you like stuff in the Warlords Chronicles vein. But I know how choosy you can be (no offense intended) so maybe any RTW mod just won't do it for you.