Rome: Total War

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Aramis
Once a faction leader reaches his late 50s I start splitting up his retinue whenever the chance permits. Have a couple of retainers(?right word?) that should be about a hundred years old now.

Huh? How can I split up the retinue? I didn't even know it was possible and I've had the game for ages.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia


Huh? How can I split up the retinue? I didn't even know it was possible and I've had the game for ages.

Ditto!

[germanos]

I know that

Get the general with his retinue on the same spot as another general. You can then simply drag the retainers onto the caracter you want, and they'll stick with the other guy.

[Aramis]

What germanos said up there
It's not easy, as ye know, to get faction members together to do this, so I usually wind up giving the older one's retainers to some new just-come-o'-age member. Sometimes its more trouble than its worth.

[Spaced Cowboy]

There seems to be a limit on how many you can have as well.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Now this guy is 70....will he never die....I put his a$$ on the africa continent to take on the Nubians...that ought to kill him.

[Aramis]

In present game I lost 2 faction leaders within a few years of each other, and neither was past 56.
I'd love to keep one around until 70's.

[Jamski]

I've been playing this today on my new PC

Just to make you all jealous I can run it on the highest settings with no slowdown at all. It looks gorgeous.

I am seriously in love with this game already.

-Jam

[Aramis]

It is pretty.

[Jamski]

It is fabulous

Now... what text file do I have to edit to make the game think I have completed an imperial campaign? I'm itching to send Hoplites into action vs legions

-Jam

[Spaced Cowboy]

He-he, now the little bugger is 73, game starts to bog down a bit when you have 6 armies on 6 different fronts (and I loaded HL2 and started playing KOTOR2 on the Xbox).

Jamski,

http://rtw.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=3554

is the total realism mod, lets you play any faction and makes a lot of "corrections"

[Jamski]

It basically makes all the good units weaker and/or take longer to train and/or cuts them altogether, and slows population growth

Fun > realism in a game like this.

-Jam

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Jamski

Fun > realism in a game like this.

-Jam

Bah! Speak for yourself. I've found the Realism mod to add exponentially to my enjoyment of the game. I'm currently helping playtest v5.0 and it's definitely the best yet. Hopefully it will be out the end of this week.

[Kassiopeia]

The mod should be called "Rome: Total FUN!"

[Dry]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
Okay, so how old has your leader gotten before he died. Right now my 1st leader is 67 (never had one get that old before).

Most of my leaders die between 65-70.
I don't remember a leader dying (from old age) before 60... but I don't really check, so may be it happened.
The oldest I got was 80.

I use old leaders (50+) as 'retinue generators' for younger leaders:
- settle old man in a city with academy, he''ll attract retinues faster than young man (better influence I guess);
- hand those retinues to young man with less influence
- re-generate retinues with old man and send young man to war to earn his own influence;
- repeat process