Rome: Total War

[yin26]

Just wanted to add my praise for this awesome game. Even not modded, I have found it a challenge (in all good sense of the word) for several days straight now. I really like that you are generally forced to consider your priorities (pop growth or higher taxes, etc.) and that you can't rush buy improvements. In other words, planning and restraint actually pay off!

Now that I have read what is in the Realism Mod, I'm *really* jazzed! Man, if I was looking forward to Civ. 4, this game has made me not care if the next Civ doesn't come out for a good long while. That's pretty high praise indeed.

[germanos]

Originally posted by yin26
Now that I have read what is in the Realism Mod, I'm *really* jazzed! Man, if I was looking forward to Civ. 4, this game has made me not care if the next Civ doesn't come out for a good long while. That's pretty high praise indeed.

Well said

[Stuie]

The official patch (v1.2) is out...

http://download.activision.com/totalwar/RomeTW_1.2_Patch.exe

[Stuie]

Here's a site (with less traffic) that is hosting the patch:

http://www.rome1.de/

[Dry]

I think it is time to reactivate this thread.

So, here are some pics of my games.

First, the victory I'm most proud of.
This was my first non-roman game. I had unlock the gauls and played them before finishing the roman campain.
It was still at medium difficulty level.

I do not remember the exact situation (who was beseiging who?), but I remember I could beat the AI units one by one.

[Dry]

Now, my greatest victory at veryHard/veryHard (Emperor/Emperor with Realism 5.1 mod):

This was a defensive battle against the Macedonians. The problem was that they attacked my 2nd line army containing a lot of green troops. I spent a lot of time chosing my defensive position on the map and it seems paid of.

I have pics of the battle itself, but I don't want to post too much pics here.

So here is the battle result.

[Dry]

And finally, some weird one.

I could call it the miracle of adoption.

Look at this guy: 4 sons, 1 grandson... and no wife yet.

[Dry]

Forgot the pic

[Boris Godunov]

I want to get this game, but what are the min system specs for it to run smoothly? I have a p4 1.7g with 512 mb ram.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I want to get this game, but what are the min system specs for it to run smoothly? I have a p4 1.7g with 512 mb ram.

P3 1.0 gig
256 mb
plus either Radeon 8500/Geforce 3 or greater.

Pretty light specs really, the game automatically scales the graphics setting according to your system

[Stuie]

In case you want to dust off your copy of RTW, there's some mod news.

The First Triumvirate v1.5 has been released and v6.0 of Rome: Total Realism will be out in a couple weeks.

http://www.rometotalrealism.com

[Jon Miller]

how do you split retinue?

JM

[Jamski]

Oooh... if only I had the free time :/

[SirOsis]

Originally posted by Jamski
Oooh... if only I had the free time :/

^^^^^

[Kingof the Apes]

Originally posted by Stuie
In case you want to dust off your copy of RTW, there's some mod news.

The First Triumvirate v1.5 has been released and v6.0 of Rome: Total Realism will be out in a couple weeks.

http://www.rometotalrealism.com

I remember when they said 6.0 would be out in may

I can't wait for this to come out, I probably won't see daylight for weeks.