RIP Total War ???

[Urban Ranger]

No big loss, Total War isn't all that hot anyway.

[DrSpike]

/me shoots UR.

How about we keep TW and ditch UR?

[Bkeela]

I agree with Urban Ranger. Total War is boring.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DrSpike
* DrSpike shoots UR.

How about we keep TW and ditch UR?

You can keep Total War. You can even keep my copy

[Sava]

/me slaps UR with a trout...

Rome: Total War is probably one of the top 3 games ever created.

[snoopy369]

I have to disagree with that just on principle. Not only can you not judge a single game in one genre against games in a totally different genre (by any measurable thing anyway) but R:TW is probably not in the top three in its own genre ...

(Just look at the PCGamer top 50 list if you want to know more about my complaint in the first half of that paragraph ... )

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Sava
* Sava slaps UR with a trout...

Rome: Total War is probably one of the top 3 games ever created.

It has to go 'gold' first. As far as I'm concerned it's still a beta version. Whether the completed game is that good remains to be seen. MTW:VI is a better game than RTW.

[Stuie]

People dissing RTW need to check out the Rome: Total Realism mod. It makes the game what it should have been in the first place. There's also a First Triumvirate mod in the works to start the game at a different date - I'll just leave it at that.

http://www.rometotalrealism.com

Then again I might be biased for reasons you'll see if you visit the forums there.

[DrSpike]

Presumably it makes it more like STW.

[child of Thor]

well i'm 20 turns from finishing the Viking invasion expansion scenario.

Wales has ruled the roost for over 150 years now, enforceing a peace between the picts to the north and the Irish to the west.

The vikings cant get past my armadas, but i was sad to find out i couldn't take the fight to the vikings and deal with the source of the problem.

Still King Conan III will see the final chapter as the normans invade in 1066

These series of games are too good to go away for good. We might wander in the console wilderness of action/rpg TW games for a while, but they still have much to perfect on the real strategy versions of the game imho.

Also the i think i would rather Sega handle the TW future rather than EA for example

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
No big loss, Total War isn't all that hot anyway.

Total War Add-onU R's TW Trout Slap

I have to agree with UR its a good game but not a CIV or even an AOE but nothing that special that we should miss it if it goes

Of course many folks whom visit here are sheeple

this was meant as humor

[Sava]

re: Spencer, snoopy

well some people recognize good games...

judging from the amount of people that play games like EQ and WoW, I'm in the minority of people that can recognize good games.

[Traianvs]

Well this Total realism mod does seem to have some nice extras. Provinces are smaller now, more cities to loot

Though that damn Pyrrhus in southern Italy kicks my arse. I mean c'mon I don't have any troops to counter his elephants! I deliberately sent 3 units of velites, 3 units of triarii and a unit of principes at his elephants to try to stop him at least.... Still his elephants alone killed 1000 of my troops without losing a single elephant!! arf


That's not very realistic. In fact elephants were never that powerful. They were deployed to scare enemy cavalry mainly, and as most Roman units very quite mobile they could easily let the elephants charge passed their ranks without any harm!

Also, the skins of the units have been changed a bit... Still it's not all really correct is it... Velites all having wolveskins on their heads is not really true is it!
I haven't played much yet of course, but the Roman legions are really quite weak now compared to say greek phalanx-type units. That's okay, but you should have given the roman units an other advantage such as more flexible movement or something, because after all that's what they were good at.

PS: Good music tunes in that mod!

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Trajanus
edit.....


Also, the skins of the units have been changed a bit... Still it's not all really correct is it... Velites all having wolveskins on their heads is not really true is it!

edit....

PS: Good music tunes in that mod!

Well this is the problem of going heavy on the graphics, its much more work(most of the programming effort) to get the graphical balance/realism right. You cant hide things as well as you can on little sprite soldiers And your comments on all the wolfhead guys was also something i thought when looking at the screen shots for Rome TW. I know the romans were known for uniformaty, but thats taking it a bit far

Lets just hope these games are not going away anytime soon - Rome TW remains the only reason i'd currently consider upgrading my PC.

[Stuie]

The First Triumvirate mod is out...

Starts the game at 58 BC letting you play Pompey, Caesar or Crassus. It does require RTR v5.4 to play.

Check it out here:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index.php?showforum=76