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Re: Rome Total War - Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 09-02-2008
Hi Dave / Toby,
I check TWC for news on RS2, casually. I hope the system requirements won't be that high. Really enjoyed RS 1.5, but never got it to an end.
Re: Rome Total War - Quintus Sertorius - 09-03-2008
I guess 1.5 campaigns will not be picked up by RS 2.0? It will excruciating wanting to upgrade but needing to abandon months work in RS 1.5! I think I shall just have to work through 1.5 first.
Quintus
aka Guido Aston
Re: Rome Total War - Burninator - 09-03-2008
TRUST ME, when 2.0 comes out you will forget 1.5 ever was....
I am really working my butt off right now to get good LOD's and sprites made. I know not everyone can run at maxxed out spec's, so I made the push for us to include LOD models. We weren't at first, just were going to use the model and have the sprites come in farther. Using the old 1.5 models helps me convert them to LOD models sssoooo much faster.
BTW LOD's are the lower detail models for when you zoom out, or have a lower end system.
Re: Rome Total War - greekwarrior34 - 09-03-2008
Quote:I recently reinstalled RTW and am now using the Europa Barbarorum mod. It. Is. Awesome. 'Nuff said!
Indeed I prefer Europa Barbarorum rather than Rome Total Realism. Sounds, voices, graphics... the bad point is that you must have a very good computer (1GB of RAM it's ok, with less it might be problems) and patience for waiting among the turns.
Re: Rome Total War - Jingle_Bombs - 09-03-2008
Well, EB can have faster turns if you axe out parts of the script as I do. The tricky part is knowing which bits to delete.
And yes, RS2 is going to be so different from 1.5 it's practically a whole different mod - and a whole different game from Rome Total War.
Glad to hear that, burninator - my PC is pretty terrible, so it's good to know you're looking out for the little people
Re: Rome Total War - Ioannes_Ahenobarbus - 09-04-2008
I use the long pauses to my advantage...I memorize verb forms:
-omen, -eso, -eto, -ometha, -esthe, -onto
Over and over and over again!
Re: Rome Total War - Quintus Sertorius - 09-05-2008
I think the quote was:
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one"
So Toby, you were damned close.
Quintus
aka Guido Aston
Re: Rome Total War - silverwolfalpha - 09-08-2008
Quote:Has anyone played the RTW 'Alexander" expansion pack? If so what historic battles are available on it.i got the anthology, so all 3 games included(original/barbarian invasion/alexander)
Antonius Opilio - AKA Tony O'Morda
got to say, the gameplay becomes boring after a while, since the pc sucks at autobattles, i found that you have to fight many battles yourselves.
what really annoys me is that you can't play as all the factions in the game, i mean, whats the point of making them if we can't control them?! :roll:
Oh yea, are the units accurate?
Re: Rome Total War - M. Demetrius - 09-09-2008
If it's like the original Rome Total War, (the version you have) you have to win the 50 province campaign, then you can play most of the others. Some of them have almost no chance of winning, so it's just as well you can't play them...I have won as Parthians, though, the civ in which cataphracts eat most all infantry with little difficulty. If you can just last that long.
I know someone who has won as Seleucids (who also get cataphracts), but I always get clobbered between the Egyptians and the Parthians, so I've never gotten far.
Re: Rome Total War - Burninator - 09-10-2008
As far as accuracy "vanilla" RTW as we call it was crap...
Thus the reasoning for Roma Surrectum, EB, SPQR, etc. They also made it so you can play any faction you want, except the senate and the rebels.
Re: Rome Total War - silverwolfalpha - 09-10-2008
Quote:If it's like the original Rome Total War, (the version you have) you have to win the 50 province campaign, then you can play most of the others. Some of them have almost no chance of winning, so it's just as well you can't play them...I have won as Parthians, though, the civ in which cataphracts eat most all infantry with little difficulty. If you can just last that long.yea i just found how to unlock all factions, however its pretty annoying since it crashes your save games(lucky i had backups)
I know someone who has won as Seleucids (who also get cataphracts), but I always get clobbered between the Egyptians and the Parthians, so I've never gotten far.
lol since i have won i been playing with cheats, i managed to conquer around 15 settlements without spilling single blood--buy them with money!
Re: Rome Total War - silverwolfalpha - 09-10-2008
Quote:As far as accuracy "vanilla" RTW as we call it was crap...gonna instal rome total realism and see whats that like
Thus the reasoning for Roma Surrectum, EB, SPQR, etc. They also made it so you can play any faction you want, except the senate and the rebels.
Re: Rome Total War - Burninator - 09-10-2008
Honestly, Roma Surrectum, Darth's Mod, and SPQR were the only ones I could get into. EB runs too slow on my modern bleeding edge machine thanks to all the scripts, Haven't tried RTR thanks to there being a billion different versions... I like battles, plain and simple. I want big armies, which requires lots of money. Once you understand how to edit the game, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Want to make it easier to have large armies? make them recruited in 0-turns, and drop their upkeep to like 20-30 denarii per turn. Both you and the AI benefit, and you'll be fighting larger stacks, and more numerous ones at that. I just can't stand tedious periods of waiting for buildings to finish, trying to keep settlements from revolting, etc. I just invade any and everyone around me, without mercy!
Re: Rome Total War - Spartan198 - 09-12-2008
RTW is one reason my interest in history really grew legs.
Besides helping to build a WIP mod called Wars of the Diadochi, I play the Extended Greek Mod that starts in 280 BC, Rise of Persia that starts in the 500s BC and features a few playable Greek city-states (something to hold me over until Hegemonia City States releases...), Troy: Total War, which is based around the Trojan War, and Paeninsula Italica, which focuses on Italy and the rise of Rome in the 300s BC.
I also have Europa Barbarorum, XGM: Diadochi, and Alexander Reborn on my hard drive, but none are installed, as I don't play them that often. I've played both RTR and SPQR a few times but didn't like them.
Looking forward to:
Wars of the Diadochi
Hegemonia City States
Hic Est Lacedaemon
Assyria: Total War
Rise of Persia, v. 3
Megas Alexandros
Re: Rome Total War - Burninator - 09-12-2008
I too had been waiting for Hegemonia. I have been long wanting to play as the greeks fending off the persian invasion, then have to fight each other for the next 300 years. The best part about narrowing the focus of a mod, both in time and location, is you can havwe more detailed unit rosters for the factions you have.