25-01-2005 02:12									#61
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Each influence "laurel wreath" is another -10% unrest. Family members = ultimate unrest quenchers.

Send them on tour. They pick up habits and retinue depending what they DO and where they are STATIONED and what buildings are there.

Temple of Jupiter gives some GREAT leader bonuses. And the priest you can pick up is one of the best retinue members.

-Jam

	25-01-2005 02:21									#62
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Now if only I had time to play RTW with all the HOI2, NWN and whatnot around

	25-01-2005 03:21									#63
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Tell me about it! I have Thief 3 here, still UNWRAPPED and unplayed after a week! Skanky will kill me!

-Jam

	25-01-2005 03:28									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski UNWRAPPED -Jam

Translation: not burnt onto cd yet.

	25-01-2005 04:55									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Chemical Ollie Even armies with 15-20 units could be beaten by the Britons occasionally.

That's part of the learning process. With time, you will learn how to win.

quote: And an army that has been in a tough battle has to return to a good city to retrain. In the meantime, another army has to releave it on the front. I tend to have 4-6 large armies.

Are you aware that you may merge wounded units?
If 2 units of 80 are reduced to 60 and 55 after a battle, you may drag&drop one on the other, leaving you with 1 unit of 80 and one of 35.
Withdraw the one of 35 to your city and leave the one of 80 on the front.
Have a few reserve units behind your army for immediate reinforcement.
The units in my armies are almost always full strength.

quote: You also need a good navy. I tried to complete the senate missions to blockade some ports. Sometimes it worked, but quite often there were 700 man enemy fleets stopping me.

Try to select senate missions more carefully. Look at the rewards and the consequences. What you gain, what you lose.
Do you gain a unit? Money? An ennemy?
As Julii, I don't fulfill any the missions against Greece. I might fullfill some against Carthage. I do not build a real fleet before Gaul & Spain are mine, so I don't want Greece (big powerfull fleet) to be my ennemy.

	25-01-2005 05:07									#66
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Oh, and btw, the army of 12 in Spain I was talking about was not an 'front' army, it was an occupation army. No ennemies nearby, only conquered provinces.
Front armies are of course bigger.

	25-01-2005 06:36									#67
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This guy actually croaked at the ripe old age of 80!!

I took this pic after Id just stripped most of his retinue out to the younger family members when he was 78.

Its good that you can do this as you lose all the retinue when the leaders die.

I think this is the oldest faction leader ive had to date, seen a few in their 70's but only this one has made 80. has anyone had a leader live longer than 80 ?

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	25-01-2005 07:30									#68
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Translation: not burnt onto cd yet.

DVD actually

Its good. I'm playing now. But hey this is a R:TW thread

-Jam

	25-01-2005 08:54									#69
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* asleepathewheel waiting for a new patch

	25-01-2005 13:31									#70
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quote: Originally posted by Dry That's part of the learning process. With time, you will learn how to win.

I only play perhaps 25% of the battles manually. It would take to much time if I did. And the AI sometimes lose, at least when the numbers are equal.

quote: Are you aware that you may merge wounded units?

I found that out last night. It's very useful after the army reform, when I can no longer retrain obsolete units. Now I just merge them and use them until there are none of them left.

	26-01-2005 00:44									#71
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski DVD actually

Gotcha.

	26-01-2005 18:59									#72
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Is there a way to keep playing after winning the game? It thought I saw something about that in a forum on the TW site, but now I can't find it.
I never wanted to before, but I 'accidently' won by taking out the last Thracian province, which was more like cleaning up loose ends. I was about to face the Scipii near Thapsus in what promised to be the coolest battle I'd faced yet in RTW. Both myself and the Scipii had EVERYTHING: urban militia, arcani, excellent generals--all top rank units, and plenty of reinforcements.
I was really looking forward to it, and hadn't paid attention to how many provinces I'd taken (I was also at war with Britons and hap-hazardly taking and losing and retaking and relosing the same 2 provinces).
I have a save at the end of the previous turn, and an autosave from that final turn. I could just reload the save and do the Scipii battle, but I want to keep going after that and take on Egypt.
This is the first game I've had with sauch a wide assortment of best units and I'd like to see what they can do.
So, anyway around victory/game over "movie" so I can keep on playing?

	26-01-2005 19:08									#73
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Press Esc? Ctrl+Esc, Ctrl+Enter maybe? I distinctly recall that it was a key combination.

	26-01-2005 19:22									#74
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Hmmm, that seems to ring a bell. I think I'll get off here and play around with it for a while. If I figure it out, I'll post it, in case anybody else wants to know. Thanks.

	26-01-2005 23:45									#75
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Victory movie comes on:
1. ctrl+s = quicksave
2. reload quicksave
3. keep playing

	02-02-2005 22:46									#76
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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.

	02-02-2005 23:39									#77
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quote: 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

	03-02-2005 23:23									#78
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The official patch (v1.2) is out...

http://download.activision.com/tota...W_1.2_Patch.exe

	04-02-2005 00:04									#79
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Here's a site (with less traffic) that is hosting the patch:

http://www.rome1.de/

	17-02-2005 01:54									#80
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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.

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	17-02-2005 02:03									#81
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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.

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	17-02-2005 02:06									#82
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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.

	17-02-2005 02:07									#83
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Forgot the pic

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	17-02-2005 07:19									#84
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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.

	17-02-2005 10:32									#85
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quote: 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

	07-07-2005 20:11									#86
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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

	07-07-2005 20:17									#87
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how do you split retinue?

JM

	07-07-2005 21:07									#88
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Oooh... if only I had the free time :/

	07-07-2005 21:15									#89
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski Oooh... if only I had the free time :/

^^^^^

	09-07-2005 02:39									#90
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quote: 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.