After watching alot of trailers and playing the demo, I think this game is the most amazing game ever....I can hardly play any other game cause I keep thinking about Rome: total war.
I just wish they could release it earlier than 22nd of september :(...21 more days to go!!!
I have to agree with you and say that this possibly is one of the greatest games ever. Do you live in America because us Brits have to wait until the 1st of October fo it to come out
It will be worth the wait(Hopefully)
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No I had an even better battle.
It was 150v 1200. yes 150 v 1200. I had 4 units of cavalry, one being a general. The enemy charged across the bridge, only to be met by my cavalry. The charge flung off the enemy off the bridge, and cavalry don't fall off bridges. So they kept falling off, and they charged everyone into the river! So they died, and the men routed?! They routed after charging into a river. They drowned. OK, they were scared, but of a river?! Hmmm...
Anyway, I killed 1000+ and lost 42 men
bush bashing, listening to music, killing peepz, all in a day's "work"
I can beat that! I fought some 300 against my 100 and something troops and I was defending a small town with no mannable walls. but thair mistake was this:
They had mostley infantry and one cavalry as their genearal. as soon as my gate gave in I charged my general cavalry unit and obliterated them! They didn't want to waste their cavalry so I killed all their infantry and by the end they were so scared They routed and my town was safe ever after... I think.
And one time as the Gauls I sent in an all out assault on a Roman city most of them were dead but I only had four units of infantry left against their six infantry and one cavalry.
They'd attack me one unit after another and even without my genearl warcry gave my infantry enough morale to kill their army and I won the battle heroicly but it still gave me a lousey Clear Victory! The Nerve!
i've had some pretty good battles too but maybe to those ratio's but i can't remember them. The tip i'd like to get by hands on is how to keep the population under control. i once had about 130'000 denari and was still building and making guys with mon=ey to spare, then the cities started collapsing and there was no way to solve it.
Death to Michael Greenburg! First he Kill's Apophis now he Kill's Fraser. B*stard!
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Rome is the best game, bar none.
Playing as the Brutii, I have had some amazing battles against the Greeks. They sent 3 full armies one after the other against my garrisoned towns in Apollonia and the other coast towns right? We're talking 6-10 units of phalanx and various other missile infantry. Thankfully the Greek cavalry is atrocious. I had something like seven units of cavalry (five of them generals the leader with 10 stars) and a very small compliment of light infantry, 4 hastati, some town watch, and 4 units of peasants. I also had illyrian mercs and velites. Well, I took my cavalry out the side gate away from the enemy and got them set. Then I marched my infantry out the front, formed ranks, and began to march towards the enemy. When they didn't run, they shifted their positions so that their flanks were exposed. then it was a simple matter of engaging the phalanx units with my light infantry and slamming my cavalry into their flanks and rear. With the phalanx dead the spine of the Greek army was broken and it was just a mop up from there. Casualties were not light, but they were very acceptable. Cavalry suffered very little and gained a lot of experience. Also, this was the first time I used a peasant horde. You simply stack all the peasants together during deployment and send all the units against a much more powerful one. They will surround them and chip away. Using this strategy I killed the enemy king and severely depleted the power of the Greeks. I'm still working my way over towards their area (fricking macedon) but they are just like lambs to the slaughter. I wish you could save battles in the campaign.
Another good trick is to accept their offer to become a protectorate, in exchange for land. you get one of their provinces without any bloodshed...then of course you either attack them or they attack you (treacherous Macedonians). You keep the province.
Man, gotta love memorable battles. My most memorable was when I had 250 people vs. nearly 800 Gauls and 200 of their reinforcements coming from the rear. The one mistake they made though was their main attacking force was on the otherside of a bridge (this was at the settlement Massila or something like that in the Gaul's territory). So I used the bridge as a choke point, sent my Hastati into fight since even though they outnumbered my infantry by about 3 to 1, they were forced to fight 1 on 1 on the bridge as my Javelin throwers nailed the infantry behind them. Seeing that the bridge battle was under control for the time, I sent all my cavalry, including my General, to dispose of the reinforcements which were all light infantry. It wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter and within about 3 minutes I had them on a full retreat. I turned my attention back to the bridge only to find that their General had been slain and the remaining soldiers were on a full retreat. It was time for payback. I withdrew my infantry from the bridge and had my cavalry charge at the retreating forces. No one survived. I had killed all but 12 of their soldiers and lost around 45. My General became a town hero and that was the beginning of the end for the Gauls. That's why I love this game too, strategy can almost always beat brute strength.
"I wanted to meet people of an exotic and interesting culture....... and kill them. " - Pvt. Joker
My most memorable one.
I've just lost one of my newly captured city due to a riot. So my army as been put out of the city. I had just 1 incomplete Hastati, 1 Archer and 2 Town Watch.
The enemy attacked me with a very huge army of mostly infantry. This army was outside the city. I was between this army and the enemy city (who contained just a bunch of peasant and some infantry). The small army got out of the city. I could only beat the small city army, but never the big one who was pressing me against the city. So i've rushed into the small army of peasant who came from the city in hope that they would try to retreat in the city and that I could maybe use the open gates to enter the city and take control of it and the wall would protect me from the rest of the enemies. It worked. I've entered the city and inside i've managed to kill the peasent. After that, i've realized that the big army was going for another gate, so i've send my archer running to take control of the other two gates before the enemy army could reach them.
After i've managed to control the three gates, i just had to patiently wait for 2 minutes in the town square to win the battle.
One of my most memorable battles was the classic (ahem) 'underdog' Vs. barbaric horde.
The Dacians were besieging one of my border towns that had only 6 units of town watch. They busted down the gate but for some reason they were hesitant to enter. Then they just fired rows of arrows into my town watch units which I set on loose formation of course.
Meanwhile, the towers of my wooden wall fortunately took a toll on their archers. But those cowards still wouldn't enter the gate. Finally the battle ended with me still in possession of the town and my 6 town watch units halved in strength.
I guess this is what they call a stand-off.
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It's definatly on of the best strategy games ever, I would say on of the best games ever!!
shareThe best thing about it is it's like you're watching the history channel except you're making history! You're fighting magnifisent and desisive battles of great heroism. But no great leader is without his falls. This game by far is the best!
shareI had one in africa 120, about 40 archers and 80 infantry men beatoff from my castle about 1000 men,they broke my wall but had to come up hill, they massacred my infantry men and some how i managed to keep them of with archers in close combat :)
share63 parthian royal bodyguards vs 1273 seleucid(phalanx mainly) killed 848
sharelol ur all jokes. i had 2 town watches and 1 hastati in Spanish town against 3200 Spanish enemies. i won. the town square only had two exposed sides so i put my hastati in front and both my town watches in the back and it friggin wokrked. maybe the battle mode was set on medium and thats why i won, but that is still a crazy ratio.
shareOh yeah? I've got two of em' for yeah! Well once, I crossed the Bosporus from Turkey into Greece with a 2000-strong Seleucid army. I moved north into the Carpathian Mountains, which were under the control of the Brutii at the time. I hired several units of Sarmatian mercs before marching to fight a slightly larger Brutii army. I had by elephants take the flank, and had my phalanxes advance in a straight line divided into two groups, with the Sarmations behind them. Then, just before my phalangites were upon the enemy, I ordered the line to split open, allowing the Sarmatians to charge right into the enemy's surprised center while my elephants came crashing in from the side. I only lost twelve men and killed just about all of the enemy.
On another occasion, the same campaign, two much larger armies of the Juli factions acted me. I rushed the first army, held their center in place with my phalanxes and overran their flanks with cataphracts, quickly annihilating them. Then, as the second army came, I went and DID THE EXACT SAME THING ON THEM, TOO! It was so awesome, so many bodies everywhere. Ah....glorious bloodshed.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who watches the watchmen?
Oh yeah? Well once I had a single peasant, and I sent him to battle a Spanish army of around 1,000 men. You know what happened? My peasant died :(
But the battles I tend to remember are the big ones. Two huge armies clashing. That's what it's about! And I love springing ambushes in forests... you can lure an entire enemy army to your general's position and then have masses of cavalry charge at them from nowhere on both flanks! It's awesome!
And is it just me or are Egypt the most annoying enemy faction in the game?? >.<
playing with the seleucid empire is great, specially in hardest difficulty. Your armies can be perfectly balanced and powerful, and the best thing is to fight other great armies, specially from romans, who you fight when you dare to enter eurpe through greece, and cartago with the Scipions. I arrived to get 4 marks of epic battles in almost the same place in northern africa, before arriving Lepcis Magna. The armies keep coming, by 1000s during years, it was awesome.
GREAT FUN WITH THE SELEUCID EMPIRE, I STRONGLY RECOMEND IT
medieval will not put rome in shame, because it is Rome with better graphics, and in medieval ages, but is the same engine
shareSomeone once said just max out Cataphracts and that will decimate any army. I tested this theory, but in reverse, i used my well rounded greeks against maxed out cataphracts. Nadda. My phalanx was almost shattered in their insane charge, but spartans don't break easily. That and the aid of cretan archers really helped pick them apart. I had drawn myself into a point where they were forced to attack my front and could not outflank me, basically i took away their mobility and ability to hit my slow troops from the rear. My onagers actually took out their general before they even hit me i think. Wicked wild shot.
If you're defending a small city against a bigger force and you are a team that can use the phalanx, make 3 lines blocking off the streets they will go down, the first line will usually get broken and will draw their swords. But then you have the second and third lines just advance into whatever is against you. Sometimes you'll need to do this defensive move a few lines deep. I was able to with 6 units of militia hoplites and 2 units of peasents hold off an army of Julii that was more than twice the size with Velites, Hastati, Principes, Equites and Wardogs. Barely mind you. I was lucky to take down their general which allowed for their troops to break and run.
This was the game I wanted to play for years. I remember playing the original Age of Empires when I was a kid and imaging how cool it would be if they made the game realistic - where you could control thousands of warriors (instead of 50), and also zoom down to the battlefield to watch the soldiers slug it out. As a fan of Ancient Rome, I hoped the game would center on this period of history. When Shogun was released, I wished that the Creative Assembly would make a Roman follow up. So when they announced this in 2002/2003 it was like a dream come true.
Rome: Total War is five years old, but it's still the best strategy game I've ever played, and I find a hundred times better than Empire: TW, which I consider to be the most disappointing (but not the worst) game I've ever played.
6 years on this is still the best strategy game, its the only computer game to ever have a TV series commissioned around it (time commanders).
It was my first TW game and was the developers last independant game they were reigned in by SEGA after this.
Empire is a good game and is enjoyable but theres a pressing thought in your mind playing it.. why?.
Rome wasn't an independant game...they were influenced a lot by Activision.
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