Any mod that uses the mod:switch parameter will not interfere with the rest of your game. All of its files are placed within a new folder under your main RTW folder. A new shortcut with an altered...
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Any mod that uses the mod:switch parameter will not interfere with the rest of your game. All of its files are placed within a new folder under your main RTW folder. A new shortcut with an altered...
I have not had a chance to look at the save yet, but I can tell you that Patavium is always a problem child in everyone's game. It is always on the verge of rioting.
Disbanding troops there was...
They still have money problems. It is one of the things that makes playing them a challenge. You have to do more with less. A lot less.
Scythian Noblewomen/Noble Archers - Excellent horse archers with the arms and armour to fight in melee as well (You can throw Persian Cavalry in here as well, as they are the same type of unit).
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I do not think horse archers are too strong at all. Historically, they were exceedingly dangerous when used properly. They are too cheap however, as are most of the mounted units. Horses require a...
That is the campaign I thought. I call it your ScipiiCorp game because you were playing it long after conquering everything, and were just managing your empire instead. Now that you have given most...
March them into your smaller settlements and disband them. That should give you quite a population boost.
That is XGM, along with my Amazons and a new Hypaspist skin that I found here (one of King Louise Assurbanipal's).
So that explains the map! You let the rest of the world except Italy rebel! Now are you going to take it all back again?
Actually, I still build the health buildings too, for the short term benefits if nothing else. I always go for the other order buildings, especially law temples. One thing I like about XGM is that...
Yay, I can finally vote now. 1 more for Scythia. I had more fun playing them than any other faction. I just love horse-archery.
Oh my Goddess, I have never seen anything like that! :)
Is that your ScipiiCorp game then? The map looks odd. Is the year really 30568 BCE? or is that some kind of graphical glitch because you...
I liked sallies most playing Scythia. If I saw a city was going to be laid siege to I would try to get a few horse archers inside first. Or once it was under siege I would recruit them there. You can...
Given the current situation, I think I would go with Exterminate. That is what I usually do with large cities I take belonging to different cultures (the culture penalty on top of the initial unrest...
Bouncing Hypaspists (they were just hit by a solid Onager shot).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/Computer%20Games/RomeTotalWar127small.jpg
Like Severous, I only use peasants for garrisons, whether on the border or in the interiour. If someone attacks a city I simply maneuver my army for that region over and destroy them. Typically I...
I would skip the patch and go straight to Alexander and BI. They will patch RTW to whatever version of it that is relative to their own. So if you have BI at 1.6, it will patch RTW to 1.5. When you...
No, they indirectly cause it is the problem. Farms boost your population. The higher your population, the more your squalor. Public health buildings have a similar problem. Their health bonus...
I try to keep most of my cities economically focused, and use only a few as military centers. In the military ones I build war temples, blacksmiths, etc... While in the others I concentrate on...
Only add it to the Target box. Leave the Start In box alone.
Like so:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/Install_XGM/RTWShortcut01.jpg
Those are my feelings. Why buy someone when you can just grind them into dust beneath the hooves of your trusty steeds? I save my denari for the enemies whom I cannot beat in open battle. Or who...
Ok, I finally tried the second battle of the two in the save. Yow. That was painful.
I started out advancing slowly toward the Thracians with my main force, and took my one reinforcing pike unit...
Froggbeastegg's Guide is very good. There is also the Smackus Maximus guide for RTW here:
http://guides.ign.com/guides/498739/
To turn off the green arrows go to your...
So what does one have to do to earn the nickname "The Lewd"? :)
Yes, I forgot to mention the rebels, especially those in Italy. I dealt with one of the rebel stacks, but did not have anything of fighting quality to go after the other two, yet.
Rebels need to...
I downloaded your save and played one turn. Now you have 55k denarii in your treasury.
Your first problem was that you were letting the computer manage your settlements for you. You need to turn...
I had a battle at the foot of a watchtower once as well, in one of my old Greek campaigns.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/subrosa_florens/Computer%20Games/RomeTotalWar15small.jpg
This is my best general in my current campaign. He led the conquest of Italy, utterly exterminating the Romans, and is now squaring off against the Iberian hordes pouring through Gaul. He has a...
For the most part it is mods for me. But I still like vanilla sometimes too. It all depends on what faction I am playing. For example, the Greek Cities are much better to play in XGM.
I never have trouble attacking in an even line when using infantry. I just pause, select all the units, then click where I want them to go, usually a spot behind the enemy units. I press the spacebar...
I quicksave before every battle. Not so I can go back and re-fight it if I do not like how it turns out, but because it is just a habit from years of playing computer games to save often. You never...
Yes indeed. Playing Scythia I routinely fought armies 3-4 times larger than mine and defeated them with relative ease. It only takes patience. In fact, I typically lost more people to friendly fire...
Experience is a somewhat murky subject. The most certain way to gain it is simply to kill enemies. Each level of experience seems to require more killing to reach. Plus Killing routers do not count...
That is kind of you to say. I had a good teacher. :smile:
Truth to be told however, I took those pics hoping to document my triumphant victory against all odds. Oh well, some days you eat the...
Before you reinstall, try one of the All Factions Playable mods in the Downloads area. There are a ton of them out there.
At least there was plenty of bacon afterward! :)
I just tried the first of those battles. Whew. I was thrashed most ungloriously. Those Eastern Armored Generals were what did it.
Edited To Add Pictures:
I started by moving up my archers so I...
I had an addicted moment this afternoon. I saw a woman in an orange top, and I immediately thought "She must be a Scythian..."
I am very disappointed in the Macedonian pikemen in RTW. I started my first Macedonian campaign a little while ago, and I was thinking "Wow, I will have both good infantry and cavalry at the same...
You did not still leave them under unlockable as well did you? When you are done, it should look something like this:
I always put the senate as nonplayable, since if you play as them and...