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I have played the series since Shogun (1) and am overall happy with rtw2. In most aspects except the building tree it has tried to improve on previous games, sometimes more successfully than at other...

It is accurate for the historical timeframe.

So you can still get reasonable and thought-out answers round here nowadays? Well said.

Absoluteluy agree. In my last 3 campaigns the Suebi have become a bit of a steamroller. If anything they seem a bit too strong.

This campaign (Patch 9) the Seleucids are gone and Persia/Parthava...

Is it wrong to find the juxtaposition of the grammar and the accusation of "arcadey" in this post amusing? :hmm:

As the I ceni I successfully got the tribe in the Southwest of Britain (can't remember their name - Iska) to join my confederation and the option is there for the Caledones to do it - although they...

Land trading as a diplomatic option was good and is a miss in this game.

Though there was always to temptation to exploit it a bit. In Med2 for example gifting a single province to a random...

krisslanza - The man deserves a medal! Kriss I admire your valiant attempts to sustain the cause of reason in the face of the constant dribble of nay-sayers. Rest assured your contributions are...

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~LestaT

This is a game the premise of which is not to simulate the Rise of Rome but to allow the gamer the option to "what if". So, those...

17377 players right now. It is 15:30 in the UK, so that's not bad for a Monday Afternoon/Morning (taking Europe and NA as the largest playing timezones). Of course they are all deluded fools who...

:laughter: Ain't that the truth! The puerile whining used to annoy me (back when Medieval : Total War came out after Shogun: Total War), but now I actually find it amusing.

Having said that, it is...

Just to play devil's advocate and because everone is using guesswork, extrapolation, persoal prejudice and Shogun as a yardstick of r2tw's failure, I thought it would interesting to see numbers of...

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Nice reply, sans pre-pubescent angst, which makes for a nice change. As you've probably realised unbridled rage seems is the standard form of communications for a quite a few round...

Make that a second one.

Good game :yes:

Read the posts about how to use diplomacy efficiently rather than making sweeping closed statements....

Hear! Hear! Well said that man!

I much prefer this to Shogun. But then again, I FAR prefered Empire over Shogun too....

If you take the time to actually understand all the mechanics it is a...

Eloquent put down.

As for how many people are playing it, mostly those who aren't posting here (for reasons excellently put by AV). But more prosaically, isn't there another thread around...

:yes: True. Though, they were also used as a sinecure for serving legionaries. But they were certainly not any more "elite" except in social status than others.

He he, that is exactly the case. Unfortunately for them CA got too close to the "community" and if anyting tried to please everyone and have ended up pleasing very few of them.

The community is...

Hitting the nail on the head there my old mucker! The encyclopaedia is one the main faillings of this game. As you point out it is meant to offer help making decisions and it simply doesn't. What's...

Well said.

In anticipation of R2 I dug out my old copy of RTW played it for a bit. Frustrated at the basic experience I trolled trough the various mods trying several of them, including RS2. To me...

:hick: Who would've thought that there might be several versions of a beta patch? What are CA thinking of! :laughter:

One of those "declines" was me. I have just come back form two weeks holiday. Back to the game.

Just another post looking to dribble a bit more bile on the rest of us.

crzyrndm has it spot...

Oh dear, oh dear, I laughed and laughed.

Epic fail OP.:laughter:

+1 :thumbsup2

Funny his this thread appeared just above one asking if artillery was worth it....

Delusional.

Never had an issue with my gtx770 in the first place. Running it in concert with an "old" quad core qx9650 @ 3.6.

Then again it ran fine with the hd5870 that was in there. Guess I'm not one of the...

He, he, units blending into each other because they share the same culture? As opposed to the little-boy's-wet-dream-martial-mentalist-fantasy-all-Japanese units of stw2?

Time to take off the rose...

I find aiming them OK. Pretty inaccurate but I'm not expecting Robin Hood. Great fun defending a harbour with them against transports too.

Quoted from the British Museum's website

These were Celts, taller but not much taller.

But i guess if the game is trying to recreate the "feeling" of the time then a greater height differential...

Research done on the remains of the 300 or so bodies found at Herculaneum suggests that the average height of women was between 151.7cm and 155.2 cm and that of men between 163.8cm-169.1cm.
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He, he, one minute there is a whinge about no naval invasions then when they do occur there is another whinge.

The series should be renamed XXX: Total Whinge

Never had an issue dealing with...

Well said that man! I buy them because I enjoy them and have done since the first Shogun. I try to remember they are games and not bespoke creations to pander to my personal little historical and...

Empire TW, the other supposedly "unplayable" TW game? No, surely not! Shock, horror!

Yep.

This +

Absolutely agree. The game looks superb and plays well.

Welcome to TWC the home of mass hysteria.

Off you pop then Marsh, bye-bye. Obviously the "royal we".

FFS. Laughable. No, they are not 100% broken. The dragging issue is in patch.