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I created a large Hayasdansi empire in EB. I hardly used Caucasian Spearmen or Armenian Skirmisher Cavalry. I relied most heavily on Caucasian Archers, which are overpowered. They have the highest...

Yeah, Zimmer's music would not fit at all. The campaign map music for Hayasdan is actually completely spot-on, but I don't know about the battle music. Traditional music for Hayasdan battles is...

I said that I chose the Seleucids, but I played as the Armenians at first because I'm half Armenian :)
Except if you're Western Armenian, is that Pontos instead?

Well I trust you. I just realized that I've seen you every time I've gone into multiplayer, and you've got those great tutorial videos.

[Heaven]Biscuits has a tutorial on doing this: If you have units that can form testudos, you can put them into testudo formation while in guard mode and walk straight through a phalanx, losing only a...

One of the neighbors like the Thracians should have taken it. Even in real life, if Spain were to take a far away province, they could at least take home spoils from it or at the very least leave it...

I first saw the game on someone's laptop at school. I thought it looked really cool but hard to control. I later bought it on Steam for $5 with the expansion pack (wow super cheap). It didn't turn...

I've found that using lots of scythed chariots (6) generally works great against Roman armies. Occasionally, someone says that I'm breaking the rules. There was a team vs team argument last game over...

Actually, in RTW, I think it's the other way around. The left side of a soldier holding a shield has higher defense. You'll do more damage shooting arrows into the right side of a unit than the left...

I'm going to get the mod if I run into another stupid situation like this later. Hopefully it'll agree with the odd Mac version of RTW that I have.

For some reason, Jerusalem keeps having plagues in my Egypt campaign now that I've taken it over. I always take my family member out immediately and don't care about the rest because they're just...

Well, I just answered my own question. The Greeks asked me for a ceasefire. I threw in a free city with that offer, and they accepted. So now there is a random Greek province in the middle of...

I'm playing as the Julii. I'm crushing the Dacians, and they always accept a ceasefire from me in return for probably their worst province. Since that province is nowhere near me and is really poor...

I didn't know that! Just checked on Wikipedia. That's right, there is no year 0. Back to the Future has a mistake in it then :laughter:
"The 1985 film Back to the Future shows the date December 25...

I turn off auto fire when this happens, and it doesn't seem to help. BUT my archers are also always grouped. So they can't target properly if they're grouped? I'll try ungrouping them next time this...

Every time I play, it seems like the Brutii quickly take over everything. They usually have all of Greece and Macedon and are expanding into Thrace/Scythia and Asia Minor by the time I have any...

When I play online, I often run into this frustrating situation. My archers always refuse to attack the target I tell them to attack and instead attack whatever is closest. Usually, the enemy has...

These are great! I wish I knew about the cavalry charge one and the testudo through a phalanx one before.

GameRanger is what the Mac version uses, and having used it for Age of Empires II, it's a very good online game system. I hope Rome: Total War gets migrated to it!

Don't cataphracts also have an armor-piercing secondary weapon, the mace? If you use those, shouldn't they destroy head-hunting maidens? You can't do this test in single player because the AI doesn't...

I hate playing as Romans because I have to deal with the game's annoying rules about the other Romans. I made the mistake of trying to expand into Gaul (to make it like real life) rather than in the...

1. Hamachi is junk, so don't use it :p
2. GameSpy still seems to work. I just played a game today. HOWEVER, it is going to go offline for good within this year. :(

I like to leave one legionary unit in testudo formation out on the flank so the cavalry archers sit there shooting at them all day. For the cataphracts, I like to keep them occupied with one unit...

Still relevant: Why is there no limit on scythed chariots? I'm spamming 6 of them + 2 cataphracts every time with great results, causing my opponents to complain about them being too powerful....

This is the strategy I've been going with recently on multiplayer. Is there anything obviously wrong with it? It has served me so well that I'm wondering if it's one of those "noob strategies" that...

Everyone says that the Senate and the Rebels are unplayable even if you do that hack.

This has nothing to do with computer hardware. There's some bug in the campaign map that makes it ridiculously laggy for some people. Mine was fine until one day, when it just started lagging so...

Has anyone ever seen a general called "Gaia" with a face that looks like it's gold-plated? It's really scary. I had one as Armenia and saw the Numidians with one.

The Eastern generals (Seleucid, Armenia, Parthia, Egypt) just have really weird voices. When you kill the enemy general, they say something like "this will break their spirits," and the voice somehow...

It's sometimes annoying, sometimes good. The thing I like about a wide formation is that it sometimes wraps around whatever unit you attack and surrounds it. Anyway, thanks for uploading this.

I've seem complaints all over the place about this, only to be shot down by "get a better computer" or "set your mouse to move faster" answers. There's nothing wrong with my computer or its GPU; it...

If I have any infantry that can throw those big javelins before they charge in (like Silver Shield, Praetorian, Armenian Legionary, etc), I just make them throw all of those… then charge in from...

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Armenia. No way they'd have that much land if they were AI.

Why is it so long? An army with 5 rows seems hard to manage. Not that I consider myself good at multiplayer battles... haven't played enough.

Seleucid Empire and Armenia (even though they're probably worse than Seleucid Empire). Cataphracts pwn (that is, they're amazing), Armenian generals are like cataphracts but even more powerful, and...

I was playing a battle against the Macedonians with my Armenian army. My cataphracts in front were being charged by a lot of light lancers, and although they could take them, I wanted to pull them...

I wish my allies were this helpful.

Best one yet.