You know you have played RTW too much when...

[Bonez]

When you start playing a campaign and realise that you want to play a hotseat, you against yourself controlling all other factions. You play it so good that you quit the campaign as none of your factions can gain a province not held by rebels.

[Tribesman]

When someone runs past you in the corridor and you think:

"The enemy General flees like a startled goat..."

[A Demented Goldfish]

when you replace your neighbours furnisher with pieces more similar to yours to reduce culture difference

[Bonez]

When you go to a place built up with row houses and think of all the squalor they aren't suffering from.

[Alexanderos]

When you visit and old historical monument or city and you imagine how you ancestors lived there.
When you don't play your favourite campaign for days because you are in a perfect stage and you don't want to mess anything up until you have enough time to enjoy the game.

[Willowran]

when you try to devise battle strategies with ancient troops to defeat modern military forces.

I did that. Had a hypothetical defensive seige, US military vs ancient soldiers...

[Alexanderos]

If you think about it , M4 and Ak's would kill everything.

But If a us modern soldier would fight an ancient legionarie man to man , let's just say he will miss some bones the next morning.

[Willowran]

nono, see it's all about the ambush. You hide people in little fox-hole type things with hidden covers, then you jump out once the brunt of the enemy force is right around you. If they try to shoot you they're just as liable to hit their own soldiers, and that causes mass chaos. While they're busy dealing withyour suicide squad you bring in a cavalry charge, and pump arrows into them. The only thing i could not think of a way around was the air support, and tanks... though if you made the ground rugged enough the tanks wouldnt be able to cross...

[Bonez]

Nah, now a days tanks go over everything on the ground.

[Gen. Chris]

If you think about it , M4 and Ak's would kill everything.

But If a us modern soldier would fight an ancient legionarie man to man , let's just say he will miss some bones the next morning.

Kind of depends, really. Wasn't the average Roman man fairly short? Not saying that short-ish men can't fight well (I resent that implication ) but height can have its advantages.

[Flypurplehamster]

When someone invites you on a trip to Sweden and you tell them it’s impossible to go to Sweden.

[Bonez]

When you are in the middle of a battle and think how easy it would be if you had 30 men with LMG's and 20 men driving modern assault vehicles.

[Punic Hoplite]

I've always thought of how easy it would be to win a battle if you had a B-52...

[Bonez]

If I had a B-52 in Rome there wouldn't be battles, there would be short blood baths due to AI behaviour.

[Willowran]

Here's one thats more realistic than funny:

When you try to plan your end game from turn one, trying to anticipate all enemy moves, your reactions to them, your grand plan, how you can surpass/bypass all variations of reactions that would threaten your empire... planning, counterplanning... for the end of the campaign, when you've only just started the first turn. -_-

[Sekiryutei]

You have a dream when you are a spartan general in a battle. (true story)

[MegasStrategos]

when you think that your are a senator when you speak in public

[Varus12]

all in the same style, but you know someone had to say it,


when you think 6/20- 8/20 of ancient armies were composed of footmissiles.

when you think Crassus shouted to the Parthians at Carrhae: "Omfg YoU R3tardz CaV Sp@mM3r!!!!?8!!!"

when you imagine Romans and Carthaginians smack talking, telling the latter ones Elephants are not allowed, and responding that Romans are overpowered anyway.

when you think generals used to agree to fight each other at the center of a perfectly flat terrain with equal amount of troops so that either one of them would have a chance of victory.

[Willowran]

I liked those last three

when someone ask's you an innocent, inane, mundane question (so, what about this weather, eh?)and you reply with a very in-depth summary of your current empire, your plans for the future, an exactly how it is related to their question. (weather? gods, i was fighting this siege in the rain...)

[Sicknero]

When you move your monitor around at the office, so people can't see you having a quick battle...