Is there something wrong with my game?

**Sainty** · February 21, 2008, 06:30 AM

Hello. I found the mod here while surfing on the web called Rome: Total War - Total Realism. I downloaded the last version I think, its 9.0 Platinum Edition.

I started to play and I soon realized that while playing romans that I'm missing lots of cool units, like archers and famous legionares units that could form testudo.

I also seem to miss good horse units, some buildings and all the temples gives the same bonus with out adding anything extra like trade or +1 to units and such.

I wonder, is there something wrong with my game or is that they way it should be? I havent been playing for long, maybe 30 turns - maybe new buildings will show up later? :hmmm:

**AqD** · February 21, 2008, 07:11 AM

Hi!

The mod is meant to be realistic. There are roman legionaries but not those who wear shining plats, which appeared only in a short period of the empire (and not early - probably 100AD or so), and not in the timeframe of RTR. Archers of romans don't exist - instead you have various auxiliary archers to recruit in different regions, but not in italy. The same applies to cavalry - romans themselves had no good cavalry so you have to rely on auxiliary ones such as italian heavy cavalry and gauls heavy cavalry; the legionary cavalry in RTW just didn't exist in history.

Testudo is removed probably because it's rarely used in open battles. But you can always add back testudo by yourself - open data/export_descr_unit.txt, find names like "roman hastati" and add ",testudo" to the end of formation line. Like this =>

Code:

type             roman hastati
dictionary       rtr_roman_hastati
category         infantry
class            light
voice_type       Light_1
soldier          roman_hastati, 40, 0, 1
officer          roman_early_centurion
officer          roman_early_standard
mount_effect     horse -2, camel -2,
attributes       sea_faring,hide_forest,can_sap,very_hardy
formation        1, 2, 2, 3, 5,square,testudo

(if the end of formation line is ",shield_wall", you'd have to remove it first)
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