What should I buy ?

**Alast0r** · May 08, 2009, 03:53 PM

Hello to all this great community
I was thinking to buy RTW, yes, to my great shame I still don't have the original game ,and wanted to ask for a little help from this great community, regarding an opinion of the variants available to buy:
Rome Total War Gold Edition ( BI included )
Rome Total War Anthology (BI +Alexander included )
Rome Total War ( hard to find these days )
I want to specify that I'm buying the game from an online store available in my country ( Romania ) .
I know they all are at a cheap price but I was curious what bundle contains one of each version - except the RTW only version and, most important of all , as a SPQR mad ( SPQR currently supports version 1.5 of RTW ) and thinking about the multi-player part of the game , why bother to buy Alexander for example if the most online "battles" are version 1.5 or 1.6 ( btw , what version is the most popular on the online battles ? ) . Any help is apreciated , thx in advance to all that had the patience to read this mumbo-jumbo english that I help to improve in time

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LE: I've posted in the SPQR Mod section because I'm interested to play only this Mod , and as for the multi-player part of it , to make another installation of it , so I'll also be able to play online .

**Ejergard** · May 08, 2009, 04:25 PM

If you're not picky about actually owning the package and disks, I'm pretty sure you can buy it directly on steam. This could possibly be cheaper than buying it from a store.

**SirGejor** · May 08, 2009, 04:51 PM

AVE!

General ,try for AMAZON England's site. It is easier and guaranteed of reception.

A friend mine of Australia had the same problem, bought and it received in 5 days.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sega-Rome-to.../dp/B000088UNI

Good Luck.!

**lt1956** · May 09, 2009, 03:16 AM

Any of those should be fine to play SPQR. Everything except RTW by itself has 1.5 or 1.6 installed. So it should play Fine just make sure to read the forum before installing the mod so you do things correctly.

Lt1956

**Knight of Heaven** · May 09, 2009, 05:28 AM

well you should by alexander too, its a litle diferent from other TW games but i find it worthy it, becouse its very interisting campaing... if you are a Megas Alexandros fan

the game feel like a story telling especialy the battle campaings.

**24Gamer** · May 09, 2009, 06:40 AM

I would choose RTW + BI + Alexander so that you are able to play any Mod out there

**Alast0r** · May 09, 2009, 07:27 AM

Ok, big thx for your replies , I'll stick to Rome Total War Anthology (BI +Alexander included ) , hope they have it on the online store I'll buy from . Monday I'll know that for sure

. Thank you all !

**saienga** · May 09, 2009, 10:11 AM

Looks like you already basically decided, but I'll throw you a curve and point out that you can buy it on Steam, too.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/463/

**Angrychris** · May 14, 2009, 07:48 PM

get all three even if you only play alexander once, it may even be easier to get the three then just rome+bi.

**Alast0r** · May 15, 2009, 12:32 AM

Thx all , from today I'm a proud owner of a Anthology pack

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**Hesus de bodemloze** · May 15, 2009, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Alast0r

Thx all , from today I'm a proud owner of a Anthology pack

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Congrats now start playing SPQR.

**Alast0r** · May 15, 2009, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by Hesus de bodemloze

Congrats now start playing SPQR.

Already on it , great mod, great job , can't thank the guys enough

. Btw , what happened to the " The Total War Center Xfire Community" ( http://www.xfire.com/clans/twcenter/ ) , I applied for it, but until now I haven't got an answer yet :| . Is it still "alive" so to say ,it will help me, on my way to the multiplayer community of RTW .

**Ejergard** · May 15, 2009, 09:46 AM

Alast0r, check out http://z10.invisionfree.com/FORUMITES/index.php?act=idx
The forumites are currently playing an online campaign with 8 players using the SPQR:TW mod. This campaign is coming towards an end soon, so another one should be coming about in a little while. So start honing your skills in singleplayer and come join us soon! Also, if you are interested in some MP skirmishes, send me a pm (I only play SPQR though)

**Hesus de bodemloze** · May 15, 2009, 11:42 AM

How did the pilla throwing end in the MP? Did some one reduce there impact power on Romans?

**Ejergard** · May 15, 2009, 11:59 AM

It's all the same from the original mod.
In the campaign, more emphasis has been put on the strategical part. So depending on how many "armypoints" you send into battle, you get a different amount of units and dinarii to buy those units for. If you want a deeper understanding of how it's been balanced, check the rules section of that forumlink i posted. The balancing isn't 100% yet, but it's getting pretty close. And what haven't been completely balanced between factions have been rather balanced by what kind of allies people have bunched up with.

For example, right now we have Gaul, SPQR and Greece on one side, and Seleucia, Rome and Germania on the other side (Dacia has been killed and Roman rebels are a vassal of SPQR).
In future campaigns however, SPQR (faction) will probably be banned due to their overpowered, but limited unitchoice. The other Roman factions though are at par with the other nations. We're concidering limiting them to only 1 era of troops, such as either polybian, republican or imperial troops, right now its been mixed. Closest at hand would probably be only republican, but we'll see.