You know you've played too much RTW when...

[Tyblitz]

Hey everyone,

What are the moments you can think of when you know you played too much RTW?
Here are some I came up with.

You know you've played too much RTW when:

- You picture Linkedin profiles as unit stat cards
- You wonder whether a heroic victory took place in that café that has a crossed swords trinket on the wall.
- You think of loading screen proverbs when examining real life situations (guilty of this one)
- Everytime you go to the supermarket, you're actually walking a trade route.
- You scream 'Out of moves, sire!' when you checkmate your opponent.
- You build a treehut in your garden to repell the Fog of War.
- You greet your neighbors with: 'Greetings, how can I be of service?'
- Every bridge you walk or drive on is a strategic slaughter point
- You imitate a unit collision move while dancing in a club
- You probably look like a low-res sprite for people more than 500m away.
- You try to upgrade your javelin throwing experience in the garden with bamboo sticks. (guilty of this one)
- Forget the car, you go by horse like real noblemen.
- That campaign where you became the one ruler of the map is probably worth mentioning on your CV.
- The best solution for quelling unrest is putting a lot of stationary military in a place (Ukraine?).
- Better roads bring corruption, aren't you aware of that?
- Your geography teacher wasn't aware that a year only has 2 seasons.
- Your history teacher didn't know it was common for assault forces to stand still as vulnerable targets in front of enemy gates during a siege.

Would love to hear yours!

[Rijul.J.Ballal]

You build a treehut in your garden to repell the Fog of War.

[Hoplite of Ilis]

- You begun playing at 19:00 and the next time you look at your watch it reads 07:00 without you realising it's been 12 straight hours (guilty of it on the first days of RTW back in 2004 - I cannot be blamed ).

[Tyblitz]

- You begun playing at 19:00 and the next time you look at your watch it reads 07:00 without you realising it's been 12 straight hours (guilty of it on the first days of RTW back in 2004 - I cannot be blamed ).

And that must have been on Vanilla! Lol

[Hoplite of Ilis]

And that must have been on Vanilla! Lol

[Jansenfinn]

You know when you played to much RTW if you are imitating the accents of the cultures (Me doing that all the time )

[Coastalaxe]

You know you've played too much RTW...

... when you notice a 1.1gb download on steam for Rome 1, and there's nothing on the internet to confirm it!

[Tyblitz]

You know when you played to much RTW if you are imitating the accents of the cultures (Me doing that all the time )

I admit, though in my case it'd rather be the pre-battle general speeches or the in-battle commentaries like 'This is not a battle, this is a hunt. Or even a coward chase!' Or something like that :p

[bruno13]

You played too much RTW when waking up and wearing your clothes on a important day you remember the speech of the cartaginian guy: "Now is the time for battle, pull on your armour, grasp the shield and take up the blade, for our enemies, the sun has risen for the last time!"

[Tyblitz]

- 'Honey, let's visit Rome.' ; 'Huh why so suddenly?' ; 'I'd love to check out the building browser in real'.
- Father: 'How come you failed the math test?' ; Son: 'I don't know, my auto-resolve didn't work out.'

[KingofPoland]

You know you've played too much rtw when you have a world domination save fore every faction, including SPQR and the rebels, on two different computers.

By the way, I do the voice imitations all the time

[bruno13]

You know you've played too much rtw when you have a world domination save fore every faction, including SPQR and the rebels, on two different computers.

By the way, I do the voice imitations all the time

Damn that would take a while I just world dominated with Julii, Scipii and Egypt

[sreejon]

- You begun playing at 19:00 and the next time you look at your watch it reads 07:00 without you realising it's been 12 straight hours (guilty of it on the first days of RTW back in 2004 - I cannot be blamed ).

right

[Hochmeistern]

I always feel like I need to see one massive cavalry charge every day. Unleash hell!

[Exiled Spartan]

I always hear and say the vanilla unit names in my head. Always. At work I will randomly say out loud "Creeeshaaan Aaaarchers" or "TRIARII"

[Stavros_Kalmpou]

- when you find out Marius' reforms were in 107 BC, not in 240 BC
- dance when you listen to the barbarian music after winning Roman full stacks

[Blopwerth III]

-You begin thinking in voice overs (guilty of this one)
-You begin saying voice overs arbitrarily
-You begin doing the "pike thrust" move of phalanx units in the aerobics section of the gym
-You go in your back yard and imitate unit collision (mentioned in the OP )
-You hear the "destroy building" sound effect routinely in your head
-You break into the opening video commentary in casual conversation ("THERE CAN BE NO PEACE! NO PEACE WITH ROMANS! MEN OF STONE AND IRON AND LIES!!")
-You hear the campaign map background music in your dreams
-While walking somewhere, you pretend to rear a horse, emit a mock whinny, and gallop at top speed instead of walk
-You begin to fear that Filbigortes the Killer is hiding somewhere in your closet, waiting until you go to sleep to slit your throat
-You begin categorizing people you know into "Skill, Management, and Influence" amounts
-You wonder how many of the people you see on the street might secretly have the "Raving Mad" trait
-You seriously begin contemplating if you'll accomplish what you want from life by 27 AD
-You think of the Russian army as a horde of horse archers
-You fantasize about undressing an Amazon chariot rider from the far north
-You think of whom to make your faction heir while writing your will

[KPashaCali]

You know you have been playing to RTW when you are running and you are pretending to charge the enemy