The most annoying thing about RTW

[Comrade_Callum]

When you have a line of Hoplites set to guard, the enemy attacks, you slaughter them.... One of your hoplite units decides to go walkies and starts walking forwards, you order it to go back, it then turns around, by this time the enemy have regrouped and charge again, the enemy hit the back of your hoplite unit that decided to wonder off and massacre it.


Leaving a massive gap in your line letting the enemy disrupt your beutiful wall of spears

it is FACEPALM

[leseras]

Yeah it happens at times. Thats why you make a line of hoplites with calvary at the sides just in case something stupid like this happens. Should the hoplites have their back turned ask the hoplites at the side to sandwich the enemies and use a few calvary to attack the back. So in someway surrond the enemy.

[Chapstazz]

Whenever this happens, a piece of me dies inside.

Jokes aside, I agree with leseras, if you were to surround the enemy with hoplites, you will certainly route them. Then again remember to make sure that the enemy has no more units outside the circle, which could easily charge your back.

[Jeskyre]

guard mode?

[Shadow Dragon]

Continueing with the hoplite thing, trying to maneuver a hoplite army around while attacking a city.

[TOLAROscipii]

I thought the most annoying things were the event cut scenes
and arrow markers

and yeah I also hate how units will spin around in circles

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[Lucarius]

if you change some files you can Disable the green markers (and flags)
i play without those 2 it makes it more realistic

[trulias]

ashly the most annoying thing i thing, carthage cannot produce archers. luckly RTW fairly suitable for modding...

[caesar100]

ashly the most annoying thing i thing, carthage cannot produce archers. luckly RTW fairly suitable for modding...

They produce archers. . . but only on the elephants!

[Giallo Antico]

When you have a line of Hoplites set to guard, the enemy attacks, you slaughter them.... One of your hoplite units decides to go walkies and starts walking forwards, you order it to go back, it then turns around, by this time the enemy have regrouped and charge again, the enemy hit the back of your hoplite unit that decided to wonder off and massacre it.


Leaving a massive gap in your line letting the enemy disrupt your beutiful wall of spears

it is FACEPALM

I think it only in the program itself..

[Lucarius]

The most annoying thing about RTW ?

The very (very very) overpowered AI Family Members !! omg they killed like 3 of my levy pikemen with 1 unit of General's Gaurd :O

Carthage can't recruit archers

that's it
but maybe there is more.. i dunno

[Mediteran]

use guard mode, they will stay in place

[Wilhelm Ritter]

I hate when units don't follow orders! I have been playing mtwII for a couple months and the units are much more obediant... Which is entirely ahistorical. Like when a calvalry unit I'm trying to pull back from combat to charge again and it charges another unit that is nearby... WTF? I had a general die this way, because he charged a war band and only had five men left in his unit!

[dra3z]

from my experience theres alot of annoying things in this game, some of the main ones being:

carthage have no archers ( i know this has already been said )

i generally find that when i'm close to finishing the game the brutii always have to take a few settlements from me ( OP bastards ) and lengthen the game.

in battle, i find that egyption chariots are very irritating. i was engaged in an infantry battle between a unit of my triarii and a unit of principes against 2 units of nile spearmen, it was going well as i had ambushed them with my principes and disrupted the phalanx but then my triarii were attacked by archers. in the fuss of this huge mess the chariots ran down my whole unit of principes and my unit of triarii was half destroyed ( god damn chariots... )

finally a hugely annoying thing is that in the barbarian areas of the north ( particularly scythia ) the regions are huge, meaning it takes longer to march on and conquer the next town.

i think thats it for now but i'm sure theres more annoyances in this game.

[Robertclive]

the bigger your city gets, the less money it makes, or its just me

[Lucarius]

but anyway. i agree with Dra3z, (about scythia) it takes like 5/6 - 7/8 turns to get to the next city
ow and a stupid bug is also very annoying, check out my personal thread it's called "Stupid Campaign Bug (help me)"
maybe you guys can help me

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

@ Alexander,

it's because bigger cities pay larger upkeep for your armies/generals. they allow smaller cities to generate even more revenue because they dont have to bear that burden

[caesar100]

Whenever I play as a barbarian faction or Carthage, my capital always goes into negative income.