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Rome:Total War

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Last Post Apr 26, 2005 3:28 PM by: pericleancaesar

guinness65

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Re: Rome:Total War

Apr 18, 2005 10:16 AM

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Great game. I'm on my fourth game. Game three I took over the whole world took a while but it was fun. I'm playing Carthage now and though tough it was fun taking out the Romans. I've just finished off Egypt while building up my armies in Europe for a push into France/Germany etc. Still having a hard time with the controls on the combat screen but still fun.

RoyalScotishWarLover

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Registered: 4/21/05

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Re: Rome:Total War

Apr 21, 2005 8:02 PM

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I would love to play it but I have a crappy computer. I hope it's as good as you say it is.

Doodle-Gandhi

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Re: Rome:Total War

Apr 25, 2005 9:06 PM

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to who ever wants to know what faction has the screaming women thats the germans and to the guy above me about historic facts in the game before you do the campaign when you choose the faction it has a brief history on the factions and most of the faction members are real people.

Doodle-Gandhi

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Re: Rome:Total War

Apr 25, 2005 9:12 PM

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i love the carthegians and their elephants but i can't beat the romans i fight one and then another comes over and joins and so on and so on and so on...

DEATH TO ROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pericleancaesar

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Registered: 7/25/04

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Best game ever

Apr 26, 2005 3:18 PM

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I've conquered the entire world with all three houses and beaten the game with Carthage and I would definitely say the easiest faction to play with is the Brutii.
If you're the Julii and you fight the Gauls, Britons, Spaniards, etc. you are forced to put money into the settlements to get the territories economies to pay out.
If you're the Scipii you usually head by way of Africa with so few territories spread over large areas its hard to unite an empire.
Obviously, playing as Carthage puts you right next to the Romans and forces you to develope quickly and expand slowly.
If you are the Brutii you can take out weak Greeks and Macedonians who have very valuable cities.
it took me around 300 turns to take over the world with the Brutii (which was my first campaign).

pericleancaesar

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to: Roman shadow

Apr 26, 2005 3:28 PM

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If you go to the faction screen you can click on automanage everything. Then go around your empire and find cities that aren't happy with you and if they are valuable lower the tax rate but if they aren't, move your army outside the city, crank up the taxes and let them rebel. Then take the city back next turn and wxterminate the population (this helps with money and loyalty).
Also I encourage anyone who plays the game to put the maximum amount of soldiers possible in each city so it keeps you from growing to fast, makes your empire almost untouchable, and allows reserves of soldiers for army building.