Rome Total War

[Death Merchant]

i dont know how much you guys are into your stratergies but im going to tell you my expirences of this game anyway

I bought this game last year reading the excellent reviews and awards that this game reiceved i had not played a stratergy game for some time and wanted a good game that could get me back into the genre

rome total war takes you back to 187bc and ends around 180bc the time of roman expansion aswell as playing rome there is i think 12 other playable factions each with different individual units and ways of fighting

since ive had it ive been hooked on the game you can have huge battles with over 10,000 units at a time and i was amazed with some of the effects such as people being literally hulrled tens of feet in the air by war elephants and being able to zoom into the battle so closely that you could see individual units fighting for life and death

the AI is intelligant on the higher diffficulty levels as it adapts to different situations for example if i moved a unit of cavalry to my right it would counter this by moving up its spearman and reorginising its battle line

overall probably the best stratergy i have ever played and fully reccomended to anyone

[Hoppum]

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As much as i enjoy it, i always run out of money in the campaign. :S

[gungho]

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Just bought "Rome:Total War" Gold edition with "Barbarian Invasion" expansion pack. I've never been a fan of strategy games, but I'm loving this.

[Eternal-Souljah]

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On my old computer, I borrowed this game from a friend, okay do this make an army of all dogs nothing more, max it out 1000's of dogs, then make yourself against elephants, at the start of the round command all dogs to attack the elephants, haha this was funny the dogs got tossed 100ft in the air its an amazing thing to see, but on my old computer it started stuttering then lagged then crashed.

[Guidon666]

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I've used dogs to chase down pretty large armies in retreat and hold them long enough to run them down with Cavalry.

Havent tried the expansion yet. Can anyone say if it is truely worth it (29.95). I would need more than simple new armies and units.

[Death Merchant]

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I've used dogs to chase down pretty large armies in retreat and hold them long enough to run them down with Cavalry.

Havent tried the expansion yet. Can anyone say if it is truely worth it (29.95). I would need more than simple new armies and units.

ive got the expansion but for me the time period isnt as appealing too many cavalry and hordes coming pillaging everything i did do one campaign with the eastern roman empire but it didnt feel the same

i would only reccomend it if your bored of rome total war and really like cavalry battles + horse archers and want the difficulty level to be raised

[AFEDslayer]

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Well ive been realy wanting to get the "Gold" pack. I am a big fan of rts games and havent played a good one in ages.

[Death Merchant]

Re: Rome Total War

Well ive been realy wanting to get the "Gold" pack. I am a big fan of rts games and havent played a good one in ages.

go for it