interesting snippet

[alman9898]

Quote[/b] ]20th January: Rome: Total War covers the period from 264 BC - the First Punic War - to around 14 AD - the year Augustus Caesar died and the Empire was established as heriditary state. You'll be able to play on after this date, though, if you want.

Interesting... but will CA provide us with some more units that were used during the time of the Empire but not during the era of the Republic?

[Math Mathonwy]

after 14 AD there will be no more updates for anything, but you can keep playing if you want. i wonder if they would let you go all the way to 2004 AD.. hehe.

[|OCS|Virus]

250 yrs to conquer all of what was the roman empire... I hope they do this in seasons, because that is not a lot of time.

[Monk]

Quote[/b] (|OCS|Virus @ Jan. 20 2004,21:29)]250 yrs to conquer all of what was the roman empire... I hope they do this in seasons, because that is not a lot of time.
from what i hear there's two turns per year. So that equals up to around 500 turns, more than there was in M:TW, that should be enough time.

[Spino]

I could swear in the months following the initial release of information on RTW CA said they were going to start the game around 300 B.C. instead of 264 B.C. I think it was in some interview or magazine preview.

It's not that big a deal because I'm sure it will be quite easy to change the starting date of the grand campaign game. I'm simply curious to know why CA decided to begin the game at the outbreak of the first Punic War. Why not pick 283 B.C. (the year the city state of Tarentum appealed to Pyrrhus of Epirus for help against Rome) or even earlier, say 302 B.C. when Rome signed a treaty with Tarentum? Was it the objective of CA to start the game with the majority of the Italian peninsula under Rome's rule?

[Ludens]

Quote[/b] (Spino @ Jan. 21 2004,18:59)]Was it the objective of CA to start the game with the majority of the Italian peninsula under Rome's rule?
IIRC that was the intention. Anyway, if the game would start earlier, you would be forced to start all your Roman campaigns in an identical way: clear out the barbarians from Vitalia. There is hardly anything else to do.

[Spino]

Quote[/b] ]IIRC that was the intention...

Fair enough.


Quote[/b] ]...clear out the barbarians from Vitalia. There is hardly anything else to do.

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I would hardly characterize the citizens of Tarentum (or any of the other non-Latin city states in Italy) as barbarians

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[Ludens]

Quote[/b] (Spino @ Jan. 21 2004,19:21)]I would hardly characterize the citizens of Tarentum (or any of the other non-Latin city states in Italy) as barbarians

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Point taken. I just wanted to use barbarian in the way the Romans used it: for foreigners.

[alman9898]

one reason CA started when Rome owned all of Italia is probably because then you have more than one roman faction.