Sethik
09-02-2004, 20:16
This post isn't complaining about the changes to RTW. I just noticed some quirks during gameplay.
A thing that stood out to me was the way Generals fight and die. When I was testing Phoen Inf. Phalanx formation vs Tiarii the Roman general must have been knocked down almost half a dozen times and still did not die! It seems to me that Generals seem to have a crazy amount of hitpoints. I can understand giving them an extra 1 or 2, but this is ridiculous!
Another thing I noticed is a buggy attack quirk that happens if some of men of a unit run ahead of the other men and engage the enemy before their fellow soldiers join the fray. This makes the whole unit think its in combat! So you have ten guys fighting off a 100 with 90 others slowly walking to meet them several dozen meters away! This is really annoying because it causes you to suffer extra casualties.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/793619/buggyattack.JPG
As you can see, you have more than a dozen legionnares engaged with the rest of their troop slowly inching their way toward the fighting. By the time the men reached their brothers more than half of the engaged legionnares were dead.
Lastly, I just saw this and thought it was funny:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/793619/flyingkite.JPG
The guy carrying the banner is half way has some amazing air! How can a man jump head, shoulders, chest, and waist over another man?! Especially like that!
A thing that stood out to me was the way Generals fight and die. When I was testing Phoen Inf. Phalanx formation vs Tiarii the Roman general must have been knocked down almost half a dozen times and still did not die! It seems to me that Generals seem to have a crazy amount of hitpoints. I can understand giving them an extra 1 or 2, but this is ridiculous!
Another thing I noticed is a buggy attack quirk that happens if some of men of a unit run ahead of the other men and engage the enemy before their fellow soldiers join the fray. This makes the whole unit think its in combat! So you have ten guys fighting off a 100 with 90 others slowly walking to meet them several dozen meters away! This is really annoying because it causes you to suffer extra casualties.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/793619/buggyattack.JPG
As you can see, you have more than a dozen legionnares engaged with the rest of their troop slowly inching their way toward the fighting. By the time the men reached their brothers more than half of the engaged legionnares were dead.
Lastly, I just saw this and thought it was funny:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/793619/flyingkite.JPG
The guy carrying the banner is half way has some amazing air! How can a man jump head, shoulders, chest, and waist over another man?! Especially like that!