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Morindin
09-24-2004, 10:48
The topic says it all. I can't post any glorious screenshots yet because of my member status, but I have a large pile of them.

Im playing the game in 1280x968 or some odd resolution (wheres 1280x0124??) with most things up high as they go. Having desycronised movement actually gave me a huge performance hit so I turned that off.

This game is great, I never get tired of watching (and listening) to my Roman soldiers marching towards a doomed enemy.

I've started playing the campaign on hard/hard as the Julii and I have the following questions/impressions about the game so far:

Is there anyway to undo a movement you have given an army of the strategic map? Most other games have this function. I.e. I moved ONE unit to attack a full blown army once.

Have any of you had frustration with cavalry? They seem slow and cumbersom to move around, often taking weird routes to charge an enemy and knocking through your own formations...
Also moving troops through holes in fortifications and towns can be annoying path finding wise.

Low command generals/captians suck. Your troops rout quicker than peasants vs knights in MTW.
I won a battle where I was severly outnumbered and up poo creek basically, but I still won thanks to my 7 odd star general vs their 0 star one. All my troops were surrounded and my cavalry ended up surrounded too, but they routed! haha.

Generals can die A LOT quicker so by god, watch your generals!

While the AI is much improved, when defending they tend to "sit there" and let you pepper them with arrows. A bunch of enemy cavalry was sitting infront of the enemy army and let me cut it to bits with arrows, and then let my skirmishes shoot it too!

Walking your troops around doesnt seem to tire them out as much as some people make out, infact the worst ive ever seen my forces after a long march was "warmed up".

Is there any way to turn off those horrible green arrows? Also how do I remove the campaign battle timer?

Argh, Ive just looked in the screenshot folder and there is a meager two files in there, where are the rest???

Anyway, there are a million great things about this game that I could go on about - but I must get back to playing. :)

Morindin
09-24-2004, 10:49
ahh disable_arrow_markers in the preferences.txt file might get rid of those nasty green arrows :)

Tamur
09-24-2004, 16:06
Walking your troops around doesnt seem to tire them out as much as some people make out, infact the worst ive ever seen my forces after a long march was "warmed up".

Agreed. The demo had a lot stronger fatigue effects --- my troops in RTW are hitting battles at worst "Winded" and most often simply "Warmed Up", where in the demo they would have been well into the "Exhausted" category.


Generals can die A LOT quicker so by god, watch your generals!

Yes, good heavens yes. I had two of my faction heirs in one battle. I gave orders to everyone to move, then forgot about the heir on the right flank. Suddenly my heir was routing, then dead! I turned around, and found that the Gauls had sprung an 80-horse ambush on my heir and slaughtered his whole bodyguard while I was busy elsewhere. Ouch.

Morindin
09-25-2004, 00:51
Here are some screenshots of the game so far. Not 56k friendly to capture the game in all its beauty.

It truely is magnificent.

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw1.jpg

My Citizens in one of my cities

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw2.jpg

A building in my building cue appears on the map!

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw3.jpg

Nice attention to detail

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw6.jpg

Not a good situation to be in :)

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw7.jpg

Mightly Romans facing barbarians. The Gaul AI efffectively used good tactics, but I shifted my entire force to the left of this shot drawing out 3 hidden units in the trees on the right. When they came out I smashed them with my cavalry. Who says RTW lacks tactics?

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw9.jpg

Quit that creepy chanting!

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw10.jpg

The end result after a very tactical and enjoyable battle on hard.

http://www.flyingfish.co.nz/rtw/rtw11.jpg

Mighty Romans defending a bridge - the AI acted quickly and smartly on this map by charging his cavalry across the bridge into my out-of-position forces. Unfortunately it was his general. He ended up getting surrounded and his cavalry paniced and started kicking their way and leaping through my infantry. Very cool.

eddeduck
09-25-2004, 01:25
Very cool keep em coming, cant believe Ive got to wait another week. :wall: :wall:

Lord Angelus
09-25-2004, 15:34
Nice screenshots Morindin.I havent seen any of the city interior before so Nice 1.

eddeduck - All good things come to those who wait.Actually it all falls rather nicely for me because i only work six days in October so i should get some good sessions in.The wife will be ecstatic ~:mecry:

eddeduck
09-25-2004, 19:17
Its alright now Im keeping myself busy.