View Full Version : the fighting is not over!
clayton ballentine
06-21-2005, 21:53
In Rome total War i can not nmake a ceasefire or aliance why not?
tibilicus
06-21-2005, 22:00
Clayton wrong place mate. The colleseum is for this. ~:)
I am sure the mods shall move it.
antisocialmunky
06-21-2005, 23:18
The AI hates almost anyone it has a border with. Make allies with the other side of the map.
clayton ballentine
06-22-2005, 01:53
The AI hates almost anyone it has a border with. Make allies with the other side of the map.
i tryed that but there is no reason to ttry again because well they always say no and i can't even be alies with persia if i am playing Julii
Who cares? Kill them all.
Who cares? Kill them all.
I agree.
Its what I do. Mabye that's why I have no in-game friends...?
~:handball:
scorillo
06-22-2005, 02:07
Who cares? Kill them all.
~:cheers: :medievalcheers: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Who cares? Kill them all.
I fourth that. Nuke the bastards!!!!!
clayton ballentine
06-22-2005, 03:28
i can't kill them all they are too powerful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
IrishMike
06-22-2005, 03:30
Well I think your in big trouble then.
Mongoose
06-22-2005, 03:41
To quote the whiney guy in the movies..."Were screwd man"
Productivity
06-22-2005, 04:09
i can't kill them all they are too powerful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
This from someone who rates himself as 9/10 in R:TW...
~:handball:
clayton ballentine
06-22-2005, 04:12
why we are not screwed because (belive it or not) i have a plan! this plan calls for alot of money. what we do is near the cities i build a army of 1,000 or more troops. Then i attack at the heart of the Faction i will win if i do that because they on;y have up to 200 men max per city!
Franconicus
06-22-2005, 07:07
Clayton,
you are a genius. Spending lots of money to build a huge army to outnumber the enemy. Whow! How did you get this plan? You are American, right?
To your first question:
I think diplomacy depends on the fraction you play. With Greece I never found a partner, with Scythia I had no problem to find one.
It may also depend on your behavior in the past. Braking treaties might reduce to get new ones.
CMcMahon
06-22-2005, 07:27
why we are not screwed because (belive it or not) i have a plan! this plan calls for alot of money. what we do is near the cities i build a army of 1,000 or more troops. Then i attack at the heart of the Faction i will win if i do that because they on;y have up to 200 men max per city!
Ingenious.
Grand Duke Vytautas
06-22-2005, 08:20
Hi! ~D My advice would be: if you want to play RTW with good diplomacy (you can request one faction to attack other, allies don't stab you in the back, etc.), challenging campaign and battle AI, then download DarthMod 5.0. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=71
Man, I now enjoy RTW more than when I bought the game ~:eek: , because now I even lose battles ~:eek: , AI kinda makes alliances against me, the game is VERY CHALLENGING (on H/VH), btw I downloaded CCLight Music Mod (it includes soundtracks from such masterpieces as Gladiator, Pyrates of the Caribbean, etc.), which really enhances gameplay! Now I have what to play untill RTR 6.0 comes out, yeah ~D .
IMO DarthMod 5.0 is the best mod to date! Try it - you"ll love it! ~D
Cheers and enjoy the game! ~:cheers:
Templar Knight
06-22-2005, 12:48
Numbers mean nothing - its all about skill and strategy
antisocialmunky
06-22-2005, 14:32
Numbers mean nothing - its all about skill and strategy
And the AI has neither skill or strategy.
So true, I've won battles with 10:1 odds in AI's favor and they still manage to lose.
It's truly pathetic.
Templar Knight
06-22-2005, 15:30
And the AI has neither skill or strategy.
lol, yep you said it ~D
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 18:11
i tryed that but there is no reason to ttry again because well they always say no and i can't even be alies with persia if i am playing Julii
prolly cuz your faction aint strong enough , doesnt have enough credit, cuz youre at war with their allies or you're in a war with them that youre loosing.
quite simple
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 18:14
So true, I've won battles with 10:1 odds in AI's favor and they still manage to lose.
It's truly pathetic.
me too, but in MTW these battles were an challenge. i had to use all my powers to win it. in RTW its easy, i slaughter them and loose 10 men
Mongoose
06-22-2005, 18:24
And the AI has neither skill or strategy.
In vanilla...half the time it doesn't even have numbers!
Hat least in darth mod it sends army after army after army... :charge:
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 18:27
in RTR they also send army after army. i dont know what annoys me more, not getting attacked, or butchering 5 armies with 3000 men every turn, while loosing 0
I think not getting attacked irks me more.
If they get slaughtered, they are at least making an effort.
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 18:53
well maybe, check the dissapointment thread when it pops up later
How POSSIBLY can you win so easily?
Aren't yoy guys making this up?
I can barely win 2:1 odds!
Clayton,
you are a genius. Spending lots of money to build a huge army to outnumber the enemy. Whow! How did you get this plan? You are American, right?
No, you got the wrong nation there mate, he must be Chinese! Their the ones with the 200 million manned military...
We go more for the technological & trained version of the military, their the ones with the vast troops.
~:eek:
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 20:02
This from someone who rates himself as 9/10 in R:TW...
~:handball:
did he said that
The Stranger
06-22-2005, 20:06
How POSSIBLY can you win so easily?
Aren't yoy guys making this up?
I can barely win 2:1 odds!
no we arent. i'm playing the rebels. my best unit is a hoplite, and still i beat up armies with cats and companions. its just tactics and some guts to charge on the right moment. i was outnubered 5 to 2 and i won killing 2000 of the 2300 men and lost 200 out of 2000 men. my army were mainly iberian infantry while i had to face veteran greek hoplites
CMcMahon
06-22-2005, 21:28
did he said that
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49306
Tell us who you are playing as and what Factions you have destoryed. Also tell about how good you are at the game RTW. Use a scale of 1 thru 10 to rate how good you are at RTW. I am just cerious. I will tell you mine:
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I am playing Greeks and i have destoryed Julii, Brutti, Scipii, SPQR and Macedonia. I rated myself as a 9
Evil_Maniac From Mars
06-22-2005, 21:33
I never thought I'd say this to a person playing RTW, but..........use complex tactics. I mean, simple. From what you've shown, maybe your brain can process simple plans better.......
HarunTaiwan
06-23-2005, 10:06
He's only 14. Give him a break.
And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)
Defense is much easier.
antisocialmunky
06-23-2005, 12:06
2 to 1 in MTW was something(unless it was a Spanish Javelin spam army) not so much in RTW it seems.
The Stranger
06-23-2005, 12:13
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=49306
hmm. oke but didn't he mant in that campaign. i mean if also rate myself as a 9 maybe 9.5, but i'm a veteran in MTW and in RTW. i can kick sum but, with no offense clayton but did you seriously meant that your overall stats are a nine or only in that campaign. i don't want to say youre a noob, but from the problems you have i can tell that a 9 is a bit tooooo high
The Stranger
06-23-2005, 12:27
He's only 14. Give him a break.
And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)
Defense is much easier.
i'm too, yeah lets do that. me neither. and hell yeah it is
How POSSIBLY can you win so easily?
Aren't yoy guys making this up?
I can barely win 2:1 odds!
How long have you played the game? It shouldn`t be difficult to win a battle with 2:1 odds, although there are rare exceptions.
He's only 14. Give him a break.
I take that as an offense! :furious3: j/k ~:cheers:
Franconicus
06-23-2005, 16:02
A good gerneral is rarely outnumbered.
He's only 14. Give him a break.
And I don't think I could win 2:1 odds on attack every time. (depends on troops of course.)
Defense is much easier.
How dare you!!
I'm 16! ~:cheers:
gardibolt
06-23-2005, 16:30
I was getting massacred until I figured out that Hastati are not set at 'fire at will' and have to be told manually to do that. For some reason that makes an enormous difference. Previously I would lose outnumbering the other side 2:1, and now I'm beating the computer 1:3. ~:cool: Perhaps the pilum is overpowered?
antisocialmunky
06-23-2005, 16:43
A good gerneral is rarely outnumbered.
That's not really true... Alexander fought armies many times his size. Miltides repelled the Persians at Marathon and then marched back to Athens to repel the Persian Fleet. Hannibal at Cannae won a battle outnumbered 2 to 1 by enveloping the superior Roman force.
More modern examples:
Robert E. Lee even divided his forces in the face of superior numbers.
There were the American invasions of Iraq.
Outnumbering an opponent causes alot of a problems too. Only so many troops can be fighting at a certain time. That's why envloping works. A smaller organized force engages an equal amount of enemies at any given time at the perimeter of the enemy mass, thus everyone at the center are jsut standing there doing nothing.
There're alot of factors influencing battle, numbers isn't everything.
The Stranger
06-23-2005, 19:16
I was getting massacred until I figured out that Hastati are not set at 'fire at will' and have to be told manually to do that. For some reason that makes an enormous difference. Previously I would lose outnumbering the other side 2:1, and now I'm beating the computer 1:3. ~:cool: Perhaps the pilum is overpowered?
for some reason it makes a difference he says. what a joker. and no the pilum isnt really overpowered it is just powerful. cuz it has armour piercing it only counts half the armour rating
gardibolt
06-23-2005, 20:07
Why aren't the Hastati set at Fire at Will in the first place? They're pretty useless without the pila.
The Stranger
06-23-2005, 20:21
cuz they are infantry and not skirmishers. when attacking fire at will mode is annyoing.
Garvanko
06-23-2005, 21:50
Maybe you should make sure you got 3:1 odds?
Why do you guys keep feeding the troll?
Mongoose
06-23-2005, 22:50
Who? KSEG? He's slightly annoying but not trolling.
Though Catiline might say other wise....
1) Trolling, flaming and baiting are verboten anywhere on .org. Some of the behaviour in here recently would shame the backroom - where one would expect a more rowdy atmosphere. All such behaviour will cease. If you cannot post in this forum on a subject directly pertaining to a game, then do not post. If you feel a question can only be answered by some iteration of 'Dude you're sh*t' then keep your opinion to yourself.
antisocialmunky
06-24-2005, 03:56
cuz they are infantry and not skirmishers. when attacking fire at will mode is annyoing.
Turn it off then, Javelins own anything.
The Stranger
06-24-2005, 12:00
well why not turn it on. i don't see the difference.
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