I still play RTW vanilla with just a few small mods of my own, like giving all factions paved roads. I hate walking through the African desert for 8 turns to get to Nepte... It helps a bit on the economic side as well.
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I still play RTW vanilla with just a few small mods of my own, like giving all factions paved roads. I hate walking through the African desert for 8 turns to get to Nepte... It helps a bit on the economic side as well.
its good to know that people still play vanilla. i havent played in like a week now, still trying to download RTR, but whatever ~:)
I play RTW gold vanilla, with the difficulty setting at H/H. I find this level quite challenging (village idiot speaking). I have won using the Brutti, Jullii, and I am almost there for the Scippi. I have only been playing since Christmas so I am still somewhat new to this type of game. I use to play civilization before this game and the difference is significant. Once I finish all of the Roman factions I intend to move to the barbarian factions just to see what it is like to face the Romans.
Hi B-DogKY,
I really have to read threads more slowly, I, unfortunately, missed your post. Sorry.
I am sorry to disagree with you, yet I do find, however, the slower combat system an improvement over the R:TW one. It gives you an opportunity to actually use your tactics before the units route. I fist realised this after playing a game of vanilla R:TW for the first time after playing Europa Barbarorum for a long few months. I quickly realised that my whole army was on the run before I could initiate anything truly tactical, and, by then, it was too late for me as the battle was, sadly, all over within a flash. I also seem to find that the battlefields and their styles do also allow for more tactics to be used. In R:TW, often the battlefields seemed to me like a huge flat field with nothing either side has the opportunity to take advantage of, while in M:TW there were all sorts of forests, hills, buildings and other pieces of landscape items to be manipulated in either side's favour. I also prefer the whole classical strategic map system which enabled many complicated events to occur. This includes situations such as brutal civil wars, inquisitions, advanced marriages, trials, treason and treason frames, death of one own generals when they lost their loyalty and many other options which seemed to be sadly lost in the transfer between R:TW and M:TW.
On the other, hand I do agree with you on the fact that the controls are rather old-fashioned and a little bit harder to use, however I, luckily, managed to get used to them within a week or so, so it wasn't really a terrible issue for me - although I do still agree with you - it would be an improvement should they be more "in" with the modern RTS type of control system.
The Mars temple does you well also. When you take a city that has one, rotate your other armies through it as well. It is perfectly normal for me to train troops at one place, send them through a temple of Mars for the valor, and then shuttle them to a temple of Vulcan for the armor and weapons bonus. It costs, but pays on the battlefield.Quote:
Originally Posted by YENKO
How does one change from blue to red in this game?
Strength and Honor
Celt Centurion
I too still play R:TW vanilla straight from the box - and enjoy it very much. However, I'm beginning to get my way a little too often, regardless of what faction I play on VH/H settings.
Omanes was kind enough to tell me what I needed to do in the form of updating patches, etc. so that I could then download and convert to EB. But, due to the lengthy download time on my home PC, I just haven't made myself do it yet (because I always want to play when I'm seated in front of my computer!!).
I'm kind of a slow player (busy life, I guess), and I'm just now finishing up my first M2TW campaign (bought the game release day too). While I wait for the patch 1.2 in that game, I'm seriously thinking about playing another game of RTW, especially since I just beefed up my graphics card and am interested in seeing how that looks on higher settings.
Alexander was the only campaign I've started in RTW, BI and M2TW that I've just abandoned because I didn't like the rush rush rush pace of conquest....I'm an empire builder, I guess, not just a general.
I'm playing RTW & i've only just installed the 1.3 patch so i'm way behind i guess. I have the 1.5 patch ready to go but had some probs getting game to start when i first loaded it, so i've not tried to reload it since a few reinstalls of main program!.
Hi
I play unmoddified but fully patched.
RTW V1.5 (16months)
BI V1.6 (4 months)
Alexander V1.9 (2 months)
Currently participating in RTW V1.5 succession games. Had hoped this forum would also do one, there was a recent attempt. Good ole RTW.
I hate walking through the African desert for 8 turns to get to Nepte... :laugh4: So do i...well,for me,ijust give up my cities to others faction,wait until they built the paved road or highways for me,then i capture them back.....:2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by mightilyoats
:ave: I have been playing RTW for almost a year now and I still play it.:rtwyes:
I played vanilla for more than two years, until I started experimenting with mods.... but no matter how enjoyable the mods are (Extended Greek Mod has my loyalty at the moment), vanilla still has a certain charm to it. Nothing like cutting down a hapless army of militia hoplites with Parthian horse archers, or watching hordes of Romans smash themselves in vain on an immovable, invincible wall of Spartans. Or just trampling over everyone with legionaries. =D
I still play, and love, Rome. (usually 1.0, I had 1.5 for a while, but was too lazy to get it back.)