MTW old boy just started RTW - some questions

[King Kurt]

After playing MTW for over 3 years - and been an active member in the Main Hall - due to the arrival of a new computer I have recently started playing RTW.
I am really enjoying my first campaign but have a couple of questions to ask.

1) How can I encourage/ obtain more governors? - The family feels spread thin as I start to expand and I could do with a few more governors - any ideas?
2) Already played a few seiges - my towers seem stop start on their way to the wall - I have to keep ordering them forward as they keep stopping. I also have had some problems getting the troops to climb up them when they arrive, so any suggestions welcome.
3) As a long time MTW hand, I am used to a spear/ javalin sign appearing on my cursor during battles. This means start missle attack and not melee. If I want them to fight I have to use the alt key as well as the mouse. Now in RTW my Roman infantry come up with a spear sign so I have been using the alt key to initiate melee as I don't want them to skirmish - is that right? I really want them to charge, throw their javelins then close to contact but if I have to use the alt key at close quarters that seems a bit too much like over micromanagement - am I doing it wrong?

In my first campaign as the Brutti, I seem to be doing OK - I have the Adriatic coast, Greece and am about to take Constantinopole. The game is close enough to MTW to be able to get going quickly, but has enough differences to make it interesting.

[Darkvicer98]

Welcome to RTW King Kurt.

1).You can bribe other factions family members to join your own. But all your settlements don't need a governor,some can go without.

2).If you have your towers too close to each other they stop-start. Try to have one siege tower on each side of the gate so they don't stop-start.

3).The Roman Infantry throw their spears once then charge the enemy. Is this what you want?

Good luck with the Campaign.

[Mahrabals apprentice]

1) How can I encourage/ obtain more governors? - The family feels spread thin as I start to expand and I could do with a few more governors - any ideas?

Also your family members need to end the turn in a city in order to spend a romantic evening with their wifes. I think having +population growth temples in the city improves odds further, as do some ancillaries

[Quintus.JC]

1) How can I encourage/ obtain more governors? - The family feels spread thin as I start to expand and I could do with a few more governors - any ideas?
2) Already played a few seiges - my towers seem stop start on their way to the wall - I have to keep ordering them forward as they keep stopping. I also have had some problems getting the troops to climb up them when they arrive, so any suggestions welcome.
3) As a long time MTW hand, I am used to a spear/ javalin sign appearing on my cursor during battles. This means start missle attack and not melee. If I want them to fight I have to use the alt key as well as the mouse. Now in RTW my Roman infantry come up with a spear sign so I have been using the alt key to initiate melee as I don't want them to skirmish - is that right? I really want them to charge, throw their javelins then close to contact but if I have to use the alt key at close quarters that seems a bit too much like over micromanagement - am I doing it wrong?

In my first campaign as the Brutti, I seem to be doing OK - I have the Adriatic coast, Greece and am about to take Constantinopole. The game is close enough to MTW to be able to get going quickly, but has enough differences to make it interesting.

Welcome to Rome: Total War King hurt.

1) Family members are naturally born within your family, as you control more settlements you may feel the need for more FMs, You may need to select ‘Control all settlements’ at the start of campaign to take charge of the settlements without governors, I guess you did that already. (1) Bribing from other factions is one way to increase your family members, this could be expensive but well worth it if you could spare the money. It is best to bribe other Romans to your family, but beware as in version 1.5 you are not allowed to bribe other Romans until the civil war. (2) As the Brutii you have the ability to build temples to Juno, this type of temple brings health bonus and also brings very useful Ancillaries if you want to have more family members. Retinues such as Druids, Doctors and physicians etc. etc. increase the chance of your male family members of having more children, so have them handy. (3) Adoption is another way to increase your family tree, this is however quite rare and not controlled by the human player. Adoption happens when one of your captains have done well in battle and are promoted to a general, and thus joining your family. This does not happen often and the chance is completely random and is an unreliable way to increase your family tree.

2) Keep the siege towers apart from each other and they should advance quite neatly. After reaching a section of the wall, make sure you select the unit you want to scale the wall and then click that section of the wall as your unit’s destination. They will then start climbing the ladder/tower towards the point you clicked.

3) Roman infantry tend to throw pilum before they charges. This can normally be seen as an advantage as it causes a handful of damage to your enemy before your unit even charges. But in other situation such as when your general is in danger it is more practical to charge straight away, press alt and the javelin sign should be switched to swords. The same could be done to other missile units as well.

Hope this helped, good luck on your campaign.

[salemty]

i know this is completely off topic but im having a problem. im trying to download the 1.3 patch for rtw but it says it going to take 7hrs! is it something im doin or does it just take a REEEEAAAALLLYY long time to download? plz help

[Bartholemew-Varath]

Im pretty sure it shouldnt take that long to download the patch, thats about the time it would take to downloaded Europa Barbarorum for me, but im not sure about the patch as im playing Rome Gold Edition. I think King Kurts questions have been answered so i wont bother repeating other peoples posts

[King Kurt]

Thanks guys - nice to see the Colosseum is as friendly and helpful as the Main Hall. I may be back when I think of some other questions!!

[anelious phyros]

If your coming to Rome Total War you might want to check out the Coming Back to RTW thread in the colleseum. Which is where we are. The thread has a lot of good info on who you should play as. But that's all there personal opinion. Best of luck.

[Reapz]

1) How can I encourage/ obtain more governors?

Kurt - Another way is to use stacks of units without a general to engage rebels or in fights with other factions they are likely to win. The game engine will often offer the Captain for adoption after the battle if it is a good win.

[King Kurt]

Guys - great advice - thank you very much. I really need to put this advice to work in my my current Scippi campaign. I have just had a disastarous sequence of events where my best general died a move before i stormed a major city. The next turn my faction leader died. So - no general with my mega army and nobody at home at the capital - So 3 towns revolt including my capital and my income goes to pot. Looks like it is back to the last saved game to run the turns again with the benefit of hindsight!!
Is it me or do leaders etc die earlier in RTW? I am enjoying RTW but this winning the Imperial campaign to unlock everything else is a pain - I now you can mod it out but I thought the practice would be useful - oh well just a few more Spainish towns to conquer!!

[Quintus.JC]

The descr_strat files can unlock all the un-lockable and non-playable factions, or else you could just start a short campaign and complete it to unlock all the un-lockable factions.