Things you learned from playing vanilla RTW

[-Praetor-]

If it would be for some documentaries, I would believe that Hannibal fought Lorica Segmentata legionaries.

Amen to that.

The fact is that vainilla RTW, aside from all it`s misconception, delivered much bigger quantities of accurate info than any documentary from The History Channel available. (Bloddy cheek from self-styling with such a name. That channel depicted a series of battles using RTW engine, showing it as the paramount of historical accuracy.)

Off course that when you compare vainilla RTW with EB or with other historical mods, you get the feeling that the former disfigured history with a malevolent purpose in mind. But you have to remember that to a largely uncultured public, showing historical Gasaetae or an accurate Republican Roman Army in the vainlilla release would have been shocking or boring, respectively.

If CA would thought that by selling history books they would have made more money, they wouldn`t have released RTW.

Cheers.

PS: If you had truly wanted to learn hardcore history, you wouldn`t have invested 30 dollars in RTW and you would instead have used that money to buy a Goldsworthy book, or would have buyed a hardcover edition of Cesar`s comentario de bello gallico.