How did you get interested in RTW and then in EB?

**Lanceari** · 08-18-2009, 22:11

The History Channel used to run some documentaries of ancient battles where the use the RTW engines to recreate parts of those battles. ...this got me interested in RTW: Rome.

After I started playing Rome, I found out about EB through RTW's forums.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 08-18-2009, 22:32

When RTW first came out everyone said it was the greatest game of the type ever made, and since I liked the history of the Roman Empire I bought it.

After a while I got bored with it and looked for mods. After playing RTR for a while, I got interested in EB from one of those RTR vs. EB threads. I thought I wouldn't like a mod "focusing on the barbarians", as everyone called it, but I was pleasantly surprised when I checked it out.

**APX** · 08-18-2009, 22:34

Originally Posted by Epi

The History Channel used to run some documentaries of ancient battles where the use the RTW engines to recreate parts of those battles. ...this got me interested in RTW: Rome.

After I started playing Rome, I found out about EB through RTW's forums.

That's actually the same way I learned of RTW, through watching the show where they use the game to recreate ancient battles. After watching the show I immediately bought it at Bestbuy.

**lonewolf209** · 08-18-2009, 22:44

I've always had a moderate interest in history so when I saw RTW on the store shelf I just had to give it a try. Then I saw a youtube Video of EB and had to give that a try and i completely fell in love with it. I've probably spent more time playing EB then all my other games combined.

**Owen Glyndwr** · 08-19-2009, 00:41

I saw it reviewed on a TV show. I remember they were comparing it with Battle For Middle Earth, as a matter of fact, and said that R: TW was the better game. I remember being really put off by that because I was really interested in buying BFME. Then I watched Decisive Battles on the History Channel, and instantly decided I wanted it. So I picked it up and fell in love. I still have memories of getting up at 5 AM to play BI before school started.

I started looking at mods because I got tired of how the north of Great Britain and The Eastern edges of Persia got cut out in vanilla so I looked around and found R: TR. Then, when I got bored with that, I started looking around and found EB. I decided I'd give it a try and here I am.

**vartan** · 08-19-2009, 04:12

Is it just me or is everyone showing some trend that goes R:TW ... RTR ... EB? It's very interesting. But guess what? I have just a similar story.

My closest friend, a few years ago, sometime in 2004 or 2005, lended me his Rome: Total War CDs, knowing how much I loved history and how much I loved strategy games (e.g. chess, StarCraft). You won't believe this. I installed the game that night, went to quick battle, had no clue how the camera worked, sent peasants to attack some legionaires or something, and got screwed hard. Uninstalled, gave him the CDs the next morning and told him it's junk. "The game's flawed!! How can someone work the damn camera!!!" Something of the sort. A couple of years passed and sometime while we were watching the HBO series "Rome" we decided to re-install and play R:TW. I gave the necessary effort this time and finally achieved victory. Of course, as you all know, I was soon bored with the repetitiveness, predictability, and inaccuracy of the game. Foraged through forums, discovered RTR, made it work, played till I realized (or formed the opinion) that it's simply a pruned and beautified version of R:TW (don't get me wrong, it's a great mod). I found EB, compared it to everything else (and there was NO comparison). EB was and is awesome. Awesome as in I was in awe of how comprehensive and 'fully loaded' the modification was. To this day I am amazed at the amount of work the team has put in.

Great job guys. You've more than set the bar, you've made many gamers happy. Here's one of them!

-Vartan

**Raygereio** · 08-19-2009, 10:42

Originally Posted by vartan

Is it just me or is everyone showing some trend that goes R:TW ... RTR ... EB?

I'm the same. I picked up RTW when I saw it in the bargain bin (having no previous knowledge of the rest of the total war series).
I liked it: it has decent gameplay. But as I have at the very least some knowledge of history I quickly became annoyed at the inaccuracies (and I don't know how it was marketed in other countries, but the version I have praised RTW's stunning and unprecedented historical accuracy on the box, hrmbl).

I did a google search for mods and RTR was simply the first on the list I found back then. Played it for a while and when I searched for more mods, I found EB.

**keiskander** · 08-19-2009, 12:16

I got my hands on MTW1 by an accident and loved it so i tried out shogun aswell. As i was familiar with the developer and title name Total war Rome was a clear purchase when it hit the stores. How i found the forums for total war was when first skin of a spartan was released by the devs. I then google the internet for more and found my way to the mods first one i tried out was Barebones mod then Roma Surrectum. Then abit dedicated to MTWII and Stainless Steel and Broken Cresent i was away from RTW awhile but found my way back to the era and decided to try out EB which i regret i havent done much earlier...