Aging general raises feeble salute..

**Greystone** · 03-16-2013, 20:38

Hello all;
I bought RTW ages ago, fired it up, got intimidated by the real-time battles and put the game on the shelf where it stayed for years. Re-installed it a couple weeks ago and now it's all I play. :) I lay in bed at night, game music looping in my head, figuring out how to use my 65 year old best general before he kicks the bucket. It's a fun game, well thought out. Started off with Julii short game and now attempting a short Parthia. Any other older players out there?

**Raz** · 03-17-2013, 00:36

I suppose that would depend on how you define older.

Welcome aboard Greystone!

**Wodening** · 03-17-2013, 01:18

I am not sure you would count my age as older, but I am 50, and I play MTW, and used to play RTW.

**Andres** · 03-17-2013, 14:51

Hello @Greystone

A 34 year old youngster speaking here.

**A Nerd** · 03-19-2013, 17:32

Hello Greystone! I turn 37 in two weeks! :O Still enjoy the older TWs (M2TW ! :D ) more than the newer renditions.

**Monk** · 03-19-2013, 23:03

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-20-2013, 18:19

Send him on a rampage through enemy territory on a suicide mission, to draw enemy armies away from your real targets, reinforcing him with mercenaries and if he survives have him hop on a boat and come home

Or, let him retire peacefully in the country

**Greystone** · 03-21-2013, 01:13

Hi all, thanks for chiming in..
Sorry I couldn't get back sooner. I'm 70. Started playing computer games in the early nineties, when we had to set up everything in DOS (remember config.sys and autoexec.bat?). The web was, to me, a lot more fun then; now it's marinated in commercialism.
Maj. Robert Dump: good idea about using an aging general; I'd best hurry though.. He's 73. I save every game before hitting the turn button. I find that if a general dies, and reload before the last turn, chances are he'll still be alive for the next turn; but you veteran players probably already know that..

**Major Robert Dump** · 03-21-2013, 17:34

If he is that old, and that experienced, you may be surprised at how many units he can take out in successive single combat, even spears, if you can catch get a downhill charge or flank. If you only keep horses in his army, he will be fast and agile on the campaign map and will make an excellent scout, fort builder or unit to run about the main armies killing small stacks of reinforcements.