Quote Originally Posted by Philadelphos View Post
This map is a complete disaster. I don't know how they dare to come up with such unhistorical places and call the game Rome Total War?

Silesia????

There are at least two dozens of places which are Total Fantasy.
And then they miss such important cities like Byzantium, Tarentum and Messana.
They even left out Aetolia. This was much better in RTW 1.

Sorry, we've gone far beyond such poor mapping. There is much better stuff out there.

So let's hope the game playing makes up for the faulty map, but I'm seriously afraid they screwed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia

if you cant be bothered reading it, it was a region in Poland. So looks pretty accurate to me.

Byzantium was not a major city until later in history. While it was around, it was a small trading settlement, and probably didnt rise to prominence until Emperor Constantine made it the captial of the Roman Empire in 330 AD

Tarentum and Messana share their regions with Brudisium which if i remember correctly was a much more major city. Hence it was probably chosen as the capital for that region.

on a more important note why stress about this. We have known for quite some time that the map was goign to be made up of large regions with one captial. Chances are a lot of cities will not make it.

As for claiming them throwing historical accuracy out the window. You do realise that they do research and if i remember correctly they even have historical advisors as part of the developement cycle.


Cheers Knoddy