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    Default Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    Looking at some screenshots and at the province profile flash page from Activision, I counted 98 provinces in RTW. By comparison MTW also has about 100 provinces.

    I am surprised that they did not increase the number of cities on the campaign map to give the game more depth. I was hoping for multi-city provinces and the possibility of founding your own cities. Alas no such luck.

    Oh well, as long as game play stays interesting and historically believable, I'm happy. Still buying the game when it comes out.


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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    For the purposes of modding I'm really hoping for a few more. I believe you can have a max of 107 with Medieval, so I'm hoping for more.

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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    I still dream about having same amount of provinces as Crusader Kings does..


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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    I thought there weren't going to be any provinces, just cities
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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    Quote Originally Posted by Inuyasha12
    I thought there weren't going to be any provinces, just cities
    If you look at the campaign screenshots you can quite clearly see on the mini-map that the map is divided into provinces, one city per province.



    Quote Originally Posted by CBR
    I still dream about having same amount of provinces as Crusader Kings does..
    What a huge map that would be I´d settle with twice as many as it is know, because it might be quite hard to actually find names of cities in northwestern Europe around the birth of christ

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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucius Lucullus
    What a huge map that would be I´d settle with twice as many as it is know, because it might be quite hard to actually find names of cities in northwestern Europe around the birth of christ
    Well yes I was thinking more in terms of MTW 2

    But having provinces named after tribes, cities or just..well the province name is fine by by me. Ceasar had several Gallic tribes to fight with and having 5? cities/provines in Gaul seem a bit on the low side.

    It all depends what you want out of a game. I like to be able to spend lots of playing time just focusing on a region of Europe instead of being able to conquer the whole thing.

    That might not be the focus for RTW, but for a MTW like game I would love to have a long struggle fighting against France as England or being Denmark and mainly fighting in the Baltic region.


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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    Having open provinces adds much more complexity to the game.

    Of course, only having one city per province takes away some of that potential complexity.

    IIRC I guessed there would be about 150 cities/provinces in RTW when I first saw some of the early campaign screenshots.

    Having about that many cities is probably the best balance between complexity for the player/AI to handle and an unwieldy campaign map.
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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    It really gets tedious if you think about it, even at the current rate, 98 provinces = 98 cities (speculation on my side) that means you have to commence at least 98 seige battles not counting how many times you lost or taken over that particular city to the enemy, now think about it, 98 seiges + other countless non-seige battles and you have one pain in the behind tediousness ~:p , in MTW most of my MTW campaigns are still unfinished becuase of the rinse and repeat process of conquering provinces after taking care of 60% of the map...
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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    @Faisal

    You are presuming of course that you have to conquer each and every city to achieve total domination. HIstorically, that was not the case most of the time. Alexander won 3 big battles against Persia and only had to besiege a single city (Tyre). Caesar did not have to take every province out of the hands of Pompey after Pharsalus etc...

    It would difficult, but not impossible, to simulate that in game play. A parallel can be drawn with the tactical battle part of MTW. In traditional RTS games (eg Starcraft) you had to kill all the enemy to win the game. In MTW, killing every soldier in a unit to destroy it or killing all 1000+ of the enemy in a typical battle would be tedious. Hence they created morale and fatigue. Similar parameters (loyalty/cultural cohesion/etc..) could be created for the campaign map. Win a single battle under certain conditions and the entire Kingdom could be yours.

    My point is that with more cities and potential to found new ones, the replayability of the campaign map would approach that of the battlemap. It is not strict historical accuracy that I seek, but gameplay that approaches historical patterns.

    Maybe in the next installment of total war.

    Afrit

    PS: for the bored among you, I compiled a list of all provinces in RTW from various screenshots. Some names are educated guesses. And one name in particular (Domus Dulcis Domus in Locus Gepidae=[home sweet home?]) seems to be a programmer's joke, so the list may not be final.


    Number of provinces by geographic region:

    BRITISH ISLES: 4
    GAUL: 7
    IBERIA: 7
    N. AFRICA (excluding Egypt): 8
    EGYPT: 5
    FERTILE CRESCENT: 11
    ASIA MINOR: 11
    GREECE: 10
    ILLYRIA et al: 6
    ITALIA: 12
    GERMANIA: 8
    STEPPES: 11

    TOTAL: 100 provinces (102 if Sicily's 3 cities are 3 provinces)

    List of provinces and their capital cities:

    Province: capital city

    Hibernia: Tara
    Britannia Inferior: Eburacum
    Tribus Siluri: Deva
    Britannia Superior: Londinium

    Belgica: Samarobriva
    Armorica: Condate Redonum
    Central Gaul: Alesia
    Lugdunensis: Lugdunum
    Narbonensis:Narbo Martius
    Transalpine Gaul:Massilia
    Aquitania: Lemignum (sp?)

    Taraconensis:.........
    Gallaecis: Asturica
    Celtiberia: Numantia
    Lusitania:...........
    ....:Carthago Nova
    Baetica:..........

    Mauretania:
    Numidia:
    [Gaetulia? province south of Numidia]
    [Sahara? 2nd province south of numidia]
    Africa: Carthage
    Byzacium: Thapsus
    [Lybia:]
    [Cyrenaica:]

    [Sinai:??]
    [Lower Egypt: Alexandria
    [Mid Egypt: Memphis]
    [Upper Egypt: Thebes]
    [Egyptian Desert: Oasis of Ammon?]

    Media:............
    [SUSIANA/PERSIA:SUSA?Ctesiphon?]
    Arabia: ?????
    Babylonia: Seleucia
    Regnum Palmyrae: Palmyra
    Coele Syria: Damascus
    Syria: Antioch
    Phoenicia: Sidon
    Cyprus: Salamis
    [Judaea]:Jerusalem
    [Transjordan/Edom:Petra?]


    Lycia: Halicarnassus
    Ionia: Sardis
    Phrygia: Pergamum
    Bithynia: Nicomedia
    Galatia: Ancyra
    Cappadocia: Mazaka
    Cilicia: Tarsus
    Armenia: Artaxarta
    Colchis: Kotais
    Assyria: Hatra
    Atropatene: Phraaspa


    Noricum: Iuvavum
    Pannonia: Aquincum
    Illyria: ?Segestica
    Dalmatia: Salona
    Paionia: Bylazora
    Thrace : Tylis

    Macedonia: Thessalonica
    Epirus: Apollonia
    Thessalia: Larissa
    Aetolia: Thermon
    Attica: Athens
    Peloponnesus: COrinth
    Laconia: Sparta
    Propontis: Byzantium
    Kydonia: Crete [sic]
    [Rhodes ?]: Rhodes


    Cisapline Gaul: Mediolanum
    Liguria: Segesta
    Venetia: Patavium
    Etruria:Arretium
    Umbria:Ariminium
    Latium: ROME
    Apulia: Tarentum
    Bruttium: Croton
    Sicilia: Messana Syracuse Lilybaeum
    Sardinia: Caralis



    Tribus Saxones: Bordesholm
    Germania Inferior: Batavodurum
    Tribus Chattii: Damme
    Locus Gothi: Vicus Gothi
    Regnum Marcomanni: Vicus Marcomanni
    Agri Decumates: Mogontiacum
    Germania SUperior: Trier
    Boihaemum: Lovosice



    Locus Gepidae: Domus Dulcis Domus (HOme Sweet Home?)
    Pripet: Vicus Venedae:
    Tribus Sarmatae: Campus Sarmatae
    Dacia: Porrolisum
    Tribus Iazyges: Campus Iazyges
    Tribus Getae: Campus Getae
    Scythia: Campus Scythi
    Maetois: Tanais
    Bosphorus: Chersonnesus
    Tribus Alanni: Campus Alanni
    Tribus Nakae (sp?): ......
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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    Conquering the whole map will be much harder in RTW than in MTW. You will probably win the campaigns by other means than sieging 98 cities.

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    Default Re: Provinces in RTW. Same number as MTW?

    There is also a significant campaign goal difference between MTW and RTW.

    In MTW, besides the never-perfected Glorious Achievment mode, all you could do was conquer most of the map.

    In RTW the goal is Rome as Roman or non-Roman factions your goal is to take and hold that city. Afterwards you have the option of going global.
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