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[therother]

Forum Index

Official Patches and Downloads

PATCH 1.2 has been released - see here. Download it using this link. The patch is a 56.3MB download.

• Alternative CA skin for the Peloponnesian-era Spartan Hoplite can be downloaded from the Official site.
• You can also still get the V1.1 patch - addresses mainly multiplayer issues (game stability, performance and synch) and reduces strength of elephant units. You don't need this patch to install 1.2.

Guides

General

• frogbeastegg's Guide to Rome: Total War - a lengthy beginner and intermediate level guide
• Quietus' Rome: Total War Guide - an advanced guide, with detailed information on all facets of RTW.
• Dave 'Fargo' Kosak's Guide to RTW - IGN version of the Smackus Maximus guide.
• Doug Radcliffe's Rome: Total War Game Guide - requires basic (free) Game Spot registration.

Specific Topics

• Tamur's Diplomacy Guide – everything you could ever want to know about diplomacy.
• Sinner's Temple Guide – complete list of all the temples for each faction, and their effects.
• Soulflame's Unit Guide v1.2 – Exhaustive list of all the units, and their stats.
• Spino's Campaign AI Settings – a quick guide to the personalities of the various factions under AI control.
• Spartan's Trait guide - a list of character traits with descriptions. Falconne has produced a useful spreadsheet of traits and their effects. There is also
• geraldtan's more advanced treatment here.
• Strategic Command Center's Unit Guide – web guide for unit stats in RTW.
• Clan [Koguryo]'s Unit Guide – Flash Player based unit guide. Complete with RTW music!
• rumcajsz's RTW and RTR political maps - useful maps for both the normal game, and the Total Realism mod.
• Silver Rusher's Eastern Army construction guide.

There is also the developing RomeWiki.

Mods & Fixes

• The Forge - list of mods that Org members are developing.
• Org hosted mods - major mods hosted at the Org.
• Rome: Total Realism Mod - see link for full details on the changes made.
• TWC mod list - list of early mods from the guys over at TWC.

Unofficial Patches

• BUG-FIXER - an unofficial patch for Rome: Total War 1.2 which fixes many issues.
  
  
• Discovered bugs: Unit bugs 1 & 2, Trait bugs.

Fixes for 1.1

• Sinner's fix for admirals gaining command stars - allows admirals to gain/lose stars like normal generals.
• Sinner's fix for sabotage missions - allows assassins to gain/lose skill on these missions.
• Sinner's fix for Navigator trait - fixes this trait, allowing Admirals to gain it.
• Workarounds for 'stuck' ships - couple of techniques to free ships if they fall victim to a bug in the game.

Forum Info

• The Guild FAQ - Collection of useful information that answers many commonly asked questions, as well hints and tips on Forum usage. Includes the Forum Rules.
• Synopsis of the Guild Forums - rundown of current forums, each with a short description.
• Database Lagging- info on the forum search function from TosaInu.
• Signature Picture Rules - The rules on pictures in signatures.

Useful Information posted by CA Devs

• Culture and Unrest Public Order penalties – info from JeromeGrasdyke.
• Captain to General - info from Captain Fishpants on adopting Captains as family members.
• What do command stars do? - JeromeGrasdyke explains the bonuses conferred by the command rating of your general.
• Playing as the Senate - hatcat explains why it is not such a good idea!
• Q&A by JeromeGrasdyke – info from the RTW programmer, primarily about modding, but there are also useful nuggets of information about the game itself.
• RTW's trait system - info from Captain Fishpants on the new trait system.
• Pre-Battle Speeches - the good Captain gives some insight into the generation of your General's (hopefully) rousing speech.
• Game mechanics questions - plenty of info from JeromeGrasdyke.

Useful Tools

• d0t's Best capital calculator - calculates the best position for minimising distance to capital public order penalties throughout your entire empire.
• Ravenous Bugblatter Beast's advanced version, which allows you to set the maximum unrest that distance from capital is permitted in each city when calculating the optimal capital.

Battlefield Research

(The Research Subject Tree, in the Ludus Magna, indexes research threads more comprehensively.)

• Horse Archers in RTW - Doug-Thompson and co. examine this unit type in detail. There is also an earlier version here.
• Elephants, Healing, and Multiple Hit Points - an investigation of how to deal with elephant units.
• Regarding Spears and Cavalry - discussion of the various bonuses given to cavalry and spear units.
• Best Foot Unit - an analysis of the best foot units in the game.
• The Testudo - a discussion of the usefulness of this formation.
• Phalanx formation - a discussion on how to best use this formation.
• Battlefield AI - research on how the Ai handles battles
• Effects of Command - an investigation of the effects of command
• Missile Attack Index - a metric system for quantify the impact of various missile units
• Archery vs weather - research into the effects of weather conditions on archery

Strategy Map Research

(The Research Subject Tree, in the Ludus Magna, indexes research threads more comprehensively.)

• Squalor – The population size for each level of squalor. Also covers garrison effects.
• Distance to Capital PO penalties - how this public order penalty varies with distance from the capital.
• Tax Income - info on the income from taxation at various population levels. Also contains zhuge's farming equation.
• Slaves Resource - info on the slaves resource generated by enslaving a settlement.
• Unrest Public Order Penalties – research on unrest.
• Culture Public Order Penalties – factors which count towards the culture public order penalty.
• Devastation - info on campaign map devastation caused by unfriendly units in provinces.
• Economic info - some basic experiments with economy.
• Trade - there is also this thread.
• Corruption - investigation of this distance-from-capital financial penalty.
• Governor's Admin income - an equation for calculating Admin income.
• AI personalities - research on the different AI personalities.
• Bribery - investigating the costs of bribing.
• Farming - research on farming income.
• Building Strageties - researching the effectiveness of various building strageties.
• Roads - looking in to the effects of roads, on income and Movement Points.
• Senate missions - examining the missions the Senate assigns.
• Battle Odds - investigating the odds of battle, as reported on the Campaign map.
• Garrison - how the number of troops vs settlement population affects the garrison bonus.
• Unit attributes - investigating the effect of the various unit attributes.
• Agents - research the abilities of spies, assassins and diplomats
• Diplomat Influence - investigating the effects of influence on the effectiveness of diplomats.

Useful Research Tools

• GodsPetMonkey's Unit and Building Editors for RTW - useful tool for editing/viewing unit stats.
• ShellShock's RomeSAGE – save game modifier.
• Finn's Rome Total War Cheat unlocker – unlocks further RomeShell commands, and removes the one-a-game restriction.
• ArtMoney - memory address editor, useful for editing money, populations, etc.
• XVI32 - a hex editor.
• Command line options - a list of the various command line options for running RTW.

Historic Battlefield Tactics

• Roman Manipular Formation
• Historic Dispays of Tactical Ingenuity

Humorous Threads

Maltz's RTW Stories:

• RTW story I - Carthage.
• RTW story II - Numidia.
• RTW story III - Armenia.
• RTW story IV - Julii.
• Archery legend restored.
• Diary of a diplomat.
• Highway snow ploughs in ancient Rome?

[Morat]

Thanks once again therother! You are fast becoming my favourite poster! Any chance of getting this a sticky?

How about adding https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38951 this post about spears and cavalry for the battle section?

[Morat]

Normal forum manners would compel me to edit the post above but, as I can't yet, I'll just have to spam. Captain Fishpants and hatcat both post in the link below about playing as the Senate.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=39304

[therother]

Thanks for the suggestions Morat. Have included them in the index.

[Morat]

Thanks for the suggestions Morat. Have included them in the index.

No problem. As another suggestion, perhaps you could provide links to mods in progress?

[SpencerH]

Although it's a modding thread, Jerome gives a lot of useful info here https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=37359

[therother]

As another suggestion, perhaps you could provide links to mods in progress?

Well, perhaps, but I think that may be a little too specialised for this index - people wanting that information should probably go to the RTW modification subforums. But if you post some links, I have no objection to including them.

SpencerH: Thanks for that. He does indeed give very useful information. I'll add the link in the next update.

[therother]

A few new links added, including a link for the mods the Org is hosting, a new unit guide, and a CA post or two.

[RedKnight]

Smashing good work, therother! A glass of the finest Roman to you

[R'as al Ghul]

Hi therother,

excellent thread indeed. An index like this would be helpful for other forums as well. Thanks for putting the HA-thread in here.
Keep up the good work.


R'as

[therother]

No problem R'as, that's what the index is here for. I'm finding the HA thread, and your contribution to it, very enlightening indeed. So much so that I'm probably going to play a HA faction in my next game thanks to that thread.

[Shahed]

Brilliant !

[Silver Rusher]

I am working on a guide to running towns effectively, don't make one behind my back!

Be ready to add it to the list.

[therother]

Just give me the link.

Edit: Just put in a link for my thread on corruption, which should have been there from the beginning!

[therother]

Just updated the Index with a few links. Thanks to R'as al Ghul for suggesting a thread.

[sapi]

Great, informative post - keep it up!

[Silver Rusher]

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?p=640574

I'd like this indexed pwease.

[therother]

Various updates, including the one above. Keep the suggestions coming!

[Sinner]

I keep meaning to mention, how about adding this thread which shows a couple of methods of how you can free ships that have run ashore and got stuck.

[therother]

Thanks for the suggestion Sinner. It's been added.

[therother]

Few updates, and a couple of new headings, including, by request, Maltz's excellent RTW stories.

[Rurik the Chieftain]

I looove this thread! Everything you could ask for and more! I just wish I had the skill and patience to field this kind of stuff. Great job therother et al.

[Maltz]

Wow thanks a lot. I didn't expect I have the honor to squeeze in.

[Nigel]

What I would love to see indexed would be posts and info that discuss the historic armies and battlefield tactics (as opposed to game battlefield tactics). I.e. how was a Roman legion composed of, whow did they deploy and what tactics did they use, how did the Greek phalax warfare work and what tactics did the "barbarians" use (surely not just a "run and get'em" approach).


I have seen some of those threads around and will see if I can dig them up and post(edit) them in here. Watch this space.

[therother]

Sounds like a good idea, Nigel. Thanks for offering up your time.

I have seen some of those threads around and will see if I can dig them up and post(edit) them in here. Watch this space.

Probably best to post them in a new post; it'll make it easier for me (and others) to notice that you've posted.

Thanks.

[Nigel]

Sounds like a good idea, Nigel. Thanks for offering up your time.

Oh dear, did I just commit myself to 200 hours of searching the .org forum, lol

Anyway I am glad to do as much as I can and if you'd rather have it in new posts than so be it.

To start, here is a good one that discusses Roman Manipular formation.

[Arrowhead]

This, I think everyone will agree, is the funniest thread ever in the .org
Archery Legend Restored
Enter it in the forum index please!

[therother]

Enter it in the forum index please!

Done.

I don't currently have the time to actively maintain this Index, i.e. I don't have the time to scour the forums for threads to include. Any links posted here will be added as soon as possible though.

[Nigel]

Here is a good thread on ingenious generals in history. Would kind of fit in under historical battle tactics.

[therother]

Here is a good thread on ingenious generals in history. Would kind of fit in under historical battle tactics.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've just added it.