Voightkamph, no one is stopping you playing with artillery and elephants with other likeminded people, but you cant deny that when someone hosts a game that says no art or elephants and then 1 person takes 1 fully boosted elephant and someone else takes 10 artillery pieces that its very very annoying. Like Louis says, unless you dont know what your doing, artillery means a rush game...

Most of the veterens have stopped playing Rome unless all those strange names are undercover, which i doubt....although it may have changed since i stopped playing (nearly a month now).