I can't really complain about R:TW

**KeePah** · 02-01-2005, 10:19

Greetings everyone,

I have read different posts there people complains about bugs and unrealistic things and so on in Rome: Total War. Well I say, remember the old RTS games! And to the young ones I can tell you about the first RTS game created. ”North & South” on Amiga500.

North & South was the coolest game I ever have played in that time, it was really huge armies on a huge battlefield. The battlefield were one screen large and a maximum army were 3 canons, 1 unit of infantery with 6 soldiers, 1 unit of cav with 3 soldiers. After the first 6 soldiers and 3 cav soldiers was killed it came reinforcement of 6 new infantery soldiers and 3 new cav soldiers and one more each if they got killed. The corpses didn’t even fade from the battlefield it was amazing for a game in that time! The key commands for controlling the army was the arrow keys and the Alt keys for switching from artillery to infantery to cavalery and the space key for fire.

I dreamed dreams about games like S:TW, M:TW and R:TW in those old days. I really enjoy playing them and if I experience a bug or a bad thing I just think back on the old games! Rome: Total War is a dream come true and I am in the clouds with a big smile when I play it!

I can’t complain!

Sorry for bad english, be safe and happy playing! /Johan

**Blitz** · 02-01-2005, 11:32

woah finally another guy tHat doesn't whine and moaning about R:TW, to me it rox. before you guys whine you guys better prove that you can do better than R:TW.

**ToranagaSama** · 02-03-2005, 09:57

Why does anyone have to prove anything? CA proved that THEY could do better with Shogun and Medieval.

**Byzantine Prince** · 02-03-2005, 10:02

Graphically speaking RTW is far suprerior to it's pretecessors.

**Colovion** · 02-03-2005, 10:08

Originally Posted by Byzantine_Prince

Graphically speaking RTW is far suprerior to it's pretecessors.

fancy dressing only works for so long, just look at Doom 3

**Duke John** · 02-03-2005, 10:13

I just played a few custom battles and the AI charged his entire battle line at mine. Even though I had given plenty of missile units it disregarded the use of long range weapons and tested their worth by charging them headlong. This means that defensive battles are utter garbage since the AI does not have even the slightest idea of tactics.

In M:TW in S:TW however the AI did use their missile units and softened my units before charging in.

So please do not come here stating that R:TW rocks.

However we will see how good the game gets with the new patch. If missile units still charge in, passing their own heavy infantry, then it will be then end of R:TW for me.

**Colovion** · 02-03-2005, 10:19

and with vanilla

**Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe** · 02-03-2005, 10:22

AI seems to have a very decent idea of its own power: I have seen AI charging head on, and that's mostly when it got better unit/ melee power... I have also seen AI doing nothing and standing there, and it's when it's not very confident it can win with melee.

I wonder if the AI was "knowing" about the mother of all bugs and charging along with missile just because they had higher melee attack.

My main issue with AI is that, when it is overpowered by human player and got less unit of less quality, with lesser melee stat, it does not make the best of it. It somehow stand there doing nothing (and it get shot in the meantime) instead of trying to get a better defensive position.

As far as I can remember, AI has always been horrendous with missile warfare, even in MTW. Actually that was a reason for toning down missile in MTW; make AI more challenging by underpowering units it does not use well.

Louis,