RTR....how the game should have been

**Mikeus Caesar** · 03-06-2005, 14:42

I will download this as soon as i have finished my almighty greek campaign!! You make it sound so good!!!! Wait a sec....are you an advertiser for RTR?

**Bob the Insane** · 03-06-2005, 18:19

whoa...

Playing as the romans it is 269BC, 22 turns into the game... I have just finshed kicking the Greeks out of Italy. I have captured all of 3 provinces (1 rebel and 2 Greek) and fought numerous battles... At one point when I had only 3 cities 2 of them where besieged and all 3 where blockaded and we had only one understrength legion left. I have lost an entire legion in battle and have had two major victories against the Greeks smashing their armies in the field (both times saving us from disaster). I have spent most of the game so far practically broke (I can barely keep up with replacing battlefield losses let alone find the money to build anything). I live in fear of our Carthaginan or Gaulish allies turing on us while we fight the Greeks, war on two front at this point would be the end of us...

And when you compare how tiny our present holdings are both to the scale of the world map and the effort to hold on to what we have I am quite imtimidated.

Wow...

**The Stranger** · 03-06-2005, 19:15

i have a problem, every time i start a campaign it CTD in the fourth turn (end of winter 279 bc) any hotfixes for this.

**Darius** · 03-06-2005, 20:17

Chances are you may have installed something in the wrong order. Try doing a fresh install of RTW, then the 1.2 patch, then install 5.2, followed by 5.3 and it should be fine.

So far I've managed to slowly progress through Illyria, and the area is littered with heroic victories. Unfortunately my armies deep in Greece have made little progress, and are the only reason my armies to the north are making any headway. Wave upon wave of Greek armies crash upon my lines, and my treasury is being taxed to the limits trying to replace the losses as I retrain the battered remnants and ship over new recruits whilst trying to avoid the Greek navy that hunts my meager navy.

Recent news from the lands of Africa tell of how the Carthiginans have eliminated the Numidians. This does not bode well, as the Punic armies will now be able to focus their attentions fully outward rather than in two directions. As it stands they have captured all but Syracuse on Sicily, and their armies in Spain are holding the Iberians at bay.

The Gauls, though at one point hemmed in by both the Britons and my Romans, are now able to focus solely on me as the Britons have acquired peace with the Gallic horde and have now begun tearing through the lands of Germany. It will likely be a long time before I am able to leave the comfortably defendable passes of the Alps to bring the war to the Gauls, as my war with the Greeks is seemingly getting only more intense with each passing turn.

I recently paid my allies the Thracians to begin a war upon both the Greeks and the Dacians. So far they have only had minor skirmishes within the Greek province of Byzantium, but their armies are making a large nuisance for the numerous Dacian people, whom I hope will be too occupied with their Thracian invaders to attempt to attack my holdings along the Aegean Sea.

Now the Greeks have once again sent a diplomat to speak with me. I am about to let out a sigh of relief, only to see that they wish for me to become their Protectorate. This has left me with an intense desire to personally open the Greek King's skull to see what is making him so insane to think I would agree to these terms. He and his people shall pay for their arrogance and shall soon see his lands under the firm rule of Roman steel.

**Simetrical** · 03-06-2005, 22:36

I must stress that while 5.2 was, in fact, extremely buggy, 5.3 is not. There are virtually no confirmed crash bugs in 5.3, and the only significant one is rare and can be worked around if necessary (and we haven't the foggiest clue what causes it, incidentally). 5.2 was basically an open beta, but not labeled as such—I plan to push for 6.0 to be labeled properly, as it will also doubtless not be playtested very extensively (RTR has a history of this). Yes, we have pride in our work, but it's a waste of time for us to playtest the mod when we could have others do it far more thoroughly than we possibly could. The only problem is when we don't inform them that they're playtesters.

-Simetrical

**AntiochusIII** · 03-06-2005, 23:11

Hehe, I see. The Realism of the RTR Playtesting Conspiracy...

On the other hand, seeing Darius got himself beaten by the Greeks once and again (historically correct, right? Marathon?

) I think I'll give RTR a try.

Do I have to download 5.3 after 5.2 to play with Rome 1.2 or just download 5.3 immediately, without 5.2 installed?

**Ciciocle** · 03-07-2005, 00:47

if i have allready installed RTR v5.1, i have to uninstall it before upgrading to v5.2 and v5.3? or i could just install 1.2 patch and then RTR patches over previous version?