Quietus' Rome: Total War Guide

[Quietus]

Just a comment on slingers. They seems to hit your own troops when standing behind them.

Also a question, has anyone seen if their is an multiple effect on counter spying when having more than one spy in your city (to uncover enemy spies).....

LOL Have you been reading my post in the tavern Backroom pet peeves thread . Prankster, very funny, now confess!!

On a serious note: about the slingers, how far back are they when they hit the frontal troops?

Also, I particularly don't use or recommend spies in home cities due to their high 100 denari upkeep. You can just lower the taxes to counter the enemy spies' effect.

Hence I haven't done any particular tests on counterspying.

Lastly, if you build continuously, you won't even be bothered with loyalty problems nor you would need garrisons (only on really far,far away cities).

[amazon77]

As far as slingers and shootig your own troops, the same happens with archers, at least in the v1.0 i play. I'll refer first to archers, it seems they start to cause casualties to you, halfway their shooting range, which is quite a lot of men 'till the enemy reaches your line. The game certainly changed since MTW (and shogun) where positioning your archers a little (like a 2 men width line) behind your spearmen wouldn't cause casualties untill the enemy reached your line when it was natural for some arrows to hit their comarades. Slingers on the other hand are like Xbowmen or Arballesters or Gunners of MTW (shogun). They will shoot through your troops inflicting not a few, but a LOT of casualties. Thats why i always position slingers in front of my lines and then retreat them. They shoot almost parallel to the ground. Then i dont use them at all, or try to flank them. The same thing i do with archers, in front of my troops and then i relocate them further back and order them to shoot at some of the enemies who are still to close on my troops. That way when the arrows go over my first line soldiers, travel at quite an altitude.

[Drisos]

Well, I never played anything but STW, but I decided to take a look at the famous 'Quietus guide to Rome'.

I think many new RTW-players appreciate this great work, Quietus.

I think you did a very great service to the .org with this! !

[IliaDN]

Indeed he did!

[Warfanatic]

Hey I'm new 2 this game and had a stupid question to ask. How do I disable the AI's control of my reinforcements in the game. I did the unlimited men on the battlefield mod, but AI controls my reinforcement. Where and when do i uncheck that box that you guys were talking about up there or is there anything I can do ? The comp's so stupid....and they call it intelligence.

[Quietus]

Hey I'm new 2 this game and had a stupid question to ask. How do I disable the AI's control of my reinforcements in the game. I did the unlimited men on the battlefield mod, but AI controls my reinforcement. Where and when do i uncheck that box that you guys were talking about up there or is there anything I can do ? The comp's so stupid....and they call it intelligence.

Hello Warfanic! Your first post! Welcome!

First of all, there are no stupid questions only stupid answers.

Ok, a player has the maximum ability of controlling 20 units. The rest of the units will be reinforcements, always.

There is computer icon/picture with a box beside it in the battle scroll (in the strategic map when combat is initiated). Left-click the box the tick/untick the option.

ticked box = The AI will control all your reinforcements.
unticked box = The player will control all the reinforcements, with deference to the 20 unit max rule.

unlimited men on the battlefied: TRUE = no reinforcement delay.
unlimited men on the battlefield: FALSE = reinforcement delay depending on how good is your PC.

Now if you combine the unticked box and unlimited men, then so long as you have 20 units on the field the reinforcements will arrive but will not cross the red border in the battle map. Was that clear?

Thx for all the replies, comments, suggestions, and contributions, guys (drisos, IliaDN, pez, bmolsson).

Amazon, I noted that archer has to be layered long with enough space so they don't inflict damage to the other units. I've very protective of my archers.

I'll have to test the slingers on how much space will they need to be most effective when shooting behind troops, that's why I'm asking. Thank you.

[Drisos]

Welcome to the .org, Warfanatic!! Please give us a (short) introduction in the 'HAIL New Members (introductions) II' thread. That way you'll become a full member soon.

Hey I'm new 2 this game and had a good question to ask.

Remember this: The are no stupid question, Warfanatic There are stupid answers, but certainly not in this thread. (AdrianII told me the same story once )

The comp's so stupid....and they call it intelligence.

I totally agree. The AI can be very, very stupid sometimes.

[Quietus]

Remember this: The are no stupid question, Warfanatic There are stupid answers, but certainly not in this thread. (AdrianII told me the same story once )

Dris, that's because Adrian heard it from me!

[LestaT]

Well the 'box' only appears if you install patch 1.2 rite ?

[Avicenna]

Well the 'box' only appears if you install patch 1.2 rite ?

i'm not entirely sure about what i have but i think i have 1.1 and there's the box