First Post -- Why can't I save during Prologue?

[Lucky Forward]

Hi everyone, I just started started playing RTW this weekend (with Patch 1.2) and the tutorial mode in Prologue is great and I've enjoyed my first few battles, but I don't seem to be able to save my game. When I hit the Esc key during the campaign screen the Save and Load buttons are grayed out.

The manual says virtually nothing about when you can save your game, and I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a bug or if I'm not doing something right. I've already beaten Gauls in the first engagement, captured the first town on the campaign map, and now I'm about to begin an attack on the next town, but I haven't been able to save yet. Otherwise I'm really loving the game so far, so please help me out.

[Craterus]

Press Escape and then there will be a bunch of options, go down to save game and click it. Then you should be able to save it..
RTW doesn't have save points if that's what you are thinking?
Hope this helps.

[Lucky Forward]

Thanks for the quick reply, but when I hit escape, the Save and Load buttons are grayed out. Any idea why?

[Craterus]

Yes. I tihnk I know. Before you can save you have to progress far enough in the prologue, I tihnk you have to take the Rebel settlement and you have to blockade a port. I would do some senate missions, have some battles and eventually you should be able to save. When you can save it, save the game and then you can quit. After this you can do a proper imperial campaign with the other Roman factions.. Good Luck!

[phred]

I think the autosave feature works for the prologue.

[Lucky Forward]

Thanks, Craterus. The prologue battles I've done so far have been pretty time consuming since I'm new to all of this (what with flipping through the manual and all...) and it seems like I'm going to have to put in several hours of gameplay before it lets me save. I actually left my PC running last night so I wouldn't lose what I've accomplished so far.

Can anyone tell me more about autosave? Also, are there points during gameplay when you can and cannot save, or can you save anytime?