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    i say it would be great in BI to have the option to see other`s faction battles..so u can sit back and relax watching a battle that u decide to watch...to bad the guys didn`t think about this
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    A new campaign map - Europe and the Empire have changed after 350 years of Roman rule since the end of the main Rome: Total War campaign. The new map reflects the shifts in population and wealth that have gone on.
    Any CA developer around to confirm if the provinces and city locations are still the same?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quietus
    Any CA developer around to confirm if the provinces and city locations are still the same?
    Province boundaries have been reviewed and changed. Then again, over 400 years the Romans reveiwed and changed the organisation of the Empire a few times.

    Important cities - Rome, Constantinople, Ravenna and so forth - are where you'd expect, of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants
    Province boundaries have been reviewed and changed. Then again, over 400 years the Romans reveiwed and changed the organisation of the Empire a few times.

    Important cities - Rome, Constantinople, Ravenna and so forth - are where you'd expect, of course.
    Thx Captain for the confirmation! . It is indeed a welcome feature.

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    Wow the C.A lives.......... I wonder what ther headqueters is like............
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    Looks better than I expected. Let's all pray the AI has been tampered with

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    This means that there are plenty of new tactical tricks to discover, strengths to play up, and weaknesses to exploit!
    Like we need anymore exploits in the game
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    Quote Originally Posted by Burnzy
    Looks better than I expected. Let's all pray the AI has been tampered with
    Well it better be 'tampered with'/massively improved. Otherwise I say we all form testudo and march up to the CA offices with our mice of fury to throw at their programmers, then capture and sell to slavery any of their employees that dare to fight back. Just like the Romans would have done.
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    It would be nice to see titles again. Titles were big with the Romans, so with the Senate gone, perhaps we may now decide who is a legate, tribune, consul, etc. This would play into loyalty big time.

    Lets all pray for decent campaign/battlefield AI.

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    Shield Wall formation!
    Converting barbarians!
    Romans reverting to paganism!
    Rebelling generals!

    Ok now you can consider me officially excited Even if the campaign doesn't turn out so well, just think about how much MODs could be improved with these features.

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    Sounds promissing indeed.

    Senate good bye, no Roman family-factions: good thing

    The time setting at the turning time in Europes history after/at the end of the Roman empire is an excellent choice !

    I like the idea of almost defeated factions becoming barbarian hordes.

    And luckily there's always an invading force in history in almost every TW-time setting (Mongols-Golden horde-Huns) !

    Calculating the experience with add ons of the older TW games, maybe some of us will go back to the mighty empire of Rome (or what will be left of it).

    I think the features mentioned on the page are buy-worthy already IF (and ONLY IF) the battle-AI is tweaked seriously.
    The correction of the major bugs in the campaign-map (especially the dreaded seadge-lift bug) are the expected minimum, if CA take themself seriously (what I think they do).

    Let's wait and see
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    Whats great is it missed out the romano britons when i have a pic here

    http://www.heavengames.com/gallery/RTW_XPack%40E3_2005/aae
    also found this on that same site..
    New factions can emerge from rebellious cities (Ostrogoths emerge from the Goths, for example) any proof of this?
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    Default Re: Barbarian Invasion web page

    BI´s looking better and better by the day. What worries me though is the lack of information regarding battlefield- and strat-map AI. Is it improved or not?! This is the key-info I´m looking for to decide weather I´ll buy this expansion.

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