HUGE Mistake,

[Just A Girl]

Im afraid cafine has alot to answer for, after reading all those angry statements about how RTW is crap compared to MTW and STW. Thats a load of bull.

Ive played every game from Vanilla to fully patched - when they were first released. The AI in ALL of them isnt that great (yea including STW).

Out of them all I think MTW is the best but not by that much. STW was easy Im afraid. Sure the battles lasted longer, but I used to speed it up anyway.

Dont glorify the past cos this game didnt live up to your expectations. In my opinion the AI has got better in the last patch - just yesterday I had a routing enemy Gen of 5 horsemen come back from the border ( I stopped chasing him) only to weave his way through my lines and decimate half a group of archers I had firing on a group of hedgehogged spearmen. I was very happy to see that.

Kamikazi Generals no longer charge my front lines....

Oh and btw in history settlements WERE taken with minimal losses, sometimes none. It depended ont he general.

I remember in MTW Placing just 1 stack of Byzantines in the Area just before horde showed up, and I beat all of them with just that stack. Thats more improbable that taking a settlement with only 1 loss.

Besides Im glad of the graphics in RTW I didnt pay all that money to play a jumped up version of the by far old graphics of STW.

Dont get me wrong - Ive been a dedicated fan of all the TW games. I just hate seeing constant incorrect comparisons.

And please dont compare this to real time strat games like C&C etc...
Thats just sick... :P

Well i dont agree that the AI in mtw or vi is better than STW,
In MTW and RTW. if you use a catapult to attack the opponents,
80% of the time they moove More men to the area your decimating to strengthen their lines,
Only so they get decimated 2.
(thats MTW and RTW ai for you)

The nearest mistake stw did comparing to this is, SOMETIMES, it will leave men in gun fire range,
and wont moove them, (that agrivates me to)
"but atleast STW is not Totaly Idiotic, And it does not moove more men to the place where Every 1 els is getting shot"

On a plus side though, Ive began playing the campaign side of rome a bit more now though,
And its not to Bad, I like the deployment and ambush side of things,
I have a hard time reading most of the text though as its tiny, (i use a tv not a monitor) But that is not the games fault,
I supose i like the campaign map aspect of things,
"Its A little bit to much like heroes of might and magic for me,"
but i supose if i dissliked it for that there wouldnt be anything i liked about the game.
it really is a shame about the game play in battles,

Shure i have all the best gfx settings. smoke, High building detail, highe effects, high shaddow detail, high Grass detail, No slowdown at all, so that cant be bad,
But is it worth it?
i haft to scroll in as close as i can to see any benafit of these graphical improvemnts,
And i dont care what you say,

I should not have enough time to go scroll up close to wach my cav charge in to the side of a unprotected opponent unit and watch his men go flying (funny as it is)

if i wasted my time like that in shogun I could ashure my self of defeat,

The battles in RTW have become more of a slide show than a real Exiting battle.
click on your man.
Send him over their,
(OOh look at the pretty grass get cut)
Few people go flying
(a couple of laughs here and their till novelty wears off)
And then youve won this battle you didnt even need to do anything to win. And its a Heroic victory.

When i 1st got STW i had to auto calc battles becous I could NOT win,
In RTW i haft to auto calc battles becous I cant loose,

I still play STW, And By no stretch of the imaginition Are RTW battles More difficult.
I can Actualy loose a battle in stw.
But their still not as good as real players in MP,
So saying play RTW MP for a good game, Is just a dumb sentance,
I play STW for a good game, And play STW online for a great game,

So why play RTW sp for a bad game, and Suffer the pains of game spy to Try and make it playable?

Beauty is only skin deep.
As this game Moset definatly prooves.

p.s
Game Is on hard, (although i beleve the proloug was stuck on some other setting)
and Why would any 1 Buy a game and play it on easy and waste ALL their money,