frogbeastegg's guide to Rome: Total War and the Barbarian Invasion.

**frogbeastegg** · 02-03-2006, 18:37

It's posted. As an update of the old topic.

It's also the end. No updates, no editing, no adding. It's done. I did this update because I felt terrible having won two awards for a guide which was badly out of date, and because people have been asking me. It will have errors and ommisions, and I haven't even checked it over once for typos and the like. t's the best I can do under the circumstances; the only reason I've had time to do this update is down to a virus. I've been so ill for several days now I'm totally wrung out; reading, a bit of simple and poor writing, and sleeping are all I'm fit to do.

So there you go; hope it's more use than the old one, even if it is probably deficient compared to what I could do with time, health, and more playtime put into BI and the current version of RTW. Enjoy

Thanks for the many, many warm comments, the feedback, the comments, and the help.

Why is it when you have to post the same thing in several places, one post always ends up missing a bit when you copy and paste? :grumble:

**ivoignob** · 02-04-2006, 18:01

I really waited for this for a very long time as probably others did as well. Thank you very much!

**Monarch** · 02-05-2006, 10:19

Frogg, perhaps you might consider handing over to somebody else, perhaps a fellow moderator who could edit your main post. Then the guide would live on, and if you pick the right person it'll be up to date.

**Dutch_guy** · 02-05-2006, 18:55

Liked the guide ever since I read it a little over a year ago, and I can only have gotten better - so no worries Frogg.

Also , Thanks a lot for the guide, can't fathom the stupendous amount of work that must have been needed to finally finsh it !

**Captain Fishpants** · 02-15-2006, 10:26

I'd like to add a word or twenty of praise for Frogbeastegg's efforts too.

The mighty F has done a sterling job of pulling together a huge amount of information and presenting it in a clear, helpful, often witty and learned way. I'm not alone among the RTW design team in being impressed. Are you sure you're not after our jobs?

**Intrepid Sidekick** · 02-15-2006, 10:34

I would also like to add my note of appreciation...good stuff F.B.E.

Intrepid Sidekick
C.A. Staff

**Cras** · 02-15-2006, 13:14

can someone post the link here where one can find it?

much appreciated!

**KukriKhan** · 02-15-2006, 14:32

Heh. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=38382

**gardibolt** · 02-15-2006, 16:56

Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants

I'd like to add a word or twenty of praise for Frogbeastegg's efforts too.

The mighty F has done a sterling job of pulling together a huge amount of information and presenting it in a clear, helpful, often witty and learned way. I'm not alone among the RTW design team in being impressed. Are you sure you're not after our jobs?

Really, instead of having Prima do their essentially worthless guides, why not have FBE write the Official Guide to TW games?

**frogbeastegg** · 02-15-2006, 20:48

Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants

I'd like to add a word or twenty of praise for Frogbeastegg's efforts too.

The mighty F has done a sterling job of pulling together a huge amount of information and presenting it in a clear, helpful, often witty and learned way. I'm not alone among the RTW design team in being impressed. Are you sure you're not after our jobs?

Originally Posted by Intrepid Sidekick

I would also like to add my note of appreciation...good stuff F.B.E.

Intrepid Sidekick
C.A. Staff

:faints into a small pile of stunned frog: Thank you very much. I've never written a guide for a game outside of the TW series, which says something, I think. They just don't have the necessary umph to support a frog style guide, or don't spark the level of interest essential for the investment required. As flawed as I found RTW pre-BI (I consider BI's release version to be the game I wanted RTW at 1.0 to be) it still managed that, where games like Civilisation 4 fail.

Hehe, even modding the simple files like export_desc_buildings reduces me to a scowling wreck!

I shall be hoping M2TW lives up to its promise and far exceeds it, stunning me and making me fall in love as STW did so long ago. A slightly lesser hope is for a nice bite sized yet challenging campaign suitable for frogs who can't play for long or too often ... Always did prefer the Viking campaign to the main medieval one, and now BI to the classical one.

**Mount Suribachi** · 02-16-2006, 10:47

Originally Posted by gardibolt

Really, instead of having Prima do their essentially worthless guides, why not have FBE write the Official Guide to TW games?

Seconded.

I've been of the opinion for a long, long, long time that Froggy should be employed to write the official strategy guides.

If I'm not mistaken, the legendary Vercingetorix got published properly after his outstanding strategy guide to Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri - those who've read it will know that its even better than the FBE guides to TW, if such a thing were possible.

So, who's gunna start the "petition CA to employ FBE to write the strat guide for MTW2" thread?