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Official Patches and Downloads

PATCH 1.2 has been released - see here. Download it using this link. The patch is a 56.3MB download.

• Alternative CA skin for the Peloponnesian-era Spartan Hoplite can be downloaded from the Official site.
• You can also still get the V1.1 patch - addresses mainly multiplayer issues (game stability, performance and synch) and reduces strength of elephant units. You don't need this patch to install 1.2.

Guides

General

• frogbeastegg's Guide to Rome: Total War - a lengthy beginner and intermediate level guide
• Quietus' Rome: Total War Guide - an advanced guide, with detailed information on all facets of RTW.
• Dave 'Fargo' Kosak's Guide to RTW - IGN version of the Smackus Maximus guide.
• Doug Radcliffe's Rome: Total War Game Guide - requires basic (free) Game Spot registration.

Specific Topics

• Tamur's Diplomacy Guide – everything you could ever want to know about diplomacy.
• Sinner's Temple Guide – complete list of all the temples for each faction, and their effects.
• Soulflame's Unit Guide v1.2 – Exhaustive list of all the units, and their stats.
• Spino's Campaign AI Settings – a quick guide to the personalities of the various factions under AI control.
• Spartan's Trait guide - a list of character traits with descriptions. Falconne has produced a useful spreadsheet of traits and their effects. There is also
• geraldtan's more advanced treatment here.
• Strategic Command Center's Unit Guide – web guide for unit stats in RTW.
• Clan [Koguryo]'s Unit Guide – Flash Player based unit guide. Complete with RTW music!
• rumcajsz's RTW and RTR political maps - useful maps for both the normal game, and the Total Realism mod.
• Silver Rusher's Eastern Army construction guide.

There is also the developing RomeWiki.

Mods & Fixes

• The Forge - list of mods that Org members are developing.
• Org hosted mods - major mods hosted at the Org.
• Rome: Total Realism Mod - see link for full details on the changes made.
• TWC mod list - list of early mods from the guys over at TWC.

Unofficial Patches

• BUG-FIXER - an unofficial patch for Rome: Total War 1.2 which fixes many issues.
  
  
• Discovered bugs: Unit bugs 1 & 2, Trait bugs.

Fixes for 1.1

• Sinner's fix for admirals gaining command stars - allows admirals to gain/lose stars like normal generals.
• Sinner's fix for sabotage missions - allows assassins to gain/lose skill on these missions.
• Sinner's fix for Navigator trait - fixes this trait, allowing Admirals to gain it.
• Workarounds for 'stuck' ships - couple of techniques to free ships if they fall victim to a bug in the game.

Forum Info

• The Guild FAQ - Collection of useful information that answers many commonly asked questions, as well hints and tips on Forum usage. Includes the Forum Rules.
• Synopsis of the Guild Forums - rundown of current forums, each with a short description.
• Database Lagging- info on the forum search function from TosaInu.
• Signature Picture Rules - The rules on pictures in signatures.

Useful Information posted by CA Devs

• Culture and Unrest Public Order penalties – info from JeromeGrasdyke.
• Captain to General - info from Captain Fishpants on adopting Captains as family members.
• What do command stars do? - JeromeGrasdyke explains the bonuses conferred by the command rating of your general.
• Playing as the Senate - hatcat explains why it is not such a good idea!
• Q&A by JeromeGrasdyke – info from the RTW programmer, primarily about modding, but there are also useful nuggets of information about the game itself.
• RTW's trait system - info from Captain Fishpants on the new trait system.
• Pre-Battle Speeches - the good Captain gives some insight into the generation of your General's (hopefully) rousing speech.
• Game mechanics questions - plenty of info from JeromeGrasdyke.

Useful Tools

• d0t's Best capital calculator - calculates the best position for minimising distance to capital public order penalties throughout your entire empire.
• Ravenous Bugblatter Beast's advanced version, which allows you to set the maximum unrest that distance from capital is permitted in each city when calculating the optimal capital.

Battlefield Research

(The Research Subject Tree, in the Ludus Magna, indexes research threads more comprehensively.)

• Horse Archers in RTW - Doug-Thompson and co. examine this unit type in detail. There is also an earlier version here.
• Elephants, Healing, and Multiple Hit Points - an investigation of how to deal with elephant units.
• Regarding Spears and Cavalry - discussion of the various bonuses given to cavalry and spear units.
• Best Foot Unit - an analysis of the best foot units in the game.
• The Testudo - a discussion of the usefulness of this formation.
• Phalanx formation - a discussion on how to best use this formation.
• Battlefield AI - research on how the Ai handles battles
• Effects of Command - an investigation of the effects of command
• Missile Attack Index - a metric system for quantify the impact of various missile units
• Archery vs weather - research into the effects of weather conditions on archery

Strategy Map Research

(The Research Subject Tree, in the Ludus Magna, indexes research threads more comprehensively.)

• Squalor – The population size for each level of squalor. Also covers garrison effects.
• Distance to Capital PO penalties - how this public order penalty varies with distance from the capital.
• Tax Income - info on the income from taxation at various population levels. Also contains zhuge's farming equation.
• Slaves Resource - info on the slaves resource generated by enslaving a settlement.
• Unrest Public Order Penalties – research on unrest.
• Culture Public Order Penalties – factors which count towards the culture public order penalty.
• Devastation - info on campaign map devastation caused by unfriendly units in provinces.
• Economic info - some basic experiments with economy.
• Trade - there is also this thread.
• Corruption - investigation of this distance-from-capital financial penalty.
• Governor's Admin income - an equation for calculating Admin income.
• AI personalities - research on the different AI personalities.
• Bribery - investigating the costs of bribing.
• Farming - research on farming income.
• Building Strageties - researching the effectiveness of various building strageties.
• Roads - looking in to the effects of roads, on income and Movement Points.
• Senate missions - examining the missions the Senate assigns.
• Battle Odds - investigating the odds of battle, as reported on the Campaign map.
• Garrison - how the number of troops vs settlement population affects the garrison bonus.
• Unit attributes - investigating the effect of the various unit attributes.
• Agents - research the abilities of spies, assassins and diplomats
• Diplomat Influence - investigating the effects of influence on the effectiveness of diplomats.

Useful Research Tools

• GodsPetMonkey's Unit and Building Editors for RTW - useful tool for editing/viewing unit stats.
• ShellShock's RomeSAGE – save game modifier.
• Finn's Rome Total War Cheat unlocker – unlocks further RomeShell commands, and removes the one-a-game restriction.
• ArtMoney - memory address editor, useful for editing money, populations, etc.
• XVI32 - a hex editor.
• Command line options - a list of the various command line options for running RTW.

Historic Battlefield Tactics

• Roman Manipular Formation
• Historic Dispays of Tactical Ingenuity

Humorous Threads

Maltz's RTW Stories:

• RTW story I - Carthage.
• RTW story II - Numidia.
• RTW story III - Armenia.
• RTW story IV - Julii.
• Archery legend restored.
• Diary of a diplomat.
• Highway snow ploughs in ancient Rome?