Mr Wonka
Legionary
posted 03 August 2012 17:09 EDT (US)
Hi, I am fairly new to Rome Total War. I played a bit when I was younger but recently I have started playing it again. I am on my second campaign since I started and am playing as the Julii on M/M.
I am interested to hear about other peoples campaigns to see how they play out.
At the moment I have 39 regions, I am at war with the Brutii and the Scipii and have taken out the SPQR. I own all of Iberia, France, Britain and am constantly fighting the Brutii across central Europe.
I should not have let Brutii take Greece as they have enough money to pump out units quicker than I can kill them. I hope I will stand my ground and eventually push into their territory.
How about everybody else?
Mr Wonka
Legionary
posted 04 August 2012 16:16
EDT (US)
2 / 16
Hi, I managed to finish the campaign today, Thanks for all the tips. I took a defensive stance against the Brutii in mid Europe while training armies on the Italian peninsula. I sent these armies to the bottom of Greece and proceeded north taking all the regions in my path. I was able to retrain my units on the way so I had very experienced soldiers by the end of it. The Scipii didn't bother me at all, they seemed to be a lot more focused on fighting in the East.I used my diplomats to bribe some of the enemy captains which eased the pressure on me. I did have a slight setback when I was fighting the Brutii. The General I initially used to conquer Greece had 8 command stars and so was very effective. However after I had taken Corinth I fought the Bruti in the open ground. One of their Onagers was able to take out my general from about 500 metres away.
I think I will do a campaign with Brutii or the Scipii next before I do one with a non Roman faction.
MarcusBrutis44
Legionary
posted 07 August 2012 02:54
EDT (US)
4 / 16
Salve to my new friends,
I'm currently playing as the Julii and have already recieved victory for controlling over 50 spots on the map, but I have decided to play on and conquer the world. Let them all EAT SALAD.
I used a blitz-all-out military campaign, and it was very effective. I was fighting on five fronts at one point and the West was my weakest front. Had to re-take Lemonium and Narbo Martis at least 5 times each. I had originaly planned on ignoring the West and conquering the Greeks, but once the Legions started marching the cities of the Gauls, Britons and Germans were to tempting to not conquer. All cities conquered on the map with a red face were quickly put to the sword to keep population down and to loot all of their money to feed the war machine. It seems the AI was very unappreciative of their new rulers because just about anywhere I conquered I was met with the red face.
One very strange thing happened after the conquest of Britannia. I transported my remaining stack of troops (lead by my 2nd strongest General)over to conquer Tara in Hibernia. The first turn off the boats, my General died of natural causes?? Strange because he was only in his 40's. Then fleets of rebel ships arrived in the hundreds and sank my boats stranding the army. They army in Hibernia sat there for years until I was able to build a fleet from Londonium to rescue them. The fleet was then ambushed and destroyed off the coast of Aquitania on the way to Spain. Cruel fate to strand these men for years to only have them drown in the ocean after their rescue.
I defeated the other Roman factions all pre Marius except for the Brutii, who held all of West Africa from Tingi to Lepcis Magna. I brought men across from Spain to Tingi, landed full stacks and razed Carthage, then bailed back to the boats until reinforcements arrived.
At this point I control all of the map up to Colchis, Armenia, and Syria. And in Africa: my Pretorians, Legionaires, Onagers and Archers have all been assembling from all over the Empire in Libya. Time to bathe Roman swords in Eqyptian blood!
Another strange thing?? My faction Leader outlived all of his sons and died after conquesting through Germania, Greece, and Dacia at the ripe old age of 92!!
Mr Wonka
Legionary
posted 17 August 2012 12:54
EDT (US)
9 / 16
Hi, I have not had that problem before but I haven't been playing very long.
After my Julii campaign I started a Brutii one. I have finished it now but to trigger the civil war I attacked Capua from South Italy. Obviously I got outlawed for this, the next turn the Julii and the Scippi both got outlawed and I got a mission from the Senate asking me to attack the Julii with an option to decline if I didnt want to. I didn't realise the Senate could give you missions once you were outlawed, at the time I ignored it and took out Rome the next turn however I still have a save file I can go back to If I want to side with the Senate.
Anyway I wanted to know if I did do this mission would I become an ally of the Senate again and have to defeat the Julii and Scipii with the Senates support.
I know I would have to take Rome in the end in order to win the campaign.
AKBK
Legionary
posted 18 August 2012 01:38
EDT (US)
11 / 16
The white flag comes up and they turn tail and start to make for the hills. It's not a flashing white flag, so they aren't routing, and I can stop them, but just randomly they seem to misinterpret my attack/movement orders as orders to withdraw instead.
I haven't isolated it to a certain time yet, kinda hard to tell since the battles are mixed in. But I would say it was getting worse as I played more battles.
SongsOfBeitar
Legionary
posted 20 August 2012 09:50
EDT (US)
12 / 16
You know I've never actually used the withdraw button, what's it for?
SongsOfBeitar
Legionary
posted 20 August 2012 13:12
EDT (US)
14 / 16
besides just telling them to leave could that have any tactical purpose?
AKBK
Legionary
posted 20 August 2012 21:10
EDT (US)
15 / 16
If you have reinforcements under your control rather than the AI's, they can only come in to replace a unit which has withdrawn.
Anyway, the news gets worse as I think that this withdrawing/disobeying orders thing just a symptom of a much larger glitch in my system. I occassionally get a total computer crash (as in, even ctrl alt delete doesn't work and it tells me that the application failed to load, only out is pulling the plug) when it tries to transition from battle map to campaign map. It's only happened since I installed Fraps to get screenshots. So I think I'll reinstall that, reinstall Rome, get the patches, and see where I am.