My current empire

[LordDefendA]

Well I thought it would be interesting to see how far people have got (Im sure there are people who have conquered all).

http://www.rndnet.org/other/screenshots/rtw1.jpg


Im playing the Brutii (green on the map)

[sorry for small size but Im playing RTW on 1078x768]

[Nor]

http://www.smartreg.co.uk/hosted/julii19oct.jpg

Playing Julii (red) 186BC, 350k in kitty.

stupidly I put it on easy campaign, medium battles though. Tempted to start again on medium or hard now that I know what I'm doing.

[LordDefendA]

Your Brits are doing well lol. Its interesting that the computer played Brutii are doing almost as well as Im doingr. Im at 178BC i think. The computer controlled factions do seem to have rather more rebel troubles. I just keep all my cities completely full of troops; most of the time that works.

[tops1]

Here's mine at the moment, playing as scipii (blue) at 173 BC playing both medium game and battle difficulty, altough I automated most of my battles in egpyt ;)

http://www.mindless.co.uk/~saf/images/rometw.jpg

oh and totally unrelated to topic (soz) but when I play UT2004 and then play rome, the brightness in game is way too high... anyone have any similar problems playing other games and then going to rome ? I have to keep rebooting to sort it out :/

[LordDefendA]

Nice empire. Anyone found a way to stop rebellions yet? Theyre tiresome. I think the game put too much emphasis on rebels.

[leady]

Put the population to the sword, build larger castles ASAP, build public health and happiness buildings, move capital to centre.

But the key is to utterly butcher the pop of any far flung province, because they are useless, whilst building "happy buildings" in the close ones.

[munk]

dont underestimate the importance of good governance!

p.s i can send my map to someone if they could u/l it :)

[LordDefendA]

email it to me munk rnd@rndnet.org

[Cam]

Ive won the game so Far as Julii and as the Germanics

[Cam]

http://www.cam.dsl.pipex.com/rtw.JPG

[LordDefendA]

lol cam you couldve cropped that! Huge empire though.

[T-Bag]

http://www.t-bag.dsl.pipex.com/map.jpg

Have support to attack rome now. Do I win when I have ? Is that the end of the game ? Do the other Roman houses go skitz and attack me ?

[LordDefendA]

ok heres Munks map that he sent me (Im hosting it).

http://www.rndnet.org/other/screenshots/rtwmap.JPG

[LordDefendA]

Have support to attack rome now. Do I win when I have ? Is that the end of the game ? Do the other Roman houses go skitz and attack me ?

no, the other two roman factions declare you an outlaw and attack you. So make sure you can handle the onslaught.

[T-Bag]

Thought they might... my core cities near to that are are pretty light on troops.

I have started to build up now but my military upkeep is already about 70k per turn !

I suspect I will enjoy this :)

[LordDefendA]

lol mines over 100k per turn :o

[Randell]

can people say what year they are as well? I'm only a few years in as I've only played 2 nights really.

[T-Bag]

aye like I say i'm pretty light on troops in all the cities apart from about 4 which like to rebel.

[Cam]

You win T-Bag when you rule 50 states so i only attack rome and the other roman factions when they declare war on me then take out rome in one battle and end game :P

[LordDefendA]

can people say what year they are as well? I'm only a few years in as I've only played 2 nights really.

im at about 95BC i think

[Randell]

cool, I'm only at 249bc

[Cam]

One thign about the Germanics when u ahve them on AutoManage is they love to build huge armies and i mean Huge they often build it bigger than the settlement can hold so when theres a rebellion you can generally retake it in next move ,bad thing is theres no Siege weapons for them so you ahve to lay siege for at least one tunr before u can assault :(

[Randell]

so you ahve to lay siege for at least one tunr before u can assault :(

put high level spies in before you siege and the gates will be open.

[T-Bag]

I'm about 160BC I think.

I don't have anything on automanage as they nick all my money building stuff I don't want :P

Doing the whole lot manually.

[leady]

so you ahve to lay siege for at least one tunr before u can assault :(

put high level spies in before you siege and the gates will be open.

you bizaarely still need seige equipment before you can assault though unless the calculation is done when you open the seige screen.

[Randell]

if the spy is in there a turn before you assault, then if he succeeds then the doors will be open even the first time you assault.

[T-Bag]

Odds on getting a spy there before 1 turn is up though :) ?

[EvilGrin]

Add a spy to your army when you create it...

[T-Bag]

Didn't realise you could do that actually, as they show up on agents tab not army.

[leady]

You seem to be getting what I'm saying. It appears to me that you can't actually select "assault" without siege equipment, regardless of spies. I could be wrong though, it just seems to appear this way.

Also its worth noting that a spy can't enter a city under seige.

[EvilGrin]

You can. Tell army to siege city. Select army. Tell army to attack city.

[Randell]

Odds on getting a spy there before 1 turn is up though :) ?

hmm most cities I assualt have had a spy in them already, you also need spy's around in home regions for counterspying. So in my game - good odds :D

[T-Bag]

I always loose my spys on random parts of map and can't find them anyway :roll:


You can. Tell army to siege city. Select army. Tell army to attack city.


I can't without siege weapons.

[Randell]

you can

I cant

you can

I can't

you can

I can't

[Randell]

the actual answer is, you haven't been able to yet, but you can with a spy.

[EvilGrin]

Ah yes, silly me. You need a balista or something to blow holes in the walls. :)

[Randell]

Ah yes, silly me. You need a balista or something to blow holes in the walls. :)

no you can assault a city without siege weapons, if a spy opens the gates.

[leady]

so are you saying that if a spy has succeeded, then the option to assault will be immediately there then? Basically is the spys success a turn by turn thing?

[Nor]

Won campaign with Julii last night. It was on easy though and it was a total doddle, not really even worth the effort. Was just a procession. Trying it again with the Gerries on hard/hard. Should be fun :)

[Randell]

so are you saying that if a spy has succeeded, then the option to assault will be immediately there then? Basically is the spys success a turn by turn thing?

Yes and I don't know for sure if it's a turn by turn thing :)

[EvilGrin]

Right, If you either have:

a) Artillery units
b) A spy in the city

you can immediately attack the city.

[LordDefendA]

Won campaign with Julii last night. It was on easy though and it was a total doddle, not really even worth the effort. Was just a procession. Trying it again with the Gerries on hard/hard. Should be fun :)

Gerries?? This isnt the Second World War lol

[Celery]

Found a nice little cash earner for early in the game. Playing as Julli at the moment and the Senate asked me within a few turns of the start of the game to blockade a Greek and a Carthegen port, did this and got the money from the senate and lifted the blockade then thought Id make a cash demand from the greeks. Asked for something like 1700 for 10 turns. They came back and offered 4750 for 5 turns and wanting hostilities to end. So thought Id try the same with the carthgens and they offered 1950 for 16 turns :D. The senate now ask me to blockade Sparta every few turns. I just keep blockading , lifting it and asking for money from the greeks. :D

[LordDefendA]

wow 16 turns! nice one

[leady]

but I've assaulted a city with a spy in it and i've not had the option, which led me to my "is it predetermined" belief when you access the assault screens

[Celery]

When you click on the city to assault it comes up on there if the gates will be opened up by the spy. On the line that shows the cities defences, just above the crossed swords. If not then you have to build seige epuipment or maintain the seige and see if the spy can open them next turn.

[phil latio]

a spy only has a certain percentage chance of opening the gate depending on xp and wall type.
so if you get no option with a spy present it means he failed

[EvilGrin]

If you double click the enemy city, you'll get an info scroll. At the bottom it will show the % chance for the spy to open the gates.

[leady]

a spy only has a certain percentage chance of opening the gate depending on xp and wall type.
so if you get no option with a spy present it means he failed

Thats what I suspected, but needed confirming cheers

[Randell]

a spy only has a certain percentage chance of opening the gate depending on xp and wall type.
so if you get no option with a spy present it means he failed

Thats what I suspected, but needed confirming cheers

RTFM it's in there you know..

[leady]

reading the manual is tantamount to cheating :)

[EvilGrin]

The implication of that is that reading this forum is also cheating.

leady you cheat!!!

[LordDefendA]

Ok just an update on my empire building:

http://www.rndnet.org/other/screenshots/rtw2.jpg

Im at 30BC or there abouts. I could walk into Rome and win the game but I want to destroy all the non Roman factions first and then have a go at the other Romans.

[Red7]

You don't win the game when you take Rome. You carry on.

[T-Bag]

Only had borders with other Romans so had to inavde Rome and i'm in all sorts of bother now trying to fight em off.

[Cam]

You do win the Game when you Take rome long as you own 50 States

[LordDefendA]

You don't win the game when you take Rome. You carry on.

hmm? well i was taken out of the game and back to the menu after the animation finished.

[T-Bag]

Well seen as my empire was all bordered with other Romans I was a bit out of choice so I invaded Rome.

Anyway I took a few more provinces which I subsequently lost and so my emire is smaller than in my original pic ! Have to defend about 4 towns every turn and try and get some cash to build up an army to attack (which usuallys gets attacked on its way to somewhere!!)

All my money is going into my war fund too so running low on cash. Letting towns rebel then capturing them and exterminating population is a nice cash cow as i seem to make more per turn after doing it too.

[Celery]

My current empire at 225BC on medium difficulty settings. *Im red btw way (sneaky edit)


http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jyster.wadey1/rtw.JPG

[Nor]

Pity yer playing orange eh mate :)

[Sierro]

Not played it for over a week, but here's where I'm up to. Senate outlawed me, Scipii and Brutii declared war. I've since renegotiated peace with them both, and I'm mobilising up for an attack on Rome once I've taken Greece :)

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/439/rome.th.jpg (http://img70.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img70&image=rome.jpg)

[LordDefendA]

how did you achieve piece with the other roman factions? i tried that but they refused.

[Sierro]

I have no idea... I asked them and they refused. Then the next turn I asked again and got the alliance back with both of them...

[LordDefendA]

hmmm ill give that a try.

[Sierro]

In fact I think I remember asking them for peace and they refused.. then the next turn the window popped up saying we had a ceasefire... so then I sent a diplomat out and made alliances.

[LordDefendA]

I think there are a few bugs in RTW. Sometimes when you use siege towers men fall to their deaths. Other times Ive reached the plaza and the game still says its a defeat.

[Randell]

I think there are a few bugs in RTW.... Other times Ive reached the plaza and the game still says its a defeat.

has the 3 minute timer ran out?

[LordDefendA]

no ,this was during mid battle. probably some clipping problem.

[Sierro]

In fact I think I remember asking them for peace and they refused.. then the next turn the window popped up saying we had a ceasefire... so then I sent a diplomat out and made alliances.

Well, when I took Rome they certainly didn't stay friendly :)

5 more provinces to go and I've won... hopefully I can do it quickly enough so as not to fight the huge battles that will surely come from the main Brutii armies in the east...

[T-Bag]

Invade Rome early ! The game only really starts properly when the other Roman houses are going mental and besieging half your towns :)

One of my turns can last up to an hour at the moment defending all my towns and attacking theres. Still, only need a few more provinces and I have won.

[Sierro]

Nah I like the conquering of the other factions more than fighting Romans...

[T-Bag]

Depends who you start with I suppose, none of the factions near Jullii put up a fight... Germania and the Guals are useless.

[Randell]

I started with Brutii, at one point I was fighting on land Gauls in what was Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Greek Cities with Greek and Macedon navies kicking me all round the med.

[Sierro]

The world is mine! I used bitchin' urban cohorts to unite the Italian peninsula then sneaked east to the Brutii towns that were poorly defended... bribed a few larger Brutii armies away... and now it's all over :)

Seems a shame to finish though. Oh well, I'll play a few battles then I'll do a new campaign as Carthage I think... mmm, elephants...

[LordDefendA]

i wonder if anyone will produce any custom imperial campaigns/battles.

[Sierro]

Plenty of them already... for instance...

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10607

[Norfolk'n'Clue]

No-one's really mentioned trade yet - in MTW, trade (>12-15000/turn sometimes) was the only thing that kept my legions of veteran swiss pikemen in steel and leather... is it not as important in this game, or is it merely a case of no-one mentioning it.

[Jason]

Trade I concentrate on a hell of a lot, developing it quickly early on gives you a nice advantage. Also my trade income is approx 15 - 20k a turn atm, and Rome just declared war on me.

[Sierro]

Trade is important, but only so that you can beat people with your big stick. It's not the focus, unlike, say, Civ 3.

[Norfolk'n'Clue]

Well I got invited to attack rome, waited a few turns to build up some heavy troops then sent em in. I routed an SPQR army of 2500 with my band of 1200. good on ya lads. thank god for onagers! since then I've been fighting a rear guard action against the brutii - they had military power far outweighing my own. Then they kept attacking my cities with no siege equipment for some reason, and now I've cut them down to size a little; the Scipii are next to useless. Just a few more large brutii armies to wipe up then I can start crusading across the east. I'm fucked for money tho, currently running at around 3-10K in the treasury. its a struggle!

[Sierro]

RTW and BI from play.com for just £24.99! Bargain!