Total War series

Game is excellent as Sparta once you get past the initial start...Seems your units are so damn good you roll over anyone, later on when 9 people start attackng ou at the same time, it gets challenging and a lot more fun. Just had an epic siege in a settlement where 8k forces tried to invade my 3k half broken army with defenses. Carefuly Placed caltrops, brimstones, rolling balls of fire, artillery on a hill and cavalry in a secret location which came in from behind to rape their archers = battle was turned and I won

First really challenging and epic battle I've fought. I wish the Campain AI did this more often instead of leaving their cities undefended for easy pickings when they have 20 stacks running around near it...

They really need an option to remove victory points even in sieges...I was attacking a city that had one 20 stack in the city, and 3 navies reinforcing with full stacks each. By the time I crushed the city, the navy had barely landed and it was an easy conquest... No worries I think, I'll take defensive positions and try to fend off the navy pouring on to the beach, but no even if I hit continue, every single unit from the ai starts routing

So my GTX 560 Ti with 1g video card is overheating like a bitch in this game. Seeing as how it was overheating in the new Xcom game, think I am going to get a new one. Anyone have a somewhat inexpensive video card that is working great in this game?

Ended up orderingthis. Will see if it works good. Hoping the overheating was the gpu, it certainly seemed so (temps over 200F on the gpu, though cpu was pretty hot also).

I have not followed the thread much but from the last page am I to understand this is not the second coming of Jesus in the series? Does not dethrone Rome 1? I still have never played any TW game and was thinking about starting with this.

Azziane_sl said:

I have not followed the thread much but from the last page am I to understand this is not the second coming of Jesus in the series? Does not dethrone Rome 1? I still have never played any TW game and was thinking about starting with this.

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I'm enjoying it a lot, but it does seem to be a bit imbalanced at the moment. Computer doesnt build good armies and you just roll over it too easily, also the naval battles are completely brken at the moment, you have to micromanage every ship... Campaign map is huge tho, basicaly all of europe + africa and some asia.

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Recommended improvements would be to have some basic info be right below the city name such as food and happiness. When order is at 100 not showing how much excess without the player having to calculate it is silly. There are plenty of things I would do differently but turn timer is by far my biggest issue. Starts out very fast and just gets very slow before long. Spent most of my 50 hours reading and watching movies during turns. Had I spent $15 on this I would have quit at hour 5 but I really tried to give it some time, well beyond the point of it being entertaining.

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Amen on the food and happiness shit. I asked before about locating the happiness once you got to 100, found the +/- drop down and went from glad to confused when I realized I had to spend time calculating what I could afford to build based on happiness. And yeah, the turns start out nice and quick but bog down due to new factions appearing. I've been re watching HBO's Rome between turns.

I'm playing on Hard as Rome atm and it's faceroll easy. 3:1 odds against me? Meh fight it out, and loose like 100 dudes. It's like 195BC and no one has declared war on me, first 10-15 turns I was in fear of Carthage, building up my troops expecting them to come at me soon, look over a few turns later and some random ass AI faction raped them into the sand. Now I'm just roaming the Alps picking off random factions with like armies of 7 units. There is no fear or worry in my game.

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I'm enjoying it a lot, but it does seem to be a bit imbalanced at the moment. Computer doesnt build good armies and you just roll over it too easily

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I know that feel. Playing as Germania on Hard, every other barbarian army I face is 3 spear levies and 15 slingers.

Am I missing something with the Phalanx units for the Greek States? Every time I try to use Phalanx formation, the enemy units just kinda goes right through it and the formation falls apart. I was expecting some kind of 300-style impenetrable wall I guess.

I still play Medieval 2 from time to time, it's actually the only TW I've played. With the Kingdoms expansion there is a fuckton of unit variety, colonial maps and so on. Great game that I've sunk a couple hundred hours in to.

I can only enjoy them modded. Rome with Barborbarum, and Medieval with Stainless Steel.

Rome and Medieval 2 are the only ones I still play. Regardless of the outdated tech, Rome is still the best game in the series imo. M2's AI is just rotten. If I take the middle east before Khan or Tamerlane invades, I don't lose a single man to them during their invasions. (well, some attrition due to archers).

Unfortunately the AI reacts really poorly to cavalry. They reform all their lines including artillery every time a unit exits the gate. So either I can't attack them, or they wont attack me properly. It's sick watching 4 archer units, and a single horse slowly wipe out the entire Horde.

Other than that glitch, it's a frickin awesome game.