by Gaius Iulius Tabernarius on Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:43 am
Well when you get into it, I can offer some pointers.
There are two basic strategies as a roman faction, expand the way the game expects you to, and use your mind to conquer more and faster than your rivals. Or you can mess with your neighbors by stealing their targets. Basically build three armies and beat your rivals eventually surrounding them in your faction.
The problem is realism, most factions are very week, and the Romans are far too strong, so except to overwhelm Carthage in 10 minutes as apposed to several years.
For me, my first faction was the Brutii, I sent most of my forces to Sicily and beat the scipii to taking Syracuse and Lilibelo, (and if you can Sardinia) If your really ambitions land in Africa and finish them off completely. send a minor force into Greece and take the weakly defended rebel settlement Salona, then move north and conquer all of Illyria and if you can Pativum which will be your gateway into northern Italy later in game. Then build up forces then ally yourself with Macedon and whipe out Greece, and Ionia. Then Macedon will betray you, so crush them, and make sure to deal with the barbarians, if you cant secure a flank just crush them, if you don't the Julli will. Then I would pull and Alexander and poor into what should be, (But never is) Persia, notice the army of Ramses the great marching several thousand years after his death.
And you may have guessed this is total insanity, pump out as may armies as you can, and as fast as you can, and blitz any non allied target in your path.
But it is fun, when you beat factions you unlock them, and when you win the game you automatically unlock all factions.
And don't get disappointed if the game is too Hollywood, because you can always use a mod, I started playing RTW With EB a year ago and I still haven't gotten tired of it.
Anyway enjoy, I just got medieval Total war 2 today, barbarians beware The eastern roman legions are... marching
"O Tempora! O Mores!!" Cicero