Rome:Total War

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

I've been playing a lot of my rome:total war lately and i've always noticed how retarded my troops get during a siege. If i direct my ballistas to shoot down the enemy gate the shoot at the gate house for no reason until they run out of ammo!
Also if I direct my troops to take formation on a wall they suddenly just run and huddle together in a little blob formation with no organization. As well as that if I tell them to charge at the enemy during the siege they either run in a random direction twords the enemy or just run at their direction and bump into them instead of properly charging. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Torque669]

Yes. But you still think its a brilliant game dont you?

The magic of Shit games which still everyone loves ceases to amaze *hearty laugh*

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Yes. But you still think its a brilliant game dont you?

The magic of Shit games which still everyone loves ceases to amaze *hearty laugh*

Good. Yes. Brilliant. Not so much =/
It's a decent enough game but they really could have improved it a lot more.
But i wouldn't go so far as to call it shit.

 

[NuclearJonJon]

I remember the AI being a little "special" at times. And Torque669, Is that HARRY TIPPER? :O

 

[Torque669]

Yes. But you still think its a brilliant game dont you?

The magic of Shit games which still everyone loves ceases to amaze *hearty laugh*

Good. Yes. Brilliant. Not so much =/
It's a decent enough game but they really could have improved it a lot more.
But i wouldn't go so far as to call it shit.

It was my first real RTS and I loved it. Im going to have biased opinions but still a fun game.

You want to try online and try find some mod maps. Very fun.

 

[Torque669]

I remember the AI being a little "special" at times. And Torque669, Is that HARRY TIPPER? :O

No its just a random 70's porn star.

Of course its Harry Tipper

 

[ThePirateMan]

GO MY KNIGHTS, PURSUE THE ENEMY, RUN THEM DOWN! Wait.. what are you doing.. don't ride around them.. nonono they're running for gods sake you don't have to hit and run.. FOR GODS SAKE JUST RUN OVER THEM!

That happens to me all the time and it bothers me alot >.<

 

[AdambotLive]

This is why i auto-resolve battles.

 

[NuclearJonJon]

I remember the AI being a little "special" at times. And Torque669, Is that HARRY TIPPER? :O

No its just a random 70's porn star.

Of course its Harry Tipper

Dayum, that sexy bro.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Yes. But you still think its a brilliant game dont you?

The magic of Shit games which still everyone loves ceases to amaze *hearty laugh*

Good. Yes. Brilliant. Not so much =/
It's a decent enough game but they really could have improved it a lot more.
But i wouldn't go so far as to call it shit.

It was my first real RTS and I loved it. Im going to have biased opinions but still a fun game.

You want to try online and try find some mod maps. Very fun.

It wasn't my first but I still enjoy it. And i still don't think I have it right cause no matter what i do, no matter what i build I can't stop my squalor levels from rising and my population levels dropping =/
New maps?
Anything cool?

 

[Haydyn]

I never played past the first level. Seemed like AoE II zoomed in and I can't make any troop or convert all the female villagers.

 

[Bretty]

CA are about to make a big announcement soon at some convention... who knows R2: TW?

 

[Torque669]

Yes. But you still think its a brilliant game dont you?

The magic of Shit games which still everyone loves ceases to amaze *hearty laugh*

Good. Yes. Brilliant. Not so much =/
It's a decent enough game but they really could have improved it a lot more.
But i wouldn't go so far as to call it shit.

It was my first real RTS and I loved it. Im going to have biased opinions but still a fun game.

You want to try online and try find some mod maps. Very fun.

It wasn't my first but I still enjoy it. And i still don't think I have it right cause no matter what i do, no matter what i build I can't stop my squalor levels from rising and my population levels dropping =/
New maps?
Anything cool?

Not new. Custom created maps. They;re hard to find but some are really good. I cant remember the name of some because my CD broke quite a while ago.

I had no problem with squalor for the most part. Always try building Aquaducts and the like before you build ANYTHING else. Thats what I always do and nothing like that happens

 

[Duskwaith]

It was a fun but flawed game.

I once defeated an entire army with only a unit of archers but for the rest of the unit controls they where clumsy.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

I never played past the first level. Seemed like AoE II zoomed in and I can't make any troop or convert all the female villagers.

There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with this statement...

I know what it is! You forgot that for some reason the game won't let you move your units around anymore unless you click the shiny button at the bottom! I mean, what kind of RTS is this?!!

And then they let the enemy move and you can't do anything about it... seriously, you'd think this was a turn based g... wait a minute.

On a non-humourous note, I enjoyed the game, though the stupid battlefield AI did make me want to start slaughtering settlements relentlessly... I was thouroughly addicted to it at one point. I can't seem to get back into it though...

 

[timmytom1]

Yeah the AI wasn`t the greatest(i have fond memories of watching the mighty general hannbals elephants being defeated by a wall enabling me to archer them to death as they meanderd around trying to find a door) but the grand campeigns (and the ability to auto-resolve battles)more than made up for that

 

[Haydyn]

I never played past the first level. Seemed like AoE II zoomed in and I can't make any troop or convert all the female villagers.

There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with this statement...

I know what it is! You forgot that for some reason the game won't let you move your units around anymore unless you click the shiny button at the bottom! I mean, what kind of RTS is this?!!

And then they let the enemy move and you can't do anything about it... seriously, you'd think this was a turn based g... wait a minute.

On a non-humourous note, I enjoyed the game, though the stupid battlefield AI did make me want to start slaughtering settlements relentlessly... I was thouroughly addicted to it at one point. I can't seem to get back into it though...

I only played it once. I started the first story mode or whatever, got to the map screen, and after one battle it went back to the screen, and at that point I was too bored to go on. Great, I can't find my Age of Empires II cds, but I still have all three of my Rome: Total War cds. Damnit.

 

[Mr Companion]

I remember I used to defend a lot and the enemy's would more often than not line up in front of my cannon towers and get gunned down. I had to fast forward all my battles until we killed them all. Ugh.

But still a great game

 

[Fat Hippo]

This happens in all the Total War games. No matter what, you can count on your units being dipshits if there's a siege. I really hoped they'd fix it in Empire, but it was even worse there. Go figure.