Thread 723576417

ok now what

>>723576417 (OP)
start conquering

>>723576417 (OP)
GODS

>>723576417 (OP)
test

GO CONQUER THE FUCKING GAULS YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE JULII NIGGER
BY GOD IF YOU CAN'T EVEN FUCKING FIGHT SOME NAKED CELTIC TIMMIES THEN HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO FIGHT THE SCIPII WHEN THEY BRING WITH THEM AN ARMY OF JEWS AND ELEPHANTS

>>723576417 (OP)
Kill the Gauls.

>>723576541
I HATE GAULS

>>723576648
>celtic timmies
Timothy is a Greek name.

There are literally hordes of gauls right next to you, if your first instinct isn't to subjugate them, you should uninstall.

>>723576417 (OP)
1. Conquer Rome
2, Conquer rest of the fucking continent

Play Barbarian Invasion WRE

>>723577421
I've never actually tried conquering the other two houses before the gauls, I assumed it would be really annoying and require a lot of cheese/luck

>>723576417 (OP)
Just avoid the pajamaGODS and you'll be fine.

>>723576820
Yeah, well, Massalia was a greek colony so there.

>>723576417 (OP)
Images you can hear

No more moves sir...

>>723576417 (OP)
ROME HAS CONQUERED Segesta since it's the nearest foreign settlement and has no walls.

>>723577639
Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought there was something that prevented an early civil war and the actual strat was to rush the factions they were supposed to conquer to break their AI. For example, rushing Greece and Carthage as the Julii.

>>723576417 (OP)
You play it until you realize that the battles are
almost non-functional and then you play a better game like Shogun 2 instead,
or Divide et Impera

>>723578373
I think you get a popup or something telling you not to attack Rome or the other families but it's been so long I don't remember. I do know that the Rome only faction always has one or two full stacks hanging around that would be pretty tough to beat in a straight up fight

>>723576820
You can't expect a Jeet to know that.

CRETAN ARCHERS

>>723577639
>>723578373
you have to get enough popularity with the plebs in the senate menu by from conquering other settlements with generals to give "+ bonus popularity with the people" traits to them, then you'll get "a chance for power" event at the next end turn which will enable you to attack another roman faction
if you get low enough popularity with the senate (also by conquering and being "too ambitious") they even give you a senate mission telling you to kill yourself for the good of rome
spoilering the explanation because it was really cool to have this happen without knowing as a kid and doing it deliberately kind of spoils the surprise

Ok now what

>>723579474
what do you mean now what? you've gotten past the irish meatshields, now finish the job

>>723579474
Kill Indians and Injuns.

>>723579474
>tfw the Spanish Armada never kicked the English out of Ireland IRL
They had like 4 attempts at it too.

>>723578496
>battles are almost non-functional
why

Prepare your anus for the inevitable civil war when Brutus will send STACK AFTER STACK of greenggers trained in Greece.

>>723582284
>sending fleets of legions to the peloponnese as the julii to spend the next few decades slashing their way northwards through brutii hordes all the way up to scythia, littering the map with famous battle markers along the way
rome total war is the most kino game ever created

>>723576417 (OP)
My most fun campaign was playing as Sparta and reconquering the Alexander borders. Whenever one of the Romans sent a stack to attack I just used a diplomat to bribe them into fucking off since all my armies were in the east and I was swimming in money.

>>723584067
is this napoopan or empire?

>>723584159
Empire

>>723581083
Unit pathfinding and behavior is extremely unreliable, to say nothing of the AI which is one of the worst in the series

>>723585446
Did you just say the oldest game has the worst AI compared to newer games in the series?

>>723585446
I agree that the pathfinding in battles is definitely the most egregious (and perhaps only major) flaw in RTW; it's not that noticeable in open-field battles but in settlements it's nearly unworkable without dozens/hundreds of hours in campaigns to finally learn how to wrangle your troops to actually follow orders
I'm still seething because I just lost half a battalion of 7 EXP cretan archers in Alexandria due to a fucked up arch in the middle of a path that they got stuck in with some random chariot mincing through them while its own pathfinding was fucking up