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total war should be hitting store shelves tomorrow. looks like i'll be flunking out this semester

We must war, you socialist bastard.

I completely loved the demo, and was addicted to TW. I'll be nabbing this.

This is not good.. I went from no games to several good ones at once...

picking this sucker up tonight.

nice knowing you folks.

awesome so far, the new campaign map is far better than the old.

aside from that, probably the coolest addition i've come across is the retraining tab. now you have a new seperate que for retraining, that doesn't have a limit to the # it can do in one turn(that i've seen). and you can continue to train new units at the same time.

I need to buy the game the demo was the shit.

wargasm after wargasm after wargasm... urrrrrrrr rso good.

the battles are still bewildering to me, not so much the turbo-speed, but just how decisive they are. had 1000+ of my men vs 1000+ gauls, only 1 man of theirs survived. a battle like that in medieval i would probably have been lucky to kill 300. although with captures the total men they'd lose would have been much higher depending on how much cavalry i had. but just about always a good portion of the enemy would escape to pester me for a few turns

it would have been cool to be able to either enslave or ransom captured troops, especially in the early game to boost your cities pop or get some needed income

50% or so, cant wait until it's done.

Any multiplayer?

i have been playing this game non stop since i bought it this game is badass i cant get enough of it i havent tryed the multiplayer yet so i will let you know Fin.

i finally hit the marius reforms, so time for real legions. it seems to arrive the turn you finish building an imperial palace(size 24,000 city's governer's building)

try this thread for some cool files to mod rome. they slow down the kill rate considerably, to 1/2, 1/3, or 1/10, so the battles are far more managable and last longer. no more infantry destroying each other within 20 seconds.

and this file which lets you turn off the battle timer.

wow thanks for the links thon

games like this is why i dont play real time strategy

fuck resource management and zerg rushing in its tiny asshole!!!!

RTS games are amazing, but I cant deal with micro management. It distracts me from my real strategies.

They need to make an AI to micro manage, make the AI character one of your advisor's or some shit.

So you like RTS' as long as you don’t have to do anything?

You must be very talented.

Maybe you can get a macro to just play for you.

Or you can just watch someone else play, probably someone who doesnt suck.

No I hate taking care of the menial not-fun bullshit that large RTS/war simulation games have.

Starcraft/Warcraft is all easy micro management, I'm talking about large-scale shit like Caesar line of games (theyre old but the micro management was tedious, battles purely made up for it)

Thank God this game has automanage for the cities.

Having 10+ cities and having to fuck with taxes, recruitment, and building is way too fucking much.

please don't ever compare a Total War game to starcraft/warcraft, or any other RTS