Any tips for Carthage? Having play them made me realize how strong the Romans are.
Anyway, whats your favorite faction in Rome 1? I'm still trying the game so I don't have one yet.
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If you play rome total war as anyone other than rome then you need to kill rome as fast as possible before they blob out of control
Is the Greeks easier? Phalanx seem strong.
I like Carthage. Cuz they look cool. Nice colors. And I like elephants.
Carthage late game infantry uses phalanx too.
Yeah, but Greeks can spam them from the early game.
Anyway, would you recommend the Greeks or Carthage for the first non Romans game?
I would say something like this, except you don't have to suicide rush mainland italy itself, work to expand your strength while containing the Romans as much as possible.
One simple and easy thing I find very effective that if you build up a navy in the first few turns, like 2-3 boats and send them to guard Sardinia and Sicilian waters, and reinforcements afterwards as needed, you can halt roman expansion west while you conquer more of Africa/Spain/secure Lilybaeum. You might even be able to sink some troops in transit which is hugely beneficial
Greece will win every town fight if you bring hoplites, and cretan archers are the single best unit in the game, but their cavalry is garbage and as a result the faction generally performs poorly in field battles. Not as much of an issue if you concentrate your generals for the heavy cav, especially after you get more territories (more territories -> game will spawn in more family members -> why put family members in a town when they can fight? -> tons of free heavy cav medium game and onwards, any faction)
Oh yeah; one other thing I forgot, which you can do as any faction with early access to the mediterranian; spread the Makedonian plague to your enemies' cities. If you can get a spy on a boat and take him to infect a city on mainland italy, then you can, 100% guaranteed, prevent the Marian reforms from ever happening, and also cripple the Roman economy and technology.
After you infect one city, you can send a couple of extra spies in to contract the virus there, or on the boat. Every time something gets plague, it'll stay infected for a good few turns before the plague ends. This means you can create a perpetual pandemic anywhere you want until you choose to stop, as long as you keep sending in spies to replace the ones that die. Bonkers, OP strategy.
(Navies can become plague ridden; armies and agents that get on the boats get plague immediately, but the boats themselves will NOT infect a city you own if you have it in port, for retraining or whatever, only the transfer of troops/agents/generals on land will infect)
Too gamey for my taste, but thanks.
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total war is a garbage game series for casuals. Although rome 1 is one of the better TW's, its still a very shallow and lackluster ancient battle simulator. Stop playing total war and play something good like Field of Glory 2 instead. Also stop playing games vs AI. AI is bad in every single game ever made, the only games worth playing are those you can play multiplayer vs other humans. FOG 2 multiplayer actually gives you a game where tactics and strategic planning actually matters. So now assuming you are playing the superior game
>how do i beat Romans as Carthage?
Carthages comparative strength vs the Romans is their cavalry. Romans have the superior infantry but shit all for cavalry so you need to maximize your strengths while minimizing your enemies strengths. Cavalry takes some finesse to use well, which is why armies like Carthage are better in more experienced hands, but the basic idea is to try to use terrain, movement and skirmishing to delay melee contact as much as possible in your favor, while simultaneously getting cavalry into positions to threaten the flanks and hopefully only engage in melee at the main front when you have a surround in place.
>Field of Glory 2
I'll check it out later.
And thanks for Carthage tips. Unfortunately I'm not good with cavalry. What the about Greeks? They seem to focus on infantry like the Romans.
Greek armies (post alexander) still rely heavily on their cavalry. The usual strategy is the "hammer and anvil" where the phalanx is the anvil, meant to pin infantry in place while the "hammer" is lancer cavalry, meant to strike at their flanks. Phalanxes are very strong infantry, they are the kings of the open battlefield but they are not without their weaknesses. They are far more rigid and less versatile than roman infantry, especially in non ideal terrain. That said, greek armies are very strong, with both excellent infantry and cavalry.
If you are not good with cavalry, then roman lists are probably the best, since they lack subtlety and are very simple. Just smash with superior infantry, they rarely lose if you are allowed a reasonable engagement. But that does mean they lack some of the tactical options other lists have, and in high level play they are not super popular as they can get shit on by more versatile armies or horse archer armies.
Well, the Greek Cities faction in Rome has piss poor cavalry.
im not talking about total trash war
Then why are you in a Total War thread?
>Although rome 1 is one of the better TW's, its still a very shallow and lackluster ancient battle simulator.
I like watching the dudes fight each other
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Don't you need to beat the game first as a Roman faction before Kartago is unlocked?
I believe so but not sure for the updated version that was released.
I edited the file to unlock all factions.
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>Flying over the city in that 3D view
>Can see all the civilians walking around
pure soul. Shame RTW2 was dogshit
I was beyond disappointed they removed it for medieval 2
why did they never bring this back?
You're the the OG edition right? None of the remastered shit?
Conquering Africa as a bunch of shirtless fanatic bogtrotters wearing pyjamas is so much fun
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>Gods, I hate Gauls...
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