Oooh, pretty Rome game.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2005-11-20 01:06am

Though it doesn't look as fun (or as technically requiring) as R:TW it also doesn't look like it suffers from the same historical retardation! WOOHOO!

http://www.slitherine.com/LegionArena/

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-11-20 05:14am

it also doesn't look like it suffers from the same historical retardation!

How's that? For example, I see legionaries equipped with Lorica Segmentata armor, which is strange given that it is commonly believed to have equipped legionaries well after the Civil War (which is the last campaign of the game).

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2005-11-20 12:23pm

Vympel wrote:
it also doesn't look like it suffers from the same historical retardation!
How's that? For example, I see legionaries equipped with Lorica Segmentata armor, which is strange given that it is commonly believed to have equipped legionaries well after the Civil War (which is the last campaign of the game).

Because, quite frankly, the armour is a third rate grievance to me (though one could hope for realistic depictions there too.) The main things that pissed me off with R:TW was that you had to research the entire roman legion during the first friggin Punic War, that you had three roman factions roaming the world (and they had to have the retarted ones like the Julii and Brutii, at least the Scipii were realistic but a second rate Patrician family and a plebian family? Please,) that they missed on understanding what the Marian reforms were really for, and (though I could rant on and on) that Rome seemed to have the political stability of a sub-saharan African nation.

Compared to that, seeing them take a cost cutting move by just overlaying them with a basic (though customizable) look that everyone would recognize is nothing to me.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-11-20 12:36pm

It looks like a cheap imitation of R:TW.

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2005-11-20 01:32pm

"Second-rate patrician family"?
Weren't the Julii supposed to represent the family that gave us Julius Ceasar?

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2005-11-20 01:37pm

Yes. But at the time of Caesar's rise the his family had been around as patricians for a long time but had failed to obtain any major political offices until around the time of Caesar's birth.

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-11-20 08:00pm

IIRC one of the key reforms of Marius' was making the Roman Army more flexible and faster on the march by being less reliant on its baggage train (since individual legionaries carried more of their own gear, hence the term "Marius' mules").