Rome Total War with SPQR 6.1
Posted: 2006-07-24 05:55pm
It's a totally different game; as the Romans, you start out right off the bat with all Italian provinces in the South except Rome under your control; and unless you catastrophically feck things up, you won't have problems with money; it literally POURS in each turn.
The political side is virtually exinct, there's no mad scramble to gain power against the other two Roman Factions; although you'll probably have to take on the Praetorian Guard when you feel like it.
Where the game is different is in it's portrayal of warfare; It's on a grand massive scale; since most units can now be built in 0 turns, you can build up huge armies and send them in quick succession, which does jibe with Reality, Hannibal destroyed Roman Armies one after another, and they kept on raising more to fight him.
Even with this "raise huge armies easily", the game is still tough; because the other factions can do likewise; and you have to send quite a few armies to seize a single province, due to the enemy counterattacks, etc.
EDIT: Having more armies makes for some really good battles; in one I managed to catch an enemy army of 1000+ people between my army of 600 men and an AI controlled army of 700 men which marched to the battle from the city the enemy was beseiging, and we caught him; no matter which way his troops ran, there was someone from my side there.
The political side is virtually exinct, there's no mad scramble to gain power against the other two Roman Factions; although you'll probably have to take on the Praetorian Guard when you feel like it.
Where the game is different is in it's portrayal of warfare; It's on a grand massive scale; since most units can now be built in 0 turns, you can build up huge armies and send them in quick succession, which does jibe with Reality, Hannibal destroyed Roman Armies one after another, and they kept on raising more to fight him.
Even with this "raise huge armies easily", the game is still tough; because the other factions can do likewise; and you have to send quite a few armies to seize a single province, due to the enemy counterattacks, etc.
EDIT: Having more armies makes for some really good battles; in one I managed to catch an enemy army of 1000+ people between my army of 600 men and an AI controlled army of 700 men which marched to the battle from the city the enemy was beseiging, and we caught him; no matter which way his troops ran, there was someone from my side there.
