Total War!

[Lady Ashenwyte]

Do any members here play the Total war series of games? It's a turn based, RTS which is pretty famous/ infamous right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_War_%28series%29

[Delthion]

Yes, I have the first Rome and the Barbarian Invasion expansion.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

What is your favourite faction in BI and RTW? I've only played the Saxons in BI and I haven't unlocked the other factions in RTW.

[Delthion]

My favorite in RTW is probably the Brutii or the Scipii. BI is the WRE, with the add money cheat frequently I conquered the world.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

I found out that the Huns are no fun to play as. You can autoresolve until you rule the world.
Also, have you unlocked the other factions in RTW?

[Delthion]

Yes, all of them. It's a real bummer that you can't play as Spain, Macedonia, Armenia, Scythia or the SPQR, that would be fun in my opinion. Once on BI there was a huge battle, I had a few centuries of First Comenstates (spelling?) and I was fighting the Huns, there were two and a half full flags facing mine and they had me surrounded. I fought the battle on the map and drew my army up into a double line. Then they brought up their first two armies and killed a lot of my men, but I killed over half of their horsemen. Then the reinforcements arrived and I thought that I was a goner, by that time I had lost many of my men and my centuries were in a cluster, but none of them had fled. Then the third army hit and I drove them back! Eventually I won with less than twenty men in each century.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

You have to go to the code and tweak it for unlocking all the factions, including the rebels.

Yes, all of them. It's a real bummer that you can't play as Spain, Macedonia, Armenia, Scythia or the SPQR, that would be fun in my opinion. Once on BI there was a huge battle, I had a few centuries of First Comenstates (spelling?) and I was fighting the Huns, there were two and a half full flags facing mine and they had me surrounded. I fought the battle on the map and drew my army up into a double line. Then they brought up their first two armies and killed a lot of my men, but I killed over half of their horsemen. Then the reinforcements arrived and I thought that I was a goner, by that time I had lost many of my men and my centuries were in a cluster, but none of them had fled. Then the third army hit and I drove them back! Eventually I won with less than twenty men in each century.

Real Pyhrric victory you had there.

I was fighting a bridge battle where the the Julii (Me) was fighting in Gaul and the enemy army outnumbered me by a lot (And with a lot more ranged units. They had more two thousand men). I was defending the bridge with skirmishers on the side and hastati on the bridge with my general doing nothing much. The Gauls charged me including their skirmishers and I was like, say what? That barbarian mass rout kicked in and I completely destroyed their army.

[Delthion]

Awesome!

[Lady Ashenwyte]

My general's unit was unharmed too. (I think, the battle was a few years ago )

[Delthion]

How do you make it so that you can play as all of the factions?

[Lady Ashenwyte]

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-All-Factions-in-Rome-Total-War

Haven't done it. 

[Delthion]

Sounds simple enough.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

Are you going to buy Attila? It's essentially BI with better graphics, more factions, more DLCs, and more features.

[Blaggut]

I was recently taking a few peeks at it, some YouTube lets plays, etc... Seems very accurate

[Lady Ashenwyte]

You might want to get a demo, and then see whether you like it.  RTW is very historically accurate though, with Roman ninjas wielding two gladii and British head slingers.