Rome total war question

[mosgood]

How do you keep the senate happy enough to keep them from demanding the head of your faction leader?


Also, how do academy's really help?  ANyone see a difference in how the cities are run?  Or does it effect the quality of family members?

[Saintaw]

1: You're not supposed to, this is a hint you should attack SPQR.

2: If you have generals in the cities with academies, they will have retinue members joining frequently. The latest patch is supposed to have the academies rise the satisfaction of your population in that city, but it's bugged... you will need to do some file editing if you want that.

[B@tfinkV]

kill the senate, they are greedy, ignorant, selfish dogs. kill them and rape thier sheep.


all you need is some archers, a couple of strong cohorts and some mercenary hoplites. the heavy siege weapons are not needed to defeat the senates gold army but they help. just north west of rome is a river that has severval crossings. leave your army on the bridge and wait to defend. hoplites and legionaries right up at the bridge with projectiles covering the sides will hold anything they can throw at you if you control your archers well. almost all infantry holds shields on the left arm, so from an advancing army's right flank is where projectiles will do the damage.

[lasersailor184]

See, I don't actually capture rome.  One of the win conditions is that you capture rome, no matter what faction.  

If you never capture rome, you can keep playing forever.


So I just crush any armies that come out of rome.

[Saintaw]

You can also keep on playing as long as you want after finishing the victory conditions.

[lasersailor184]

It never allowed me to.  Once I got 50 cities, taken out rival faction and taken rome, the game ended promptly.

[Saintaw]

It must be that french version I am using...

Or maybe it'ss due to a mod, possibly.

[B@tfinkV]

on the rome total realism mod you can keep playing. but anyhow i was just talking about kiling the senate, way before you get to 50 settlements, to stop the bastards ordering you about on the original rome total war version.

[lasersailor184]

I personally was playing the senate from the beginning.  By the time they asked for the head of my faction leader, both Brutii and Scipio sided with me without hesitation.

It was very cool to keep up those alliances and fight on to the end with my roman brothers.

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by mosgood
How do you keep the senate happy enough to keep them from demanding the head of your faction leader?

Give them free beer and underage cheerleaders?

[lasersailor184]

*Underage pages.

[mosgood]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
I personally was playing the senate from the beginning.  By the time they asked for the head of my faction leader, both Brutii and Scipio sided with me without hesitation.

It was very cool to keep up those alliances and fight on to the end with my roman brothers.

How do you do you get that type of standing wth the other factions?  Is it by being popular with the people... or ???

[lasersailor184]

Very difficult.  You damn near have to be buying them off from the getgo.  Though I was trying to do it.

I loaned out legions to them, I sent money when they were in trouble.  I gave them information...

And even then Scipii wasn't sure they wanted to back me when rome turned on me.

[Pooh21]

How do you keep your citys from degenerating to a squalor filled mess. I have to let them rebel then exterminate them all every few years. I build the admin building the second it upgrades and keep growth down, but squalor still goes up and up.

[lasersailor184]

It also depends on how you take other cities.  There's 3 options.  One of them is to take everyone as a slave.

This increases the squalor in all of your cities, because suddenly there's 500 more people in there.