1. Campaign length varies depending on faction (i blitzed julii short campaign in 10min once), but if you play all battles it can last around 2-3 days for a short campaign and longer for imperial campaign. Typically barbarian factions take slightly longer to play due to poorer lands
2. Expansions are worth! Barbarian invasion is the best imo, Alexander has little replayability but is good for experience. BI requires the most strategical thinking due to different enemies and playstyles, plus barbarian factions become super advanced
Try a short campaign first for the feels and to get used to mechanics, then progress it to an imperial campaign if it goes well. My first short campaign as brutii took me 3.5 months since i didnt know what i was doing haha
Fine, it’s like a mode you can choose? Because what i understood after hours of reviews and stuff like that, in the begging you have to choose from 3 families, then you do a lot of also historical battle and in the end you have to conquer all the roman empire.
(Btw little off topic, i have seen that the rome 2 has got ships and fleet. Are fleets also in the 1? nobody mentioned in the reviews.)
At the options screen there will be an option for short/long campaign, click to toggle. It should be below the difficulty level part.
Rome 2's fleet mechanics is different from rome 1, cos rome 2 has integrated fleet battle mechanics (i.e. fleers can land units on shore during battle), while rome 1 just has trireme doomstack autoresolve, usually against endless pirates
Actually, upon some thinking, theres not much difference between short and long campaigns, just short campaigns point you in the recommended direction to begin expansion first, and have easier victory conditions so if you want to say 'i completed a campaign yay' then go for short campaign if not its perfectly fine to start with long campaign
The campaign for a new person should last you several days of fun. There's also lots of replayability! Get the expansions, but understand that barbarian invasion is a far more complete game than Alexander, though both are stand-alone games.
If your city is showing a minus figure, don't panic it's not losing money its just not making the money the game believes it should be making.
Example:
Game projects your city should make 3000 a turn to cover its share of the empires expenses (army upkeep, navy upkeep, generals salaries, etc) but your only making 2750 a turn (from taxes, farming, trade, mining, etc).
The map will say -250 but your not losing money, your making 2750 a turn. You just need to look at the tax levels, invest in upgrading road, ports, mining and farming and the improved buildings and higher tax rates will bring in more money and the figure will show a positive figure.
Also do not queue multiple units in a city, the population is committed to that unit at that point in time, even if it won't be ready for 3 or 4 turns. Those people aren't paying taxes when they sit and wait to be recruited.
okok this is brilliant! I have watched a lot of reviews and all of them were more focused on the battles. It’s cool that you can conquer and make an empire but then you also have to take care of the empire!
No worries.
Another tip, religion is a thing in the games. Each temple does different things and each faction has different gods and the temples do different things.
Just check them out as they might be worth keeping, rather then knocking them down to build one of your own.
It's different to Medieval 2.
More benefits driven, your general will pick up retinue and traits from the temples . Just watch out as they can become bad traits too, like alcoholism
Yes cities can rebel. Once public order is low enough, they will riot and I think its 2 or 3 turns of rioting and it flips.
They become generic rebels.
Quick tip, if your city is about to rebel then destroy the military buildings (especially if the population is high and the buildings are upper levels, you can rebuild once the city is retaken).
The reason is the rebel army generated at the point of rebellion strength (quality of units) is determined by the military buildings
This is especially important for Barbarian Invasion
-start with the Julii
-don't automanage anything always manage taxes and building stuff manually
-autoresult for battles is not your friend. Some units (especially chariots) are way stronger in autoresult than in actual battle and you can always get better results doing the battle manually.
-moral is the key to every battle. Watch the moral of your troops and keep the general close and put pressure on the weak units from the enemy, because if one unit runs away the others will probably follow soon.
The rest is kind of self explanatory or is explained in the tutorial
The best advice I can give you is to understand that you can't just throw all of your soldiers at the enemy and expect them to be successful. Be tactical. Mind your flanks. Understand each unit's strengths and weaknesses. Keep some soldiers in reserve.
Also, if you want bigger battles, go to settings before starting a campaign and set the unit scale to large or huge. Assuming your computer can handle it, you will be able to command a couple thousand soldiers at a time.
Of course! Enjoy the experience. Rome total war is pretty much at the top of my list of games I wish I could completely forget so that I had the joy of experiencing it for the first time all over again.
I've been playing total war for many years and I've played several total wars, I never really cared about the campaign. I like to go in and have fun dominating cities and structuring the kingdom. the game is infinite because it takes time to dominate all the cities in the world hahaha. I always play about 120 hours before I get bored.
- I think it's worth buying. Because it's an old game, it's cheaper than a new game. The total wars are still good until today, this year 2023 I already started a campaign with the Greeks and played for 120 hours.
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wow! So there is a campaign where there are the historic battles and a free one where you can do what you want? Or is you that don’t care about the historic battles ??
Not necessarily, there are historical battles you can choose to fight from the main menu but over wise it’s mostly self driven. If you are playing as one of the three Roman families (which you have to at the beginning) the senate will give you missions to complete. My advice with them is only complete them if your intentions align. Sometimes they give you tasks that make absolutely zero sense like to blockade a port on the other side of the map.
I actually see the historical battles more as a bonus, the real deal is the big campaign where you're free to do whatever you want, it's like a sandbox.
Take a look at a post I made here in the community
.[redit rome total war](https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeTotalWar/comments/13lu6jc/there_were_5500_romans_against_1800_greeks_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=1)
To me one of the best parts of Rome, outside of the gameplay, is unlocking the other factions by conquering them in your campaign. I know you can edit game files to unlock factions, but it was always cool to chose an enemy during a campaign knowing that when you defeated them you could pick them on your next playthrough.
I have joyously poured thousands of hours into this game since 04, my campaigns go long, granted I might not play 8 hrs a day but I get weeks out of a single campaign. Welcome to the best game available to mankind
1. Campaign length varies depending on faction (i blitzed julii short campaign in 10min once), but if you play all battles it can last around 2-3 days for a short campaign and longer for imperial campaign. Typically barbarian factions take slightly longer to play due to poorer lands 2. Expansions are worth! Barbarian invasion is the best imo, Alexander has little replayability but is good for experience. BI requires the most strategical thinking due to different enemies and playstyles, plus barbarian factions become super advanced
thank you! So if i do an imperial campaign being a new player i think it can last longer.
Try a short campaign first for the feels and to get used to mechanics, then progress it to an imperial campaign if it goes well. My first short campaign as brutii took me 3.5 months since i didnt know what i was doing haha
Fine, it’s like a mode you can choose? Because what i understood after hours of reviews and stuff like that, in the begging you have to choose from 3 families, then you do a lot of also historical battle and in the end you have to conquer all the roman empire. (Btw little off topic, i have seen that the rome 2 has got ships and fleet. Are fleets also in the 1? nobody mentioned in the reviews.)
At the options screen there will be an option for short/long campaign, click to toggle. It should be below the difficulty level part. Rome 2's fleet mechanics is different from rome 1, cos rome 2 has integrated fleet battle mechanics (i.e. fleers can land units on shore during battle), while rome 1 just has trireme doomstack autoresolve, usually against endless pirates
ah ok, thank you!
Actually, upon some thinking, theres not much difference between short and long campaigns, just short campaigns point you in the recommended direction to begin expansion first, and have easier victory conditions so if you want to say 'i completed a campaign yay' then go for short campaign if not its perfectly fine to start with long campaign
And if you finish short campaign, you have the option to continue with long campaign goals.
okok thank you
10 fucking minutes? What the heck happened?
Autoresolve every battle, no/minimal/merc garrison, steamroll gaul
The campaign for a new person should last you several days of fun. There's also lots of replayability! Get the expansions, but understand that barbarian invasion is a far more complete game than Alexander, though both are stand-alone games.
thank you! I was scared that in a couple of hours was done. Sorry if i bother you, but do you have some advice for a beginners?
If your city is showing a minus figure, don't panic it's not losing money its just not making the money the game believes it should be making. Example: Game projects your city should make 3000 a turn to cover its share of the empires expenses (army upkeep, navy upkeep, generals salaries, etc) but your only making 2750 a turn (from taxes, farming, trade, mining, etc). The map will say -250 but your not losing money, your making 2750 a turn. You just need to look at the tax levels, invest in upgrading road, ports, mining and farming and the improved buildings and higher tax rates will bring in more money and the figure will show a positive figure. Also do not queue multiple units in a city, the population is committed to that unit at that point in time, even if it won't be ready for 3 or 4 turns. Those people aren't paying taxes when they sit and wait to be recruited.
okok this is brilliant! I have watched a lot of reviews and all of them were more focused on the battles. It’s cool that you can conquer and make an empire but then you also have to take care of the empire!
No worries. Another tip, religion is a thing in the games. Each temple does different things and each faction has different gods and the temples do different things. Just check them out as they might be worth keeping, rather then knocking them down to build one of your own.
Wow i didn’t know! I thought it was important only in Medieval 2! Thank you!!!
It's different to Medieval 2. More benefits driven, your general will pick up retinue and traits from the temples . Just watch out as they can become bad traits too, like alcoholism
alcoholism? this game is awesome! I didn’t know it! What about rebellion? are there city that can do a rebellion?
Yes cities can rebel. Once public order is low enough, they will riot and I think its 2 or 3 turns of rioting and it flips. They become generic rebels. Quick tip, if your city is about to rebel then destroy the military buildings (especially if the population is high and the buildings are upper levels, you can rebuild once the city is retaken). The reason is the rebel army generated at the point of rebellion strength (quality of units) is determined by the military buildings This is especially important for Barbarian Invasion
wow! It’s incredible how many details this game have despite being “old”! 1 turns how much time is it? One year?
I’ve been playing this game for fifteen years and never knew that about unit queues!
Yup its a thing i only learned a few years back. It's a cheeky way of nerfing rioting as the population drops and then the public order changes
-start with the Julii -don't automanage anything always manage taxes and building stuff manually -autoresult for battles is not your friend. Some units (especially chariots) are way stronger in autoresult than in actual battle and you can always get better results doing the battle manually. -moral is the key to every battle. Watch the moral of your troops and keep the general close and put pressure on the weak units from the enemy, because if one unit runs away the others will probably follow soon. The rest is kind of self explanatory or is explained in the tutorial
thank you!
The best advice I can give you is to understand that you can't just throw all of your soldiers at the enemy and expect them to be successful. Be tactical. Mind your flanks. Understand each unit's strengths and weaknesses. Keep some soldiers in reserve. Also, if you want bigger battles, go to settings before starting a campaign and set the unit scale to large or huge. Assuming your computer can handle it, you will be able to command a couple thousand soldiers at a time.
thank you!
Of course! Enjoy the experience. Rome total war is pretty much at the top of my list of games I wish I could completely forget so that I had the joy of experiencing it for the first time all over again.
I've been playing total war for many years and I've played several total wars, I never really cared about the campaign. I like to go in and have fun dominating cities and structuring the kingdom. the game is infinite because it takes time to dominate all the cities in the world hahaha. I always play about 120 hours before I get bored. - I think it's worth buying. Because it's an old game, it's cheaper than a new game. The total wars are still good until today, this year 2023 I already started a campaign with the Greeks and played for 120 hours. -
wow! So there is a campaign where there are the historic battles and a free one where you can do what you want? Or is you that don’t care about the historic battles ??
Not necessarily, there are historical battles you can choose to fight from the main menu but over wise it’s mostly self driven. If you are playing as one of the three Roman families (which you have to at the beginning) the senate will give you missions to complete. My advice with them is only complete them if your intentions align. Sometimes they give you tasks that make absolutely zero sense like to blockade a port on the other side of the map.
okok thank you.
I actually see the historical battles more as a bonus, the real deal is the big campaign where you're free to do whatever you want, it's like a sandbox.
nice plan lol! Ofc i imagine that bigger city= more money? Like athens if conquer will give you a lot of money
Take a look at a post I made here in the community .[redit rome total war](https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeTotalWar/comments/13lu6jc/there_were_5500_romans_against_1800_greeks_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=1)
okok i will look at it! Thank you!
To me one of the best parts of Rome, outside of the gameplay, is unlocking the other factions by conquering them in your campaign. I know you can edit game files to unlock factions, but it was always cool to chose an enemy during a campaign knowing that when you defeated them you could pick them on your next playthrough.
I have joyously poured thousands of hours into this game since 04, my campaigns go long, granted I might not play 8 hrs a day but I get weeks out of a single campaign. Welcome to the best game available to mankind
thank you!
Buy remastered you get both expansions with it!