The pre-battle-speeches of the Roman generals in Rome 1, who adapt to their personality, the enemy and the tactical situation. Especially thoseagainst slave-uprisings. Whenever I think of such nonsense like the Spartacus-series I recall these speeches with fond memories.
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And remember they may have the moon people on their side but we have lovely hats! Those hats will shield us from their fearsome gaze!!
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Winning battles by pulling off tactical maneuvers and ambushes that break morale and cause the enemy army to flee while still over 50% of their starting numbers. That hasn’t been possible ever since morale became baked into unit health pools, making it impossible to rout enemies until they’re almost totally massacred.
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Controlling the catapult manually during a siege and smashing a general and his entourage wt a shot! Loved the manual controls!
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Did a coop campaign, my entire army got wiped out by Dumbo. A single unkillable bugged elephant that couldn't taste defeat. I started the battle to annoy my friend who said I auto resolved too much then my full late game army got resolved under the firm flapping ears of that grey devil. I can still hear him laughing as I lost my mind
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Playing Cesar in Gaul Campaign after listening to Caesar's own commentary on Gallic Wars was awesome 😌
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My most memorable moment from Rome 2 is the opening cinematic from Hannibal's campaign, where his father makes him take the oath - "the nine-year-old Hannibal is taken to a temple by his father Hamilcar Barca to swear an oath of eternal enmity to the Roman Republic." Gave me the Goosebumps 😬
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Discovering the music of Rome 1 (I discovered the game with the remastered version), that was such a marvelous experience, and discovering how the units of that game work. Having played only shogun 2 before, that was a breath of fresh air (I don’t say this to spit on Shogun 2 though)
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Honestly nothing battle related but just how pretty the campaign map looked. Particularly Egypt was my personal highlight. Oh and the support it got with Rise of Rome, Rome Divided and particularly desert kingdoms. The later brought in factions I had been wanting for since its initial release
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The entire atmosphere of Rome 1. Particularly the music and pre-battle speeches.
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The proud and glory of rome in the music and ambience. That majesty. That calm ambience Flair in the mal for Example.
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Coming across Germanic berserkers in Rome Total War for the first time and wondering why my left flank was just suddenly gone while I was looking elsewhere 😂
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Divided empire playing as palmyra worrying about invasions from both east and west
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Speeches which were impacted by the circumstances of the battle, the traits and skill of the commander and the enemy's allies, power, etc
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The time I accidentally took out the Egyptian faction leader with a catapult shot to his chariot from inside my settlement. As a young kid at the time, it was one of the coolest things I ever saw 😂
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I experienced my own Crassus blunder. I made the same mistake in Rome 2. I was dominating the hellenic nations in the Mediterranean with my Roman legions and Thessalian shock cavalry combo. When I finally reached eastern Mediterranea and destroyed the Seleucid, I noticed a rather large Parthia who seemed to have conquered whole of Iran alongside its ally the Royal Scythians. They have stacks upon stacks of army. For some reason, back then I never bother to find out what kind of armies my enemies have and I didn't know much about history to know they have excellent cavalry units, particularly the annoying horse archers and skirmishers. Overconfident with my success, I foolishly declared war on both of the Parthians and Scythians and marched east. At first I successfully took a few cities. But then their endgame armies arrived. It was stacks of shock cavalry, skirmishers, andhorse archers. Back then I didn't know how to deal with fast moving horse archers particularly with my infantry focused armies. They always maneged to have me surrounded on all sides, since most of them are missile cavalry with a mix of shock cavalry that will charge the side or the rear. Those clever bastards also managed to send several stacks force march to the flank and attack the towns and cities, so I got surrounded in Iraq. They finally surround a city I was holding with my last army in the east and wiped them out. I lost many armies and high level generals, including my emperor. Before I build an army strong enough to counterattack, both Parthia and Royal Scythia just steamrolled and took Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Judea, Nabatea, and Egypt. I was young then and that frustrated me, so instead of keep trying I decided to make peace and paid like half of my treasury to both of them. That was the longest campaign I've ever played. I spent several weeks on that campaign, played everytime after school. These days, with the new total war games, I never managed to be invested in such a long campaign ever again. I mostly stopped in like 30-60 turns and start a new campaign.
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rome 1 playing as the seleucids, fighting off wave after wave of enemies, having my cities be depopulated and just holding on until i could get the mid game units and then taking over the entire east side of the map
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Any alternative history campaign is always fun. Trying to save the Western Empire in Attila or establishing a powerful Gallic Empire in Empire Divided will always be good time.
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Total War
Hey Total War fans! Share with us your favourite memories from the Roman Era Total War games? 🏛️
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