Any of you see the Rome show on HBO?  It details a lot of events that
occur in R:TW.
It was OK, not masterpiece theatre I, claudius, but it has definate
potential.

In the docs for Rome: Total War it says that you can play other factions
than just the Roman ones...
Is there some secret to unlocking those factions to play them because
all I see when I start a campaign is the 3 Roman ones?

I am playing RTW 1.2.  A funny thing happened yesterday...I was a
attacking force against a city and was using my Orangers to pound the
city walls, when by mistake , I pressed the "Withdraw" button....I then
pressed the "Halt Command" button but funnily the Oranger crew were

So, I spotted a baggie with a used copy of GalCiv on sale at a local EB.
CD and manual for $9.99. Perfect price to give it a try, and it's not
like I had a shortage of game boxes at home.
So, I bought it and came home. Problem is, it's asking for a serial

I purchased RTW several months ago and waited to install it until after
upgrading my computer, which I did recently.  I just installed RTW
today and have encountered several problems trying to get the game
started.  For example, when I drag my cursor across the opening menu

I just read a preview of Civ 4 on an google-cached ign page.
Anyways, I'm glad they are tweaking culture.  I thought there was some
major rooms for improvement in civ3.  I don't know if it will be any
better, but at least they are working on it.

Hi, I want to introduce my new play by e-mail strategy
game. If you liked games like Civilization, Sim City
or Red Alert, you'll probably like Apogeum PBEM. I'm
looking for players from all over the world. Game

"Sure," I said. "We'll have to go after it's already dark, though. I don't w
ant anyone to see you."
"Oh, that," Elliot said. He bent down to get a bottle of water out of his re
frigerator. "The production company thinks we ought to branch out into other

One of my aims once I've mastered VS is to create a 'village' game with an
interface (& villager windows) similar to Rollercoaster Tycoon(but using my
own coding, of course!). Does anyone have any tips they can offer, like a
good place to get a graphics utility, etc?

What PC game (or game/s, if you reckon a few qualify) do you reckon has
the best sound compared to other games (as in the best sound mix, best
sound design, best sound effects, etc.) and please elaborate on your
reason/s why, for each game/s mentioned.

Here's a question about vassalization in Europa Universalis:
If I understand correctly, if you have an alliance, the same religion
(and royal marriage?), and relationship is +190 or +200, you can
propose to your ally to become your vassal. The problem is, they

I just started playing RTW on my laptop and notice that the campaign map
grass is EXTREMELY dark if not black.
The battles seem fine and I can see the trees and marble and lumber and
trade wagons, etc. -- just not the grass or roads. In some areas, if I

How would you list the most popular online real-time strategy
currently?
1. WarCraft III
2. Age of Empires Conquerors

Real-time strategy used to be a click fest, a mouse fight. Not
anymore. With the addition of speech recognition to scripting, I can
play a 5 1/2 hour game of Age of Empires Conquerors with no sweat.
If you can do it and you enjoy real-time strategy without the click

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