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    Posted: 09-Aug-2005 at 23:12
The Demo is out!

http://www.gamershell.com/download_10207.shtml
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This isnt fair.. im really rapped up in the RTR mod.

If you give it a go, please post your thoughts!
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I'm a bit busy tonight so I'll play more tomorrow.

It's interesting - better than the RTW demo. There are some more battle features like shield wall and shilitron. Veteran MTW players will appreciate morale status such as "unhappy that friends are routing".

There are lots of more units. There's one called Hounds of Houlin (or something), and scorpions on chariots.
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How possibly can a scorpion lead a chariot? And I believe it is Schiltron...

But otherwise it is good? I believe that someone somewhere said that the Huns had a phalanx or Schiltron?
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yeah the demo is pretty good as a teaser.

The Scorpion chariot (ballista carriage) is devastating. I didn't like the unit concept.
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The briton berserker like guys in the king arthur battle are great.
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Ahh, probably it is actually KING ARTHUR units and RTW campaign mao and someone who is a bit cleverer told them the possible factions.

I saw the preview of some Catholic Monks wielding maces, some time age in the CA homepage.. weird actually what CA can do.
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I guess they ran out of ideas.
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 That ballista carrier was insane, I killed 10% of the enemy with it.

 The AI was abit suspect but its a demo so I suppose isnt accurate for the whole thing (I hope).

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What day is it coming out ?
http://theforgotten.org/intro.html
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The demo was nice, although I had some major glitches with it.  Such as trees being in the sky.  Or all of my units routing after I chose to continue killing off enemies.  Odd...
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I think the game will be great. It seems like the horse archer fire on the move bug has been fixed, and cavalry has been toned down.

My favorite thing to do in RTW is wiping out the romans, and I think BI will have plenty of that!

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Lol, I did find the apreviation a little... different.  But I liked the Romans, but I like them even more as Chatholic far right wingers
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 Dont know about catholic priests being units on the battlefield though  perhaps a tad unrealistic.
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I think phalanx mode is abolished. What could the shield wall mode do?
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Originally posted by Heraclius

 Dont know about catholic priests being units on the battlefield though  perhaps a tad unrealistic.
Lol, I heard about that to. Creative Assembly doesn't care about historical accuracy at all. I am not going to play EB because I do not think it is following history as good as RTR.

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Just to add, as one of the new playable faction in the Barbarian Invasion expansion are the Sassanids. Finally, some real heavy hitting Persians in as stratgey game.


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Sassanids, cool. I might just get the game to get the Rome Total Realism mod. I will probably wait a year or so when it gets to be really cheap.

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Originally posted by Emperor Barbarossa

Sassanids, cool. I might just get the game to get the Rome Total Realism mod. I will probably wait a year or so when it gets to be really cheap.


The realism mod is pretty awesome.

And it takes popular games forever to go down in price. This game is worth 50 dollars for one thing.  The way I justify spending that much money on a game is I consider it a way of voting for the type game I like. If you want to see more of this type of game you should spend the extra 10 or 15 bucks on it.




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I will wait because I am getting another game this fall. I did spend the whole $50 on Rome Total War. I would not spend $50 for the next one because of its crappy history if it was not for the Rome Total Realism modders.

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