Rome Total War Babarian Invasion

 Ive been having so much fun playing the WRE on H/H, i'm terribly disappointed by the chosen for the end of the game, its barely 100 from the start date of 363 .

 I think a time period of 500 to 800 would be brilliant Axeman, total war has done both sides of those dates, this period in history is brilliant. A few years after the destruction of the western empire, the established kingdoms of the Germanics in Italy, Spain and Africa, the continuing wars with the Persians and Byzantium, the arrival of the Arabs and the continuing migrations of eastern tribes made it a very action packed and unpredictable age.

 Also ending in the crowning of Charlemange and the revival of the western empire. Great period to choose.

There are Slavs in barbarian invasion.  You can play them I think if u unlcok the code (easy to do).  Otherwise they appear as invaders by some sort of trigger in the game, same witht he Roman-British.

And the Sassanid army I am happy with, except for the fact that they have no light cavalry. Soghdian warriors are a new one on me, but I guess they were just added to give them infantry balance.

 The AI seems to struggle with the concept of diplomacy more than it ever did (which is an odd achievement in itself) you can offer absolutely brilliant terms such as territory, alliance, trade and even a subsidy and the AI will still refuse. Even if they have no real army and 1 province left .

 I'd starting to think diplomacy is bugged with the WRE when the player is in charge, in 70 years of playing as the WRE H/H I havent had one ceasefire accepted or alliance gained, no matter what the situation. Its ridiculous, the Berbers seem to prefer bankruptcy to peace and security . The ERE seems to prefer losing its main trading partner for the sake of blockading Tarentum  ack!

lol, Yes I have not ever made one alliance except with the Sarmatians just so they could fill the void I left in Eastern and Central Europe, like I said, I landed five armies by ship and started to tear the place up (great fun).  I had no land borders with the Sarmiies and pretty much tried to make them a superpower just for fun, but they just refusaed to live life outside the box.

I left the ERE with only Constantinople, EVERYTHING around them was Sarmatian thanks to me. lol.

Ungrateful bastards.

Heraclius: I totally agree, if this game has a downfall it's def its diplomacy.  I am gonna copy and paste your post on the RTW forums, if you don;t mind, maybe they will consider how lame their diplomacy is,  I remember I had a Rome centred game for the Megadrive (can't remember what it was called) and the diplomacy in that kicked ass.