Musopticon?

And if you block the port of the city you are sieging, the enemy losses by malnourishment are much worse. Nifty tip of advice if you ever attack Greece, since they have tons of powerful defence possibilities thanks to hoplites.

Silvermoon? I recall somehting like that, unless it's the first name of one of the Silverhand sisters. I wouldn't wonder a bit, not after "Dove".

I distinctly remember the Finnish game mag(the first one actually) "Pelit" giving I-War 2: Edge of Chaos 97 points and "Editor's Choice". And that is a mag that's used to give everything 78 points, for being too simple or too commercial. They pretty much proclaimed it as one of the best games ever. Me? I've never found a copy.

RTW AI is kinda horrible, but otherwise the choice between the games is really about how much you like eyecandy or a certain period. MTW is probably the most intricate of the bunch.

A study into fantastic, here's Blue Lotus!: RAN NO JIDAI Edit: What do you mean "dynamic pages not allowed"?! No perkeleen helvetti.

Pictahs! EB is cracking fun! So is touching pictures...*ahem* So is RTR:

YESSS Cidology for teh win!

Beaches man, beaches! What damn yuppie are you? Unless you happen to live nowhere near a beach or a strand, then I'm sorry.

Swimming sounds cool. I think I'll do that. Right now.

Harmaa - Seitsensarvi (Gray - Sevenhorn)

I'm gay for cloth maps and that flask sounds cool too. Sold.

That is one of my all-time favorite flicks. Almost a masterpiece

Man, don't let me start on Total Realism, or Total War in general, it's a hate/love thing and I'd bore you to tears. Suffice to say that the games are great beyond measure and with mods they are even greater. Ahem, I suggest you play Rome without mods a couple of times(and I suggest installing 1.5 pathc only after you've played as a phalanx faction, since 1.5 nerfs phalanxes thanks to a push bug) preferably patched up to 1.2 or 1.3 since the initial version has too powerful elephants and the AI is kinda crappy. Brutii is probably the easiest, with Scipii and Julii coming next, both have different difficulties and foes to face. Brutii is, as was already mentioned, fairly rich and you can safely strumble through Greece and much of Anatolia without a worry. Phalanx isn't that hard a foe(pin them down with hastati, attacks their backs with velites) and unmodded Rome has a really impotent Macedon, historically they'd be all over you with tons of cavalry and superior pikemen. Anyways, after solving the normal campaign, just breeze through some eastern or barbarian campaign and try these mods, since anything else except the Roman factions are really unfinished in RTW, ahistoricality aside: Rome: Total Realism - a complete rework that concentrates on gameplay and visual quality Europa Barbarorum - a total conversion that adds a wealth of new features, superhistoricality and hardness Hegemonia - City States a total conversion that lets you control a polis in the Persian-Peloponnnesian War LOTR: Total War - a half finished conversion about guess what The Crusades - another conversion, well worth waiting for Ran no Jidai - Shogun:Total War reloaded Blue Lotus - more like Blue Awesomeness, a fantasy total conversion with a fascinating concept I'd totally post pictahs if anyone wants.

I think it does. And RTW has alwys been an RTS for me. I suggest we don't start a semantics discussion, we had that in every other RTS thread except C&C 3. No thanks.

*worships Creative Assembly*

I went tear-eyed when I saw Davy Jones. It was beautiful.

NArt, you meanie!

Ghostie is Canadian.

Why did it take me so long to figure out that our pal Revan2005 is an alt?

I EB. Minus the fact that I have to sit around for 40 turns before I have enough strength to beat a bunch of rebel towns.

^That must have been awesome. Or just very very creepy.

Talking about goths...

Man, I wish American Gothic was still around, not these laughable retro spandex-creatures.

Sheesh, this is one old topic, but since it's still a valid subject... So, anyone seen Dead Man's Chest? Anybody going to see Dead Man's Chest? Anybody at least wanting to see Dead Man's Chest?