Rome: Total War

What is Rome: Total War?

Rome: Total War is a RTS (real time strategy) which is taken to the next step. Setup like a board game, you build up your army, control and build city's, and create and destroy allies.

Where the real fun comes in, is when it's time to battle. you can take the easy way out by clicking the "Automatically resolve battle" Which jumps through the battle doing all the work for you. Or my personal favorite, is fighting the battle your self.

When you get into the start of the battle, your leader gives your troops a small pep talk, getting them riled up and ready to fight. The higher your leaders skill, the more energy they get, and the better they will fight. Once you listen to his pep talk (or after skipping the cut scene) you can choose to wait(for conditions to get better) or setup your army into a different formation. After your done with that, click the start button will hop you into battle. From there, what happens on the battle field is determined by you.

Game modes

There are a couple of game modes you can play on. After doing the tutorial you can choose from a few game modes. Your can start your campaign to take over all the land of Rome. Play a Historical battle, where you are playing a pre-arraigned battle based on historical battles. Or you can play Custom Battle. Which allows you to setup the battle field, The number of units, number of upgrades, Etc.