#rome total war

[eloiduarte]

The Western Roman Empire campaign in Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion is pretty fun. Your generals are mostly a colorful bunch of useless pricks. Like this here Publius who, despite having 0 command and management skills and stacking mostly terrible traits, has almost max influence. Making him the Western Empire's Master of Clout.

[lateantiquechud]

TOOK ME LONG ENOUGH BUT I WON AS THE WRE ON BARBARIAN INVASION JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW

[clonebrainrot]

The people who make Rome total war are apparently making a Star Wars strategy game. Oh boy can’t wait for this one to be cancelled or delayed indefinitely.

[krjpalmer]

Computer Gaming World May 2004

The "ultimate PC gaming pad" mentioned on the cover of this issue was a "private gaming mecca" (presented via sexist pictures), as opposed to a "gamepad" controller.

[mozillasticks]

creative assembly did this with rome total war in 2004... like,, the mods were just SO more in depth than the actual game tbh

[dr-earman]

horses can't climb walls dumbass

[demi-lancer]

going to boot up rome 2 again, must be the time of year

[timeywobblyshit]

genuinely, matn's Rome total war series is one of the most entertaining youtube series to ever exist. glory to Julianus Vitanius!

[corvidous]

Ahhh, I am fantasizing about armies again. Victrix has such great Late Roman/Byzantine minis, and their "Late Roman Horse Archers/Armored Cavalry/Cataphracts" slot into the Lion Rampant light/heavy/elite cavalry roles so cleanly, their Unarmored Late Roman Infantry look so good, and I also love their Normans, who would work great as mercenaries, and honestly any and every historical wargamer ought to have some Vikings of some sort kicking around, just because you're going to need them at some point. I almost wish Victrix sold their minis in smaller sizes, lol. Like their basic box is 36 minis for $37, which is amazing, don't get me wrong, please don't stop doing that Victrix, that's fucking great, but...I only need like. 20 of the little bastards. Sometimes less.

But I've got my Caliphate army to build first from Gripping Beast minis this coming year, and then my long-awaited Victrix Dacians/Thracians (From Rome Total War 1) are in the plan too…So many cool armies, so little time/money…

[heroineimages]

Flipping through some Total War: Rome 2 screencaps when I found one I took of this wolf that happened to be present during a battle. My African pikes were getting ready to defend this river-crossing against some Gauls when this one wolf wandered over, unperturbed by all these sweaty humans in their oily chainmail.

[eloiduarte]

Horse archers are fun

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.*

- Cato the Elder

Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed.*

At the turn of the 2nd century BCE, the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome had ended. Rome was eventually victorious, but had suffered some significant and bad defeats. The peace treaty was even tougher for Carthage – it stripped them of many of their territories, their wealth, and restricted their actions. Fast forward 50 years later, there was another conflict between Carthage and Rome – this time in a Punic-turned-Roman-city called Massinissa. Marcus Porcius Cato, a famous Roman orator and senator, was sent to Massinissa to investigate. He had fought in the Second Punic War in his 20s. Cato was surprised to see that, since the end of the Second Punic War, Carthage had become a thriving and wealthy city again.

When Cato came to back to Rome, he called for the war against Carthage – a war to stop them once and for all. He ended his speech with the phrase: Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

Plutarch tells us that Cato's call ended his every speech in the Roman Senate, 'on any matter whatsoever', from 153 BC to his death aged 85 in 149. Scipio Nasica - son-in- law of Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) - would always reply: 'Carthage should be allowed to exist'. But such challengers were silenced. Rome decided on war 'long before' it launched the Third Punic War just prior to Cato's death. One of his last speeches in the Senate, before a Carthaginian delegation in 149, was critical:

“Who are the ones who have often violated the treaty? . . . Who are the ones who have waged war most cruelly? ... Who are the ones who have ravaged Italy? The Carthaginians. Who are the ones who demand forgiveness? The Carthaginians. See then how it would suit them to get what they want.”

The Carthaginian delegates were accorded no right of reply. In 146 BC, nearly 8 years after Cato ventured back to Carthage and saw its wealth, would Carthage attack Massinissa and give Rome a reason to star the Third (and final) Punic War.

Rome soon began a three-year siege of the world's wealthiest city. Of a population of 2-400,000 at least 150,000 Carthaginians perished. Appian described one battle in which '70,000, including non-combatants' were killed, probably an exaggeration. But Polybius, who participated in the campaign, confirmed that 'the number of deaths was incredibly large' and the Carthaginians 'utterly exterminated'. In 146, Roman legions under Scipio Aemilianus, Cato's ally and brother-in-law of his son, razed the city, and dispersed into slavery the 55,000 survivors, including 25,000 women. Plutarch concluded: 'The annihilation of Carthage . . . was primarily due to the advice and counsel of Cato'.

It was not a war of racial extermination. The Romans did not massacre the survivors, nor the adult males. Nor was Carthage victim of a Kulturkrieg. Though the Romans also destroyed five allied African cities of Punic culture, they spared seven other towns which had defected to them. Yet, the Carthaginians had complied in 149 with Rome's demand to surrender their 200,000 individual weapons and 200 catapults.

Little did they know that the Senate had already secretly decided to destroy Carthage for good, once the war is over. The surprising new demand that they abandon their city meant abandoning its sanctuaries and religious cults to abandon their city, meant abandoning its sanctuaries and religious cults. And in this Carthaginians resisted in vain. Rome opted for the destruction of the nation.

Carthago delenda est has become somewhat of a rallying call against a common enemy - a call for total war.

None of this was lost on Churchill as he addressed British troops in the old Roman amphitheater at Carthage, Tunisia. Nothing short of the total destruction of Nazi Germany for the sake of civilisation and humanity were at stake. The Nazis were an existential threat. Like Cato, Churchill knew the power of oratory to move men into action.

Photo: Churchill leaves the old Roman amphitheatre with Lieutenant General Kenneth Anderson after addressing British troops, 1 June 1943.

[pedroam-bang]

Total War: Rome II (2013)

A.D. MMXIII

[mozillasticks]

i wish i could say they even tried at all...

[da-riya]

I'm here like wanting to play one of the Total War games but I don't want to commit now to downloading it when it's like 9pm

[mysteamgrids]

Rome: Total War