Monday 2 May 2011

Et Tu Brutus?


Indulge me my dear audience, just this one more post... Now take a good hard look at all that green on the minimap. That is the colour of an empire. My empire.

I have conquered everything except for my good friends the Scipii, the Julii and the Senate Popularesque of Q Roma (I can't remember what the Q stands for).

Apparently I have to declare war on Rome and conquer the fair city in order to claim victory. Which I do not want to do because I happen to like the Roman Senate, I think they make better rulers than Imperators (emperors). Aside from that, the senate loves me on account of a large minority of my 180 family members disliking the chariot races and being damn good public speakers.

I do wonder what will happen if I just take turn after turn but I suspect the only things of interest in this game will be rebellions in my far cities. The senate will just sit there twiddling it's thumbs I suspect.

This has never happened to me before. Generally The senate asks me to commit suicide by now (and generally by the time I get this many territories, I have to not only wrestle with rebellion but also a depleted treasury), instead I'm in a great position under no threat whatsoever.

Anyway just thought I'd brag about a game which has no relevance to real life. Next post I'll be back writing about war religion and politics.

14 comments:

  1. Guess i dont have enough tactical thinking and patience for games like these..

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  2. I suck at games like this. I'm the worst decision maker of all time. Strategies are really not my thing.... -_-

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  3. for the record my decision making irl is terrible, but for some reason i get sucked into these games and decisions like "attack!!!!", "TEMPLESTOMERCURYinEVERYCITY!!!" and "loljustgarrisoneverycitywithPEASANTS!!!" end up winning me the game.

    anyway, Rome conquered. I didn't even have to do the battle manually, just plonked three armies next to rome and went autoresolve.

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  4. so whats the name of this game?

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  5. If you like games like this give Europa Universalis 3 a go, top game

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  6. Is this a game about Julius Caeser? It looks pretty cool, I've always liked strategy games like this, shame I don't know what this ones called or I could see myself killing countless hours with it haha

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  7. rome total war is the game

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  8. Have you checked out eRepublic? Its a text and browserbased, and also free. You should check it out.

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  9. Ha, good old times... ._.

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  10. wow. smh....well..i dont know what to say. Gamer name?

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  11. Is this one of those turn-based Real Time Strategies?

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  12. I played the first Shogun Total War back in the day, but as my strategic skills suck badly I wasn't very good at it.

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  13. It's been too long since I last played this game

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