I’ve just installed Rome Remastered, the original was easily my favourite game when I was younger.
What are your favourite battle tactics when attacking and defending in open battles and sieges for each faction?
For example, when playing as the early Romans vs Gaul and other factions that have huge stacks of warbands, I often find I have a smaller army of mostly hastatii - I often win these battles, but what’s the best tactic in this situation? Walk the hastatii up and hurl all the javelins you can then play defensively (guard mode) and wait for the warbands to tire and break / flank them with cavalry if you have any?
And during sieges, what’s your move? Flaming arrows on the walls to set fire to the rams and concentrate the enemy into fewer choke points?
How outnumbered do you have to be before you just sit it out in the town square?
Tell me your favourite tactics!
I haven’t played anything later than Medieval 2 so can’t make direct comparisons but one of my mates said he finds the newer games less fun than Rome because they are more ‘clicky’.
The key with Roman factions in Remastered seems to be getting a city to max size as quickly as possible in order to trigger the Marian reforms (so you get the good professional Legionary units). If you really want to game the system you can go on the attack in Gaul and enslave every settlement you take. When you capture slaves they only get sent to settlements with governors, so move your governors out of every settlement except the biggest one and you’ll get all the slaves in one. You can also train peasants in one settlement then move them to another and disband them to move population around.
There’s a lot of really cool details in Rome, like if you shoot infantry with archers firing to their right, it does more damage because the infantry shields are on the left side. You don’t need to know any of that to play but it adds depth!
Awesome, I’m looking forward to checking out all the little details.