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The loading screens have been made anew, so you'll have something nice to look at while you wait for the game to load! Common soldiers will be dressed in everyday brownish colours, and only the most elite units have had their robesД¬oloured with purple dye. These represent the colour ofД¬lothing in that time period better. If you can't be satisfied by mechanical changes only, you will not be disappointed. You'd better be careful with your guys, unless you want to go down in your first war. Level of your Auxilia buildings, you won't get new men until you send reinforcements from the homeland or send the soldiers back themselves to fill the Because you can't retrain you men in a province that hasn't got the required While in Vanilla this usually was a small nuisance until you capturedДЄn enemy town, the results of losing to many men in RTR are a lot worse. No more routingДЄfter five seconds of fighting! You will undoubtedly lose more men because of this. Defence and morale ratings are increased. The unit stats of other troops haven't stayed untouched neither. Sometimes have an upkeep of over 1000 Denarii - per turn! Whereas cavalry-spamming was very well possible in RTW, cavalry units (especially heavy ones) cost much more. Charge bonuses of more than 20 are not too uncommon at all! Cavalry is also more expensive, to represent the cost of feeding the horses and theДifficulty of training them. They have however, become the ultimate shock the Romans can get various Auxiliaries and the Greek can get access to city-specific hoplites, including the renowned Spartans.Д¬avalry units are now much weaker in prolonged hand-to-hand combat: they will lose to almost all infantry. Different factions may be able to recruit different region-specific units. As the province becomes more and more like the faction it belongs to, more and more powerful units become available to recruit. These buildings represent the process of bringing the province underДЇull control of the ruling faction.

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Each area has it's own unique units that can be recruited by the ruling faction.Д«efore any local units can be trained a series of Auxilia buildings has to be build. This can, however, be overcome by training local units for your armies. Most factions have only a limited selection of native troops. This makes for a more realistic and also more balanced game. Many historically inaccurate units, such as the Urban Cohort, Screeching Women and onagers, have been The unit roster has also received a major overhaul.

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At the start they are still dependant on the Seleucids, but if they break free from them, they may soon be a superpower themselves. They get several types of phalangites, but they can also train horse archers and cataphracts.

The Bactrians have a mixed troop selection. They are a people of piracy, guerrilla warfare They have a mix of barbarian troop types with some Greek influences in the form of hoplites and peltasts. The Illyrians have their lands on the shores of the Adriatic, and are thus in an ideal position to attack the Romans early on. At the start, they own more than 30 provinces, ranging from Smyrna in western TurkeyДЄdded on top of that all, there are two entirely new factions: Bactria and the Illyrians. Stretches to India, all their belongings are portrayed in the game. In original RTW, they had only a handful of provinces and would often be defeated in a short time. The new troop roster represents this, by giving an PtolemaГЇc Now it is a Hellenistic faction, just like the Macedonians and Seleucids. In RTW, it had the troops used there before Alexander the GreatД¬onquered it. The Egyptian faction has been changed to accurately portray it as it was in 280 BC. This makes them harder to play and easier to defeat. The most notable of this is the uniting of the Romans into one faction. So in RTR, quite a few drastic changes have been made to certain factions. Rome: Total War is not a game known for its historical accuracy. To include all of Scotland and a larger part of Scandinavia. It now reaches as far east as India and goes far enough north One of the first things you will notice when you start RTR, is the enhanced campaign map. Lead your people to victory, from the rainy British Isles to the jungles of India and from the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert to the biting wind of the grassy plains! In the east the Successor states vie for power. Power of Carthago, and Gauls are threatening from the north. Pyrrhus of Epirus stands on the shores of Italy, determined to defeat the Republic of Rome. Because the feeling hasn't changed much, it is very kind on newcomers to this magnificent modification. It aims to change RTW into a more historically correct game, but it doesn't change the overall feeling. Rome: Total Realism (often called RTR) is a total conversion for Rome: Total War.

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