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It may be your first settlement to make it to "Huge" status. Back when Nomadic Tribes was launched, CA hadn’t learned the power of making good asymmetrical factions, so the result is a weird unbalanced reskin of some minor factions. I haven't played this game for a long time and some things may have changed since then, but the basics should still be the same. This alone will not help as terrain such as forests can conceal your units from view if you don’t make them sprint.This brings things back to positioning. You can use something as bait to ensure they travel that path, such as a single weak unit that you don't want to involve in the fight, or an important family member with no reinforcements (make sure the enemy will not travel a different path to reach your bait. There is a separate window for technologies research, browse through the buttons on the bottom of the screen to find it.You can raise a new army by choosing the ‘Raise Army’ button on any city. If you move the mouse to the sides of the screen, your camera will rotate on the battlefield instead of panning to the right or the left. Grouping, Unit Deployment & Battle Mechanics
Personally I prefer a slightly top-down angle so I can more easily see the different battalions.On this overhead view of your territories you can create and maintain armies and cities and make political and strategic decisions that alter the balance of power between the various factions.Select one of your cities and you’ll notice there are many things you can do with it. Ships get caught far too easily by invisible "enemy grapples" within a range that's definitely longer than grappling range and it's as if an invisible force prevents your ship from escaping because the game is hard coded to force a boarding action in favor of the enemy ship. ]Many of these strategies can also work with Medieval 2: Total War, Rome's sequel.If you can pull off a successful ambush, you can destroy an entire army with only a fraction of the men the enemy has. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms and others. Jokes aside, the game can be a pretty complicated beast to get into. When your super general is going to die of old age, simply have someone else get his retinue.In battle, use every opportunity you can to conceal your troops in a forest (some can hide in long grass too), even if you already have an advantage. I wrote up this strategy guide because there was a definite lack of basic Rome: Total War strategies anywhere else. They can even go across water with little difficulty. When the soldier representing your army is crouching but still holding up its sword, you know it is hiding. Due to the way most factions have nearly identical rosters, battles often devolve into a pitched battle of equal forces, and the DLC has a tendency to spring rebellions and betrayals at the worst moments to completely ruin your experience. This is useful to get a good angle on the action but a bit counterintuitive to seasoned RTS players.Use the mouse wheel to get an eagle-eye view of the field. You need to select the ‘Expand city’ option and select a building you want to construct. However, I tunnel visioned on that battle and didn’t spot the few squads he had sent around through the side streets.He used the vision block the buildings of the city provided to get around behind my forces to take away my advantage. Thanks a new to this game and really helped me. Their opinion of your faction may range from very friendly/friendly (green face) to neutral (yellow) and furious (red). Building Types & Construction Slots
Since it is the only unit that can penetrate a town without taking it over, it will infect that town.A rather effective way to repel an assault in a city is to group spearmen/hoplites into phalanxes (if possible),and place them in a tight semi-circle around the gate/breach. Generally speaking, military techs typically give combat bonuses and unlock more advanced units, although they may also help your treasury if they reduce recruitment and/or upkeep costs.