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In the chariot races I am trying to stay on the left. I think you take the turns faster that way. You would at least in the real world.

I found the manual here : http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name...efender+of+Rome

[Frankie]

I managed to make many nations my ally but I see Mydgard gone further. I don't remembver if I ever succeeded to make Pontus, Armenia or any country in the north (except Britanny) and the ones that I forgot.

So here are my observations about making allies:

Phoenician-ruled nations - except Cartahgo (Hispania, Sicily): diplomatic, agressive, o.a.

barbarians (Britanny, Dalmatia, Arabia, Mauretania and almost Scythia [they'll never join] ): agressive, o.a.

Greek-cultured nations (Macedonia, Thracia): diplomatic, diplomatic, o.a.

pirates/raiders (Cilicia, Cyrenacia): friendly, o.a.

Egypt (heh, only for the solidity ): friendly. friendly, o.a.

And there are Narbonensis and Mesopotamia. I think the first is diplomatic, agressive, o.a. the second might be a simple agressive, tho I wouldn't call the people of that land barbarians. I'm sure I managed to make both my allies, but now I don't remember with which attitude. I'm only sure that dipl/agr 's combo will be effective.

If you have any other nation's attitude I'd appreciate your tips.

[Frankie]

Edit: I managed to make an alliance with Armenia: diplomatic, diplomatic, o.a.

Arabia: dipl. , agr. , o.a.

Mesopotamia: dipl. , dipl. , o.a.

Not even total war: Rome has as much other fun elements, like participate in games and negotiate with seperate heads of states, although the 3D battles is alot better than centurion i have ot say, but it gets old.

As for chariot race, the trick is to pick the lightest chariot, and take the left side without crashing into other chariots. Once to get into the inside lane, just beat the horse untilt o ge the max speed and maintain it and ride all the wau to the end, you have to make sure you can get to the inside lane wihtotu bumping into other chariots and have no other chariots in your way. It is a bug, I remember years ago, that if you do it at the right time, you never loose a race, I use to make aseveral years pay for my troops in the circus, I got so good that i dont even gather taxes anymore.

And getting laid by cleopatra is true, I did it myself, you just see some skin and some flirting and that is it, no need to piss your pants over it.

Other than that, the game gets real old pretty quick. Someone suggested that you pull all the troops back and raise taxes and let every province rebel reconquer them over again, that is if you are bored and do not have other old dos games to play with. Which I have to say that Total War: Rome is merely a adequet sequel to centurion. Which makes you wonder, if all the good game ideas have been done and over with.

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[Frankie]

Or just play on senator level without reloads...

I'm having trouble making the citizens in Italia content. I conquered Dalmatia and Sicily, and they are both content, but Italia is still angry/restless all of the time. Am I missing something? Cause I have had several full-happy gladiator battles in Italia.

[another_guest]

These gladiator shows probably cost you more than the taxes you're getting from Italia, so you could try lowering the tax level for Italia.
Sometimes it took me 10 years of no taxes and lots of games to please the Brits. But then that was necessary in order to finish the game: to do so, none of your provinces should be "rebellious". In that aspect, "restless" is certainly no problem, while "angry" is a bit of a risk.

Hi , Can any one of you tell me how to run most of games here (16bit) under windows xp ?? (16 bit)
I would appreciate this .


p.s. Centurio - great game , i lost much of my childhood time on it
I remember there was an easy way to always win chariot race with just pressing the up arrow key , But it was so long time ago , i dont remember exactly .

hey there, does anybody know the key answers which are asked when you start up the game? :help:
with the right answer in the beginning the game will be much easier...

[another_guest]

Does that really make a difference in difficulty? :blink:

I always ignored the question right away.