Battle Map Play - RTW

In Rome Total War and its Expansions you can resolve battles on a 3D real time battle map during campaign play, custom battles and historical battles.

Battles during Campaign Play

Battles during campaign play can be fought either on an open field or in and around a settlement if the settlement is under siege.

Unit Abilities and Formations

Unit Special Abilities

Generals

• Generals ability to rally troops
• Kill Elephants command

Missile Troops

• Fire Flaming Missiles
• Fire at Will

Not officially a special ability but a useful setting to toggle on and off for your missile troops, removing the fire at will ability can prevent 'friendly fire' losses, that can occur if your missile troops fire on enemy units when your troops are in the way!

Infantry

• Phalanx
• Testudo
• Warcry

gives temporary boost to combat power - to simulate effect of frightening the enemy. Using warcry for berserker units makes them instantly berserk.

• Chant

Cavalry

• Cantabrian Circle

Available to some cavalry units, allows cavalry to fire a continuous barrage of missiles instead of volley fire (may make them harder to target as well - needs confirmation)

• Wedge Formation

Available for most cavalry units,

Group Formations

All units in an army or just selected units may be formed into a group

Group formations and their possible uses include:

Tactics

As in real life historic battles of the time period, the battle can be won or lost depending upon the generals' (player or AI) tactics. Successful tactics tend to include those that break up the enemies formations, for instance flanking manoeuvres or breaking through weak points in his line.