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Welcome to Rome: Total War on the TWC Wiki

Rome: Total War is a game in the Total War Series developed by the Creative Assembly.
The game was released in 2004 and is still popular with players and modders. The game covers the period 270BC to AD 14 with a campaign that ranges across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

The expansions Alexander and Barbarian Invasion run on Rome: Total War.

RTW Modifications

Mod Finder Table for RTW

RTW Releases & Updates

• Classical Age: Total War v1.2.4 - 9/18 update
• Rome Total War Randomiser - 9/18 update
• Equilibrium - 7/18 update
• Rise of Persia modfoldered version v2.2 - 3/17 update

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Alex Releases & Updates

• ahowl11's Vanilla Enhancement Mod v4 - 9/18 update
• Rome: Total Realism 8 v4.0.2 - 7/18 update
• Europa Barbarorum v1.31c - 11/17 update

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BI Releases & Updates

• The Dominion of Men 3.3 - The End of the Beginning - 5/18 update
• Amazon: Total War v8.3 & 8.4 - 3/17 update

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More mods

• Released RTW Mods with Wiki Pages
• RTW Hosted Mods on TWC
• Released Mod Threads on TWC

RTW Modding Spotlight

Cantabrian Wars

Cantabrian Wars 0.3 won the favourite hosted mod category for Rome Total War in the TWC 2017 modding awards!

Created by the same author as the award winning Hispania in the Middle Ages for Medieval II, Cantabrian Wars is also set in Hispania and is based around the final stage of the Roman conquest in 29-19BC. The challenge of the campaign is to survive the Roman invasion. Version 0.3 released in April 2018 includes script improvements, re-balanced buildings and resources, and additional custom battle scenarios.

• Read more and download the mod here.

Europa Barbarorum

Europa Barbarorum won the favourite mod/submod category in the TWC 2017 Modding Awards for RTW. EB had a 2017 update to version 1.3c for both Alexander and RTW with changes to most aspects of the game. Work on version 1.32, which will include separate versions for Alexander and Barbarian Invasion, was announced in April 2018

• See the hosted forum here for more details

RTW Modding Information

Categories on the Wiki

• Modding
• Modding Rome: Total War
• Modding Tutorials for Rome: Total War
• Modding Tools for Rome: Total War
• RTW Campaign Map Modding

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Recent/Important Modding Information

• Starting an RTW mod by .bat
• EDU-matic Unit Balance Generation System
• The Complete EDU guide

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Essential Tools

• PAK Extractor (by Vercingetorix) to access RTW packed files.
• CAS Importer/exporter for 3ds max (by Vercingetorix) for 3D modelling.
• Photoshop DDS plugin - to open texture files.

RTW Community on TWC

General Discussion

• RTW Mod Questions and Recommendations
• Why new Total Wars are worse than Rome I

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Strategy Guides

See also:

• Battle Planning forum on TWC
• R:TW Guides on The Guild

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After Action Reports

See also:

• AARs stored in the Scriptorium
• AARs on The Guild

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Publications & Media

• Original RTW review by Gamespot

See also:

• The Eagle Standard - TWC's TW game and modding publication
• The Hub - Home of TWC's multimedia content

RTW Game Information

Game Overviews

• Rome: Total War
• Barbarian Invasion
• Alexander

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Features

• Factions
• Units
• Characters
• Battle Map Play

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Technical Help

• TWC Forum
• Making RTW work on Windows 10
• Solution to lag/low fps on modern computers

Help the TWC Wiki

RTW: Wanted Pages

• Total War: Eras
• See also Most Wanted Pages

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RTW: Short articles in need of expansion

• Sarmatians (BI Faction)
• See also Short articles in need of expansion

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RTW: Articles in need of Cleanup

• Rome: Total War
• Gothic Raiders (RTW Unit)
• Runaway Slave Spearmen (RTW Unit)
• RTRPE
• See also Articles in need of Cleanup

The Total War Portals

Other Sources for Rome: Total War

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