

It adapts brilliantly to your tastes: if you just want to play the strategy side, you can have the computer handle your tactics, manage your cities, fight your battles automatically. While this is a great tactical advantage to you, it tends to flatten out your battle-plans: you don't even need that contingency plan.Īll that said, RTW is my very favorite strategy-and-tactics game. There are irritating lapses in the realism at the games Easy and Moderate levels: for instance if you drive an enemy from his own walls, he'll almost never attempt to retake them. As with any strategy game, it's a good idea to save after all significant moves.

To avoid this, I'm afraid you have to go back and restart your game from the last save-point. There are some repeating "battle crashes," in which the game will shut down in the middle of a battle repeatedly.
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Running without other open windows helps. The program will sometimes crash, though this can be much reduced by turning off anything on your machine that might issue pop-up notifications. There are one or two bugs: the most irritating is the famous "tower bug," in which assaulting troops get stuck in their assault tower.
