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Taking a settlement
This only works when you attack, and when the enemy has a wooden palisade or walls. When you want to take a settlement and you are totally outnumbered, get two gate rams. When you are deploying, take half of your troops and move them over to one gate. Leave your general with the first group. The enemy should send only horses to the second group. Bring good soldiers so that you can charge in after you attack. If done correctly, then the enemy should stay attacking the first group. Leave your archers with the first group to "rain fire on the enemy". You would probably take the settlement. Note: This works best against barbarians and sometimes rebels.
Lose with as much damage against opponent
When you get into a fight that you know you cannot win and you cannot run, use the main body of your force to attack the enemy and have ranged units fire at them. Slam your cavalry into the rear of the enemy, then pull them away again. Send them back in and pull them out. Keep repeating this, and you can at least cause the enemy to lose as much of his forces as possible.
Public order
When squalor is overwhelming your cities, remove your garrison and governor to let it rebel. Then, crush them and enslave/exterminate them. The decrease in population is the short term cure for squalor.
Removing culture penalty
Destroy the foreign shire/temple and wait for one turn.
Fighting in open areas
When fighting in an open area, attack with ranged units first, then send your cavalry to the flanks. Do not attack with the cavalry just yet. Instead, bring your main force directly into the enemy force and bring your cavalry in to close off their escape path. This strategy can allow you to win battles against forces three times your size.
Easy money
Start with the Juli faction, Red Roman. Listen to their first mission. Take that rebel town, then make a few Diplomats. Spread them out everywhere, then start asking for trade rights. The more money you can get, the better. Also, if you know you or your allies will not attack them, you can ask for an alliance. Another good method is to build all the farms, roads, ports, and mining things you can do in a settlement.
Cavalry Charge
If you have a large force of Heavy Cavalry and not much else, you can use these units to throw back a much larger army. Just when the battle starts, pause game play and assign each individual Cavalry unit to attack one unit from the enemy's side. Try to go for an even distribution if possible. Then, select all of your Cavalry units and resume game play. Next, order your men to run or to charge. The combined force of your Cavalry coming forward at a charge is enough to frighten most troops or throw them back. Your own casualties are usually light to moderate. Note: Do not attempt this if your squaring off against elephants, as you will not win.
Huge amount of Denari
Go to "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign". Then open the text file "descr_strat". Then edit the denari you want to have say from 5000 to 999999 on your selected faction and then close the file run the game and when you play Imperial Campaign you should have the selected amount of Denari.
Unlocking all Factions without playing campaigns
To unlock all Factions in the game go to "C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign". Then open the text file "descr_strat". Then move whoever you want from unlockable or unplayable to playable. If you move some things to playable from unplayable they might crash the game if you try to use them or might just outright not work, so be careful.
Best Roman Legion
For an almost unfailable Roman Legion setup, use this. Spearmen (triarii) or light infantry (hastati) in the front lines (extended as far as possible but not too thin) these will absorb the enemy charge, Heavy infantry (pricepes) just behind they will throw their javelins and then join the fight, skirmishers (velites) behind to keep bombarding and to give temporary help if the battle goes amiss, archers (Roman archers) behind for the same reason as the skirmishers (NO FIRE ARROWS), if possible Light artillary (scorpions) behind to give more support (NO FIRE!), and heavy artillary (onagers) at the back (again NO FIRE) at the flanks have light Cavalry to intercept flankers, and behind them heavy cavalry to continuously charge pull back and again charge to crush the enemy and finally behind it all your general to give a morale boost. (Only EVER use your general if the situation is desparate or to chase down fleeing infantary to get experience) If chariots are present try to have velite gladiators atthe front, elephants should have been taken down by your artillary or if you have none, set arrows to flame to make them panic and run before they crush your perfect legion!
Defend your settlement
Use the following tactic to fight an outnumbered foe at your settlement. If you know that you cannot defend your walls because there is too much ground to cover and you forces will be to thin to stop them, then follow this strategy. Put all your armies in the central plaza of the city. According to their location, put your light infantry blocking the path of where they would go after the walls break through. Remember that you want to make a small chokepoint so that they can fight only one way and not surround you. Then, put your heavy infantry behind the light infantry and put your cavalry on the flanks so that you can attack them at the sides. When they attack and are charging at you infantry, order all the infantry (including heavy infantry) to charge. Then, have your cavalry cut the enemy's retreat and attack their flanks. If this is successful, their front and rear will be attacked, allowing you to crush them. Note: This cannot be done against human players.
Blockades
If the Senate asks you blockade a port, you can go blockade it for the last turn and not have to do it for the entire five.
Cheat Mode
Press ~ during game play to display the console window. Then, enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:
Cheat Code - Effect
add_money 20000 - Increase money by 20,000 gamestop - 10% cheaper units in campaign mode jericho - Walls fall down in siege in battle map mode oliphaunt - 40% bigger elephants in campaign mode
Stand off
When you are outnumbered, have low forces, and know that you will lose, get a good stand off position by gathering all of your remaining forces, and go to a hill or the highest position if possible. If that is unavailable, go into the forests. Then, gather your forces and put all archers in the very back, all medium to close ranged missile weapons in middle, and all of your spearmen in the front with the legionnaires, swordsmen, etc. just behind. If you have elephants or horses, put them javelins. Then, with the spearmen formation, you can either wait for the enemy to hit the spearmen then charge with horses. However it would be better to horse charge them when they are in archer or javelin range, then keep bombarding them. Next, use all of your swordsmen to attack after the enemy hits the spearmen. Then, use all of your forces to charge, except for the archers. Move them away from the fight and keep bombarding. This is also a good choke point defensive maneuver.
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