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Rome Total War Glory Re: Rome Total War under Windows on a MacBook?

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On 2006-07-16 19:25:22 -0500, Dan Stephenson said:

> Greetings, I'm this -><- close to getting an Apple MacBook.  I would 
> intend to run BootCamp on it to dual-boot into Windows XP, for playing 
> games.  But the MacBook has a really lame Intel integrated graphics 
> adapter.
> 
> Does anyone out there have experience running Windows games on their 
> MacBook and could report out to the groups? How's the performance? And 
> in particular, for Rome Total War, one of my all-time favorite games?
> 
> Thanks in advance,

FWIW, I ended up getting a MBP, and the Mac Version of RTW + BI.  I 
play it all the time.  I recently won as Western Empire on Very 
Difficult settings, and I am about the win as the Franks in that manner.

The key to beating the Hordes is a number of high-defense infantry and 
a ton of archers -- on a bridge.  The hordes bash against that again 
and again, and even if they eventually win through, they've 
significantly reduced their numbers.

Also, when under seige, I like provoking their general to chase one of 
my own cavalry units around the city walls.  About halfway around, the 
enemy general is dead due to fire from the city wall's towers.  I even 
once survived an attack on a city and was left with ONE soldier left, 
the general.  ONE guy.  No kidding.

I've got lots of stories like this.  Anyone else have good tales of RTW glory?
-- 
Dan Stephenson
http://web.mac.com/stepheda
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