Guide to Rome: Total War and the Barbarian Invasion
This guide is entirely the work of frogbeastegg unless otherwise indicated. You may not alter this document without my permission, make money from it, or claim it as your own work. I worked long and hard to write this; don’t steal. If you want to translate this guide to another language, convert it to a printable format, add it to your website or anything else please ASK. I almost always give permission and I like to know what is happening to my work, if only because I might get comments or feedback based on a version I don’t know exists.
Written for: Rome: Total War version 1.5 and Barbarian Invasion version 1.6
A note on terminology: City, town, settlement, province – it’s all the same thing. Also when speaking of campaigns, RTW means the Imperial campaign of whatever version of the game; BI means the Barbarian Invasion campaign, also in whatever version. It doesn’t refer to the game, just the map you are fighting on and the factions available.
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This is the final version of this guide. I will not update it, expand it, or otherwise continue to work on it. I don’t have time, or, to be honest, the interest in the game necessary to support the several hundred hours work these guides take me. I freely admit this guide has errors and gaps; it’s a choice between a guide with those failures or one which still covers RTW 1.1. I thought this was the better way.