This was a tough game on legionary level as your cohorts got smaller. At senator, 350 men cohorts did very poorly. Besides that, I had written down all dialogue options that led on an alliance and even had the first 5 turns scripted: skip turn - Sicily (diplomatic alliance I believe) - back to Italy - Dalmatia (aggressive alliance) and into Macedonia. It's been ages though.
I remember bringing this game to school on a 5 inch floppy. It must have been in 91-92. I put the game in the computer during class, with a few of my mates gathered around. I get to the first battle, and the PC Speaker started blasting out the music at the beginning. This immediately attracted the attention of our teacher, who came over and made us shut it down.
Wow. That was a blast from the past! All I remembered from the game was a vague image of fighting the elephants. Your vid brought it all back. Must have spent hundreds of hours playing Centurion. The next thing was ‘Ancient Battles’ by SSI. Is that still floating around on the net somewhere? Had to Lol at the ‘legion aye Ital’, btw.
@@latro8192 yes, I'm surprised the elephants didn't crush the cohorts in the game. I think fire was used to repulse them back in the Punic Wars. I'm sure Ancient Battles is out there somewhere. I'll take a look.
Perhaps, it has been 25 years since I played that game but I was highly disappointed when I learned the stand fast trick. It was a Sun Tzu principle, to stand and let the enemy exhaust themself.
Not having much cash as a kid i would get my disc's used. so upon getting a batch i would try them all to see what was already on them. This is how i found this game and man this never got copied over ^^
so many times conquered the entire map, the worst were the Parthain raiding parties ;) Important thing is army morale, you need to raise armies in fierce morale regions, if you strenghten in lower morale regions, you may reduce morale of entire army and make it loose more people. Also edges are unsafe, so blanced army isn't great, strenghten right/left and reducing edges and forming one block of full sized(500) kohorts with fierce morale may kill enemies without a loss, before enemy strikes, gets heavy damage. It's good to set low taxes in newly conquered provinces, give them time to increase morale then you tax them for higher money.
@@JJ-ku8bm that's good to know thank you. It never clicked with the morale and taxes in the past, I was always too focused on getting money and drafting conscripts to send to the slaugt...join our glorious legions!
@@ThanetianGaming Turned out I just learned recently that Caesar himself started the state games tradition, both gladiators and chariot racing, before him I think it was all private, but because it was so lucrative the State took over, Caesar needed money.
For me it is really amazing this game basically fit on 2 3.5 floppy disks totalling less then 3.6 mb of disk space. Considering most games these days take more than 50 gig with almost less gameplay.
@@ThanetianGaming No... i was too young at the time and didnt even know english. Still, this game was my first step in RTS, if you wanna call it that. And i frequently used other formations than a simple line - some of them made it easier to flank the enemy or funnel them into a situation they couldnt get out of (especially their leader). I was a wee bit more aggressive than you were :)
I do like stand fast for some battles, but it does pay to use more complex tactics and army layouts with more difficult foes. Especially ones where your cavalry sweeps past the enemy forces and attacks them in the back.
I mean, I beat the entire game by using a strong right and using the sweep right strategy and then just telling my troops to attack as they want after they are past the enemy flanks
@@onsholo Looks like I missed a lot. I think even at 10 I was aware that the strength of the Roman Legion was standing fast. Not in this game it seems!
This game genuinely brought me to tears. i remember playing this game with my brother and cousin late at night. sadly my cousin passed away some years ago - i miss him and those nights where he would cheat using his cavalry as a buzz saw by just moving them from the top of the screen to the bottom . Strange how at the time you never imagined that those would be the days you would miss the most. AD INFERNO
My fave Genesis games as a kid were Centurion, Shadowrun, Pirates and Buck Rodgers. Not the most exciting gameplay, but absolutely unlimited replay value. ...And when you're on the kid budget, replay value was king, lol Btw bro, you need to be flanking in every fight.
@@ThanetianGaming If you routinely develop both flanks while withdrawing the center you get those sweet 1st touch flank attacks, which crumble the enemy, pretty much automatically. ....Also, if you work dialogue right in Egypt, you get an in-bed with side boob shot of Cleopatra, which was an absolute mind blower as a kid in the 90s playing on console. Pretty sure not many ppl found or the media would have gone ape in 1990
Hmm honestly I don't remember, it's too long ago. I also had a dodgy copy and no manual. Furthermore it was in English and back then I barely spoke any :)
@@ThanetianGaming Old German " Grundig" TV. It no longer receives any programs, but it still works for playing. Even though both of my teenagers have gaming PCs, the old thing is popular every Friday night. Tetris and other good old games always make fun game evenings.
Many games like this would be great mobile games today, since everything is just so much worse. Why arn't they redoing old commandor/Amiga games to mobile phone?
@@ThanetianGaming swos > career mode was nice, but gameplay was also improved compared to sensible soccer, easy to learn but very deep and hard to master, imo timeless, still playing swos today and probably will in 20 years when i‘m 60
@@nasagoal That's the thing, I'm doing a series on old games, and you could release most of them today and they'd be hits, even against the AAA titles. Amazing.
This was 92. ISS was 95. A few years gap. I just looked at the numbers, ISS sold 500,000 and Sensible Soccer 200,000. In 94, FIFA was out on the playstation. I think that beats them both!
