CUT - CAMPAIGNS // Rome Total War 

There we have it, 2 Cut Campaigns that never made it into the game. Now, these are just the two that did not get all their files deleted. Makes you wonder what else could have been. Hopefully I may soon become large enough to be able to interview a developer and find out more, maybe even get access to an Alpha Build. I'm Working on it : )

It sucks soooo much that there are so many cut content for these golden games Medieval 2 and Rome 1 are the only games I find myself playing The newer total war games are just not the same

Btw helvetii is still used in a official name of Switzerland. Country ID on a car's plate is CH, Confoederatio Helvetica

What I learned: the Rome voice actors pronounce almost everything incorrectly

Theres a file with narration scripts for a LOT of scrapped historical battles, including a Siracuse battle in which you can play as either Rome or Cartage.

I wonder if someone could make a mod but with alpha stuff

CA has used the Latin or English names for Rome total war for their own ease and for name recognition. as for why their are so many Hellenistic regions in the Scipio campaign it is to represent Scipio Africanus' campaigns not only in Africa but against the Seleucid king Antiochus III in the Syrian wars.

Based on the names apperaing in the "Scipio" campaign like Gothi, Geates, Rhoxolania, Iazyges, Vandali I think it is very likable that it was a draft for some late antique campaign, like in Med I the Late Era, that was, for whatever reason, cut away. This would also explain why there are late antique tribes and cities mixed with republican ones, because it was a draft that never got refined. Good vid as always! Edit: Sounds like a mission driven campaign like the Fellowship campaign, because otherwise the references towards newly arrived units, recruting units to fill up the ranks or the "order" to march to this or taht settlement/region would be very strange.

When you talks about missions, maybe these campaigns were meant to work similarly to how Alexander did the campaigns made out several battles perhaps.

The second campaign looks like barbarian invasion. I see many 300 ad factions Like vandali Goths Etc.

id imagine that the caesar campaign was cut because they couldnt stop allies from just randomly backstabbing you for no reason, would be silly to say you have to help the aedui to have them attack you on turn 2

The Battle of Mons Graupius was, according to Tacitus, a Roman military victory in what is now Scotland, taking place in AD 83 or, less probably, 84. The exact location of the battle is a matter of debate. Historians have long questioned some details of Tacitus's account of the fight, suggesting that he exaggerated Roman success. The Battle of Arausio took place on 6 October 105 BC, at a site between the town of Arausio, and the Rhône River. Ranged against the migratory tribes of the Cimbri under Boiorix and the Teutoni under Teutobod were two Roman armies, commanded by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus The Battle of Tigranocerta (Armenian: Տիգրանակերտի ճակատամարտ, Tigranakerti tchakatamart) was fought on 6 October 69 BC between the forces of the Roman Republic and the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great. The Roman force, led by Consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus, defeated Tigranes, and as a result, captured Tigranes' capital city of Tigranocerta.[2] The battle arose from the Third Mithridatic War being fought between the Roman Republic and Mithridates VI of Pontus, whose daughter Cleopatra was married to Tigranes. Mithridates fled to seek shelter with his son-in-law, and Rome invaded the Kingdom of Armenia. Having laid siege to Tigranocerta, the Roman forces fell back behind a nearby river when the large Armenian army approached. Feigning retreat, the Romans crossed at a ford and fell on the right flank of the Armenian army. After the Romans defeated the Armenian cataphracts, the balance of Tigranes' army, which was mostly made up of raw levies and peasant troops from his extensive empire, panicked and fled, and the Romans remained in charge of the field.[2] 1 roman Britannia campian 2 Cimbrian War 3 Third Mithridatic War link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tigranocerta en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons_Graupius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arausio

This just makes me sad. I wanted to have a fresh feel for rome. Even with mods is not the same. After you played Darthmod, EB, Troy and Britannia I want a new map. Hopefully someone can try and salvage this. Can we contact CA? PLEASE

'Dont kill me for this luci' Maybe that person has an interest in that person

A while back, I found mention to several unit types in the files that were cut, such as engineers and (I think) priests. I don't think I've ever seen anyone make a video on this or otherwise mention it, so either I'm the first to discover it, or it's been explained already?

The helvetii were Celtic not germanic tf

You see this with Paradox as well. They set stuff aside and do it in later games in a slightly different form.

Wonderful. Activision would have to be asked to do a new relaunch with all the campaigns unlocked. Rome total war continues to surprise in the middle of 2023.

Little late, but I think all of the smaller campaigns, prologue included, are divided into "missions", probably using the same structure as the senate missions in the main campaign as a way to trigger the next set of dialogue/events to unfold without building a bespoke one way flag to keep events moving. Or it's just the easiest way for the devs to divide out the voice lines so everyone knew what was what.

11:37 Feigned rout? This sounds like a false retreat typical of the Scythians. While fighting a unit they retreat en masse, not moving away, but luring a unit to an isolated location so that the rest of the enemy army doesn't come to their aid, so they can then massacre the unit together, much like skirmish mode. . Does anyone agree with me?

Why did the producers choose Australians for the narrator voice acting? It’s always struck me as odd hearing my own people pretending to be Roman.

I'm thinking Napoleon Total War: mini-campaigns that focus on certain times/areas in greater detail and in theatrical sequence

=D

Just based on some of those settlement/region names it really looks like the Scipio campaign was just the first version of Barbarian Invasion before they decided to make it into an expansion instead? It makes no sense they would include the entirety of Europe if it was just going to follow one individual. They would do like in Ceaser in Gaul and only include the relevant provinces.

Why did the producers choose Australians for the narrator voice acting? It’s always struck me as odd hearing my own people pretending to be Roman.

Is there a mod to play this 2 campaigns?

Rome 2 is basically what they were planning on. That's intrigued. Medieval 1 has many campaign that should be the norm. Sad three kingdoms total war didn't come with at least two

I would believe the theory that the Scipio campaign was a very rough early barbarian invasion, you can see some of the tribes listed as Gothi (the goths) who don’t show up until later in Roman history.

Interesting that you can mod ‘Provincial Campaigns’ as separate campaigns to the Grand Campaign. Something to think about for my Albion campaign idea

9:35-9:36 "I pronounced that wrong, but…" Try listening to "Divinitas" with lyrics and a basic grasp of the phonemes of even Ecclesiastic Latin, let-alone Classical Latin; tl;dr: You're doing fine.

12:35 Where is this file?

Incidentally, both Caesar and Scipio got their solo campaigns in Rome2.

The Scipio Campaign could have been Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asiaticus's campaign in the Seleucid Wars of 192-188 BC?

Would have been epic

What music was from 3:50 I liked that part

is there a mod for these campaigns

in high schooli read and translated the text from caesars book the first audio file talks about.

Helvetii were not germans but celts. Weird mistake.

wait SHIT sec what the fuck is this lol

please make a video about the cut units ASAP

First

I remember coming across these files not long ago when i was editing a few things for a custom campaign, and it picked my interest. Oh, and how about all the unused event images? Most of them are unpolished or copies of each other, but a few of them are really high quality and address some common events in the game, it's weird they were left unused.