General Discussion Thread - The Fourth Age: Total War mod for Rome: Total War

Discuss away on The New Shadow here.

I am curious about the archers in the game. In vanilla Rome archers generally have 30 shots and some horse archers sometimes have 40. Why was the arrow total for all archers in the game reduced to 24? I sometimes run out of ammo before running out of desirable targets (other archers, wains, armor piercing axemen who are lightly armored, etc) while playing the RK.

I suppose it is because archers are more powerful in this mod, and it is a way to balance it.

In the Dominion of Men I read where family members will be penalized for exterminating a population when taking an enemy city. Will it be more severe than the simple "orc trait" accumulated in the New Shadow? I have found that some of my family members on campaign get some negative traits which depress their influence so the orc trait did not seem to matter as much - slaughtering a city did wonders for public order because of the reduced squalor compared to a few measly influence marks. Also, I tended to send the grey bearded family members against those targets. I figured they would only die soon anyway so, who cares? I am wondering if my strategy on how to handle that needs to be changed.

Well, I haven't exterminated any cities yet, so I suppose I'll have to try in order to see what the effects are.

Maybe extermination is not needed for the "good guys" which would be a welcome change from Vanilla Rome. When I first played Rome Total War I found out the hard way that extermination was usually the only way to go, which I found annoying. I would like to give the unfortunate civilians a chance to behave themselves before wiping them out, unless they are orcs. At that point, I would want to wipe them out.

Well, managing cities properly has become much harder in DoM, that's for sure.

I've tested exterminating cities and it seems the 'Orc-like' trait has been removed.

Edited by: FeánaroTWC