Europa Barbarorum - How to start a Carthage campaign

[MrNightcall]

roflmao time limit on battles..

[crackshack2]

holy fucken shit your computer is laggy as gay hell

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

.... As explained many times, the problem is not my computer, but rather some weird connection between fraps and rome total war (but I have fixed the problem now: check out my later videos (last pontos chronicle)

[masterskyrunner]

@Randomer379xxxVideos yeah, that'd have to be a really sucky computer to lag on rtw.

[killer7838]

yo do you think we could play online europa barbororim

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

Currently I don't really have much time, and in any case, I'm more of a campaign player (although I have got EB online working already). Sorry :S

[killer7838]

@Randomer379xxxVideos  nah its fine

[zlessly]

i wouldn't attack Rome so quickly, i would get an alliance with phyrrus, and campaign in Spain, and fortify my islands.

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

You could do that, but in my opinion I find it too boring... the spanish are too easy to beat. Also if you don't kill rome early, they'll get very powerful and send endless stacks to attack you. Also the roman provinces give good income. BUT saying that, this is a total war game, and the beauty of them is that there are endless options for how you want to play your campaign...

[crackshack2]

@Randomer379xxxVideos

Its like a Empire Sim game

[Legolasas26]

Bocchoris is probably the easiest to defend.. a small island surrounded by water. You can always retreat to it when youre losing youre empire.

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

It'd be pretty desperate if you need to fall back to a little island :S

Hopefully when I continue this campaign I won't have such problems.

[phoenixking321]

is this not available in barbarian invasion

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

You can download a version for Barbarian Invasion, somewhere from the total war forums. I saw it once before, but I can't remeber when/where. All I remeber is that it was a new thread, on the total war forums (and where all the mods are located).

[stratigos9]

@phoenixking321 EB 1.2 version can be used with RTW 1.5 exe/ BI 1.6 exe and even with Alexander 1.9 exe.

you should look on the forums for step by step thing on how to use Barbarian invasion(BI)".exe"

i think you just need to change EB launcher shortcut: RomeTW-BI.exe" -mod:eb -nm -show_err

i'm using BI exe on my campaign (more naval invasion etc ...)

hope it helps

[LordofPontus]

Same here randomer, i use xfire to record and the file size for 10mins is like 4gb, i then have to shrink it down and delete once put on youtube.

[GameOk456]

That's not much. What with do you encode them?

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

I'd say that is pretty big, I mean, it could be a lot smaller if I made the quality less (and I doubt that anybody watches it in 1080).

To get this quality I publish from WMM at best quality for this computer - and it encodes it as .wmv and about 350MB (for a 10min video).

[GameOk456]

I'm using the latest xvid codec and if I set the quality to 3 (1 is best) I can get 10min 720p video to little bit over 200mb. So I'd say .wmv is quite ok in compression.

[GameOk456]

What is the size of these 1080p videos when you upload them? Do you edit them?

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

Let's not talk about that :P

Let's just say, big (250 -400 MB)

[F1zzzy90]

lags a lot but its probably just the recording program :P

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

If you look at my napoleon videos - this is fixed. It was some weird combination of RTW and fraps that caused the low frame rates.

[CyrusTheGreat10]

nice vids brother

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

thanks :)

[vartanhaghverdi]

I can understand how you can have 720p by recording at up to 1680x1050, but 1080p? How is that possible. The highest I can go is 1050 horizontal lines as noted above, so that'll be 720p, not 1080. I'm assuming you have a large monitor that allows you to go higher.

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

Yep mine is 17 inch

[vartanhaghverdi]

But your campaign map can't be larger than 1280x1024 px. Is there something I am missing, or does YouTube playback the 1024 as 1080 horizontal lines? It's not overly important, but coming from a technical standpoint (as well as my background in film and photography) I can't help but ask this.

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

I don't know much about this, but:

1. my computer is widescreen, 17 inch

2. i set the game to widescreen mode

3. i set the game to highest resolution

I think that should solve your problem

[vartanhaghverdi]

Thanks.

[spartaner39]

@Randomer379xxxVideos

Lol, about what we are speaking XDD

(we could understand this wrong XDD

*joke

nice vid ;)

RTW Rules

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

How mature :P

dw, I would have made the same joke

And thanks

[truewarriorgod10000]

nice start so far, i finished a carthage campaign on EB a couple months ago.

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

Thanks, I also started one, but stopped before taking all of italy (but i took rome). I also took a bit of Iberia

[RoyalAnarchist]

There is some major lag , it should get checked out

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

HAHA, it's not lag, it's the framerates, which, I might add, hate me in RTW (always goes to 3/4 fps when recording).

But It's not my computer, because I easily get high fps on ETW.

[EBRometotalwar]

you pretty much have the same idea as i had when i played with carthage although i used my elephants for taking sicilly then disbanded them, I also took the rest of africa first because its all rebel citys which give nice income also in spain theres another faction your probably gonna go to war with because they want control of spain which is also all rebels apart from there 1 city i think it is

[Randomer379xxxVideos]

You can't use the elephants that much in sicily, because syracuse has stone walls :( but thanks for the tip anyway. The faction in spain is the lusotanna, and you start allied to them, so they shouln't be too much of a problem early on. Also I find it takes too long to take over africa, because of the long distances.

Also just a FYI for everyone, I have played this campaign before, but on normal.