User blog comment:Charukboy3000/Another WW2 Game/@comment-1916935-20101002200445/@comment-28584497-20101003060821

Tactics was okay, but it was almost completely apart from the canon of the Fallout series. And RTW was probably the best-made total war game to date (apart from negotiation AI. It was like conversing with a toaster). Numidia was probably the hardest faction to play as in the base game, if I recall correctly. I think the Seleucids were slightly worse in terms of unit selection and map placement. (Surrounded by Pontus and Egypt, both of whom used chariots) In Barbarian Invasion, though, the West Roman Empire was perhaps the hardest faction to play as. So many hordes. Just walking all over Roman soil. In one of my WRE playthroughs, the East lost all their Turkish lands to Persia (or whatever that faction was called), but they managed to take all of the Balkan territory and most of Italy and southern Germany, while my little defensive line of forts in Iberia barely managed to stave off the combined weight of the Franks, Lombards, Hun, Vandal, Slav, and Allemani. And then the rebellions began.