#rome: total war

[mysteamgrids]

Rome: Total War

#steam #steamgrid #Rome: Total War

[mozillasticks]

aww ye

#rome: total war

[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - I ❤️ Wolverine | 10/28/04

Three big 2004 games in one big show!

(GIVE TO FORMER G4 REBOOT STAFF WHO NEED HELP)

(HELP SAVE THE GIANT G4 NES CONTROLLER)

#The Pile #G4TechTV #X-Play #Viewtiful Joe 2 #X-Men Legends #Rome: Total War #Dance Dance Revolution Extreme #Def Jam: Fight for NY #anime unleashed #Last Exile #Circuit City #Unscrewed with Martin Sargent #Metal Gear Solid 3 #Domino's Pizza #Best Buy #Colgate #Cingular #Stridex #Spider-Man 2 #Fight Club (video game) #GameFly #Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas #Blade Trinity #MSN #Halo 2 #Sony

[heroineimages]

Flipping through some Total War: Rome 2 screencaps when I found one I took of this wolf that happened to be present during a battle. My African pikes were getting ready to defend this river-crossing against some Gauls when this one wolf wandered over, unperturbed by all these sweaty humans in their oily chainmail.

#Total War: Rome 2 #computer games #wolves #screencapst

[octoberhorse]

WE LOVE WAR PIGS!!!

🫡

(Image sourced from Total War Rome)

#total war #rome #ancient rome #war pigs #pigs #roman history

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.*

- Cato the Elder

Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed.*

At the turn of the 2nd century BCE, the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome had ended. Rome was eventually victorious, but had suffered some significant and bad defeats. The peace treaty was even tougher for Carthage – it stripped them of many of their territories, their wealth, and restricted their actions. Fast forward 50 years later, there was another conflict between Carthage and Rome – this time in a Punic-turned-Roman-city called Massinissa. Marcus Porcius Cato, a famous Roman orator and senator, was sent to Massinissa to investigate. He had fought in the Second Punic War in his 20s. Cato was surprised to see that, since the end of the Second Punic War, Carthage had become a thriving and wealthy city again.

When Cato came to back to Rome, he called for the war against Carthage – a war to stop them once and for all. He ended his speech with the phrase: Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

Plutarch tells us that Cato's call ended his every speech in the Roman Senate, 'on any matter whatsoever', from 153 BC to his death aged 85 in 149. Scipio Nasica - son-in- law of Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) - would always reply: 'Carthage should be allowed to exist'. But such challengers were silenced. Rome decided on war 'long before' it launched the Third Punic War just prior to Cato's death. One of his last speeches in the Senate, before a Carthaginian delegation in 149, was critical:

“Who are the ones who have often violated the treaty? . . . Who are the ones who have waged war most cruelly? ... Who are the ones who have ravaged Italy? The Carthaginians. Who are the ones who demand forgiveness? The Carthaginians. See then how it would suit them to get what they want.”

The Carthaginian delegates were accorded no right of reply. In 146 BC, nearly 8 years after Cato ventured back to Carthage and saw its wealth, would Carthage attack Massinissa and give Rome a reason to star the Third (and final) Punic War.

Rome soon began a three-year siege of the world's wealthiest city. Of a population of 2-400,000 at least 150,000 Carthaginians perished. Appian described one battle in which '70,000, including non-combatants' were killed, probably an exaggeration. But Polybius, who participated in the campaign, confirmed that 'the number of deaths was incredibly large' and the Carthaginians 'utterly exterminated'. In 146, Roman legions under Scipio Aemilianus, Cato's ally and brother-in-law of his son, razed the city, and dispersed into slavery the 55,000 survivors, including 25,000 women. Plutarch concluded: 'The annihilation of Carthage . . . was primarily due to the advice and counsel of Cato'.

It was not a war of racial extermination. The Romans did not massacre the survivors, nor the adult males. Nor was Carthage victim of a Kulturkrieg. Though the Romans also destroyed five allied African cities of Punic culture, they spared seven other towns which had defected to them. Yet, the Carthaginians had complied in 149 with Rome's demand to surrender their 200,000 individual weapons and 200 catapults.

Little did they know that the Senate had already secretly decided to destroy Carthage for good, once the war is over. The surprising new demand that they abandon their city meant abandoning its sanctuaries and religious cults to abandon their city, meant abandoning its sanctuaries and religious cults. And in this Carthaginians resisted in vain. Rome opted for the destruction of the nation.

Carthago delenda est has become somewhat of a rallying call against a common enemy - a call for total war.

None of this was lost on Churchill as he addressed British troops in the old Roman amphitheater at Carthage, Tunisia. Nothing short of the total destruction of Nazi Germany for the sake of civilisation and humanity were at stake. The Nazis were an existential threat. Like Cato, Churchill knew the power of oratory to move men into action.

Photo: Churchill leaves the old Roman amphitheatre with Lieutenant General Kenneth Anderson after addressing British troops, 1 June 1943.

#cato #roman #latin #classical #quote #rome #carthage #punic wars #war #total war #churchill #winston churchill #british army #second world war #tunisia

[eloiduarte]

The Western Roman Empire campaign in Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion is pretty fun. Your generals are mostly a colorful bunch of useless pricks. Like this here Publius who, despite having 0 command and management skills and stacking mostly terrible traits, has almost max influence. Making him the Western Empire's Master of Clout.

#rome total war #total war

[lateantiquechud]

TOOK ME LONG ENOUGH BUT I WON AS THE WRE ON BARBARIAN INVASION JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW

#strategy games #rome total war #total war #barbarian invasion

[pedroam-bang]

Total War: Rome II (2013)

A.D. MMXIII

#2013 #gif #gaming #history #military #Total War #Rome II #Rome #Roman Republic #Roman Empire #Senate #gladius

[branmer]

i forgot to mention this because i was busy being a total dipshit wallowing in my own misery and general nonsense bUT my american brother got a book published!!!!

#it's about ancient roman history ofc #it's stupidly expensive because it is an Academic Tome #im very proud of him #almost as proud as the time i found a post on tumblr that was a list of amusing things their classics lecturer had said #that i realised as i was reading... could only be him #no one else would mention rome total war that often in an academic context

[dr-earman]

horses can't climb walls dumbass

#rome total war #total war #total war barbarian invasion #vandals #franks

[mozillasticks]

Finally cleared my PC of dust

Next should be my God damn table lol

#rome remastered #rome total war #rtw #rome: total war

[memesavior]

#memesavior #memes #meme #travel time #life memes #funny #total war #rome #roman empire

[heroineimages]

The need for a facepalm animation

I was going through my Total War: Rome II screencaps when I ran back across this to me rather comical shot:

The context is that after having eradicated Octavian's faction while playing as Cleopatra's Ptolemies, one of my allies failed to secure one of his former territories, allowing a splinter-faction of Octavian's supporters to rise back up. My intent was to ignore it to focus on Lepidus and chuckle-fuck's Gallic allies, but the ditz who took over the faction was stupid enough to declare war on me a couple turns later.

But I particularly loved Cleopatra's expression, one which I couldn't have timed the screenshot better if I tried:

Like, "Bitch, if this was a calculated risk, you are the worst mathematician ever..."

#total war: rome 2 #screenshots

[gellavonhamster]

I guess it makes sense for the Orkney brothers and other Arthur’s nephews to be only a few years younger than Arthur if Uther married Igraine’s daughters off as soon as he married Igraine - Morgan gets a few years of education at the nunnery before her marriage, but Morgause, Elaine, and the unnamed sisters in the Vulgate apparently don’t. But it simply doesn’t work in my head! He needs to be An Uncle and they need to be youngsters. Always putting at least 9 years gap between them because my head would explode otherwise

#'why nine years specifically' my nephew is nine years younger than me #we're not very close but he's a nice young man. if i was going to war against the emperor of rome i would totally count on him #arthurian legends #arthuriana #king arthur #(i'm not tagging all his nephews there's too many of them) #gella talks arthuriana #talk talk talk

[demi-lancer]

going to boot up rome 2 again, must be the time of year

#ides of march #rome total war