to be fair RTW was way better than RTW2, up until like the last DLC when they finally fixed everything. Everything but the squalor -- my god, so much squalor.
Idunno if fire arrows were anti-cav in Rome 1, mainly because I mostly played the Europa Barbarosa mod and that changed like every mechanic in the game right down to the map. EB went all the way to India and they brought in Timurids, which was basically the full Attila experience like a decade before Attila happened.
to truly experience total war, you have to play multiplayer. the skill level and learning curve is much steeper when playing online than playing campaign. after playing online for a year, i realized how easy campaign was, how stupid the computer moves and how easy it was to take advantage of them
i don't know dlc means or what eb means
but very few players play rtw online anymore. there are some clannies and the rest are noobs. gameranger and steam is where they all are
do you like the music of rtw?