You are a brilliant commander of the mightiest army of ancient civilization. Imagine that the whole history depends on your skills and courage, just imagine that you have a chance to interfere in the past and to conquer large territories! This small guide is specially for you to do your best while playing this game.
Get lots of denari: You can considerably increase the amount of denari in Imperial Campaign if you edit the file descr_strat in your text editor (find the file in the ..\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign directory). Find the lines (below) and change 5000 to 999999 (or whatever you like).
faction romans_julii, comfortable caesar
denari 5000
settlement
Tricks with factions: To unlock all factions you should edit the ..\Data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign\descr_strat.txt file. Just copy and paste all unplayable factions to unlockable ones, then save the file and close it. To apply these changes you need to complete a campaign mode. To stop other factions you should save the game during another faction’s turn then load. The effect is that the faction makes a turn without attacking.
Cheat codes: during the game press ~ to call the console window and enter any of the codes below to activate a particular function.
kill_character <character> - it’s clear, isn’t it?
date <year> - change date
give_trait <character> <trait> <#> - gives a trate to a character (input level nuber instead of <#>)
list_traits - list of all traits
give_trait_points <character> <trait> <number> - get points for given character's trait
season <summer/winter> - change season
move_character <name> <x,y> - move character to x,y coordinates
add_money 20000 - get $20,000
add_population <city name> <#> - increase population in a city
create_unit <settlement/character> <unit ID> <amount> <exp/armor/weapon> - create unit with given stats
toggle_fow - fog of war
oliphaunt - 40% larger elephants in campaign mode
bestbuy - 10% percent cheaper units in campaign mode
jericho - falling walls in siege in battle map mode
give_ancillary <character> <ancillary> - give retinue (look for “ancillary” in the game data\ancillary folder)
How to edit some features: Note that you can modify some features of the game if you go to the ..\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War folder and open the Preference.doc.
Change unit size: after UNIT_SIZE change the number to either 20(Small), 40(Normal), 80(Large), or 160(Huge)
Remove unit banners: after SHOW_BANNERS change TRUE to FALSE
Change the user interface: after MINIMAL_UI change FALSE to TRUE
Remove cutscenes: after EVENT_CUTSCENES change TRUE to FALSE
Unlimited ammo: after LIMITED_AMMO change TRUE to FALSE
Remove the auto save: after AUTO_SAVE change TRUE to FALSE
Add subtitles: after SUBTITLES change FALSE to TRUE
Remove morale: after MORALE change TRUE to FALSE
Turn off fog of war: after FOG_OF_WAR change TRUE to FALSE
Remove fatigue: after FATIGUE change TRUE to FALSE
Skip the prologue: after FIRST_TIME_PLAY change TRUE to FALSE
Widescreen: after USE_WIDESCREEN change FALSE to TRUE
Turn off the advisor: after MUTE_ADVISOR and BLIND_ADVISOR change FALSE to TRUE
Turn off unit arrow markers: after DISABLE_ARROW_MARKERS change FALSE to TRUE