Total War Vs Intellectual Rome

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Rome Total War vs Actual Rome
The Roman Empire era lasted from 32 BC to about 29 of May 1453 with the fall of 1453.
It was a great nation with great advancements in technology, medicine, and science. On of
Rome’s great attributes was the way they battled. The game total war gives you the experience of taking command of a roman army, lets you conquer and control cities but how good does it really portray the war, the roman army and its settings. Here we will compare historical events, roman army, structure of cities, and the old land settings.
Let us first take a look at the historical contexts of the game. In the game there is a historical campaign mode. This lets you play historical battles of the Roman Empire. You choose one of the them,
The first battle we will see will be the Battle of Lake Trasimene. The Battle of Lake
Trasimene was fought about June 21, 217 BC. This battle was a big battle in the Second Punic
War. It was the war against the Carthage. The Roman Republic was being led by Gaius Flaminius and the Carthage by Hannibal. Flaminius had been elected to replace Publius Cornelius Scipio and take control of his army. Flaminius had been sent to defend a city near Rome. Hannibal knowing this ran passed the army and destroyed the city. Flaminius was enraged but decided to camp in Arretium. Hannibal marched passed him on to Apulia. He was hoping that Flaminius would follow him, which he did. Hannibal was on the north side of Lake Transimene he knows of that the Roman Republic army was on their way and knew that a battle was too arise.
Hannibal places his troops on a slight elevation and had put them into three groups and when the Flaminius and his army passed the edge of the lake Hannibal sent out his army to attack.
The game is also of by one year of the actual battle. So it is just an overview of the battle and is not in total detail. All of the battles in the historical campaign are just like this they show and overview of the battle and the important people in the battle but don’t really show in detail about why and how the battle took places. Now let’s look at how they depicted the roman soldiers. (Arnason, 2010) (wikia)
Let us start with the lowest in the game they are called peasants they are soldiers with no special abilities and we used when others died. In the Roman army however they are called adscripticius. The armor is about the same. Both have a helmet, a breast plate and a sword. The next are velites. They are the form the lighter part of the army and could be also called skirmishers in the game. They are the poorest of the fourth part of the Republican legion. They are mostly used to kill the African elephants. This part of the army tends to be true as they did since they were poor did not have money to buy armor and only had a javelin, helmet,