Been playing for a few days, excellent game so far! i love the history, i've learnt loads already! spoilt by a few bugs though:

1. memory leak
after 3 hours, played two different scenarios, then the game crashed to desktop (see below). it was using almost 3gb! nothing else running on my machine at the time - i even turned off the firewall and virus checker. it doesn't seem to make it passed the 3 hour mark. i tried turning all the graphics settings down, still only 3 hours.

2. crash to desktop
crashed to desktop five times so far! probably related to memory leak. but, all five times, the game was saving when it crashed. i turned off autosave, and then it still crashed when i quicksaved!
the MOST annoying thing is that it then corrupts that save file, so you can't reload it - your entire game lost!

3. quick save
i don't think quick save works!? whenever i save using that, i can't reload my game again.

4. rain!
whenever it lightning strikes and rains (in game!) the game grinds to a halt and becomes unresponsive. it's a decent enough computer too, and i've updated to the latest catalyst drivers, but this doesn't fix it. even some way of turning rain off would do!

Also, some suggestions:

1. siege weapons
how come barbarians have trebuchets but the romans don't? it's too easy for them to smash your walls down at the moment.

2. not enough piers
why can't i build my own wooden piers into the river? it's only a wooden plank! being limited to one fisherman because there's only one pier is a bit silly. you can build as many farms as you like, should be the same for fisherman.

3. select multiple army units?
haven't found a way to do this - can it be done? would make attacking much easier! annoying having to individually select and move them to war.

anyway, potential to be a great game! i LOVE the history that goes along with it! very cool. but can't play it any more until a patch is released - the crashing and losing save games is too frustrating. my poor mouse can't take being thrown across the room!

My system spec:
Pentium DualCore D930, 4GB RAM
ATI Radeon X1650 (512mb)
Windows XP (Home) SP2

Some good points there mrspoon. Well put, maybe the next patch will address these items!

Piers offer the ability to build either fisherman or trade buildings... Limiting how many piers appear on a map keeps the difficulty level of the scenario intact by not allowing an abundance of trading piers to be setup. Now don't get me wrong, I think this could have been done in a better manner but that is my take on the situation of the piers as they are presently. It's rather like some CB games that don't have the ability to terraform the landscape, people want to be able to remove large rocks that prevent them from placing a building but the scenario designer might have specifically put that rock in it's place to limit the buildable landscape, so it seems to me that the piers are pretty much the same situation.

I agree that we should be able to select multiple army units at one time. The game does not need any great grand strategy to defeat the barbarians, it's purely a matter of overpowering numbers, so building a force of 2:1 or even 3:1 will always win if you direct them properly so it would be a convienience to be able to rubber band select our troops to get them all on the same page and doing the same action.

I would assume that they have the trebuchet's to counter the romans stone walls.

My system runs the rain and thunder perfectly..I guess your system just cant handle it! thats weird...