I use to love that game. Do you know if the community patches that fixed the unresolved bugs in the official patches works for the Steam version though?
I gotta say this has been the absolute best $1 that I've ever spent! Very cool game indeed, and addicting. You can tell they put a lot of grey matter into these Total War games! I wish I would have gotten into strategy games years ago, I missed out on so much it seems. I just spent 9 hours playing and learning the on tutorial map. In the end I sent the Gauls running like bitches even outnumbered almost 3 to 1! I can see why so many are huge fans of the series. At this point, I too am looking forward to Rome 2. Finally may be a reason to update my outdated pc specs.
I see what you're saying about some bugs though, I was having a hell of a time getting siege towers and ladders to work properly. It wouldn't let me place them on the walls many times and then when it finally would find a spot that would let them work, the units would freeze in place and/or twitch and glitch around. fricken ridiculous.
btw, it's back up to $9.99, still a great price for it though. One dollar was fricken crazy stupid!