Funny / Rome: Total War

• It's hard not to chuckle at some of the more extreme and bizarre character traits your family members can get, such as "Indolent Lardy Arse", "Hiding From The World", and "Not Safe With Man Or Beast".
  Favored By The Gods: Kill one man, and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a hero. Kill them all and you're favored by the gods... or disturbingly unbalanced.
• Hearing the Roman voice actor's voice crack as he shouts "The day is ours!".
• Imagine being a Roman who has saved up a boatload of money (or cheated to get it), surrounded by the other Romans, who've now turned on you, due to the Civil War, with most of your armies on the frontier, and now the other Romans are coming after your relatively lightly defended Capital cities with 20 full armies. All you have is some Town Watch, Peasants, a couple Generals, and an Ambassador. On the plus side, you got a lot of money and an Ambassador. Watch the fun that occurs as you take that ambassador around to each army — especially those without a general, or at least one that's not the Faction Leader or Heir — and said ambassador bribes the army to your side. It's like the other Romans are saying "You and what army?" only for you to say "Me and YOUR army!"
  • This can also be pulled off to a lesser extent with Carthaginian, Greek, and Eastern style forces, in getting peasants, militia, and basic cavalry that's shared between such similar factions. Sadly, any Barbarian faction trying to pull off this tactic will be disappointed.
• Before some battles, at least in the Remastered version, the commander may say that at least the ground will not need manure for the rest of the year after the enemy is defeated.