If you just want a quick game on your pc, praetorians is great! Although no economy, this lets you focus purely on tactics which is great for practice for other games in the same genre. It also lets you get into a war quickly and there is no messing about, placing farms, mines and what not. It could have been larger scale and had more defensive buildings.

One of the really great RTS classics that haven't diminished its appeal over the years, with so many tactical nuances that can still rival modern offerings. Two thumbs and two toes up !

Although I knew this game was old and has a very fair price, I somehow expected something else. It's one of thoose earyl 3d RTS games but today the 3d engine just destroys the game for me. Since you can't rotate the screen and the fighting animations are very crude I think the game almost would have gained from using 2d graphics, (I think the similiar real time battles in Knights of Honor in 2d is much better and gives you a better sence of control). The game is perfecty ok as a cheap game with some tactical depth for a low-end laptop or netbook or if you are nostalgic about the first 3d rts games that came around the turn of the millenia.

Praetorians is a real-time strategy game in which you command companies of troops (Romans, Gauls, Egyptians) rather than individual units and it concentrates on battle with almost no resource gathering (you must "recruit" troops from captured villages.)

There's plenty of cool stuff like legionaries that can form the Roman shield wall ("testudo"), birds that fly out of forests alerting you of approaching enemy troops, ambushes in grasslands, desert battlefields, elevation effects, 3D graphics (with a limited camera angle though), scouts with hawk/wolf spotters, catapults, ballista, axe-throwing Gaul infantry, Nubian archers, Balearic slingers, camel archers,etc.

However, as much as I'm enjoying both the campaign and skirmish mode, I have to point out this is not a wargame. There is little time (in the skirmish mode particularly) for thoughtful maneuvering: you must attack at once! It's fun, but I never feel as though I was really a general or consul or whatever the term is. It's still RTS and if you're enjoying watching your archers shoot down a Gaul warrior company from the safety of a hill, you're probably wasting valuable clicking time.

This is not Medieval: Total War in which you can maneuver companies like a general. It's a bit closer in spirit to Empire Earth or Age of Empires in combat terms - only here you fight with companies rather than mobs of men.

I'm really enjoying it for lighthearted quick gameplay, but I wish it were a little less frantic, a little less like Age of Empires and a little more like Medieval: Total War.

An interesting and hard game. Battles reminds me a bit of a small scale Total War. My only gripe is that 1024x768 is the maximum supported resolution.

One of the good old games,I have not played when it was released.Graphic engine not too bad even with today's standards.Excellent gameplay.If you are a fun of strategy games,as I am,you must buy it