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You probably needed a No-CD crack. It makes the PC think the disk is in, and it just reads the game off your harddrive.
There is a kind of unit limit on Total War aswell. You can only have as many battalions as there are spaces to command, and you can only store so many in a city.
On Rome: Total War, the units have strengths and weaknesses aswell, they just go into more depth than the others, but it is possible to pwn the opponents without them.
F'r instance, on Total War, if you had a battalion of archers on the top of a hill, they can fire further than if they were at the bottom. Whereas if you had archers on AoE, their range is just the same anywhere, unless you count towers.
Personally, i can beat any free-roaming enemies with 3 or 4 well-placed battalions, 2 Archers and 1 or 2 Cohorts.
It's pretty much all about your positioning, whereas, on AoE and SC, it doesn't really matter where you place your units, unless its a major vantage point, the outcome is going to be the same.
The only time i've found positioning important on SC, was when i was doing a skirmish, and i found that some units were better than others at killing certain enemies. and the opponents base kept sending out the certain enemy from one side, and a different one from the other.
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