Rome II

[GDS_Starfury]

you 2 have my favorite avatars of the month!

[Martok]

^  Are you going to join the rest of us yahoos in getting into this game, btw?  Or are you still enthralled with Shogun 2? 

you 2 have my favorite avatars of the month!

Ha, thanks!  Coming from you, that is no small praise.   

[GDS_Starfury]

Im Gus deep in STW2, NTW and the original RTW with the Alexander expansion.

[Gusington]

That's pretty deep. Watch your ankles.

No one has beaten Star's avatar yet, IMHO. Some have come close...

[LongBlade]

Parthia Uber Alles: a cultural win.

[jomni]

Parthia Uber Alles: a cultural win.

Wow.  Wonder how a world under Partha would be like.

[Gusington]

But...Rome remains!!

[LongBlade]

But...Rome remains!!

Rome was insignificant.

It has some wealth, but wasn't really worth worrying about. I was having more issues (seems to be a problem in the game and in history) with the northern tribes. Crushing them was my first goal. I ended up triggering the victory before I had wrapped them up and shifted my attention to the Etruscans, who had been presumptuous enough to declare war on me but then do nothing about it.

After the Etruscans Rome was probably inevitable.

Interestingly, I've found that fulfilling the economic victory conditions doesn't trigger a civil war.

There's something about the victory provinces for military victory that triggers civil war. Avoiding those, or fulfilling those provinces last after all other conditions have been fulfilled, seems to be key to avoiding civil war.

I'm tempted to paint the entire map purple just to see what happens.

[BanzaiCat]

I'm tempted to paint the entire map purple just to see what happens.

[Gusington]

^HA

[Sir Slash]

I recently restarted a campaign as Rome/Cornelia to see what all the new stuff added and can confirm that the campaign is now Tough-Mother. Remember the Etruscan speed-bump? It's now a brick wall with spears and the Celtic tribes to the north are real bit-cheez that'll bite you in the ass if you're not careful. And that's on the normal difficulity level. Overall the campaign's much more of a challenge and a lot more fun.

[MengJiao]

I recently restarted a campaign as Rome/Cornelia to see what all the new stuff added and can confirm that the campaign is now Tough-Mother. Remember the Etruscan speed-bump? It's now a brick wall with spears and the Celtic tribes to the north are real bit-cheez that'll bite you in the ass if you're not careful. And that's on the normal difficulity level. Overall the campaign's much more of a challenge and a lot more fun.

  Except maybe not so much for Parthia.  Parthia is a very different animal in the new Emperor "DLC".  I found that, once I quit chasing the Steppe barbarians (I let them take a province or two and then the Satrapies went after them), and wiped out Armenia and Judea (both rather tough), then Anthony was not too much of a problem since that part of Rome gets into trouble all over the place.  The Parthians rolled right across the Balkans making friends fast with all of Anthony's barbarian enemies.  Near Rome I stopped and decided to wait for Attila!

[LongBlade]

I'm tempted to paint the entire map purple just to see what happens.

Is that a double-dog-dare?

Because I don't do regular old dares.















I'll take that as a yes.

OK, now only the outermost fringes of the known world lie beyond Parthia's grasp.

[Gusington]

Eek well that didn't take long.  I shed a tear for what was Rome.

[LongBlade]

Eek well that didn't take long.  I shed a tear for what was Rome.

I told you they were insignificant. I actually sidled up to four of their five cities and then went to war, wiping them out in three or four turns.

The Nervii were far more of a problem.