Rome II

[Gusington]

Anyone here play Macedon? Anyone a fan?

[MengJiao]

Anyone here play Macedon? Anyone a fan?

  I played a Macedon campaign breifly, but it was right after I'd been two Steppe Barbarian Types in a row and it just had no pizzaz.

  I'm waiting for the Hannibal thing.  Syracuse should be a fun faction in that one.

[Nefaro]

Anyone here play Macedon? Anyone a fan?

It's fun because you're sandwiched between Greek states that you may well end up fighting eventually, the various barbarians to the north, and you will quickly run into Pontus and the Seleucid clients in Asia Minor.  However, it probably has the least unit variety of the successor kingdoms. 

[Martok]

Creative Assembly has put up a Let's Play video of the Hannibal at the Gates DLC: 

[mikeck]

I'm finding vanilla of it too easy the problem is when you move it up to hard early game is just insane with everybody attacking you and you never have money.   I think I'm going to start over with the radius mod. I like DEI but he added this weird area of recruitment thing that just made it way too complicated

[Nefaro]

Hrmm..

I've begun to wonder about the AI's army building.  I've been seeing AI factions with a full-sized army for every settlement they have, in my latest Egypt game.  Often also a 6-to-10 unit navy, too.  It's still early in the campaign.  How the hell do they make any income with that kind of upkeep?!  ???

[Tuna]

I think my Vanilla Rome Campaign will be ending soon.. What faction should I play next?

[Gusington]

Dammit I can't decide what faction to play. I like unit variety so I guess Macedon is out. I considered Pontus and Sparta I have been wanting to play forever. Looking at Bactria...exotic. Then I think it still may be too soon to jump back into Rome 2 after the epic Iceni campaign that ended only two weeks ago and think Shogun 2 may be better right now...sigh

[Tuna]

I want Archers!

[Gusington]

And I am going with Shogun 2. Now just have to decide between the Saga and the Jozai. This is exhausting.

[mikeck]

Hrmm..

I've begun to wonder about the AI's army building.  I've been seeing AI factions with a full-sized army for every settlement they have, in my latest Egypt game.  Often also a 6-to-10 unit navy, too.  It's still early in the campaign.  How the hell do they make any income with that kind of upkeep?!  ???

They get a money bonus I believe...dependent on difficulty level. You have a brain so the AI gets money

[Nefaro]

Dammit I can't decide what faction to play. I like unit variety so I guess Macedon is out. I considered Pontus and Sparta I have been wanting to play forever. Looking at Bactria...exotic. Then I think it still may be too soon to jump back into Rome 2 after the epic Iceni campaign that ended only two weeks ago and think Shogun 2 may be better right now...sigh

Baktria has an issue with some of it's buildings creating Eastern culture, while others create Greek culture.  I'm not sure if it's supposed to be that way as you'd just end up with some religious buildings fighting each other.  So it doesn't make sense because you'd essentially be limiting yourself to only part of the religious buildings (and maybe some others) and you couldn't place the full variety without screwing up your culture.

I believe some other faction has a similar issue.

[Nefaro]

Hrmm..

I've begun to wonder about the AI's army building.  I've been seeing AI factions with a full-sized army for every settlement they have, in my latest Egypt game.  Often also a 6-to-10 unit navy, too.  It's still early in the campaign.  How the hell do they make any income with that kind of upkeep?!  ???

They get a money bonus I believe...dependent on difficulty level. You have a brain so the AI gets money

Ahh.. that's what I was wondering - whether the AI got cheats on "Normal" difficulty.  That seemed to be the case but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.  I'd prefer such adjustments be openly mentioned in the game.

[Nefaro]

Thankful for some small mods.

I added the Black Marble UI background mod.  Fargsticks, I absolutely hated those plastic-looking backgrounds they used in Rome 2.  It looks FAR better and fits the theme now.

I also just started using the mod that removes clouds from the campaign map.  Makes scrolling & performance much better, not to mention my video card's fan runs a bit less maniacally now too.  I still have no mf'ing idea why CA added clouds over the campaign map, sometimes even getting in the way of your zoomed-out view.  Ridic-u-rous!

[Gusington]

I think I will be grabbing those last two you mentioned. They sound almost like must-haves.