Rome II

[Gusington]

Well even in vanilla I've never been that guy screaming about the shoddiness of TW AI, so when it gets ramped up it usually makes me scream uncle.

[Sir Slash]

Gus's predicament has got me thinking. Who's the toughest single opponent you've faced in Rome 2? For me, as the Suebi, it was one of the other German factions I can't remember. The Averni weren't that tough-just lots of them. As the Seleucids, it was Pergamon and the other Greek-like factions to the north. The Persians and Egypt wasn't very tough. As Rome, it was probably Macedon. In one battle it took my 2 armies to defeat their one and only by having enough troops to turn their flank. The Hoplites are very hard to break which didn't surprise me but what did surprise me was the Triballi faction, a Celtic faction north of Macedon. I had one of their armies bearing down on my city-Epidamnos. So I moved a full 20 unit army in there and with the garrison forces thought I had it covered. The Triballi "Celtic Swordsmen" and "Celtic Warriors" carved a path right through my Hastadi and Auxillary Spearmen without problem. I later defeated them with another army but only after softening them up first with 2 Agents that damaged them and reduced their morale. These guys are as tough as Chinese Trigonometry. ;D

[MengJiao]

Gus's predicament has got me thinking. Who's the toughest single opponent you've faced in Rome 2? For me, as the Suebi, it was one of the other German factions I can't remember. The Averni weren't that tough-just lots of them. As the Seleucids, it was Pergamon and the other Greek-like factions to the north. The Persians and Egypt wasn't very tough. As Rome, it was probably Macedon. In one battle it took my 2 armies to defeat their one and only by having enough troops to turn their flank. The Hoplites are very hard to break which didn't surprise me but what did surprise me was the Triballi faction, a Celtic faction north of Macedon. I had one of their armies bearing down on my city-Epidamnos. So I moved a full 20 unit army in there and with the garrison forces thought I had it covered. The Triballi "Celtic Swordsmen" and "Celtic Warriors" carved a path right through my Hastadi and Auxillary Spearmen without problem. I later defeated them with another army but only after softening them up first with 2 Agents that damaged them and reduced their morale. These guys are as tough as Chinese Trigonometry. ;D

As Pontus and Egypt early on, I had a lot of trouble with the Selucids.   Later, as Carthage, I found the Turdies under Turdus to be a nasty bunch.  In the Celtic realm as the Iceni or the Nervii, I found everybody to be pretty tough.  Lately, as Rome, again, its the Celts that have been very troublesome.

[Gusington]

I am very happy to see I am not alone. The Caledones are probably the toughest opponent I've faced in a TW title besides some of the Fall of the Samurai clans. Hoping to finally tear the Caledones asunder tonight.

[Sir Slash]

Somebody needs to do it Gus. I can't stand them and their moustaches and funny blue pants.

[Gusington]

You are so very right. But of course being a brother tribe, it means that the Iceni and Caledones have the same mustaches and fashion sense. Which is why I should not have attacked them to begin with...I should have made nice. But it's all haggis under the bridge now and they must all die.

[mikeck]

The Greeks always give me a hell of a time. It's the whole phalanx thing. Kind of ruins my "slam the cohort into the enemy" strategy

[Gusington]

I wanted to play a Greek faction next but I may now reconsider!

[Martok]

The Greeks always give me a hell of a time. It's the whole phalanx thing. Kind of ruins my "slam the cohort into the enemy" strategy

Indeed.  Macedon is proving to be a bitch for my Athenians. 

[Gusington]

take that bitches

[mikeck]

Big new beta patch that will absolutely break any mod:
http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_9

Seems like a great patch and I may even play vanilla for awile . I'm getting tired of constantly having to start new games with mod updates

[Sir Slash]

Hey congrats Gus. Hope they don't give you too hard a time rule. Have you gotten a general with a chariot bodyguard? The unit card looks like he's in a wheelchair. I have to laugh when I see it. I'll raise a flagon to the end of the Caldonian Bitches.

[Yskonyn]

Big new beta patch that will absolutely break any mod:
http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_9

Seems like a great patch and I may even play vanilla for awile . I'm getting tired of constantly having to start new games with mod updates

I had to laugh hard at the 'Help I am stuck in these patch notes!' Line!

[Martok]

My congratulations to Gus on taking out the Scots Caldones.  Well done!  8) 

Big new beta patch that will absolutely break any mod:
http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_9

Seems like a great patch and I may even play vanilla for awile . I'm getting tired of constantly having to start new games with mod updates

I had to laugh hard at the 'Help I am stuck in these patch notes!' Line!

LOL.  Yeah, that was great. 

It does look like a nice beefy patch, though.  The fixes/tweaks listed seem mostly minor, but there's a *lot* of them.  Looking forward (as always) to the AI improvements. 

[TheCommandTent]

Well done Gus! 

I looked but didn't see if they had a date post for the next patch to be released??