Rome II

[Martok]

LOL.  I've meant to mention this for a while now, but I have to credit the game's writers with some pretty funny dialogue, particularly in the diplomacy screen. 

I totally cracked up at the Cappadocians' emissary's response when I accepted a peace offer from them:  "I had heard that you were as wearisome as a stubborn camel, yet this is not even slightly true!"  Gotta love the snark.  :D 

[Gusington]

Just checked and I am patched to 1.7...that 566 MB that Nefaro mentioned must have snuck right past me!

[Martok]

Not unlike that wolf spider, apparently.  :P 




By the by, anyone got advice for someone playing Pontus for the first time?  Not real sure what I ought to be doing here. 

[Gusington]

Pontus is rated as one of the 'Easy' faction isn't it?

[mikeck]

Just FYI, on steam workshop, there is the new "Toons all in one mod". It is in two parts so make sure you get part 1 and 2, but it is loaded with extra units, uniforms, etc, etc.

[Martok]

Pontus is rated as one of the 'Easy' faction isn't it?

It's rated as a "Normal" faction. 


So far, I've just been doing the usual turtling -- conducting research (mostly on the civilian/economy side), upgrading my cities, recruiting a few additional units into both my starting armies, etc.  Signed a few nonaggression treaties and/or trade agreements with various factions, including the Cappadocians as indicated earlier (Pontus starts out at war with them).   I've got my fleet sailing clockwise around the Black Sea, exploring. 

[Gusington]

I turtle most of the time in TW and other similar games. So what's bothering you? You feel like you're missing something or somesuch?

[Martok]

I turtle most of the time in TW and other similar games. So what's bothering you? You feel like you're missing something or somesuch?

Sort of, yeah.  Even if I'm *not* really missing anything, I still feel like I am. 

I think it's (at least partially) because Pontus is so completely unknown to me.  I'm used to playing factions with whom I have at least a passing familiarity -- and therefore a sense of identity -- something I'm mostly lacking in this case. 



My familiarity with the Classical period is mostly limited to the peoples of Europe and North Africa (Carthage, Iceni, Macedon, Rome, etc.).  Of the eastern factions (Parthia, Selucids, and co.), I know very little; Ptolemaic Egypt is pretty much the lone exception (if it even counts as an "eastern" faction, that is). 

In contrast, about the only thing I know about Pontus is that I *think* it was a regional power at one point...I think.  I'm fascinated by these guys, but I simply don't "know" them.  :-[ 

[mikeck]

And all the times I have played Rome total war and now grown to Rome 2 total war,  I can say I've never played any other faction other than Rome. There is Rome and everyone that gets beat by Rome

[tgb]

Well, it appears 1.7 doesn't like the Slivan Total Improvement Mod.  If I enable it the game crashes on startup.

[Gusington]

Martok I usually feel like I'm missing something in TW games and usually I am, but it's typically something minor. It took me a few weeks to become really comfortable with all the systems in Rome II.

[mikeck]

Well, it appears 1.7 doesn't like the Slivan Total Improvement Mod.  If I enable it the game crashes on startup.

Same problem here. It hasn't been updated. I switched to "toons all in one" which I like better.

He seems to have included a mod that allows a lot if unit formations. Particularly, "pike" formation for my Roman Hastati. Basically, it puts them in a shield wall (a but looser) but they can move. Also, my Triarii have a new option to "move forward"...or something like that. When they are engaged, they use their shields to basically push the enemy back.

Anyway, yeah, mods are tricky when the dev is pushing out patches every other week or so

[Sir Slash]

Radious didn't work either until the V7 patch went public. Now it works just fine. Pontus has more of a trading advantage over other factions if I remember correctly. Galatia was the big bully in my Pontus game and the factions across the Black Sea were never friendly with anyone. Try not to get caught-up in the big war between Seleucia and her rebellious eastern satraps.

[Martok]

Martok I usually feel like I'm missing something in TW games and usually I am, but it's typically something minor. It took me a few weeks to become really comfortable with all the systems in Rome II.

That's probably the other main reason I feel like I've been struggling, yes. 

I've simply not played the game enough yet to feel like I have a decent handle on its mechanics and various features.  I *finally* now feel like I'm slowly starting to get the hang of it...maybe (sorry, I know that's a bunch of qualifiers there), but I'll admit that previously I felt rather...lost. 

[Gusington]

I got comfortable after about 3-4 weeks too, and then started getting pretty good at it. Of course then I stopped playing...