Rome II

[undercovergeek]

It wasn't this difficult...ever! Oh well at least it's fun now. Just don't tell anyone I had to move the slider to 'Easy.'

group hug?

we can take your war-gamer badge away if youd like, give you angry birds or something safer to play with

[Gusington]

I've heard Angry Birds can be quite challenging modded in any difficulty beyond Normal.

[undercovergeek]

right, challenge on, im going to try the Iceni as soon as ive finished with Hannibal

[Gusington]

Awesome, I am very curious to see how the other surrounding tribes treat you.

[undercovergeek]

Awesome, I am very curious to see how the other surrounding tribes treat you.

Actually its on tonight - I have room in my schedule and who doesn't like starting new TW campaigns

[Sir Slash]

Easy is the new Hard, Gus. And Hard is the new What Were You Thinking level. You guys are scaring me. I'm sticking with Patch 8 and Radious for now. At least it doesn't kick sand in my face.

[Gusington]

Don't be scared, I could just really suck. 'Geek will verify later. It's a sad day when I have to set TW to easy.

[Sir Slash]

Radious posted today that he's close to getting Steam to be able to update his mod. So when that happens I guess I'll have to get patch 9 too and then probably won't want to talk about Rome 2 anymore if it's boots fit snuggly against my ass.

[Gusington]

Well...maybe the DEI mod I was using made the game somehow easier than the new patch 9 game? I doubt it, but it's possible.

[mikeck]

I'm sticking with vanilla for now here's a post from the TW forms I thought was pretty accurate estimate my experiences with the new beta nine AI:


I've been playing non-stop since the release. All that I can say is that the AI feels very different now:

- It will attack you if you are not ready. Expanding on one side leaving no armies behind, and not worrying about yellow/red faced factions on the borders is now a problem.
- It will make "cut-ends": it will cut to the middle of 2 of your settlements, so it can attack both, and you can only defend one. He will make you pay for over-extending yourself very well.
- It will be annoying with the agents, many times he killed/wounded my general/armies before battle. He will be specially brutal with raids on the cities.
- It will RAID your cities, not just take them. If they don't want to take the cities, they will raid and keep doing that until you catch that army.
- It will join up with others to attack you. Many times I've seen someone join the war against me, with no provocation, so I assume it's AI with AI diplomacy stuff.
- It will make good units, but it might take a while. On my Rome campaign, Arverni have Noble horse and Oathsworn available. The Ligurians sieged me with Oathsworn, ballistas and Spear Nobles, along with slingers/skirmishers. Not an easy battle.

In resume: Campaign AI is at a point where I don't feel the need to make it better. If the battle/siege AI is improved now, then it's going to be very nice.

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Yesterday 12:21 PM #3
Seienchin 
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In my Sparta campaign with 8/8.1 the Enemy had great armies 100 years in
In my cartago campaign 9.0. 40 Turns in the whole world has midtier units (Except for romes leves armies ****)
Its actually pretty annoying fighting 4 full stacks of a small faction with midtier units... Massilia for example is stronger than rome or the averni confederation
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Originally Posted by Hyrus 
Can someone explain the campaign difficulty's since patch 8 and above ?
With Beta 9, I've noticed that the AI is increasingly able to back stab at the correct moments. In a recent campaign as Rome (Julia), I failed to take the final Etruscan settlement on Alalia after an epic battle, costing me my two armies and most of my fleet. Cue the Carthaginians (and their clients) jumping in on the side of the Etruscans, along with the Ligurians, Epirus and even Athens declaring war on me. The AI smelled blood and took full advantage. The situation was desperate and I eventually quit than face the shame of losing Rome herself!"


So as much as I enjoyed DeI...I think I will stay vanilla with a couple if uniform, turn, weather and graphics mods thrown in. So far it's been a great game...finally beat the Eutrusceans

[Gusington]

Dude thank you...the above illustrate what I have been experiencing to a t...and I forgot to mention the raiding,  which the AI has definitely been doing...so beware.

[mikeck]

Raiding! Yes....the damned raiding. I'm going to start raiding myself. I never did it before but when I see what effect it has on my cities when the enemy is raiding my coast or the area outside of my town holy crap. I take like a -18 stability when the enemy ia out raiding so from now on, I'm parking in on the outside of the enemy's village and I'm raiding  the crap out of them until they come out and fight. Or even better raid their coast if they don't have a fleet

[undercovergeek]

ok - played about 10 turns, of all the local tribes the one that is supposed to be my friend declared war on turn 2 - dummoni(?) - he died on turn 3, tough battle, the forces are very evenly matched - it would be handy if you could see how much garrison the fort is going to raise

my spy went to the enemy tribe in wales, shes currently poisoning the well with glee

After a few turns rest my main army that defeated the dummoni is now readying to head for wales

no word from the brigands in the north or the nutters in scotland

cant get any diplo with anyone though but i see the balance of power is always against me, will try now im the only 2 province tribe on my island

[bob48]

Blimey. I didn't know you could poison a well with glee, I thought you just chucked a dead animal down it.

Who'd a thunk it!

[TheCommandTent]

This new patch sounds terrifying ... in a good way and I hope I can free up some time to play it soon.