Rome II

[Nefaro]

Correct

Well.. that won't do.  Then it'll just imbalance everything towards Roman troops.  ???

Depends on who you're fighting I suppose I mean when I'm fighting barbarians and my legions keep order and are able to rotate in ranks or form different formations and the barbarians or not that's pretty realistic. Now if I'm better able to keep formation is Romans then the Spartans are a Spartan hoplites that might be an issue but I don't think it's a big of a deal but it's not balancing issue we just helps to Romans maintain formation as they originally did and are supposed to do


Edit: there are other mods that do similar things for the Greek factions you could add that as well and balance it out

Yeah, I would think that the formation cohesion modding should be done for the Greek and Macedonian-style armies too, which is quite a large amount of factions in Rome 2.  Some of the Carthaginian units too.

I'd like to see better formation retention but it should be implemented for all the units that fought in formation.  From what I previously read, nobody's been able to get them to do so very well - even the developer.   

I can get along with the current vanilla iteration since the Shield Wall/Phalanx/Etc stance somewhat helps even though they move at a crawl.

[Gusington]

Yeah byotches.

[Martok]

Nice!  Truly, the Iceni have achieved everlasting glory! 

[Gusington]

Got Sparta on the ropes, and then Athens, which is puny in this particular campaign...then I'm either calling it a day or going East.

[mikeck]

I rarely play until I "win". I play until I convinced that there is no way I could lose. I'm not into the whole steamrole thing. That said, since Gus took so much pride in defeating my beloved Rome, I am going to make a special effort to destroy the Iceni. I was going to go after Greece(and still
Might) but I think a huge fleet and 3 legions might be enough to land on England and do some damage. My other 3 legions can hold down the fort and spar with the Greeks until the job is done.

[Gusington]

Just took out Sparta and Athens too...scattered them like ashes :)

[Staggerwing]

"♫ Dust in the Wind, all they are is... ♫"






(uh, sorry.)

[Sir Slash]

Do the Iceni drive their chariots on the left or right side of the via Appia? ;D

[Gusington]

The answer is: anywhere they effing please :)

[mikeck]

Not if my heavy armored Romans have anything to say about it

[Gusington]

They didn't last night when I diced them into teensy little bits.

[Sir Slash]

Looks like the opera ain't over till the fat Carthaginian sings. ;)

[Gusington]

Either Carthage, Pontus or Sparta will be my next campaign.

[Nefaro]

Either Carthage, Pontus or Sparta will be my next campaign.

Carthage can get brutal very quickly.  I've started as Carthage twice and both games saw a steady stream of nations DOW'ing me shortly after starting.  Rome is usually first followed by various African and Iberian tribes all around.  You also only have some puppet states in NW Africa and they tend to move their armies disorganized and poorly, even when you give them an attack target.   So be prepared for a steadily increasing dogpile very quickly.

I found Pontus to be a good balance of military and diplomatic challenges from the start.  I've not played Pontus since shortly after release but it was a fun experience. 

Dunno about Sparta.  Haven't played them yet.  You start off at war with Epirus and since that state always gets DOW'd by extras at the start, it doesn't last long.  So it may be a race to beat other would-be conquerors to capturing Epirote settlements.  Also watch out for the Athenians and Macedonians DOW'ing you after awhile, moreso if you manage to cap Epirus before Rome does.

[mikeck]

They didn't last night when I diced them into teensy little bits.

Bastard