Rome II

[Jarhead0331]

Noticed new DLC due out in a few days....Pirates and raiders.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/strategy/total-war-rome-ii-pirates-raiders-dlc/

For Jarhead, it has marine units so has to be a must buy:)

•Illyrian Marines

LoL...and to think I actually believed I was going to be able to skip this one.

[Sir Slash]

Can't wait for it to come out so it can crash all my mods or require another campaign restart.

[Gusington]

I bought the new dlc yesterday ... it did suddenly appear out of nowhere.

[Nefaro]

For Jarhead, it has marine units so has to be a must buy:)

•Illyrian Marines

LOL.  "Illyrian Marines"?!

They should just say 'Band of Pirates', as that would be more appropriate.   ;D

[MengJiao]

Noticed new DLC due out in a few days....Pirates and raiders.

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/strategy/total-war-rome-ii-pirates-raiders-dlc/

For Jarhead, it has marine units so has to be a must buy:)

•Illyrian Marines

  I barely stopped myself from buying this.  Much vacationing is coming up and I'll just buy like crazy when I get back.  And I'll get this then with any luck.

[Labbug]

Patch 13 is out.  Now I will have to wait for the mods to catch up.  Maybe I will spend some time trying to learn how to play Distant Worlds.

[Martok]

Now I will have to wait for the mods to catch up. 

This.  If nothing else, I really like the Four Seasons mod (and I know it's not been updated to be compatible with patch 13 yet). 

Maybe I will spend some time trying to learn how to play Distant Worlds.

Also, this.  Finally got my issues with Matrix resolved, and am downloading/installing DW: Universe now.  8) 

[Sir Slash]

My mods are all playing just fine with Patch 13. We'll see about the new DLC however. May have to call the  C:-) about it.

[MengJiao]

For Jarhead, it has marine units so has to be a must buy:)

•Illyrian Marines

LOL.  "Illyrian Marines"?!

They should just say 'Band of Pirates', as that would be more appropriate.   ;D

I got the DLC and had a blast with the Ardenai and their Illyrian stuff.  I'm not used to having an army devoid of any serious, solid, reliable troops.  Even off in Gaul there are self-respecting hordes of one kind or another.  So I made horrible mistakes of all kinds and the AI was on the verge of finishing me off when they got a little too close to my pirate base.  The pirates swarmed out and annihilated the Noble Hopilites that had thereto been my nemesis.  Scary.  I was playing well past my bed time.  I think I'll switch to the more Celtic bunch of pirates and not stay up so late.

[Sir Slash]

Yeah, I can see some new ways to play with the new factions that might be very entertaining. Though I confess to being almost totally ignorant of any of them. I'm thinking the Illyrian faction should really work on the naval techs and maybe hampered by a lack of food early on.

[Gusington]

Up above someone said Illyrian marines are really just rabble...are these new factions more rabble-rousers or legit powers? Hard to tell.

[MengJiao]

Up above someone said Illyrian marines are really just rabble...are these new factions more rabble-rousers or legit powers? Hard to tell.

  They don't have a quasi-religious core unlike the superpowers of the time such as Rome, Carthage, Egypt or Parthia, but they aren't that all that much more utterly rabble-istic than say Pontus or the Selucids.  They are blood-thirsty opportunists and pretty interesting to play -- if the Ardenai are a fair sample.  The description of the DLC seemed to be implying that they had a tech-tree-style opportunity to develope some kind of religious institutions and become respectable, but so far I'd only developed foraging and Celtic Land allotments before a lot of people tried to kill me.  I lived and now I feel more respectable, though, as yet, no well-defined twinges of piety have arisen in my thoroughly Illyrian world-view.  It's like King Tut and Mary Poppins are out there somewhere where I can't quite see them and they are struggling for some kind of even minor sacrificial cult to be instituted somewhere in the darkness of Illyria.

[Gusington]

^Illyria would be my first choice to play too. If players are actually able to develop some kind of belief system beyond hugging trees and barking at the moon, that would make for some really interesting gameplay.

[MengJiao]

^Illyria would be my first choice to play too. If players are actually able to develop some kind of belief system beyond hugging trees and barking at the moon, that would make for some really interesting gameplay.

  They seemed promising, but once you start working with people with their cynical worldview -- well -- I hate to say it -- but you find yourself really missing some idealistic, downright barbaric, human-sacrificing bunch of starry-eyed optimists like your average Gallic Tribe.

[Gusington]

But do you have a choice? If I want my Illyrians to remain a blight, can they? When I played as the Iceni you can bet your sweet bippy I planted groves and shrines and such in every civilized city I took...I did not adapt more modern religion.