Rome II

[Skoop]

It's pretty fun, only the Brits and Germans are done so far.  It's set in a way that grinds into trench warfare slugfests.  It plays on maps that look like no mans land wastelands. 

I happened along it when I was looking at the men of war WWI game you guys were talking about in that other thread.

[MengJiao]

Can you kick back?

Here and there, but if I pull an army out of a city to go on offense, an enemy army heads right for it. All provinces have such Low approval that if I lose a city and take it back, they revolt. The campaign is easy as sparta but very tough as athens.

   I tried Sparta.  Not very exciting after Easy Athens.  I tried Normal Athens after coming up with a plan:  I would slowly pull out of peripheral areas, but leave some trouble out there while building up and concentrating at Athens.  Then -- since everybody hates Athens anyway -- I would take Korinth, Thebes and Sparta while they were out taking my peripheral stuff.  After 3 tries with lots of restarting at turn 12, this seems to have worked, though as usual, Thebes was the tough one (at least once I took Thebes -- they were really upset).  Lots of massive battles -- including the Spartan thing at Laurion where they landed two medium sized armies and then decided to leave when the one decent Athenian army headed down there.  They all got in their transports and ran into the one decent Athenian fleet.  I guess I do like the new naval game since the Athenian fleet of 12 or so was able to sink about 35 (2 armies and the 4 ships of the garrison fleet) for minimal losses.  Of course, now I'm at war all over and revolts are constant -- BUT, I have lots of agents due to Sokrates who has been reasoning enemy agents over to my side.  It suppose in the end I may be attritioned out of existence (hmmm...sounds like the real war), but it was fun while it lasted.

[mikeck]

Yeah, playing as Athens is the trick. Sparta is too easy

[Nefaro]

Yeah, playing as Athens is the trick. Sparta is too easy

Yeahhh.  Thaat's the ticket.




:))

[GDS_Starfury]

dont ya hate this first campaign when it hits a point and you just want to start a new one and apply all the lessons learned.

[mikeck]

Yeah, I restarted twice already because I realized that defeat was inevitable. It's rare in a TW game for me to really get a beat down...but playing Athens on normal is tough

[GDS_Starfury]

my Armenian campaign is doing fine but it was the learning war and I can do better now.

[Gusington]

I was down to one province and one city as Armenia about 75 turns ago and now I run the eastern part of the map...even when you think you are inevitably doomed in TW there is some pinhole opportunity.

[GDS_Starfury]

Ive had two hiccups.  the first was a 5 turn shortage of food and the second was capturing to many provinces at once with incompatible structures which made me bankrupt for about 4 turns or so.  Im setting up to blitz Antony but Im kinda bored with it knowing what I know now about the game mechanics and province building.

[Gusington]

^Call it a game and take a break...that's what I did with Armenia while I was still enjoying it and getting strong AI resistance from Bactria, etc. Then go back to it. It will feel fresh again.

[GDS_Starfury]

Ive got Germans to the north, Egypt in its home country and Antony in Turkey.
butt your probably right.  I dont have the patience for marathon sessions like I used to.

[Gusington]

For all of TW's faults it has a certain resilience and ability to bounce back and be interesting. Not every TW did that for me, like Empire and Napoleon. But Shogun 2 and Rome 2, definitely.

[GDS_Starfury]

oh Im not loosing interest, I just know that with what I know now I can be in the same place in half the time.

[Gusington]

So many factions available too with DLCs and mods, it has really ignited my interest in the ancient world...more than the original Rome TW ten years ago which was my gateway game.

[GDS_Starfury]

keep in mind that you can always ask Windy what it was like to live back then.