Rome II

[Nefaro]

Little question; do you guys always try to keep your armies as large as the command allows you?

Early on I've been trying to keep a couple armies largely equipped with my best troop types, and then some extra armies with lower cost troops (and therefore lower upkeep costs) to garrison newly conquered & unruly provincial cities (for the extra order bonus) and as battle reinforcements if the need arises. 

Doesn't always work out perfectly when it comes to the battles, but it's been fairly sound and saves me some money.

[Yskonyn]

Thanks guys.

Interestingly, I have never thought about using lower grade armies to smack down unrest. With the low Total army limit I always feel the urge to make most of all the slots I have. :) But that always turns out to be a major strain on the Imperial coffers .
Good tips!

Btw, I had not played the Emperor's edition yet due to all kinds of distractions, but I really dig the new interface theme! :)


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[Gusington]

There's a couple of little tweak mods available too to enhance the UI further by adjusting icons, colors, baackground...I have a few running and its surprising how little things like icon color can make the game more enjoyable. Check out the Steam workshop, there's tons of stuff in there.

[Nefaro]

There's a couple of little tweak mods available too to enhance the UI further by adjusting icons, colors, baackground...I have a few running and its surprising how little things like icon color can make the game more enjoyable. Check out the Steam workshop, there's tons of stuff in there.

Agreed.

I was sore that they used the dead semi-transparent black interface for Rome 2.  That kind of skimping on art assets is poor form.

When I replaced them with a user-created mod that featured a marble look, or one that had different UI art depending on your faction's culture (as happened with the old TWs and mods), it's surprising how much better the game looked.   F that soulless black/silver stuff!

[Yskonyn]

I generally do not like the Marble look of the interface I have seen in mods.
The interface for M2TW that Stainless Steel brought I thought was atrocious!
I like easy one the eyes and minimalistic.


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[Martok]

Holy crap!  The Peloponnesian War is finally coming to the Total War series (specifically, as an add-on to Rome II).  So pumped!!!   

(The video also includes a nice look at Constantinople in Attila.) 

I could almost cry tears of joy... 

not as far as i know - ive had a general since the start of the game and hes epic, and my two spies they dont appear to get a year older older with every turn, only every 4 turns

Yeah AFAIK the vanilla game basically absorbed the functionality of the 4 turns per year mod.

Well I'll be damned.  That shows how much attention I've been paying.    Still, that's happy news to me; thanks guys!   

[Nefaro]

Holy crap!  The Peloponnesian War is finally coming to the Total War series (specifically, as an add-on to Rome II).  So pumped!!!   

That's great, but they should also include the aftermath when Thebes beat Sparta and became temporary king of the hill, in turn. 

Everything up until Philip's conquest, even.


I have doubts as to whether they can portray the Naval side of the Peloponnesian War well for both economic and military regards considering how weak it is in Rome 2.  So it may just end up being a Sparta masturbation DLC, I fear.  ::)

[undercovergeek]

must they always be bearded and over exuberant?

[GDS_Starfury]

(The video also includes a nice look at Constantinople in Attila.) 

Istanbul

[Gusington]

Why they changed it I'll never know.

I use the same marble UI that Nef mentions above amd I did it.

[mikeck]

Why they changed it I'll never know.

I use the same marble UI that Nef mentions above amd I did it.

People just liked it better that way

[BanzaiCat]

+1 to Star for breaking out an awesome song from Flood.  O0

[GDS_Starfury]

its hard being as awesome as me.   

[FlickJax]

Constantinople much better

[Anguille]

Holy crap!  The Peloponnesian War is finally coming to the Total War series (specifically, as an add-on to Rome II).  So pumped!!!   

Guess this will make me finally buy the game  :D