Rome II

[Staggerwing]

I've also decided that my first non-Roman game will be as the Iceni.

Is there a topless Queen Boudicca sprite to lead your Iceni as they sack Londinium?

[Grim.Reaper]

went to TW centre for a slow troops mod - DO NOT GO THERE!!!!

Not even going to peak....

Some of these new animations are awesome...I love the one where your soldier gets tossed around the line.  Also like when the two sides get close, they start to taunt each other...nice touch!

[Nefaro]

Is there a topless Queen Boudicca sprite to lead your Iceni as they sack Londinium?

Bouddaceous.

[Bison]

I've also decided that my first non-Roman game will be as the Iceni.

Is there a topless Queen Boudicca sprite to lead your Iceni as they sack Londinium?

Well if there isn't someone should mod one for use stat!

[Gusington]

I'm also considering the Iceni after I play through the Prologue...got a book on Romans in Scotland and Boudicca to go along with them.

If you have Pontus playable, you have received the Day 1 patch.

I read Rubicon and it is one of my favorites. I'm 125 pages into the book I posted above and it is very very good. I am not an ancients fanatic but it is more than holding my interest.

[besilarius]

The Boudicca cover doesn't show enough woad.

[mikeck]

went to TW centre for a slow troops mod - DO NOT GO THERE!!!!

Not even going to peak....

Lol...let me guess, multiple threads titled "This game sucks",  "it doesn't work and keeps crashing...CA fix the bugs!",  "The Ai blows" aaaannnd about 5 threads titled "can I run this" which serves as a thread where people get to post their super x3000 Alienware super PX stats to show their superiority: "can I run this game? I have an I7 quad core super flux capacitor with a GTX 9000 (5ddrr with 5000 mb ram) over clocked at 10x mega spuds per interval and 25 gb of ram..."

[Bison]

I'm also considering the Iceni after I play through the Prologue...

But, but, but I called them first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :D

[Bison]

went to TW centre for a slow troops mod - DO NOT GO THERE!!!!

Not even going to peak....

Lol...let me guess, multiple threads titled "This game sucks",  "it doesn't work and keeps crashing...CA fix the bugs!",  "The Ai blows" aaaannnd about 5 threads titled "can I run this" which serves as a thread where people get to post their super x3000 Alienware super PX stats to show their superiority: "can I run this game? I have an I7 quad core super flux capacitor with a GTX 9000 (5ddrr with 5000 mb ram) over clocked at 10x mega spuds per interval and 25 gb of ram..."

I want a flux capacitor.

[mikeck]

Ha! Case in point. Went to the first thread :"Perfromance sucks on all machines" and this was the 6th post:

All this talk of trouble with Rome II really has me worried, I just bought my first gaming rig in anticipation for Rome II and now I'm questioning if I got the right parts. It should be arriving sometime early next week. For everyone that has had great gameplay is my rig comparable?CPU: i5 4570 3.20 MHzRam: 8GBMobo: Asus Z87-AGPU: GTX 650 Ti 2GBI fully plan on ignoring my girlfriend right after she gives me this game for my birthday, I really hope I don't have the same problems everyone else seems to be experiencing.g

Lol...yeah buddy, we are all having nerdgasms over your new rig. Hmmm, I hope my brand new BMW M7 with the dual spool turbo 600 hp engine with 500 Ft lbs of torque will go over 55mph... What do you guys think.

[Bison]

I haven't actually read any of the TWCenter threads.  Honestly, I don't want too.  That place is hallowed ground for pissing on anyone who enjoys the initial release of a Total War game, before the Darth Mod superity duperity AI fix is done and ready for download.

I will say that I have experienced some dips in FPS.  I attribute that to running it at all maxed out settings for the most part.

[Gusington]

^That's why I am not going to run it on 'Ultra' or 'Extreme' even though that's what the game defaulted to. OK diving into the Prologue...

[Bison]

But it looks so freaking awesome all maxed out!

I did have one boat that keep circling and circling like a dog looking for a good place to take a shit before it finally beached and let the troops off on the shore. 

[mikeck]

You know, I have a pretty mediocre system, running an Athlon 6790 card. I noticed that if you turn unit detail down to High, they still look great and you won't get that battle lag. Comes from trying to model to many guys on screen.

One problem that I have- and have had with every total war game- is the speed of unit movement and battles. Always!! Battles are over in like 15 seconds. Usually after a day or two some kid will make a slow battle mod but really?? Who is testing this and saying "yeah, this is about right...units meet, fight for 30 seconds, and one routes"

[Bison]

I run it on the 1/2 speed or whatever it is and that is a nice slow speed. 

I do miss the forward, backward, side shift UI buttons to maneuver troops in the battlefield.