Rome II

[MengJiao]

Would you guys say the game is fit to start a new campaign yet?
I have been sidetracked by some other games, but I am really looking forward to diving back into Rome 2. Is it ready in your opinions?

  I'm already feeling nostalgic about my early battles as Easy Egypt, when the Selucids came down like wolves and everybody in their little pharoah caps spent a lot of time scorching their way Antioch.

   But SpyElectra just saved Epirus with some impossible moves (assassinating the Spartan Spy-girl with a 10% chance, blowing up two Spartan baggage trains and escaping to Ardenaidia with a green glow on her heels).  Now I'm stuck with Epirus and everybody hates me except Macedon and the Etruscans.  Not the most promising of associates.  So...hmmm...er...fun game!

[Martok]

Man, I keep agreeing to all these proposals for defensive alliances.  I have a bad feeling I'm engendering the Classical era's equivalent of WW1 here... 

Fun game, though! 

[Martok]

Argh.  Stupid AI behavior rears its ugly head -- and in my own units, no less... 


I tell my slingers to engage the enemy slingers during a city assault.  So what do they do?  Why, they follow my melee troops over the walls, of course!...where they're promptly slaughtered by the enemy's own melee troops.  >:(  Granted, this group was only responsible for my secondary break-in point, but still. 

On the other hand, I do have to credit the enemy AI with at least a modicum of intelligence and economic use of its forces:  It was swift to pull some of its troops from the main gate and redeploy them to meet my secondary attack, but not so many so as to leave the main gate undefended.  The AI still lost in the end (I'd brought almost overwhelming force to the assault), but it made me pay a much higher price in lives than I might have otherwise -- something I appreciated seeing.  :) 

[mikeck]

Well they can't sling rocks over the wall right?

[Martok]

.... 


I have no idea -- it never occurred to me to even check that, to be honest.  However, I'd be willing to bet you're right; it would certainly explain it.  (Note to self:  Must read/check all unit abilities/limitations more thoroughly.)  Sigh. 

Move along folks, nothing more to see here... 

[mikeck]

Lol

[GibbyG]

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[MengJiao]

Would you guys say the game is fit to start a new campaign yet?
I have been sidetracked by some other games, but I am really looking forward to diving back into Rome 2. Is it ready in your opinions?

  I'm already feeling nostalgic about my early battles as Easy Egypt, when the Selucids came down like wolves and everybody in their little pharoah caps spent a lot of time scorching their way Antioch.

   But SpyElectra just saved Epirus with some impossible moves (assassinating the Spartan Spy-girl with a 10% chance, blowing up two Spartan baggage trains and escaping to Ardenaidia with a green glow on her heels).  Now I'm stuck with Epirus and everybody hates me except Macedon and the Etruscans.  Not the most promising of associates.  So...hmmm...er...fun game!

Note to self:  I hated being Epirus.  The Iceni with the toons two-part mod have been fun (though barbarians in general crush everybody in that mod set).

[mikeck]

I am playing Rome with toon's two part mod... Am I doomed to be destroyed by barbarians ?? Just started

[mikeck]

Haven't seen anyone mention the new expansion:

CAESER ON GAUL
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/113376-Caesar-in-Gaul-Expansion-Campaign-Pack-for-Total-War-ROME-II?s=5a3662575192059d4d895b8d2b751f76

It is a standalone and looks like what Napoleon was to Empire...a tighter, more focused slice of a bigger game

[Yskonyn]

Cool, but I just wish these things would be integrated in the main game instead of stand alones. I hate stand alones. :)

[mikeck]

I'm sure it will if you own Rome2. In other words, when you select "play new campaign" you will get the option to play a Clasic campaign or the "Caesar in Gaul". Campaign.

[MengJiao]

Haven't seen anyone mention the new expansion:

CAESER ON GAUL
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/113376-Caesar-in-Gaul-Expansion-Campaign-Pack-for-Total-War-ROME-II?s=5a3662575192059d4d895b8d2b751f76

It is a standalone and looks like what Napoleon was to Empire...a tighter, more focused slice of a bigger game

  Wow!  This sounds fantastic.  I just went through Gaul with the Iceni and, well, gosh, they had some great troops.  I hope there are other more focused expansions (eg. for Hannibal or Pompey or Vespasian or Claudius or Or Queen Zenobia)

[Sir Slash]

I hadn't seen that. Thanks for the heads-up Mikeck.

[Gusington]

Me.neither, thanks Mikeck. Have to start an Iceni game before I get that new expansion. I should study up on the era too since I don't know much about it.