Rome II

[MengJiao]

Radious is working again for the campaign and Ceasar in Gaul. ;D ;D ;D

  I played Ceasar in Gaul last night.  I was the Vanilla Normal Nervii.  Pretty fun.  The barbarians fighting in
clumps of forest in Thuderstorms and back-back-and forth over little ridges put a high value on scouting and
sneaking.  I had a good number of mercenary archers and they worked well in the scrappy battles in the scrub.

[Sir Slash]

I started a vanilla CIG last night too as Rome. Not a lot of new stuff, the Techs are a lot different but with the change it campaign time it would have to be. The blue techs do political stuff and this may have some surprises. I assaulted the Helvitii city which has walls and even though I had siege weapons, I clicked-on all my units to see if any could burn-down the gates when I moused on them. Legionaries- no, Celtic Warriors-no, Celtic Skirmishers-no, Celtic Light Horse-YES. Go figure.

[undercovergeek]

Did you just remount the mod and carry on your old campaign?

[mikeck]

Does Radious have a version where all of his improvements are included in one? I prefer "DeI" (divide et impera) but it isn't updated yet and I want to play.

Also, does Radious, mod work with the expansion campaign or just the regular sandbox

[Yskonyn]

Is 'voluptuous' a kind word to replace fat? Or did you just mean to say she had big tatta's? ;) *evilgrin*

  I was carefully reviewing my memories and I've concluded:

  a) she was not fat
  b) But she certainly was not skinny
  c) we spent a lot of time eating
  d) she had a boyfriend named Hugh who drove an MG.
  e) or that was her idea of a joke
  f) or this Hugh guy and his MG has been displaced from a few years later
  g) or this Hugh guy moved in the same circles I did -- I did finally meet him -- (if that really was him)
  h) tits -- yes -- I'm not sure of their real dimensions but they bulked so large in my 16-year-old mind that they must have had a certain something about them so I used the word "voluptuous" to kind of fudge some fuzziness about the full range of her attractions
  i) some uncertainty here, but I think i have the basic outlines of the whole thing down

Hm, yeah.. the mindgames breasts cause for a 16 year old brain... :D

[MengJiao]

Is 'voluptuous' a kind word to replace fat? Or did you just mean to say she had big tatta's? ;) *evilgrin*

  I was carefully reviewing my memories and I've concluded:

  a) she was not fat
  b) But she certainly was not skinny
  c) we spent a lot of time eating
  d) she had a boyfriend named Hugh who drove an MG.
  e) or that was her idea of a joke
  f) or this Hugh guy and his MG has been displaced from a few years later
  g) or this Hugh guy moved in the same circles I did -- I did finally meet him -- (if that really was him)
  h) tits -- yes -- I'm not sure of their real dimensions but they bulked so large in my 16-year-old mind that they must have had a certain something about them so I used the word "voluptuous" to kind of fudge some fuzziness about the full range of her attractions
  i) some uncertainty here, but I think i have the basic outlines of the whole thing down

Hm, yeah.. the mindgames breasts cause for a 16 year old brain... :D

  But anyway, that's some of the associations I have with Caesar's Commentaries.

[undercovergeek]

Does Radious have a version where all of his improvements are included in one? I prefer "DeI" (divide et impera) but it isn't updated yet and I want to play.

Also, does Radious, mod work with the expansion campaign or just the regular sandbox

His total war mod is everything in one and its for both games

[Gusington]

I like where this thread is going.

[Sir Slash]

Me too. (.)(.) Now that's my kind of Latin. Yes I had dis-abled the mod and when Radious noted on the mod site that it was fully compatible with V8, I just checked the mod box in the mod manager to re-enable it. Tit works fine. I mean IT works fine now. Don't know where my heads sometimes. :P :P :P

[Gusington]

^I do.

[Gusington]

So I launched my game tonight to just check out some of the new factions and it could not launch as there was some kind of updating hangup with the Radious mod and the Tetrarchy mod I had loaded. So I unsubscribed. Then the game launched fine...its patch up to the latest despite my wonky internet connection. I see Baktria is now playable, as are Seleucids, as are Parthians...*drool*.

Anyone else have the hangups with the mods updating? After I unsubscribed to them the game ran fine. There was also a new splash screen with a big honkin' barbarian boar to get me in the mood for Caesar in Gaul.

[Sir Slash]

Same here with Radious. Had to play CIG with the big honking barbarian boar start screen. I had an early Autumn in Gaul(early July?) and the trees actually changed colors and it began to rain. Nice.

[Grim.Reaper]

So how is the new Gaul expansion, worth a pickup?  I still haven't got fully into the main game since I was waiting until all the frequent patching was done.  I think the smaller campaign might be a good start for me but would like to hear some thoughts.

[undercovergeek]

So I launched my game tonight to just check out some of the new factions and it could not launch as there was some kind of updating hangup with the Radious mod and the Tetrarchy mod I had loaded. So I unsubscribed. Then the game launched fine...its patch up to the latest despite my wonky internet connection. I see Baktria is now playable, as are Seleucids, as are Parthians...*drool*.

Anyone else have the hangups with the mods updating? After I unsubscribed to them the game ran fine. There was also a new splash screen with a big honkin' barbarian boar to get me in the mood for Caesar in Gaul.

no - simply reticked the mod in mod manager and started the game no problem - sorry youre having problems

[MengJiao]

So how is the new Gaul expansion, worth a pickup?  I still haven't got fully into the main game since I was waiting until all the frequent patching was done.  I think the smaller campaign might be a good start for me but would like to hear some thoughts.

  I had just been through Gaul with the Iceni.  The expansion is interesting, but not very different experientially from the basic game in most ways.  For some reason the atmosphere (the rain and snow and changing seasons) seems...well more atmospheric than you'd expect.  Things do seem pretty crude and barbaric.

   The battles have been interesting even in vanilla.  Paradoxically, barbarian vs barbarian battles require a lot more "strategems" (sneaking, hiding, deceptive moves etc.).  The AI has clobbered me a lot, but I've won some satisfyingly complicated and extended battles in the damp woods of Gaul.