Rome II

[Gusington]

The giant history of the Roman legions? Yeah that book is one of the best I read last year. A little dense but mostly fascinating. Like me.

I am boiling my woad right now.

[Yskonyn]

No, Legions of Rome. Or did you recommend me the wrong book? ;)

[MengJiao]

Seriously, why are you guys obsessing about this? Other people don't like it...who cares? Play the game, have fun.

somebody is wrong on the net - they must be corrected

  It looks that way.  I started a Rome campaign with the 4 seasons mod.  Pretty neat and somewhat more to scale than monthly or two-week turns.  Winter slows you down and creates unrest and so on.  You can campaign okay in the Spring, summer and fall, or even winter if you are desperate, which, as the Romans, I rarely am.  Vanilla Roman morale is a wonderful thing, even in the winter. 

[Sir Slash]

I see the game now has weather effects that change seasonally-- I get messages that certain regions are un-seasonably hot or cold and that has local effects but the Four-Seasons mod is very highly rated at Steam and I've been thinking of giving it a try too. Gus, doesn't boiling your Woad hurt? ;D

[Grim.Reaper]

I see the game now has weather effects that change seasonally-- I get messages that certain regions are un-seasonably hot or cold and that has local effects but the Four-Seasons mod is very highly rated at Steam and I've been thinking of giving it a try too. Gus, doesn't boiling your Woad hurt? ;D

Is that with the base game or only in the Caesar in Gaul expansion?  Some reason I had thought the season changes were only in the new expansion (without mods), but could be wrong.

[Grim.Reaper]

Kind of interesting, looks like they have released some interesting mod tools to further allow people to customize......

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/17/rome-ii-modding/

[Grim.Reaper]

By the way, to install the mod kit, looks like it is under the "Tools" area in Steam for download, does still say BETA next to it though....

[MengJiao]

I see the game now has weather effects that change seasonally-- I get messages that certain regions are un-seasonably hot or cold and that has local effects but the Four-Seasons mod is very highly rated at Steam and I've been thinking of giving it a try too. Gus, doesn't boiling your Woad hurt? ;D

Is that with the base game or only in the Caesar in Gaul expansion?  Some reason I had thought the season changes were only in the new expansion (without mods), but could be wrong.

  The Vanilla base game still has yearly turns.  The seasonal mod on the base game I'm using has 4 turns a year and each one corresponds to a season.  At the moment it is the only Mod I'm using. 

[Grim.Reaper]

I see the game now has weather effects that change seasonally-- I get messages that certain regions are un-seasonably hot or cold and that has local effects but the Four-Seasons mod is very highly rated at Steam and I've been thinking of giving it a try too. Gus, doesn't boiling your Woad hurt? ;D

Is that with the base game or only in the Caesar in Gaul expansion?  Some reason I had thought the season changes were only in the new expansion (without mods), but could be wrong.

  The Vanilla base game still has yearly turns.  The seasonal mod on the base game I'm using has 4 turns a year and each one corresponds to a season.  At the moment it is the only Mod I'm using.

Got it, thanks for the clarification.

[undercovergeek]

I think the DEI mod has 4 turns per season, I don't know if they've managed to crow bar the weather effects in - when I say weather effects I mean graphics with snow etc.... my arduous campaign already has unseasonably hot weather but no snow in winter

[Martok]

MengJiao, do you happen to have any idea if that seasons mod you're playing is compatible with Radious? 

[Gusington]

I wss just going ask the same question about Radious and the seasons.

Yskonyn I thnk we are talking about the same book.

WOAD!

[mikeck]

DEI mod has the 4 seasons. It is truly magnificent mod. This game has become- by far- the best of the total war games. Graphics are great, AI is great. I love the provinces. It's a fantastic game

[Gusington]

Better than Radious?

[Sir Slash]

It says on Steam that it's compatible with any mod but you need a 4 Year-per-turn mod. Radious only does 2 TPY. But there are others. I maybe mistaken but during my vanilla Suebi campaign I got messages at the beginning of the turn that the weather was un-seasonable and you could go to the province and the effect would be listed under the province modifiers at the bottom. I first noticed this after the 8.1 beta patch installed but I've seen it in my Radiuos campaign too. Woad-On.