Rome II

[Gusington]

I am not a fanboi. But I like it very very much.

[MengJiao]

I am not a fanboi. But I like it very very much.

  At what point does liking turn into fanboi-dom?

[Gusington]

When, upon staring at multiple obvious faults, that these multiple obvious faults are denied or defended because of past glory of the series.

[Skoop]

So in an attempt to get back into Rome II, I went looking for some new mods in the workshop, and holy overwhelming where do I start ?  I am almost thinking keep it simple and just use vanilla with 4 turns per year for a play through of Hannibal at the gates.

Some great mods out there, so hard to play mod soup, I could spent a day just messing with mods.

Any one recommend a good compilation ? I know DEI and Radious seem pretty popular, but not sure if I want to change that much. 

[Nefaro]

So in an attempt to get back into Rome II, I went looking for some new mods in the workshop, and holy overwhelming where do I start ?  I am almost thinking keep it simple and just use vanilla with 4 turns per year for a play through of Hannibal at the gates.

Some great mods out there, so hard to play mod soup, I could spent a day just messing with mods.

Any one recommend a good compilation ? I know DEI and Radious seem pretty popular, but not sure if I want to change that much.

Don't go all Mod Soup from the start.

Just get a couple small ones, if you must, and play mostly vanilla.  Worry about Souping that bitch up later, after taking it for a few spins.

I've mostly only used UI mods, that get rid of the stupid ass plastic-looking background crap and replaces it with marble or faction-specific textures, and I may drop a small combat mod in for some campaigns.  Oh.. and there was one I used which toned down the crazy faction colors on the soldiers in tactical battles.

Don't expect any of the big compilation "Mega" Mods to be complete and well-rounded anytime soon.  Not to mention a patch will break your games you've used with them. 

Don't let Mod Soup suck up all your time! 

[GDS_Starfury]

I just want to see Gus in his toga.

[Gusington]

Got it on right now.

I agree stay away from mod soup. I have 4-5 simple ones running, like a UI adjustment (black marble) and a couple of extra units for Carthage (which are great). Almost done with the Hannibal at the Gates campaign...sacked Rome on Sunday :)

[MengJiao]

When, upon staring at multiple obvious faults, that these multiple obvious faults are denied or defended because of past glory of the series.

  I'm a SUPER fanboi then because I never saw any faults at all!!!!

[Nefaro]

When, upon staring at multiple obvious faults, that these multiple obvious faults are denied or defended because of past glory of the series.

  I'm a SUPER fanboi then because I never saw any faults at all!!!!

;D

;)

[Sir Slash]

I use Radious and like it a lot. It changes the AI behavior for more logical behavior and ups the morale in battles so they last longer. And gets rid of that annoying Mr. Wavering that pops up. However he also has eliminated the army and navy Forced March option that increases movement because the AI either uses it too much or not enough, and as a result sea movement takes forever. I gave up trying to get a good unit card replacement mod as none are ever updated regularly. Traits, Talents and Toadies is a good abilities/ skills enhancing mod but you really need a new campaign start to get the full effect. There's a highly rated mod for Hannibal at the Gates DLC, the Spartacus Campaign mod that looks Selma Hayek Good but I haven't tried it.

[Gusington]

Selma Hayek good...that's really good.

There are definitely faults in Rome 2, Meng...to me the most obvious one is the repetitiveness of gameplay, especially after the 100 turn mark. But there is enoug variation in other parts of fhe game to not make repetition a game breaker...for me at least.

[MengJiao]

Selma Hayek good...that's really good.

There are definitely faults in Rome 2, Meng...to me the most obvious one is the repetitiveness of gameplay, especially after the 100 turn mark. But there is enoug variation in other parts of fhe game to not make repetition a game breaker...for me at least.

  Like any game I like, yes, there are repetitive elements.  I'm not so sure I'd know what to do with a game if there wasn't a lot of repetition.
Actually, I even enjoyed what might have been sort of a problem:  that in the early patches, the AI was different after each patch.  I recall that as the Parthenians (Normal Parthenians IIRC, my first normal campaign), the AI was very aggressive, but this enabled me to ambush my way across the world.  After that the AI got less aggressive and things were different.

[Yskonyn]

Gus, how is Rome 2 more repetetive than other TW games?

[MengJiao]

can you get those troops that come with a ship - off the ship?

  Yes.  Sometimes it all works out, though at the moment I can only recall plenty of disasters trying to get the nautical guys off the ships.
On the other hand, missile troops will engage against land targets from ships pretty well.

[Gusington]

Hmm...is Rome 2 more or less repetitive than previous TWs...I guess it's about the same as repetition is a hard coded element and part of the nature of all TW games. I still love them but get weary of all of then towards the endgame, as a lot of people do. I always come back though because there are elemnts throughout the series that always draw me back.