Rome II

[Yskonyn]

Starting a new game with a new nation and getting your grand master scheme formed in your head is one of the greatest things when playing a TW game. :)

I find that after a while I tend to loose focus in end game and my game grinds to a halt.

[Nefaro]

Starting a new game with a new nation and getting your grand master scheme formed in your head is one of the greatest things when playing a TW game. :)

I find that after a while I tend to loose focus in end game and my game grinds to a halt.

It's that way for every TW campaign I ever started.  At some point I give up and start a new one before winning.

Except my first TW Shogun 2 vanilla campaign.  That was the only one I played all the way through - right after it's launch, even!  That's gotta say something.  ;)

[Sir Slash]

I admit to enjoying playing the hard-pressed factions early on in the TW games. You know the ones surrounded by enemies and with no money and your public on the point of revolution-- kind of like my real life. After things settle down it gets less enjoyable for me. In ETW it was getting Spain and the Ottomans chestnuts out of the fire but, then I never finished either campaign. In Rome 2, it's the Seleucids everybody's beating-up on early on but I like getting Rome itself up from 2 little cities into a respectable empire too. Why don't we have an emote with a little Roman helmet on?

[MengJiao]

I admit to enjoying playing the hard-pressed factions early on in the TW games. You know the ones surrounded by enemies and with no money and your public on the point of revolution-- kind of like my real life. After things settle down it gets less enjoyable for me. In ETW it was getting Spain and the Ottomans chestnuts out of the fire but, then I never finished either campaign. In Rome 2, it's the Seleucids everybody's beating-up on early on but I like getting Rome itself up from 2 little cities into a respectable empire too. Why don't we have an emote with a little Roman helmet on?

  I quit campaigns for all kinds of reasons.  Repetition is usually not one of them.  I stopped playing the Gaul DLC and the Hannibal DLC (twice)because I could see I had worked myself into an economic dead end and only had one or two good armies and far too many enemies.
  Similar things happened when I played Epirus or the DLC "Pirate" Ardeii.  I fondly remember my first campaign as Easy Pontus -- when I was smashed by the Selucids and Easy Egypt when I crushed the Selucids -- but I don't think I got to turn 100 in either one before I went on to Normal Parthia -- which I might have won, though I don't remember.

[Gusington]

In Rome 2 the pinnacle for me as been the sacking of Rome as any other faction. Love me some pillaging.

[MengJiao]

In Rome 2 the pinnacle for me as been the sacking of Rome as any other faction. Love me some pillaging.

  Winning tough battles somewhat unexpectedly has always been my favorite thing in the TW series -- especially in Rome II where the battles have the best feel of any TW battles.

   Some memorable ones:

   As Normal Parthia: dismounting and using terrain to beat massive cavalry armies
   As the Getae: trapping a large army in some narrow streets and massacring it with archery
   As Miscellaneous Steppe Barbarians online: vaporizing the Cathegenians or Macedonians or Selucids so fast in the first two minutes or so that the players just left the game...ironically in some cases the Online AI did much better than the players who left the game would have done

[Gusington]

Remind me not to talk to you when I periodically try to kick my TW addiction.

[MengJiao]

Remind me not to talk to you when I periodically try to kick my TW addiction.

  Fortunately, I think the WarHammer 40K total war thing will totally and completely cure me of any residual TW interest.  Rome II and its various mods and what not is pretty likely to be my last indulgence in TW.

  All games have their time; the brief moments when they capture the imagination.  And then they fade as quickly as a young girl's first bloom of beauty and are no more.  Then vanish like Texcoco in a preceptive Nahuatl poem about the brevity of Texcoco.

[Con]

I just havent been able to get into Rome Total War II.  I have tried firing it up three or four times but always seem to bail out before 50 turns are done.  I have only tried it with mods installed like Divide et Imperia etc.

Should I give up on Mods and just try and pay a Vanilla game?  I dont know what it is but I just dont seem to be catching the fever with Rome TWII

Con

[GDS_Starfury]

I got 2 free games with the new video card so I grabbed Shogun TW2 and Company of Heros 2.  I've only sat down with Shogun for a little bit.

[Gusington]

Shogun 2, to me, is a real work of art.

Con do you like the era? Sometimes that doesn't even work for me. I love the era of Empire: TW but it's my least favorite of all the TWs. I personally think TW works much better with melee combat only.

Meng the upcoming TW is for the WH fantasy universe, not WH40K. Don't know if that makes a difference to you. To me, it definitely does.

[Con]

I really have no interest in the Shogun period.  I too like Napoleonic and I spent a lot of time with ETW and the Napoleon mods but eventually drifted away from this as well due to the mechanics of gunpowder/firearms just not feeling very realistic in the battles.  (This is my opinion).  Also the attacks onto forts were just silly beyond belief.

I really liked Rome I and MTW II so I thought going back to Rome would be better for my interest.  To be honest one of the compelling reasons I bought Rome II was to test out a new graphics card I had recently purchased.  I wanted to see some large scale epic old school Hollywood cinematic battles.

Con

[Gusington]

Were you not happy with the battles?

[MengJiao]

Shogun 2, to me, is a real work of art.
Meng the upcoming TW is for the WH fantasy universe, not WH40K. Don't know if that makes a difference to you. To me, it definitely does.

I can see my carefully planned escape from being a TW fanboi may not turn out as planned.

[Gusington]

My work is finished here.