Rome II General Info Thread

[Xelaris]

i hope they don't go for holiwood effects into battles

[Ninja_Khorin]

So they lost you like 8 titles ago. Fair enough.

[Gnjus]

http://uk.gamespot.com/total-war-rome-ii/videos/total-war-rome-ii-battle-of-teutoburg-forest-walkthrough-6407363/?tag=Topslot%3BTotalWarRomeIi%3BTotalWarRomeIiBatt
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LoL the best thing is how I watched 2 or 3 documentaries about Teutoburg Forrest (Varrus, Arminius, etc) just a few weeks ago and I'm quite familiar with this. 

[Jarlek]

LoL the best thing is how I watched 2 or 3 documentaries about Teutoburg Forrest (Varrus, Arminius, etc) just a few weeks ago and I'm quite familiar with this. 

Link to the documentaries? If they are good that is

[Gnjus]

Link to the documentaries? If they are good that is

Well not all of them are good I think but in more then one there is this little old & bald German guy who is an expert on the matter, (googles his name.......)......ah yes - Siegmar von Schnurbein. 

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One of them is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0R5QdYssWk (has a part II as well), i think the other one was a part of some 4-part series and there was some "hosted" by a brittish writer who made his own "conclusions" on the matter, cant really find all that stuff atm but its interesting how different documentaries on the same subject made in a several years time period can give so many different opinions and conclusions. At one point the guy even says something like: "Is it really all-positive that Arminius saved the nation which centuries later "produced" Knitler (cant write the real name obviously) & such ?" A bit over the top if you ask me but still interesting. 

[Reppu]

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I want Rome II now!

[ThePoopy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dB9stwC2wBA

[okiN]

Even Pontus before Seleucids? That's really surprising. They were far less of a player.

Anyway, it's great that we're getting it for free. It seems like there's hardly any big-budget devs around who still do that sort of thing.

[donib]

And then you regret you put away your game pc in order to focus on studies 

[okiN]

Well, it's not coming out for a while yet, so you have nothing to worry about.

Speaking of which, they were rather unsubtly hinting we might expect some more free extra content as well, hopefully that means at least one more faction. Seems plausible, they have time for it before release.

[Casimir]

Well, it's not coming out for a while yet, so you have nothing to worry about.

Speaking of which, they were rather unsubtly hinting we might expect some more free extra content as well, hopefully that means at least one more faction. Seems plausible, they have time for it before release.

well the fact they said it was the 'first free dlc' would definitely suggest they will do more and that there will be paid dlc as well.

[okiN]

Yes, exactly. However, "more free DLC" could mean, for example, that they'll add in another custom battle or two, or something like that. After all, they need to save SOMETHING for the paid DLC. Obviously everyone will be hoping it's more factions though, so fingers crossed. It'd be nice if the paid DLC was just extra unit packs and other less essential stuff like it was with Empire and Napoleon, and factions were added for free. Though probably it'll be a mix, eg we might get one more faction for free, and others added post-release will have a price tag.

[bruttus]

i have 1 question in mine mind
how many turns
is it around 200 turns, since Medieval II Total War  to Shogun II or is +300 turns, like Rome I Total War

[okiN]

Good question. And it's not just the number of turns that should concern us, but the number of years as well. Rome and Medieval covered several centuries, Empire spanned one century, but Shogun and Napoleon only took place over a few decades. Since we've been shown the siege of Carthage in trailers, the game will probably open around the second century BC, and Teutoburg puts us in the AD, so maybe it'll run for 200-300 years or so?

[Overdriven]

Yeah so I guess the question is will turns be half a year or seasons...