Rome II General Info Thread

[okiN]

Hmm, have there been any reveals about sea combat so far? I've realised, that this might actually be one of the things to have some of the greater changes - because galley combat at that time involved a lot of ramming. I wonder how that would work out and if it would make sea battles a lot more tactical and deep (no pun intended lol)?

I've been assuming that in general it's going to be a lot like the sea combat in Shogun 2, archery and boarding. Probably the bigger ships will have cooler stuff like ballistae on them. As for ramming, we saw that already in Fall of the Samurai. I think it'll probably work pretty much the same as there, i.e. a cooldown ability giving increased speed, less turning rate, and damage on collision.

[Havoco]

Don't forget flamethrowers.   

Okay, there probably won't be flamethrowers, but you never know.

[bruttus]

Well, if they actually follow the history on seabattles, yes, allot of ramming
but if i'm not wrong, Roman ships had on a certain time, cata's on there ships, or even the corvus (boardingplank if i'm not wrong)
so there will be a small difrents then with shogun 2

[Overdriven]

Pre-order on steam is now £30 with Greek Cities. Buy people buy! It may be an error.

[okiN]

It's showing the same price as before here, 55 euros.

[Lt_Anders]

Green man gaming was doing another 25% off coupon thingy.($45 or whatever Euros that is)

[okiN]

Yeah, he was talking about the Steam store though.

[Overdriven]

Yeah I'm talking about steam and you get the greek cities pack.

[okiN]

UK only I guess. Typical.

[Leesin]

UK only I guess. Typical.

Yeah, we are awesome.

[Xant]

UK only I guess. Typical.

Steam really, really hates euros.

[Turboflex]

Can you blame them?

[Lt_Anders]

Can you blame them?

Eh even US didn't get the deal. You should watch what you say there
I still believe Green Man Gaming is running it for 25% off.

[Xant]

It's not even about the deal. Steam likes to do stuff like ask 45 dollars and euros for a game. Even though euros are worth a lot more.

Or at least used to do that.

[Overdriven]

Maybe they decided to make up for it because they've done that to us in the UK for years. Charge $30 dollars for a game, clearly for the UK it has to therefore be £30 to make it fair. Steam logic.