Rome II General Info Thread

[Zanze]

When in doubt, more peltasts.

[Banok]

pikes have been nerfed 3 or 4 times since launch, altho they were ridonkulus back then - I've never enjoy playing hellenic which is most factions because pikes made it too easy. duno if this spacing thing is specific nerf to pikes might be side effect, I thought it was to help stop the clusterfucking.

[Butan]

Yeah back then it was OP.

Patch 6 it was just hella stronk as long as its flanks and rear were protected. You could control a street in a siege attack/defense just placing one unit there and forgetting about it. It was the landmower of siege fights.

Now you really have to pump up the pikes quality (pikemen or silver shields) if you want to be sure they will hold, even frontally, a good enemy charge.
They became costier to maintain in your army, while being less efficient. They really became the Anvil of the Alexandrian's armies, they cannot work alone and kill as fast as before. Now you need the Hammer (infantry/cavalry charge) to work with the Anvil.

[Adamar]

They where supposed to be stronger than other infantry. Fucking whinners.

[Xant]

Except not; the Romans were forced to modernize their army after a defeat caused by their use of old tactics. After they stopped relying on pike formations, they became the Roman Empire that we now know.

[Tom Cruise]

#MARIUSREFORMS

Soooooooooooooo when is patch 7 going to officially come out? Hasnt it been a few weeks since the announcement/patch notes/beta?

[Butan]

its out nao


Baktria free-lc coming soonish too.

[Tom Cruise]

its out nao


Baktria free-lc coming soonish too.

Shit son. So do I have to turn off the beta in order for it to update?

[Adamar]

Except not; the Romans were forced to modernize their army after a defeat caused by their use of old tactics. After they stopped relying on pike formations, they became the Roman Empire that we now know.

Maniples are only better at mobility. Pike phallanxes where supposed to beat every other type of infantry out there through the front!

Ah well, there's always mods.

[Butan]

Shit son. So do I have to turn off the beta in order for it to update?

As soon as the beta becomes "official", it disappear from the beta options and you get the automatic update, whether you opted in or not (sometimes the official patch have some more patch than the beta one, hence the redownloading..)

[Banok]

yeah most the "beta" patches didn't get changed when they release. its mostly a safety net for them. I think maybe one of the beta patches actually had bugs and felt like beta, but you can basically treat them like early releases of the patches.

I'm not sure if baktria will be fun (for me), similiar roster to selecuid, way too many powerful units. I really want more non hellenic factions, I enjoyed nomads more even tho they have tiny roster just because they play differently and are more challenging.

[Ronin]

I'm still playing medieval 2, with stainless steel. Does it worth getting rome at this moment? If not, I'm thinking of waiting for more. Can someone illuminate me about the subject?

[Banok]

I'm still playing medieval 2, with stainless steel. Does it worth getting rome at this moment? If not, I'm thinking of waiting for more. Can someone illuminate me about the subject?

Rome 2 is actually quite different from previous games in the total war series. For me alot of those differences are positive, some are negative. For most "total war fans" everything is negative, the game changed therefore the sky is falling.

Even tho I like rome 2, I would only recommend it if you weren't going to play the game above normal difficulty anyway.

[Taser]

Rome 2 is actually quite different from previous games in the total war series. For me alot of those differences are positive, some are negative. For most "total war fans" everything is negative, the game changed therefore the sky is falling.

Even tho I like rome 2, I would only recommend it if you weren't going to play the game above normal difficulty anyway.

Really?

[[ptx]]

I guess he meant, he recommends it, if you've played the previous games mostly just on normal difficulty.