Rome II General Info Thread

[Overdriven]

Yeah I remember a discussion over AI aggression in Empire total war. It was pretty much straight up a case of the more territories you gain, the more gold you have, the more likely it is that random AI will just declare war on you because the diplomacy is all about numbers and literally works on a +/- system. So if you get enough - points with various factions they will declare war on you regardless. And expansion is one of the main causes of that even if you are no where near the AI who declared war or have been allied with them for half the game.

[ThePoopy]

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2013/07/10/rome-2-total-war-battle-of-the-nile

[okiN]

How many videos do we need of that battle? Show us something new already, goddamn.

[[ptx]]

How many videos do we need of that battle? Show us something new already, goddamn.

Watch it, it's from the other side, he's playing as Romans, and winning.

[Adamar]

In my experience that's how they have been from the start. It's actually kind of a pain in the ass in my opinion, I just get more and more factions declaring war on me for no real reason and there's nothing I can do about it except kill them. Even bribery rarely keeps them out of my hair for long, and long-time allies seem to have no qualms about suddenly joining the bandwagon.

In my experience up to medieval 2, The more territories you gain, the easier the game gets. And that got boring quickly, making a guy borequit and startover without ever conquering the rest of the map

[Miley]

So they don't have a Spain faction right? Disappoint >_______<

[Lord_Bernie_of_Voodoo]

So they don't have a Spain faction right? Disappoint >_______<

DLC.

[Taser]

DLC.

Fuckers.

[Adamar]

Moders will find a way!

[Dergol]

looking good.

[Lord_Bernie_of_Voodoo]

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/70316-ROME-II-interactive-Campaign-Map?s=3e399547b0e40f32e89b53346ce28383

Official map showing all factions, provinces, mercenary units, etc. Interesting that the Iceni or Suebi don't start out with any specific trade good production - maybe you can't trade with anyone unless you expand into other territories? I also found it interesting that central - south Germany have Celtic factions and mercenaries and not Germanic.

[Lt_Anders]

Wow, that's pretty neat. Seleucids are big. They def going to be a DLC faction

Sigh.... Bactria is pretty big too there. Lots of neat info in game from that map. I can't wait for it now.

[okiN]

It's a nice-looking map. My picks for most likely DLC factions are the Seleucid Empire, Cantabri, Scythia, Getae, Baktria and Armenia, in that order.

I also found it interesting that central - south Germany have Celtic factions and mercenaries and not Germanic.

The Celts were very widespread at this time, the Germanic migrations only took place centuries later.

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[Bulzur]

Cretan archers !

Definitely need to recruit thoses, there's still available in the exact same provinces than the first Rome.

[okiN]

It's funny how much the influence of the EB mod shows in this game. Faction, province and settlement naming conventions are the same, and even unit names have been copied from it (I doubt eg Illyrian coastal levies would be in there if not for EB). I bet those guys feel kind of cheated.