Rome II General Info Thread

[Adamar]

Why'd you show me this???? ffs still 20 days to go!


Those phallangites ran like troglodites...

[Hunter_the_Honourable]

Some of the kill animations, in this video they show phalanx's nd sheet.  :mrgreen:

[Bulzur]

Amazing, it looks just like the video we watch after clicking on Poopy's link 4 posts earlier !


The animations looks good. They even thought about the stupid/rude/bothersome interviewer who always talked about elephants, and added some death animations for them.

[Butan]

If every land troops formations are as mastered as that one, this gonna be good.

Love how the advancing phalanxes completely wipes the other one : someone can tell from the look of it which kind of troop it is ?

[ThePoopy]

macedonian elite vs pike levy

[Hunter_the_Honourable]

macedonian elite vs pike levy

No wonder they won.

[Tovi]

Agents and tech tree :

[Bulzur]

Nice Traits.
Wonder how many will be proposed to you for each level up.
I remember saving my game when my general in Shogun 2 was going to win a battle and level up, just to get the good retainers, and not an useless one...

[okiN]

I really hope the agents and generals level up fast enough this time. I found the agent and general leveling speeds to be too slow in Shogun 2, I found it hard to max them out before the campaign was all but over and it was also a race against their life spans. While they've said it'll be faster in Rome 2, that's obviously just a necessity due to time passing multiple times faster in this game. It remains to be seen whether they'll all be on their deathbeds before they hit the level cap.

[Butan]

I really hope the agents and generals level up fast enough this time. I found the agent and general leveling speeds to be too slow in Shogun 2, I found it hard to max them out before the campaign was all but over and it was also a race against their life spans. While they've said it'll be faster in Rome 2, that's obviously just a necessity due to time passing multiple times faster in this game. It remains to be seen whether they'll all be on their deathbeds before they hit the level cap.

Idk for agents but at least for armies you will have the tradition perks forever.

[okiN]

Yeah, that sounds like a good feature, but it's irrelevant to agent and general leveling speed.

I do wonder just how long it will take to fully level an army's traditions as well, though. Pretty much the whole campaign or less?

[Butan]

I hope it will be slow since its perma, and agents/general relatively fast since they can die.

Even though in one video they said they added the "wounded" event for agents so they cant die so easily. Like some generals in Napoleon Total War.
Maybe they added that to agents AND generals and they die really rarely now, so that they can level up slowly without hampering gameplay?

We will know in 2 weeks 

[okiN]

They already had that in Shogun 2. A partial success on an agent action meant they would be wounded instead of assassinated, put in jail instead of executed, etc. Applied to both agents and generals.

[Bulzur]

I certainly do hope Armies don't level up too fast.
The fact that an decimated army still has his full tradition, for his next full "recruitment", would mean any warmongers would always have high level armies. Take your time defeating one in your provinces, the time you take to go to theirs, it will be back full, same name, only new recruits.

We also don't know what happens to Veterans when the army they're in are defeated. I do hope they have a 50% chance at least of dieing.

The fact that agents/generals are also "hard" to kill, means that the AI will be using them for ever. And since you'e usually at war with more states, you can really have a hard time killing all thoses spies and veterans telling your own slaves to rebel.

Guess diplomacy will be more important.

[okiN]

We also don't know what happens to Veterans when the army they're in are defeated. I do hope they have a 50% chance at least of dieing.

AFAIK there's no reason to think that's changed at all. I'm pretty sure that if a unit gets wiped out, it's permanently lost and won't replenish, like always.

The fact that agents/generals are also "hard" to kill, means that the AI will be using them for ever. And since you'e usually at war with more states, you can really have a hard time killing all thoses spies and veterans telling your own slaves to rebel.

I dunno if there's anything new here either, maybe Butan was just confused and forgot about the wounded feature in Shogun 2. Anyway, agents and generals will be in much faster rotation due to the time scale. You'll get 50 turns of use out of them if you're lucky.