Rome II General Info Thread

[[ptx]]

If it were 2-3 jav throwers, then yeah. Problem is, he attacks me with 2 armies, each with like 5+ jav thrower units. My cav gets in range and gets insta-obliterated, kataphractoi or not. Same fate awaits everthing else i got - and i got rank4+ pikemen, thorax pikemen, thorax swordsmen and plenty of persian archers and slingers, all with improved weaponry and armor, with army traditions and general skills giving them better defense, attack and whatnot.

[Butan]

Cav throwers are exceptional units in the hands of the AI since they can micro manage them to perfection (until they run out ammo and decide to charge head-on into closest wall of pikes).

My bet would be to never send any infantry/cavalry frontally, against any cav ranged, if you dont have a crazy amount of them and are ready to sacrifice some. Especially against those horse ranged that have the "fire whilst moving" and "parthian shot" combined, which means they can kite and attack you while they are running away.

In your example, I would suggest keeping your cavalry behind your main line and use archers/slingers to focus-break/kill each cav throwers until you can safely advance your melee.

[[ptx]]

It's not cav throwers, it's infantry throwers, they're significantly more powerful :/

My ranged can easily destroy any ranged cavalry.

[Butan]

Misread, then it shouldnt be hard to pin them down 

Also good way to counter infantry javelin is other infantry javelin to bait-counter them, while you move other units to obliterate them.

[[ptx]]

Enemy army composition: 30% infantry jav-throwers, 40% various infantry spam, 10% various ranged infantry, 10% cavalry, 10% ranged cavalry. His infantry spam moves straight into my line, pinning my infantry, his jav throwers are directly behind their infantry, obliterating my infantry line at super-speed, his cavalry intercepts my cavalry trying to attack his jav throwers, which then gets insta-obliterated by the nearest jav thrower unit.

My ranged troops don't have enough firepower and enough time to destroy his jav throwers and it appears i don't have enough cavalry, however high quality they are.

I don't have access to jav throwers, afaik, outside of mercenaries :/

It seems Baktria is quite helpless against such an army composition, outside of making specialised armies, that would still be quite inefficient and would suck against most other threats i get to fight against.

[Overdriven]

Yeah co-op campaigns work fine. We've been running ours for a while now.

[Adamar]

Anyone else having really low fps today?

[Butan]

Yes, and if its only today is great  but I think it will still be here tomorrow.

[Banok]

I played fine with corsair the other day, briefly because my ally as averni inexplicably desided to backstab me and wipe me out by like turn 5. WTF

But me and my brother have alot of issues in co-op yesterday, battles are slow mo/choppy as fuck, cant speed up. made even worse by DeI since that is already slo mo, and needs to be x4 even in multiplayer half the time.

[[ptx]]

For me, fast forward doesn't even work, it's same speed as forward, which is just barely faster than normal speed :/

What gives?

[//saxon]

fuckin hell your sig is deadly jesus..

[Butan]

For me, fast forward doesn't even work, it's same speed as forward, which is just barely faster than normal speed :/

What gives?

If the game lags horribly (for whatever reasons), fast forward doesnt work and sometimes slow down the game, since fast forward basically force the game to load more things in a shorter timeframe.

If there is no lag it should be faster/slower according to the speed you selected.

[Adamar]

Is there a decent mod that rearranges the UI to free the center of the screen from the unit cards?

[Siiem]

http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-attila-expansion-introduces-the-empires-of-sand/

When I make a sand monkey joke I get a "warning" and a "mute"

When CA does it, it costs money...

This world is gravely injustified.

[Xant]

Great Engrish as always, Siiem.