Rome 2 : Total War

Awesome game, loving it. Battles can be a bit quick but then the Legions just smash anything I have met to bits. But I can spend ages just watching them marching along :).

Aiming the artillery yourself is fun, though you can get distracted from the rest of the battle :). Not got the knack of sea battles, my ships just break apart. Although I haven't done much research into improving them.

The banzai attacks when you capture the last of a factions' settlements could be made better, maybe the AI should try and regroup all it's forces that are left and make a decent attack on 1 settlement.

26 hours played, 2 crashes I think. Overall, love it. Bring on the patches and mods.
 
Has always been so satisfying to setup an ambush, even more so with the added fireballs in Rome 2. Only for the battle to be over within 30 seconds, with all the enemy forces routing whilst the battle is still 50/50.

What happened to units fighting to the death when surrounded? :/
 
How do you get more land generals? I have quite a big empire but only a handful of generals. means I can't expand and keep bandits at home at bay.

Can't build bigger towns are the food balance is so hard to keep!
 
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Vanilla said:
How do you get more land generals? I have quite a big empire but only a handful of generals. means I can't expand and keep bandits at home at bay.

Can't build bigger towns are the food balance is so hard to keep!
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Increase your imperium (on main faction page), it jumps to 6 generals when you filled the first bit of the bar. I think its judged by your interactions with other factions.
 
I'm still enjoying the game,

Read a few people mention battles over too quickly and enemy / your own forces route to quickly. I haven't found this an issue, on most occasions when the enemy start to run off, they run so far grow a pair of balls and come straight back into the fight. Even when they don't have a chance! Think it probably depends on what troops you have vs the enemy.
How do you get more generals? I have quite a big empire but only a handful of generals. means I can't expand and keep bandits at home at bay.
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Click on a city you own, and their is a button at the bottom that says "raise army" click this, a new tab will open showing available generals. In top left of new tab it shows you how many generals you can have, start of 3/3 then jumps up 3 when you expand to a certain point. I can have up to 9 at the moment.

Also with Rome being the main faction of the game as its based on them I thought they would be harder to take down! think I took over all Italy within 7 turns! steam rolled them! :D

Does anyone else feel like there isn't a huge variety of units to play with? I started with Sparta and don't seem to have had any new variety of troops to build since I could recruit archers.
 
Vanilla said:
How do you get more land generals? I have quite a big empire but only a handful of generals. means I can't expand and keep bandits at home at bay.

Can't build bigger towns are the food balance is so hard to keep!
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You are limited by your 'Imperium' level to fielding x number of armies at any one time. Are you at the limit?

e: beaten to it!
 
Playing as the Iceni (Brits) and am starting to get my head around certain elements of this game. However just went to end a turn and the message 'This faction has an unassigned tradition - The Woad Warriors'. What is this and what do I have to do about it?
 
robfosters said:
I hope that is the issue. If so, it totally vindicates my choice of spending another 10'er on a 4GB 670 instead of a 2GB one.
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I wouldn't count on it. People with 3 and 6 GB titans + 3gb 7970's are having performance issues.

I fixed the low texture problem by deleting the gfx.log file and ticking unlimited vram. Same performance, but with good graphics and no hitching.

The problem is some sort of strange cpu bottleneck even when using very fast CPU's. You can see by Moogleys screenshot that he still only has 60% gpu usage.
 
RaMDOM said:
Playing as the Iceni (Brits) and am starting to get my head around certain elements of this game. However just went to end a turn and the message 'This faction has an unassigned tradition - The Woad Warriors'. What is this and what do I have to do about it?
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You need to find the woad warrior and select them, at the bottom of the screen you will see some tabs and one will have a yellow ^ or with tradition it might be on there information when you select with a white card and a + on it. You select it and add a tradition which is a bonus like +1 cunning.
 
Diplexbullet19 said:
if that makes sense... lol
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No that was great thanks - sorted. Okay so now my main city gets disease. Is this a random event I can do nothing about? finally (for now ;) ), I get that I need to make money and food to support an army. I get that I need to research tech and build certain buildings to get certain units (however these feels immensely complicated right now) however, I am struggling on the diplomacy bits.

The main faction tab lists my main chief, and 'other chiefs'. who are they and where are they? for each of these guys I can adopt (wtf is that and what does it do for me) assassinate (why would I want to?) spread rumours, etc etc. there are three of them at the moment and only one has two options for him highlighted (adopt and spread rumours) the other guys I can do nothing to. what makes these options available to me?

Finally - trade - there is one faction who I am apparently on good terms with however the gits will not agree a peace treaty or trade agreement with me. I am thinking that I am going to have to wage war on these guys tbh.
 
trade seems bugged, I finally taken Athens as Sparta and can now trade but no one would accept my offers. When I went next turn I had 5 offers from factions I had just asked. I don't understand the politics part but I read somewhere that if you don't adopt them and they become popular they might rebel like Caesar did with Rome but don't quote me on that its just what I read before release.
 
This is my first real delve into a TW game even though I own others from steam deals. The problem I have is that it seems to have a high barrier to entry for someone new to the series and does not explain it self much on some complex game mechanics not seen outside of game like Civ and Crusader Kings. I am sure that people who play those sorts of games will completely understand the diplomatic route.

However for those of us coming from RTS, this seems to be unfathomable at the moment. I have read the Encyclopedia on the main tab and it explains gravitas and the like, but it does not seem to explain who the 'other chiefs' are where they are, what they mean to me and what any actions I take against them will do for me. It also does not explain how to get the actions against these guys enabled.

I can see myself liking this game; however at the moment I am more confused that in control.
 
RaMDOM said:
This is my first real delve into a TW game even though I own others from steam deals. The problem I have is that it seems to have a high barrier to entry for someone new to the series and does not explain it self much on some complex game mechanics not seen outside of game like Civ and Crusader Kings. I am sure that people who play those sorts of games will completely understand the diplomatic route.

However for those of us coming from RTS, this seems to be unfathomable at the moment. I have read the Encyclopedia on the main tab and it explains gravitas and the like, but it does not seem to explain who the 'other chiefs' are where they are, what they mean to me and what any actions I take against them will do for me. It also does not explain how to get the actions against these guys enabled.

I can see myself liking this game; however at the moment I am more confused that in control.
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Don't worry, I'm a TW vet from the original Shogun and I'm still trying to get my head around it :P

I've found that much is learned from experimentation. I know it should explain it better but learning from playing seems the usual way to go with these games >_> Often times the community is Very helpful as we can all share our experiences and tips.
 
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