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Divide et Impera is a great mod overhaul for it too
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I hear people talking up Divide et Impera for rome 2 but I look at their mod page and like the first thing they say is "2000 new units" and I'm immediately suspicious
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Mar 18, 2024 22:38
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They removed a lot of shared regional rosters and replaced them with unique ones.
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Mar 18, 2024 22:47
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There are some shared units but many factions have their own version of things and there's also regional auxiliaries for each province based on the level of your main settlement building so if you go to Syria you can get excellent armoured archers and elephants and if you go to Rhodes you can get slingers or horse archers from scythia. Then on top of that Rome and carthage can recruit buffed versions of regional units either as romanised auxiliaries or special mercenaries. It's pretty cool and makes each army feel unique based on where they've been, you'll have the elite native units from your imperial core but also armies pulled from the areas you've conquered which in some cases might be even better. There's a population system that changes how each faction recruits based on the social class of their warriors mainly, and also means recruiting foreigners is practically free so strong native troops are very valuable. Also each faction has one or more reforms they can go through which change their roster Its very cool and the units are beautiful (shout outs to my favs pergamon and medewi) , the engine is showing its age though and turn times are rough but at least I usually find I'm having to spend some time between turns thinking about the campaign layer since it's a little more complex than warhams but not as crazy complex as some mods I still play it every few months since there are always updates
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Playing around with DEI again and I think the campaign set to "normal" is almost as hard, or harder, than some Legendary campaigns in Warhammer.
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Mar 25, 2024 17:52
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Rome 2 is absolutely a great pickup. It's come a long way from the "the ships are tunnelling through the beaches" day's of the release.
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I love DeI but I also hate it because in every campaign I’ll eventually run into a reproducible crash during the AI turn and I have to end the campaign there.
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Mar 25, 2024 18:30
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Played a campaign of Shogun 2 thanks to the tv show. The visuals, soundtrack and atmosphere are still great. Colourful armies look fantastic against green summer fields and it's neat to spot little battlefield dramas playing out. What bothers me most on the strategy layer is the tech tree, where everything just takes far too long. This playthrough I aimed for matchlock samurai from the beginning, but was still 5 turns short when I finished the long campaign. If I had skipped the few economy techs I took, I might have trained some just in time for my victory parade. At least in the later Three Kingdoms game it didn't seem too difficult to get to neat endgame units thanks to the retinue system.
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Yeah I’ve been feeling that same urge to replay Shogun 2. The tech tree just takes a long time in the base game, so you have to prioritize what you want. Playing as a Christian diamyo can be a good idea if you want to tech quickly, since they get big research bonuses from their Missions. The Otomo also get early access to matchlock units, which means they can field them more consistently.
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Kaal posted:Yeah I’ve been feeling that same urge to replay Shogun 2. The tech tree just takes a long time in the base game, so you have to prioritize what you want. Playing as a Christian diamyo can be a good idea if you want to tech quickly, since they get big research bonuses from their Missions. The Otomo also get early access to matchlock units, which means they can field them more consistently. Pro tip: Get the shotgun cavalry. You won't regret it.
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Mar 30, 2024 10:50
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Yeah, the shogun 2 ai isn't good enough to justify the tech tree times. I found had to crank the difficulty up a bit to stop myself from rolling down the island with 3 armies (one on each side, one reinforcing whichever is weaker before splitting off to attack the middle of those 3 city sections)
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Apr 9, 2024 10:44
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Nethalin posted:Rome 2 is great. It's probably their most polished and easy to grasp, straightforward historical title. The graphics on a modern PC look excellent. The game design doesn't feel like it's aged at all. I think it's their best game that doesn't have elves in it. Polished? Are you serious? It's still filled with serious bugs.
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i havent had issues with rome 2 in the past five years, but it sure as poo poo aint the best historical when three kingdoms exists
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Apr 9, 2024 11:11
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To be fair he said most polished. Not that it was polished.
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Apr 9, 2024 11:11
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PirateBob posted:Polished? Are you serious? It's still filled with serious bugs. Like what? I didn't run into anything i'd consider serious the last time I played. Did I just get lucky?
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Apr 9, 2024 11:35
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dogstile posted:Like what? I didn't run into anything i'd consider serious the last time I played. Did I just get lucky? How about the one where the AI often can't disembark correctly during the many battles involving amphibious/marine units, leaving ships motionless where you can't even attack them? It locks the battle and the only way out is to admit defeat even though you'd easily win it under normal conditions. Or the one where AI units get stuck on gates.
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Guess I got lucky, I didn't get that  I did get one unit stuck on a gate but that was remedied by me firing a catapult at it, which unstuck them.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:54
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I mean if your only gonna call a game polished if it has no bugs than A TW is never gonna clear that bar
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Apr 9, 2024 15:01
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Wrong, FOTS is the most polished game in the world. Nobody can convince me otherwise.
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