It's not a tremendous change, but there are a few new cities (Sicily now has three, for example) and some new factions punching each other's teeth out. What begins as a shaky alliance between Octavian, Mark and their numismatist buddy Lepidus, each of them grasping for more control of their respective corners of the Mediterranean, inevitably collapses into infighting.Īll this plays out across a map subtly altered to reflect our turning to a different page of the history book. Rome is split into factions so taut that all politics becomes a fraught shimmy along an electrified tightrope. The new campaign is set just after the death of Julius Ceasar, with Octavian, Mark Antony, Lepidus and Pompey's son Sextus all vying for control of the Republic. Benefiting from several updates, bolstered by the new Imperator Augustus expansion and now titled as the Emperor Edition, Total War: Rome 2 has filled out. The enemy reinforcements aren't here yet? What a shame. While Rome 2 can't be given a wholly clean bill of health, it's in better shape than it was at release, when I wrote Eurogamer's original Total War: Rome 2 review. It was a bit of a pain, as a number of things in Total War: Rome 2 are a bit of a pain, but it didn't really get in the way of my continental ambitions and, more importantly, it didn't stop me from enjoying myself. None of the time controls worked until a crash to desktop had me restarting the game. A journey back through the main menu allowed me to rescue my destiny courtesy of an autosave, and so this didn't become one of those stories of how a kingdom was lost for want of a snack, but I did face a compromise. When I came back, everything all browned and buttered, Total War: Rome 2 refused to unpause. My lunch popped up and so I paused the pitched battle I was waging with another local tribe - a pivotal battle where I had a numerical advantage, but nevertheless had to press home my assault. However, if you have a large empire, fighting major wars on two (or more) fronts with several armies, then a unit which is almost as effective with cheaper unpkeep can be worth using.The Getae civilisation was nearly destroyed by two slices of toast. Recruiting one Scythian Hoplite instead of one Holite makes very little difference, I admit. The upkeep for Scythian Hoplites is slightly less. If you're expanding against (some) eastern factions, ordinary hoplites are overkill against units such as Young Axes and Persian Hoplites.

I had that reaction to Steppe Hoplites (I think they're called Scythian Hoplites) too. I never understood why their Steppe Hoplites were from a Tier 4 building while their Greek Hoplite which if I remember is on par if not better armour and defense wise from a tier 1 building. Although their regular infantry are a bit meh. They also have some nomad units (meaning horse archers) and a great starting pos Oh yeah I forgot about them! Yeah their archers are on par with Seleucids. Originally posted by DKADIZ:Cimmeria has also good archers if not the best.

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