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Swedes love to self-flagellate; they're incorrigible ethnomasochists. They also love to hate Nazis, who they see everywhere and blame for - among other things - the failure of their multi-cultural...

We are not occupying Syria or Iraq. The reason for middle eastern conflict is the same as it has always been, power and religious sectarianism. The foreign policy of messianic, neo-liberal western...

No, in my opinion MTW2 was the best Total War to date.

They also seem to have removed the bonus fighting infantry that sword units get. Can anyone else confirm this? I modded my game, and though I've disabled the mod that removed this bonus, I'm paranoid...

This how you kill the Total War franchise.

I know I certainly wouldn't buy fantasy trash.

1. Macedon
2. Carthage
3. Seleucids

It's all part of the industry-wide dumbing down of games, an aspect of which is euphemistically known as 'streamlining' - the ostensible removal of 'bloat', or features and mechanics deemed...

Do you really think that the US has to be actually pumping the oil to benefit from it? Saddam threatened to start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar. Incidentally, so did Gaddafi. That...

Not buying, so didn't vote. I don't care for the content of the campaign, so CA aren't getting any more of my money - especially as the main game is still so poor.

Your formula is wrong.

There comes a point where Total War stops being Total War. If you keep altering your product to chase new customers who didn't buy your old product, you will eventually...

Please show proof that they were ever making games at a loss. We do not want or expect them to lose money on their games, however we do not want them to chase profit to a level which is to the game's...

I don't think any victory that makes use of Oathsworn and Averni Noble cavalry counts...

My God, I hope someone does something about the hoplites in this game. Because of the way combat mechanics work, units in the tightly packed phalanx formation actually perform less effectively than...

This rock-paper-scissors is reductive, 'gamey' and completely unrealistic. It doesn't belong in the Total War series. In single combat a swordsman has quite an advantage, but in formation this isn't...

Hoplites are absolutely terrible. I'm surprised they don't get mentioned more around here. They get mauled in melee by all other types of medium and heavy infantry - and they aren't even very good...

Pretty much this.

Though admittedly they have screwed the balance up a little with this patch.

That's it! I tried again without minimizing the db file (that is what you mean by optimizing, right?) in the pack, and it worked fine. Thanks! Are there consequences though for not optimizing?

And...

OK, I'm still having problems. If you could have a look at my file pack file, that would be great!

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Yes, they should be legal. I'm only changing three values, charge, melee attack and melee defence for one unit at the moment. As I said I'm new to this, so I might be making some elementary mistake....

I'm having some problems getting the game to recognize my changes. I altered the stats of a unit, imported land)units and main_units tsv into the pack provided (I'm new to this and haven't yet worked...

I've noticed something a little odd. Many of the units' stats don't match those in the encyclopedia.

I decided I was going to start balancing cavalry because they're a joke at the moment...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFYhKXSBz3g

Just a reminder to those who consider Cataphracts overpowered.

Don't forget Parthia's other major problem. Her Cataphracts are underpowered. These should be the best cavalry in the game, but thanks to poor stats and CA's arbitrary creation of 'melee' and 'shock'...

This is nonsense. In what way is this effectively different from saying 'light infantry should beat heavy infantry because heavy infantry are weighed down by armour and can't brawl as effectively...

I was wondering how this mod affects cavalry? Has decreasing the lethality of combat reduced the effect of charges - specifically cavalry charges? Shock cavalry are (arguably) underpowered as it is....

No, it's still drivel. Your reference shows a decline in PC sales and an increase in tablet sales. I don't see the corollary of this being a decrease in PC games sales - and certainly not a...

What is this, 2003? PC games are doing better than they have in over a decade. Back in the day, you couldn't browse a gaming website or forum without finding an article or seeing someone declaring...

Shocking stuff. CA must have made a mistake with the Cataphracts stats. Have you brought this up on the official forums? These are armoured men on armoured horses belonging to a faction renown for...

I only notice the AI do this when it's been more or less defeated and only has a few units left. I like it. It makes a change from the way you had to chase a dead factions last few stragglers around...

I don't actually think client states automatically join your wars if you are the aggressor. You have to have agreed to a 'military alliance' with them. But I'm not certain about this.

Edit: Have...

This, my God, this! I find my self checking the forum every few hours to see if someone has managed to do something about the abominable combat speed.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm glad to see so many people on the official forums feel the same way about the battle speed.

It's too strong. Again. Like in Rome 1.

There are plenty of things in Rome 2 I'm concerned about (battle speed, poor AI, fantasy units, garish colors), but the UI isn't one of them.

I think there is a trait that adds something like 8 hit points to a general, though i can't remember what it is. :shocked:

What is the point of this topic? The first post makes absolutely no assertions and seems to ask no questions.

I'm British, and I wasn't aware that British attrocities were being covered up or...

You may be surprised to hear this but there's lots of Nazi themed restaurants in Asia. I remember, a few years ago, seeing a news story about a Japanese diner in particular, where all the waitresses...

Wh-what? There's someone here denying the holocaust?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Holocaust_denial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial

That's all I can be bothered...

Israel has balls? Flying around the skies - which you have total control over - and dropping bombs on enemies who don't even have surface to air missiles hardly takes 'balls'. And Israel's army more...

Hell, I wish I could get a job at McDonald's, at least until university starts in September. I've been looking all summer for any old menial, crappy minimum wage job, and have applied for loads, with...