Replayability

[Asgaroth]

The game will obviously have a large amount of replayability, but if we don't have modding support I don't see it lasting past the first few campaigns once you've done the 3-5 factions you were interested in playing.

Although it isn't everything, moding is very important, especially if they mess something up in the game(but I think the won't this time, at least not any major mistakes).

[money]

You can play as a bunch of different factions, all with different abilities and each being unique, so why not.

[hochmeister devin]

Ad long as the seleucid empires fully on the map ill play this game until my right index figure falls of fom over use.(or until a new game featuring the hellenistic states comes up)
Here are the number of games i predict having:
Seleucid empire: between 10 and 100
Ptolemaic empire: between 8 and 80
Kingdom of macedon: between 9 and 90
Greco-bactria: between 7 and 70
Rhodes: between 7 and 70
Pergamon: between 7 and 70
Rome: between 1 and 10
Carthage: between 1 and 10
Celtic factions(dont know any major tribes except boii and that game woukd be hard) between 1 and 30
Germanic factions(same as above): between 1 and 60
Armenia: between 1 and 10
Achean league: between 1 and 10
Crete: between 1 and 10
Bosphorus: between 1 and 10
Thracia: between 1 and 10
Bythynia between 1 and 10
Cappadocia: between 1 and 10 (this will be hard seleucid empire right beside you...)
Atropatene: between 1 and 10
Aetolian league: between 1 and 10
Sparta: 1


This assumes the game starts between 200 bc and 225.

[DarthRuanek]

Assuming you are correct about the factions, and I did the math properly, that means you'll play between 62 and 681 games. That's a pretty big range.

If those are all full games and you don't autoresolve, you will probably have played the game for a pretty long time.

[hochmeister devin]

Eh i account rage quits* into some of those(rhodes, crete, cappodocia, Bosporus)and i highly doubt CAs going to have the regions required to have all the hellenistic kingdoms in since thats would be 15 factions and didnt they say there only going to be 60?


may version of rage quits is quitting when your about to lose.

[DarthRuanek]

Eh i account rage quits into some of those(rhodes, crete, cappodocia, Bosporus)and i highly doubt CAs going to have the regions required to have all the hellenistic kingdoms in since thats would be 15 factions and didnt they say there only going to be 60?

I don't know if they stated a number of nations, but they may lump some of the Greek states together like in RTW. Many of them were pretty small, after all.

[hochmeister devin]

Yeah, theyll likely lump aetolian league, achean league and sparta together unless theres like 3 provinces in greece.
Bosporus may be absorbed by the scythians if CA is lazy(that would suck i want my phalangites and heavy cavalry to beat up those horse archers)
rhodes and crete may be lumped together.
Bythynia may be absorbed by pergamon.
Also many of these may not exist if they set the date earlier the 225 bc big ones would be greco-bactria, atropatene, and cappodocia.
Seleucid empire may be absorbed by canada


That leaves macedon, thracia and the Ptolemaic Empire which should be garented to be in.

[Colonel Dax]

If done correctly, the TW series should have nigh-infinite replayability.