Rome II Total Realism CCLXXII.BC Campaign (Beta 1.9230814)

[AngryTitusPullo]

Introduction

Current Build - Beta 1.9230814

* PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR NON-STEAM DOWNLOAD

A hot desert wind was forcing Gero to hold on tightly to the old walls of the settlement. He felt the tiny droplets of sweat trickling from his head, caused not by the near unbearable heat but by what he saw before him. Banners uncountable, a red sea flowing in waves over the Carthaginian coastline as men poured out of the galleys that had brought them here. They had returned, after all these years. He wondered about his men, if their defences were ready for this moment of truth. It wouldn't be more than three days before they would face the onslaught in its full splendour, the return of the monster hungry for gold, blood and glory. The return of Rome.


After months on semi-official open beta testing we are proud to announce the first official release for the Rome II Total Realism project, that will be known under the name Rome II Total Realism (CORE) Pack.

Find the download link for our Beta 1.9230814 Build here at Steam Workshop. Just click the subscribe button (while login in to your Steam account) and the build will be downloaded the next time you start the game.

For those unfamiliar with the RTR modding family, we'd like to explain what our core values are. The team is an international group of modding specialists with a special interest in history. Our two core values are and have always been a good combination between a challenging gameplay and increased historical accuracy, the 'realism'. This is achieved through a modding process supported by- and carried out in a constant dialogue with professional historians. We plan to work on historically accurate units, that will be enriched by detailed descriptions. Battles will be made more fun and challenging by a clever combination of coding and historical source information. All in all, we will attempt to modify the campaign mechanisms in such a way that we're able to provide you with a great and unique gaming experience.

Successor to Rome: Total Realism for RTW and dedicated to the mod that will make TW:R2 more realistic with unique features, stunning graphics, and in depth history to give the player an amazing experience. The current (Core) pack features are:

• Features

  Campaign:
  - City garrisons revamped
  - Campaign difficulty levels overhaul
  - Campaign attrition effects enchanced
  - Occupation options available to all factions (Occupy, Liberate, Sack etc..)
  - Characters experience is gained a bit slower to cope with 2TPY
  - Unit experience overhaul
  - Ground effects improvements
  - Various units upgrade options enhanced
  - Campaign Army and Navy stances overhaul
  - Unit replenishment overhaul
  - City public order overhaul
  
  Combat:
  - Fatigue effect overhaul
  - Morale redesign
  - Battlefield Climate effects improved, playing bigger role on battlefield
  - Adjusted gates for flaming attacks, survive much more now
  - Improved deployables, barricade size and durability increased
  - Complete Naval overhaul
  - Complete Combat overhaul
  - Overhaul of special abilities
  - Spotting and hiding enhanced
  - New slashing animations for all axes, maces and celtic longswords
  - Replaced Torches with fire pots
  - Siege tweaks
  
  Misc:
  - Startpos changes (starting armies, region changes etc).
  - Authentic (native) unit names
  - Army/Legion name changed
  - New loading/frontend screens
  - Changes in .loc files here and there for better immersion
  - 2 turns per year campaign. We'll get into more turns per year once we started on Era focus campaigns.
  

• Contributors

  Main Developers
  * ^OvO^, JaM, necronox
  
  2D Artwork
  * H0CHM31573R, Muizer, necronox
  
  3D Artwork
  * Splenyi
  
  Scripting
  * Causeless
  
  Music
  * Mackles
  
  Historians, Support & Testings
  * ahowl11, anunnak, Ballacraine, Caligula Caesar, Drtad, Finn, JohnnyG1823, La Tene, kepper, MasterOfThessus, Maurits, Mausolos of Caria, mcantu, moacyr, Orthanner, Quinn Inuit
  
  Tech & Forum Support
  * HouseOfHam
  
  Social Media Support
  * LestaT
  
  Former Developers
  * Bethencourt, Crymson, DaVinci, T.C.
  
  Credits
  * Axe Animation Fragment Mod - credits to AggonyDuck.
  * Realistic Unit Names - credits to Splenyi.
  * Ancient Colors - credits to Épaminondas The "Oblique".

Together, we look forward to start work and deliver a great, new gaming experience to you on this new engine. For now, just one question remains:

Are you ready for Rome?

So if you're interested please find the download link for our Beta 1.9230814 Build here at Steam Workshop. Just click the subscribe button (while login in to your Steam account) and the build will be downloaded the next time you start the game.

If you'd like to have more information, please check out our previews:

Rome II Total Realism Preview: The Mid - Republican Roman Army
Rome II Total Realism : (Weapons & Armor) Preview
Rome II Total Realism - Campaign mechanics previews
Rome II Total Realism - Day we burned the Gate - Siege Preview
Seas will never be the same - Naval Combat Overhaul for R2TR

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[14182]

- Replaced Torches with fire pots

This sounds the most promising! Must try a new campaign with R2TR after the completion of my current campaign

[Jakkka123]

This sounds awesome!

Could you maybe post a direct download link for manual install? Thanks

[AngryTitusPullo]

This sounds awesome!

Could you maybe post a direct download link for manual install? Thanks

As of now we do not provide thrd party download links as the file size is less than 100mb which is enough for Steam workshop.

[ToonTotalWar]

Non steam link would be appreciated

[bobbyr]

I tried this mod and so far the battles feel awesome!

Very, very, very slow kill rates. Units actually break from fatigue, low morale etc and not from kills suffered.

They rout for a couple hundred yards, then reform and reenter the battle. It's the most realistic combat system I've seen and played in any computer game so far. It's comparable to Darth's Gettysburg game.

If you want to finally win a battle you need to do it by using tactics and really forcing the AI into a trap.

Simple unit vs unit battles (the one with the better stats wins) doesn't work here. Atleast that's what I experienced in a couple of hours with the BETA.

It's super realistic, but also very hardcore. I love it, can't wait till it's out of BETA with more features and new textures

[Hazzard]

Am I rightnin assuming you will releasemthis in multiple parts like Radious?

[Brips]

Non steam link would be appreciated

If added in AIO mod, I wait to start a new campaign!

[ToonTotalWar]

If added in AIO mod, I wait to start a new campaign!

This mod will not be added in AIO as it is a standalone mod and compatibility will be a problem. RTR will be a beast of a mod and will be standalone such as DEI and Magnar mod etc..

This mod will also be given it's own forum

[LestaT]

Possible pre-alpha-early preview ?

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[crawe1]

I'll definitely be bookmarking this thread! Really great to see that RTR, one of the gold standards of TW modding, is up and running.

[Babel_fish]

RTR was the first Total War mod that I played and it was an eye-opener! Can't wait to see RTR on the Rome 2 engine. The beta looks very promising so far. Keep the previews coming!

[KAM 2150]

RTR was the first Total War mod that I played and it was an eye-opener! Can't wait to see RTR on the Rome 2 engine. The beta looks very promising so far. Keep the previews coming!

Same for me, instaling RTR on my RTW1 pushed me into world of mods Hope this project will do well

[Nochyan]

hm, gotta try this

[Sir_Pee_Alot]

Congratz with the first release of RTR II

Best of luck in the future hope to see more great updates.

[KOCEMON]

can you put the download to mediafire I mean to non-steam download site, I was fan of RTR since rtw1 and I really want to play it... steam works so bad in my country please publish an alternative download

[crawe1]

Yeah, would be great to have a non-Steam version (especially as the mod grows and develops).

Sorry if this has already been covered, but I'm assuming that you're currently just focusing on the officially unlocked factions. If so, do you guys plan to unlock some of the non-playable factions, such as Odrysians and Armenians, in future versions of the mod?

[DaVinci]

Nice to see R2TR in this forum-section now.

My best greetings to the teammates and best wishes for the project!

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Hey JaM and all fellows, who knows, if TW games, here R2 aka R2TR modding catches me again, and first and foremost RL allows it some day, i might come back to the team.
Whatever, i'm pretty sure some day i'll check-out (play) a R2TR version, latest when CA has completed pretty much its patching-work, thus R2TR can be "synchronized" properly.

[JaM]

no worries DV


we will put mediafire version soon, but it wont be updated as often as STEAM version..

[LestaT]

can you put the download to mediafire I mean to non-steam download site, I was fan of RTR since rtw1 and I really want to play it... steam works so bad in my country please publish an alternative download

Yeah, would be great to have a non-Steam version (especially as the mod grows and develops).

Due to constant patching and updates for it's very much easier for mod development that everyone have a single version. It was certainly very hard to maintain multiple hosts like in the old days. For the future, who knows but as of now the mod (file size) is not that large enough to merit external or third party hosting sites.

Sorry if this has already been covered, but I'm assuming that you're currently just focusing on the officially unlocked factions. If so, do you guys plan to unlock some of the non-playable factions, such as Odrysians and Armenians, in future versions of the mod?

How about Nova Carthago ?

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