Thinking about buyin rome 2 total war/question about battle speed

**CallMeHarry** · September 19, 2014, 01:54 AM

Hello,

As stated in the title, I am thinking about buying rome 2 total war.

I've been playing TW since medieval 2. What always held me back from buying r2tw is the battle speed and kill rate.
Battles seemed to last only a couple of minutes in the let's play videos on youtube.

Has this improved after patches/in the emperor edition? Or do I have to rely on mods to lower the battle speed and kill rate?

**Garensterz** · September 19, 2014, 02:24 AM

If the battle speed is only your concern. Then just simply buy the game. Battles lasts much longer than the previous patches now, if your still not satisfied with it download a few mods that prolongs battles.

**PonySlaystation** · September 19, 2014, 02:30 AM

its much better since the EE came out. no units (except maybe plebs) are routing after 10s like they did before. even low and midtier units have some staying power now (f.e.: i played a MPC yesterday with a friend and my low-tier vigiles could hold the ground against his veteran legionaires for like 1-2 minutes...they still lost ofc but i had plenty of time to manouver my cav, skirmishers and flanking units to break his high quality core).

i have played 99% of the time with overhaul-mods (DeI + Radious) because of that until EE came out. now i saw myself playing the first time without any mods activated. campaign is playable and battles are (at least for me) enjoyable now.

still i dont like the vanilla unit variety but there are plenty excellent mods out there which you could use if you want to enhance the unit rosters.

**Ferdiad** · September 19, 2014, 05:57 AM

With some basic mods I find my typical siege battle 20+ min, field battles are a bit shorter but still ya it's well balanced.

**CallMeHarry** · September 19, 2014, 06:06 AM

Thanks! That was what I was looking for

**Totalheadache** · September 19, 2014, 06:08 AM

Wait for steam xmas sales..?

**DeliCiousTZM** · September 19, 2014, 07:24 AM

Just get DEI dude, battles never end there.

**CallMeHarry** · September 19, 2014, 08:10 AM

Well, when it's xmas I'll be playing far cry 4 and maybe something else. October just seems a nice month to play some total war. I know some good (legal) keysites, so I won't pay full price anyway

Thanks for the advice DeliCious, will look into that mod

**pyj99** · September 19, 2014, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by CallMeHarry

Hello,

As stated in the title, I am thinking about buying rome 2 total war.

I've been playing TW since medieval 2. What always held me back from buying r2tw is the battle speed and kill rate.
Battles seemed to last only a couple of minutes in the let's play videos on youtube.

Has this improved after patches/in the emperor edition? Or do I have to rely on mods to lower the battle speed and kill rate?

Good call - You will love the period, the variety and the improvement to AI

tbh vastly improved compared to Med 2

Battle speed are fine by me now - I had some sieges 30 min and most battles 15 minutes

**Huberto** · September 19, 2014, 10:12 AM

Is it the shortness of battles you dislike or the speed of units while in battle? Because units still move very rapidly and there is a not-so-cool-or fun-reason for it.

**EinScrub** · September 19, 2014, 03:23 PM

Rome II battles even pre-15 were slower than vanilla Rome 1 or vanilla Shogun 2 battles (as some of us conveniently forget). Battles are even slower now. With mods the battle speed is even slower than that.

**Duncan III** · September 19, 2014, 07:32 PM

If battle speed is your main concern, then I am sure that you will love it.

**HigoChumbo** · September 19, 2014, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by CallMeHarry

Hello,

As stated in the title, I am thinking about buying rome 2 total war.

I've been playing TW since medieval 2.

Since Medieval 2? Jeez you have missed 3 of my 4 favourite Total wars :S

**CallMeHarry** · September 20, 2014, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by Huberto

Is it the shortness of battles you dislike or the speed of units while in battle? Because units still move very rapidly and there is a not-so-cool-or fun-reason for it.

Well, both. But the unit speed doesn't bother me as much as the shortness of the battle (or kill rate). For me, empire had this right (the battle speed and kill rate that is). Napoleon had the units move a bit faster IIRC, which was fine but took some of the immersion out. Empire took the immersion out of battles as well, for different reasons. But let's not get into that shall we

Originally Posted by EinScrub

Rome II battles even pre-15 were slower than vanilla Rome 1 or vanilla Shogun 2 battles (as some of us conveniently forget). Battles are even slower now. With mods the battle speed is even slower than that.

Yep, I know, Thats the reason I never really got into FOTS. Which is a shame, because the time period is exactly my kinda thing. I never really played rome 1. I was 16 when it was released, so old enough. Just never got around to it.