I don't know that the AI is smart enough to hire and disband as needed on a strategic basis, rather than either never using its levies (not ideal) or using them as standing army and choking to death...
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I don't know that the AI is smart enough to hire and disband as needed on a strategic basis, rather than either never using its levies (not ideal) or using them as standing army and choking to death...
Completely setting aside that that'd be illegal, I think at this point it's believed that the M2TW source code was lost.
The vanilla spears are a tad short, but it also 'helps' that the spear animation set deliberately holds them so far forward of the point of balance as to make range nearly equal to a sword,...
Well, I suspect part of the reason they don't have capturing is that they didn't want to make versions of each hull crewed by soldiers from each major culture. They couldn't just give you the unit as...
To be fair, from an observational standpoint, the relative credibility of the claim that it's a loaded or double faced coin will have skyrocketed, as that's rather more plausible than 999 50:50s,...
To be fair, that button isn't present in Custom Battle, so if you don't often get the opportunity to do a proper campaign it's easy to miss.
There's so much on the plate already anyway. We can worry about the extent to which a Trotskyite state of 'Permanent Overhaul' is desirable when it's a more immediate question, no?
It very much depends what one means by 'shield wall'.
If it's referring to a closely spaced, well disciplined group of heavy infantry, absolutely.
When referring to a physical wall of shields a...
I'm really liking these recent 'distilled' rosters - all the bases covered, iconic appearances and concepts for each unit, and so much less roster bloat. I hope the rest of the Celts can look forward...
To be fair, CA have tried a few ways to make a new challenge for the end game, but none have stuck. Shogun 2 Realm Divide, the Civil War in Rome 2 - they try to shake up the "get more powerful, stuff...
Well, you need a lot of things to go right to turn a one-off invention into a common innovation. Most importantly, you need people with the resources to make more, to decide it's a worthy idea to do...
And they even went this way in later incarnations of the series. Garrison scripts may be a sub-optimal way of doing that thing, but you work with the engine you've got.
That sounds rather like you're running an illegitimate copy of the game. Pirated software isn't supported here.
See also these historical records: https://imgur.com/a/K1utf
So, the Seleucid empire, the Ptolemies, Pyrrhus - they had the best scholars the Hellenic world had to offer.
But we're not giving them credit for making an incredibly basic connection, it's...
Well, hey, it was said of the Thracians that the only reason they didn't conquer the world was that they enjoyed fighting too much, and so never turned their attention outward because they could more...
Plus, wasn't having another dang army are you kidding after each major defeat to a large extent the Romans' whole thing? I think Pyrrhus and Hannibal would have made some angry forum posts about the...
In that model, as far as I know they do it just the same way as pikemen do - once the second rank have lowered their spears, that spearhead is out (at rest, not extension) past the man in front,...
There are quite a few mods trying for that label, with varying perspectives and styles. It's not really valid to declare one better or worse at being historical than the others, because they're all...
Started up a Sweboz Grand Campaign, and so far am floored by the combat system. Smashing work!
Did notice an oddity, however. In the mercenaries on hand, there were some Spearwomen units - I was a...
This one's actually a really easy fix - when you open the mod interface view in the Steam launcher (below 'Friends Online'), and then look at the area underneath the Play button, there's a checkbox...
This is an unmoddable Rome 2 'feature', regrettably. That being said, the mod has made some major changes to counter this, according to JaM's recent postings in the preview thread (not sticky, but...
For reference, as a random mostly-monolingual American English (mid-to-upper Hudson area) native, if you asked me to pronounce that word and I wasn't specifically trying to figure how it would sound...
Coming back to the older incarnations of the series from the newer, I find myself missing key quality of life features. One of these losses is felt more strongly than any other:
I speak, of...
The best example of this is what happened when Paradox licensed a pair of mod teams to make games with their Clausewitz engine. One imploded in a fireball of recriminations, and the other failed to...
And in total war, most of those just aren't possible like they would be in real life. In the real world, if you have control of the gates and they can't wrest it back, and the only thing stopping...
Well, a sword cut, cudgel upside the head, or solid spear thrust would ruin your whole week as well, but most mods still use the HP system. The main reason for that is abstraction - the stuff...
They're among the best units, yes, but because Leugoz don't have any middle ground. There's the commoner troops, and the elites, and unless I'm missing something major very little room between them....
I know one mod (Vae Victus?) features slingers with an alternate mode of effectively Ni rate of fire at short range - they don't throw at an insane rate (the number is like five digits long), but...
I get it that it's frustrating - but CA is one of the best in the business. Certainly the best AAA outside of Firaxis, when it comes to modding. As for the 'broken'-ness, the only comparable games...
Or like building the appropriate tools or structuring the stuff in a way as to be easily moddable would have been expensive, time consuming and they decided to better spend the time on game stability...
The overarching problem with them being rated as solid straight-line attacking units (which I think was often accurate) is that Total War cannot represent their major weakness - they weren't able to...
I think the thing they were going for is that the ability to cut through armored targets is very, very limited. Flesh is easy, but a couple layers of linen, let alone a bit of bronze, and you'll have...
One thing worth noting is that armor values are not fully applied to every blow, it's a random roll that determines how much damage is actually mitigated. So if a shield (or shirt of mail) is worth...
In an Egypt game, I had all the Class 1 and 3 in my capital of Alexandria disappear. I had no Noble units in play except my generals bodyguards, and I don't think I had used ~40k Class 3 in a few...
Seconding that this is awesome
One minor observation - the Lugians seem to have very few options for using their warrior class. Their baseline units are all commoners, and the 'high quality' units...
Does this update the reform scripts to occur on the right calendar years?
7zip is a free, open source and high quality alternative, pretty much the 'industry standard' these days as far as I know. http://www.7-zip.org/
On the issue of names, I'd actually argue in the opposite direction from the split. Name flavor is good, but knowing what your units are is essential. Particularly in the absence of complete...