Rome II Pictures & Videos Thread

[totalwar-zone]

its from powerplay.

[Prof]

I haven't read anywhere that Romans used artillery on their ships at circa 200 B.C. I don't know why, maybe because this artillery was not so important that you can "bombard" cities and have devastating results (bombard=devastation in my mind). If you can provide me with a source, i would thank you

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

If they used catapults to shoot grappling hooks, then why shouldn't they have used them to shoot other projectiles?

[PointOfViewGun]

I haven't read anywhere that Romans used artillery on their ships at circa 200 B.C. I don't know why, maybe because this artillery was not so important that you can "bombard" cities and have devastating results (bombard=devastation in my mind). If you can provide me with a source, i would thank you

They did use ballistae and even catapults. A simple Google search would show you many sufficient results...

[Stath's]

I just don't want a coastal city to being bombarded by catapult ships and huge stones to destroy buildings, towers, soldiers. That is what seemed terrifying to me. If something like that ever happened, i am sure it happened in a small scale and the results were insignificant (the city was not destroyed and waited a small army to capture it).

I hope i made my opinion clearer than before. Thanks for the info

[Brazidas]

I just don't want a coastal city to being bombarded by catapult ships and huge stones to destroy buildings, towers, soldiers. That is what seemed terrifying to me. If something like that ever happened, i am sure it happened in a small scale and the results were insignificant (the city was not destroyed and waited a small army to capture it).

I hope i made my opinion clearer than before. Thanks for the info

FINALLY SOMEONE VOICED MY THOUGHTS !!! THANK YOU !!!

[vlad06]

Nice shields.

[PunitorMaximus]

yep northern african forest elephant, smaller, less bully then the african steppe elephant, has smaller ears and is easier to domesticate.
if the carthagenians had african steppe elephants......mars save the romans!

[Petroniu]

A New Pic?

Woho, where did you find that? That is artwork, but it is cool and definitely official. It is very similar to the one where a bunch of principes are looking at some elephants charging on the streets in terms of graphics so that's why I say is official. Nice of you to share!

[dom385]

I just thought of something, if you attack a town via an amphibious landing, and that town has a port with enemy ships in, will the besieged city be able to use those ships to attack your invasion fleet?

[totalwar-zone]

Woho, where did you find that? That is artwork, but it is cool and definitely official. It is very similar to the one where a bunch of principes are looking at some elephants charging on the streets in terms of graphics so that's why I say is official. Nice of you to share!

onemoretime:from powerplay

[PunitorMaximus]

dom(le wild number): so it seems :

[Bethencourt]

http://nestmitchtri.blogspot.com.es/...val-myths.html I do not know the historical accuracy of this site about naval roman things, but they talk there about artillery on ships. It seems that Romans used adapted ships in the siege of Syracuse with assault towers and ladders and so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o...E2%80%93212_BC)

Also see the siege of Tyre by Alexander here and all the rest interesting too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic-era_warships

[Petroniu]

onemoretime:from powerplay

Hehe! You should know that this is not the thread where you answered twice from where you found the pic. I was the first and only to ask you here. I guess you lost track of your posts.

[Julio-Claudian]

Yeah Plutarch and others talk about the siege of Syracuse. Some pretty epic stuff.

[:jason:]

This is going to be great. Hopefully the updates and patches match up with features and gameplay mechanics.

Nice pictures. Such a long wait....omg

[Armatus]

yep northern african forest elephant, smaller, less bully then the african steppe elephant, has smaller ears and is easier to domesticate.
if the carthagenians had african steppe elephants......mars save the romans!

The North African elephant was also trained and used by the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Writing in the 2nd century BC, Polybius (The Histories; 5.83) described their inferiority in battle against the larger Indian elephants used by the Seleucid kings. A surviving Ptolemaic inscription enumerates three types of war elephant, the "Troglodytic" (probably Libyan), the "Ethiopian", and the "Indian". The Ptolemaic king prides himself with being the first to tame the Ethiopian elephants, a stock which could be identical to one of the two extant African species.

hmm...

[PunitorMaximus]

maybe they also extincted because of the romans....they exterminated all lions, cheetahs, leopards and tigers. maybe they did so with the forest elephants too...

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unfortunetally in german (left forest elephant, right steppe elephant)

as this is a congo forest elephant(looks different) i guess the greeks, ptolemies, seluikides, carthagenians, etc. used the extincted ethiopian species

[Maleventum]

Yes , in historic times (not prehistoric) many animals like bears, elephants , leopards , lions (the lions lived also in Southern Europe like Greece, Italy : the Panthera leo europea now extinct )lived in N. Africa, tigers an asian elephants also libed in Anatolia and Syria, they were all captured for the circus hunts (venationes)

[Noif de Bodemloze]

One more time from a German Site
http://www.totalwar-rome-2.de/neue-d...war-rome-2-78/

That looks really beautiful and scary Elephant now than in Rome I. Now I am serious afraid them in game. Good picture!

[Noif de Bodemloze]

http://www.totalwar-rome-2.de/neue-d...war-rome-2-78/

Here is a translation:

sea battles are now dominated by ram and boarding maneuvers ( who would have thought)

There will be catapult ships, which are espically useful when you attack cities

Yummeeee!