What will your first custom battle be?

[Abot_]

I'm going to have a fling-the-roman competition using various methods, be it elephant, artillery, chariot, or cataphract. I'll draw them outside a city and try and fling them back over the walls.

I will deprive the earth its solar nutrients by occluding the sun with Romans.

[Mary The Quene]

Probably making a battle of magnesia which probably won't be included in historical battles

[Sixer19]

i like nonfiction

[=Vastator=]

Flaming pigs versus wardogs.

[Dude with the Food]

Test phalanxes against hoplites.

[CheesyFreak]

just smash the elite vs the elite of each faction , and to test how well a reacts to b and vice versa.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

1 unit of Berserkers vs 1 unit of Heroes of Sparta. If the result is dissappointing I will destroy the game, which I can't since it will be on Steam, so the whole battle will be meaningless

[Splatterfox]

I barely play custom battles at all, maybe fought 10 of them in all TW games combined. But I think I'll test war elephants and the look of Roman legions, even though I want to discover them unit by unit in the campaign

[Gugg]

Will play Romans vs Romans, just to see how it would work now that there's just one Roman faction and all.

[iqwerty]

Try out the classic hammer and anvil with max experience phalanx and companion etc.

[Remwr]

Athens vs Rome, to see just how a hoplite phalanx can fight against an early marian legion. To see if legions can beat hoplites from the front.

[Comrade_Rory]

If the custom battles are as fun as they were in Medieval II and every game before, then I'll probably play tonnes.

What was better than having a huge Egyptian style city on British grassland garrisoned by Seleucids getting owned by Carthaginians?
or an Aztec style city in a north African desert garrisoned by Scottish soldiers being besieged by Timurids?

Since I doubt we'll get that much freedom in Rome 2, as custom matches have become more and more restrictive, I'll probably just use it to see how far I can push the graphics while also getting a good performance and trying out certain units to see what they're like and then never touch custom battles again.

[SturmChurro]

If the custom battles are as fun as they were in Medieval II and every game before, then I'll probably play tonnes.

What was better than having a huge Egyptian style city on British grassland garrisoned by Seleucids getting owned by Carthaginians?
or an Aztec style city in a north African desert garrisoned by Scottish soldiers being besieged by Timurids?

Since I doubt we'll get that much freedom in Rome 2, as custom matches have become more and more restrictive, I'll probably just use it to see how far I can push the graphics while also getting a good performance and trying out certain units to see what they're like and then never touch custom battles again.

Yep, this is exactly what I would do. I used to play heaps of custom Medieval 2 battles when I was younger, now I just play them to test out settings or specific units. I don't even play historical battles, but I never really played those.

[Punic Hoplite]

Carthage vs Rome. I want to see how Carthage plays on the field of battle before I grind Rome to nothing but dust in the campaign.

[Abot_]

It's always fun to recreate historical battles that aren't part of the game, even though the AI doesn't play them out right.

[Marvzilla]

Playing with a interesting non-playable as I still hope that we will get a lot more factions to play in custom battle than in campaign.

[Aegean]

I would like to test the heroes of Sparta against armored elephants to see if they are as competent as their ancestors from movie 300

[King of the Ring]

I would like to test the heroes of Sparta against armored elephants to see if they are as competent as their ancestors from movie 300

i remember cataphract elephants from Roma Surrectum 2.......such a sight....
to see your army getting owned by1 unit of cataphract elephants

[Pour Some Sugar On Me]

I'll probably test out every faction, to see how every unit looks like, and how they fight on the battlefield.

[Inhuman One]

Likely a 4vs4 battle to see as many armies of the factions as possible right away, pausing at the start to look at them all. Likely me being Carthage alongside the three greek cities as my allies. Against Rome, Egypt, Parthia and Pontus. And then a second battle with all the remaining factions.