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Not a book but a blog: A collection of unmitigated pedantry (aka acoup.blog), which a few days ago Had an article on the Marian reforms or how they weren't actually a thing. Specifically: Lots of...

Yes it does! The historical mode was added for free in an update, and removes the various special units inspired by myth from the game, as well as changing the generals from single-entity units to...

Oh, that's completely understandable! Leisure time is a precious commodity in this world :)

Hmm, nothing special, it's just mightily convenient :). Thing is, with Patch 17 I kinda like the feel of Vanilla Rome 2 and I try to be very conservative when installing mods. This is, in essence, a...

Heya Demokritos, congrats on the new release :)

Is there any chance you will upload your mod to the Steam Workshop and/or do something similar for Attila? I think you can reach a bigger audience...

I found it's very usefull to join up with the AI forces and let them be the anvil. If the mountain won't come to you, it's best to go to the mountain!

Army with army stance on normal
Army with army stance on forced march
Note: Forced march lacks a description
Note: The army's travel distance is not changed when switching between the two modes.
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There appears to be a bug with Army Stances in the latest version. Renaming the relaevant DB tables by appending them with _RGM fixed the issue.

(The version I used where this problem appears is...

Because they are the only counter against the deathspell that is a war with the sassanids.

Allow me to express my feelings at the full mod coming back:

YABADABADOOOOOOO!!!!

that is all.

I am very curious to see how you will handle The Last Roman's ashen scenes.

There is an option in "Game options" which says "Alliance Colouring". I am not sure what the translation is. Turn that back off (it's off by default), and it should work :-)

I know less reliable client states work for sure. I played a Sassanid campaign on legendary where half my puppets rebelled, thus annihalting my income!

The 200% income from puppet states has a big...

Can you see blood on people, beheadings, gushes, and all that stuff?

Don't forget the shields bug :p

This is extremely important to remember. Most of our historical writing comes from the greeks and the romans, and they were influenced by the biases of their time. It's also influenced by the fact...

I vote for Caucasians, as better fleshed out caucasians would make the Roman-Sassanid conflict more interesting.

I counted 48
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From the store page:

Unit Roster
The Tanukhid Roster focuses on battlefield area-control and micro management. Light but powerful shock cavalry are paired with stealth units and fast pike units....

It depends on which faction you play as, but in the end only three factions really divert from the traditional Total War formula: the Roman factions, which are more about preserving and expanding an...

You got execution moves in Med2. Just saying.

Will the upcoming AI mod change stuff related to the razing and sacking like Junadai's version or will it allow factions to raze and sack?

I always found that BACAI made too harsh a change,...

I did, actually, but since there's no mods for them you gotto learn to love 'em :p

I actually like the squares better. The banners took up a lot of screen space for what they offered, whilst the little squares are small yet very easy to read, allowing me to see the units more.

I think the "Faces from Atilla" mod may have been used for these pictures.

It unfortunately mainly resulted in glitches.

One thing that does irk me a bit is the siege escalation mechanic. Not that it is not nice (it is!) but rather that the game is setup in such a way that you hardly ever see it's use. It's almost...

I've had a battle without siege artillery and have the same problem, so it's probably not down to particle effects (I run at "High" settings). I was defending, and the problem started when I opened...

As I said at the start of this thread, I think part of this is that the mod scene has a big impact on the game's replay value. Once a few total conversion mods come out, I expect the numbers to go up...

I accept Sheridan as a smart person and will support him via trying and talk more about the actual mechanics rather then justification of variance in unit meshes (sorry).

More dynamic province...

<WHooops, read some things wrong>

I have once already ranted about Rome 1 over at Rock Paper Shotgun, but I'll copy it here:

To me, it’s something that even the original Rome always lacked. The first Shogun: Total War greets us...

... But I never made that claim. I only wanted to refute The Humble Warrior's claim that women *never* fought.

I'm a tenacious bastard, so I went looking: Websites provided by the previous link told me to look for a certain Doctor Farrokh. This lead me to This particular link. Of particular note is point 7,...

You, off-course, know this from the various historical accounts that clearly mention those armies consisting entirely of men? Because, how do you know what the norms where for migrating factions from...

So here's the thing: The units in which women appear in Atilla are only the lower tier units, and they only appear in horde-capable factions (or actual horde factions). The final article goes on to...

They don't enlist en masse in Atilla either.

Any usage of LOTR to prove a point concerning historical accuracy is rather pointless though, as Tolkien was not a historian (he was a language professor).
Not that one can assume that Eowyn was the...

But... how do you know Boudicca was an extreme rarity? The only history we have of british leadership in the classic era comes from the romans. And sure, Boudicca was a rarity... To the romans, who...

There's always a bonus for fighting against another faction's enemmy, in the form of "Military actions against (faction)" bonus. There does not seem to be a bonus or malus specifically for honouring...