It's here!

[Saulus]

Rome 2: Total War

I'm so excited! Do I have another Alexander The Great rise from Macedonia and conquer the known world? Or do I take on Cleopatra and lead the Egyptians back to the glory of the Pharaohs? Perhaps I will take up the mantle of House Juliani, bringing to power a new Caesar -- or more interesting still unleashing the power of Sparta using the economic benefits of its slave class.

Many hours will be lost to this.

[Delexos]

Totally unfair! We Brits have to wait another 22ish hours before its released, just as well that they let us pre-download 9.9gigs of it though because my laptop is stuck with me at work and the idea of downloading the whole thing from this crappy connection gives me nightmares.

I can't wait for tomorrow evening to arrive, but what to do? For me it's either a demonstration of a Spartans breeding for war or taking the mantle of Boudicca and showing history how the Brits 'should' have smashed the Romans back into the Med.

[Doubtful]

Preloaded on steam and just waiting for me to be able to play it!

So, should be able to play it sometime in December.

*sadface*

[Saulus]

It's soooo good. Sure there's bugs like any TW game, but the secret sauce is there. Beat the prologue and I loved it.

So far got everything set to extreme except for Alpha Vegetation (it slays FPS and it doesn't seem to make things look a whole lot better). I noticed anti aliasing doesn't seem to work very well on it, will have to fiddle with that some more.

I created a new teamspeak channel for anyone wanting to start a Co-Op Campaign with me, I'd like to try that feature out.

Ballistas with Explosive Rounds = win.

ts.sundren.org:9292

[Doubtful]

*cries*


I want to play it so hard!

[Atmosphere]

*staff disappears*

Will probably get it. Will probably play Iceni or Suebi most likely, so bring your Roman conquest Saulus.

[Saulus]

My Caesar totally won't get stabbed by the senate -- there won't be a senate! muahahaha.

[Saulus]

Loving the game so far, seen some issues but the battles are amazing. Ballistas with explosive rounds are devastating.

I just picked up the official book about the battle of Carthage that was written for the game. It's a fun read, I recommend it to anyone with a Legion PC!

http://www.amazon.ca/Total-War-Rome-.../dp/1250038642

Although a fiction, the story is based around real events and the author is apparently an expert on ancient Rome.

[Gitrodamus]

I wouldn't get all hyped about the co-op campaign, though. Tried playing it with a friend, same problem with desynchronisation as Shogun 2 had before patches.

[Delexos]

Well I have been somewhat absent from the server as of late, apologies for that. The reason for this has been my campaign in Rome II, at first I was just trying to get to grips with it but eventually I figured out what I was doing right/wrong and now, just I had predicted, it has started to suck up every free moment of my time.

I have been playing as Sparta which has been a pretty intense challenge, but after some pretty rocky moments when it looked like I was going to end up getting stomped by my own stupidity, I have finally started to drive a wedge through the entire world and now with forces pushing back the filthy hordes on both sides of my empire I think I might be on to a winner

For those with interest in the game, and as a possible comparison between my own game and that of anyone who is also playing, here is a pic of the overall world map, my own lands are coloured in gold, those people who I have suppressed and left alive as "Client States" are in a light blue colour, red is obviously current enemies/rebel held locations and the rest are currently neutral to my expansion.



For Sparta!