Yeah just got to wait for more patches, Shogun 2 (Yeah I know again...) got pretty optimized, loading times were cut down at around Gold release. I wonder how much CA can squeeze out of Rome 2? Or else for many people it'll be hard to enjoy 40 vs 40 stack battles.
May I ask; what do you think of the unit balance in Yarkis' mod?
I havent really tried Yarkis's mod without Radious's mod, so Im not sure really, but I do feel like melee battles are appropriately lengthened for now with the two mods combined. Units arent really fighting to the death, nor are they routing after they lose 1/3 of their men.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroskiDerpman
First off thanks for the AAR, I love it . First one I have read for R2. I just started a Suebi campaign last night and I am now staring at the clock at work waiting to get home and continue it. I even picked up a few movies my wife wants to watch and I dont to buy me more time. Reading an AAR was just what I needed to get into this thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
I also very much agree with your view here. I like building up the history of the army with R2 as that was a great added feature, but for immersion it seemed like something was missing with my leaders dying too soon and not allowing me to build a story in my head with them. I am going to give the 4 turns per year a try.
Can you load this MOD into a already started campaign?
Interesting, I know Yarkis made Trom for the Warscape TWs which is sort of like a realism mod and Radious made tons of mini mods for Shogun 2 which can also be used together.
Once those get established I'll most likely make a mini AAR on it as that'll probably be when I get Rome 2.
Perhaps I can try to get them to host here too? Sort of like EB. The problem is that: is anybody going to post there once in a while since from what I've seen the EB subforums is the only one alive.
@jerome
Don't think so, it changes some core things and there's several features like the zoom out mod which is not compatible with past saves. So from what I've read and seen, sadly not.
Thank you for the kind words!Quote:
Originally Posted by JeromeBaker
The 4 turns per year mod must be loaded in before you start a campaign. Wont work otherwise. Same with the extended view mod. But for the Radious and Yarkis mods, you do not need to start a new game.
In the "just so you know" category: with the Radious mod installed, be prepared for something like this to happen at CW time...
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...k-out-mine!!!&
From what I can tell, it's an unintended side effect but holy @#$%!~:eek:
Holy hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai
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Dunno if this is true or not but from that thread:
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This is a known bug in Radious' mod. He has acknowledged it and currently the cause is unknown. The best fix for it right now is to remove the mod from your data folder before that turn happens and then replace it.
It is true. Trust me, it's hardcoded/unknown for now till somebody finds out how the mechanics can be changed.
Trust you? You dont even have the game!Quote:
Originally Posted by BroskiDerpman
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Just kidding.
But I did play it... How many times do I have to tell everybody....
Plus the info is all in TWC if you don't want to trust me. (I saw the just kidding in small font but I want to make it clear)
I thought you didnt have the game?
I went to my friend's house and I got to try out Rome 2.
So I don't have the game but I played it before. Hence another reason why I'm still posting here in the Rome 2 subforum.
Ah okay, makes sense.
Most likely refers to the different smithy upgrades. Rome has a few different lines: one concentrates on armor, one concentrates on weaponry, and one concentrates on siege engines. However, they all give a small bonus to armor, weaponry, or both in addition to whatever big bonus they give out. The top end armorer building gives +30% to armor and shield rating, but also +10% to weapon rating of troops (re)trained there. The engineers workshop gives big bonuses to siege engines but still gives +10% to armor and weapons of other units. If you put a top level armor and weaponsmith building in the same province, you can get +30% to both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sp4
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The campaign map angles look great, I know how CA wanted this part to be focused on though in my opinion a grander look at the map is better but even with the zoom mods you can't see all of Italy. (Which is quite empty imo)
So far the story seems good, though the picture you used in out of the time frame. :clown: It seems like the Franks later on...
Supposedly its of the vikings, but you would be surprised how few pictures I can find of "Germanic tribal chieftain meetings." :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by BroskiDerpman
I never knew that many Vikings can afford mail armor, perhaps it's the bodyguard?
The Suebi's emblem if looked from a distance looks like the Taira from Rise of the Samurai; time travelers?
Seeing as the picture is sort of the meeting of the elite and all that, I guess they can get away with having a bit of chainmail.
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My thoughts on the first siege:
How did the Nori win? :wall:
They only outnumbered you with those slingers. With some careful maneuvering you can wipe the out and destroy the slingers while you're at it. :2thumbsup: your melee component out numbers those swords men and you could flank the 4 units.
Your javelin men can eliminate many melee troops like revolver cavalry from Fall of the Samurai. :clown: Except that they can shoot over your units with more accurate fire! :laugh4:
Well that's my thoughts on that siege.
Anyways, a good read as always! Revenge is sweet! I highly recommend using debug camera and pressing K to disable the ui to take screenshots. (You can pause it or even take command with only a cursor as ui, the ultimate challenge)
I thought so too! But the AI was clever, they kept running their slingers away from me while their cavalry chased me down and harassed me, eventually routing my units that werent tied down by the swordsmen. I only had one unit of Spear Brothers, everyone else was tribesmen (who route annoyingly fast) and Germanic youths. It was sheer numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroskiDerpman
Hmmm, Perhaps either stay in the settlement and hope missile fire gets absorbed or run away and let the ai chase you till the timer goes down to zero. (I highly recommend using a timer as some bugs/glitches will mess things up and a timer could help wait it out) If the ai just goes to the capture point in a blob once you leave attack and you'll catch all the slingers and they'll drop like flies.
Heres basically how the battle went:
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I'd suggest putting everything at the center as it isn't too large of the settlement, the ai most likely gives little time for its skirmishers to fire in most of the TWs (In FKoC mod for M2tw the ai Royalist forces pounded my city with artillery until several huge gaps were carved in ironically) so you'll take minimal missile fire and the ai will take a lot of friendly fire if they still let the slingers shoot.
Around the center you can try to use superior melee numbers and javelins to take out many of the ai forces, the ai might even blob it's slingers to take the capture point which makes your job easier.
If many of the slingers are still alive and are far away get out of their LoS until they rush into the CP. If they give chase to you just make them go on a wild goose chase across the map.
If you lose at least you've dealt even more casualties to the ai than before.
This is where enabling a timer actually comes in use and is somewhat more authentic.
The timer can also make you skip through bugs such as pathfinding issues.
What have you done to your AI to make it do that sort of thing? =P Mine always just control A + right click closest victory point XD
Thats what I was thinking initially, but I remember in a previous M2TW campaign when I was defending against the hugely superior numbers of the Mongols, I would create choke points which worked wonders, so I kinda figured it would work here too. I neglected to take into account that then I was defending with rows of heavy spearmen and they had mostly cavalry armies. But here I wasnt really in control of my garrison forces, so that tactic wouldnt work with low-quality spearmen.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroskiDerpman
Not entirely sure. Id like to attribute it to the new patch and Radious's mod, but I know that the battle AI isnt moddable, so maybe the patch?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sp4
If left alone those levy Spearmen will drop, it's not like in Shogun 2 where you can boost your Ashigaru to a cost effective low tier unit which can stand up to better units.
Infact I used Yari Ashigaru late game as my main spear unit that holds the line like a phalanx. (Sekigahara mod goes further with whole armies full of Ashigaru ducking it out)
In the other vanilla TWs the higher tier unit most of the time will beat the lower one so I recommend you to keep everybody together or else resistance will crumble fast.
You can hold the more central area as it has one choke point thus allowing you to bottleneck the place and pour down javelin fire to quickly destroy the enemy's melee.
Authors note- Usually I take the screenshots in .bmp and then later convert to .jpg, but this time I took them in .jpg so I apologize for the lower image quality.
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