Campaign map

[KLAssurbanipal]

I think that we can see the old map (RTW1) and the new map (under it):

[cunctator]

The text in the infobox says the extent of the Rome II map is still unclear. However James Rusell from CA smiled and answered "we will see" when they asked him if India will be included. The map below the old vanilla R:TW map looks like the EB 1 map. They link to the old Mundus Magnus mod for R:TW, which uses an old version of the map that would evolve into the EB 1 map. At least in 2005, don't know if there was ever another version of Mundus Magnus released.

[quadalpha]

I think it's more likely to be a random map of the area rather than the actual campaign map. I don't see why the magazine would cover up most of the new campaign map if they had it, since it would be a big scoop.

[Arjos]

So basically Rome 2 is CA learning to do their job from EB? :D

But I would agree that's just a speculative map ^^

[Ibn-Khaldun]

So basically Rome 2 is CA learning to do their job from EB? :D

But I would agree that's just a speculative map ^^

Haha.. So R2TW is actually EB3?

[Philadelphos]

As could be expected, the mapping thread has dropped to lowest interest. I'm afraid this will be reflected even in Rome Total War 2 with map accuracy still on low standard.

I'd love to see something different this time, a map that would be really stunning for accuracy and detail, maybe like this one:



I have been working on this map for four years and it has reached unprecedented detail in almost every part.
Here you have Greece and Asia Minor with every minor island in the right place. Consulting your atlas you can name them all.
And the best thing is that there are lots of land bridges to speed up the action.

If anybody is interested I can post more of this, maybe starting with Italy.

[Brennus]

EBII is actually a mod set in the Thirty Years War, all this talk of Gauls and Romans is just an elaborate bluff. Long live Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden!

[Philadelphos]

Are you kidding? Please give me a link where I can check the current state of EBII.

Anyway, here comes Italy.
You may note the following improvements:
- Sicily is bigger with more accurate hills, towns and ports.
- A land bridge from Rhegium to Messana makes sure that Rome actually goes to encounter the Carthaginians in Panormus.
- Better design for ports of Tarentum and Brundisium (yet to build)
- Regional borders in Italy are as close as possible to historic (and modern) borders (actually there has been little change over 2000 years). Especially the problem in southern Italy (where cities didn't correspond to regions) has been solved in a satisfying way: Bruttium - Rhegium; Lucania - Tarentum; Apulia - Brundisium; Magna Graecia (or Calabria) - Croton.
- The road system is as close as possible to Roman roads. You can find Via Appia, Via Valeria, Via Salaria, Via Cassia, Via Aurelia, Via Flaminia, and Via Aemilia.
- more accurate design of places like Gulf of Naples, Elba, Lagoon of Ravenna and more.
- Accurate design of the islands in the Adriatic Sea. Corresponding ports in Iader, Pharos, Rhizon, Epidamnus, Corcyra. Islands like Pharos and Corcyra sometimes took me days to get them as accurate as you can see them now.

[Lemur]

I think that we can see the old map (RTW1) and the new map (under it):

So the campaign map for Rome II will be a broken image link? CURSE YOU CA!