Quote Originally Posted by Drakarys1402 View Post
Hi Parthian.

Apparently there have been a few Creative Assembly statements about Rome 2 being moddable on its release (I think). If this is the case do you think your team would be attempting a version of the mod on the new engine?

I haven't heard anything about them putting female quasi-amazon units in the game like vanilla total war. Although there is that odd bit of promo art with the woman on the galley (I think its Cleopatra but not sure). Would you still be able to deal with things like audio and creating new skins if they weren't in the game. If they were anywhere I would expect them to be in the nomadic culture pack dlc which will include the Royal Scythians, Roxolani and Massagatae. Obviously with Shogun it was relatively easy to add lots of variations of Onna Bushi into the game once the base unit was in as I understand it.

So hyped up for that game being released. Nearly died when the Seleucid DLC was announced. Fav faction is playable :D!

Anyway I was just wondering where your teams thoughts were on the mod and if you intend to replicate the factions, units and weapons on this version. Or if you intend to try things differently. At a broad guess you could replace some of the factions with amazons pretty easily such as Pontus-Amazons, Roxolani- Geothe, Thyssa-Massagetae. With horde being gone I am not sure what you could do with the Gorgons. I suppose if they add a numidian playable DLC later they could be put on the map that way.


ps I am amazed how many aspects of the game seem to have been directly inspired by Europa Barbarorum. Especially with the individual tribes and the map scope.

That is exactly what we are waiting for, that is, to evaluate the Rome II as a whole as see how suitable it is to migrate the Amazons Total War over to that platform.

Our inside source says, they have women admiral (Admiral Artemisia of Caria? as in naval battle of Salamis, but that is not time period correct), which means that we don't need the idiotic gender flip we have to do in Rome I, also, the same source said something about female units as every single TW titles released except Napoleonic Total War all had female units.

We have quite a few R&D units and features which were not feasible in Rome I, also Gorgons had their own territory in the non-BI version of the game (3.0 and 5.0), so it is fairly easy to add Libyan Amazons to the new platform.

Never played EB before, so I can not compare the two myself. I do feel the Rome II map was very very similar to what we have.