Emperor Edition + free DLC announced (RELEASED)

**Sp4** · 09-02-2014, 04:13

So far it feels really really good. I like the new building chains and how it actually makes sense to upgrade a lot of things now and how the PO penalties aren't ridiculous at stage 3 and 4 anymore but kind of gradually get worse.

I've played a few turns in a Suebi campaign with a friend and I've noticed that I can now recruit all the DLC units, which I guess is a bug cause I've not bought any of the DLCs. I suppose this will be fixed in the full release though ^^

**hoom** · 09-02-2014, 04:42

Very excited to try this out.
Some of these changes like structure trees, proper political features & battle mechanics/balance improvements are sounding really good.

Basically this Emperor edition = Rome2 as it should have launched if they'd waited a bit.
Giving it a bit of a PR push & new name for a 'relaunch'.

Hopefully it'll actually be enough improvement to get people playing it properly.

**Hooahguy** · 09-02-2014, 04:51

They should call it Rome III.

**al Roumi** · 09-02-2014, 11:57

This sounds really good but I'd like to know more about the politics side and how the player interfaces with it. Some of the changes to faction buldings and bonuses should translate to clearer and more meaningful decisions for the player - e.g. streamlining eastern recruitment to 2 (inf + cav) trees rather than 3 (inf + light + cav) and increasing the horse peoples' ammo (so you don't have to replay each battle).

If this proves to be everything it promises, will it be enough to salvage perceptions of the TW franchise and CA's reputation?

**Kamakazi** · 09-02-2014, 12:50

I like the idea

**Sp4** · 09-02-2014, 16:53

Originally Posted by al Roumi

This sounds really good but I'd like to know more about the politics side and how the player interfaces with it. Some of the changes to faction buldings and bonuses should translate to clearer and more meaningful decisions for the player - e.g. streamlining eastern recruitment to 2 (inf + cav) trees rather than 3 (inf + light + cav) and increasing the horse peoples' ammo (so you don't have to replay each battle).

If this proves to be everything it promises, will it be enough to salvage perceptions of the TW franchise and CA's reputation?

I believe you can get a lot of ammo for archers and horse archers with various technologies and maybe temples or industrial buildings. I have not played Eastern factions yet, maybe I should give it a whirl.

**Hooahguy** · 09-02-2014, 18:00

Originally Posted by Sp4

I believe you can get a lot of ammo for archers and horse archers with various technologies and maybe temples or industrial buildings. I have not played Eastern factions yet, maybe I should give it a whirl.

Yup, I read that now nomadic factions can get basically endless ammo, which solves the problem of them running out for large battles.

**Hamata** · 09-02-2014, 20:42

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

They should call it Rome III.

:P

**Riekopo** · 09-03-2014, 00:08

I don't know why they're acting like the patches and free content is a package. That's nothing special. I'm glad we're getting a free campaign. The building and politics system really needs completely scrapped and redone, but tweaking it is better than nothing I guess.