Quote Originally Posted by Nelson
If you dismiss the new features and then ask “Where are the new features?”, the answer will always be “There are none”. You still may not think the expansion is worth buying but as Total War expansions go, Rome’s may be the most feature rich yet.

What did Mongol Invasion add to Shogun?

What did Viking Invasion add to Medieval?

Neither of these made any sweeping changes to game play. They were about new factions for the most part.

This is an expansion to Rome, not Rome II.
Nelson, I wonder if you actually played both those expansions.

MI brought in the Mongols which were not dependant on provinces etc, and had a totally different strategy. This is what we will be seeing recycled in the BI as Huns it seems. MI, also added a lot of things to the main campaign. Such as old eliminated factions returning, and many features which came to MTW later on but were intriduced in MI and were not in STW.

MTW: VI brought in the reinforcements. That feature alone was worth the expansion and as Bhuric said, i got that expansion just for that feature, as it not only added to the expansion, but more so to the original main campaign. There were other nice touches as well and balances and improvement in AI, specially AI navies which finally started attempting creating trade routes and not just gather in one water square for a big party.

I can go on and on. I have played all of them, and many times over. I like RTW, but was hoping that like before the expansion would add something new and truly exciting, or at least a much wanted feature like campaign replays and a detailed campaign statistics screen, which has been missing in all TW games.