I think this thread will make you happy.

**TruePraetorian** · 06-28-2012, 05:03

Originally Posted by Lysimachos

I can't follow why people are so excited about RTW2 (or TW:R2 or whatever). RTW Vanilla was abomination; only the mods of great depth made it more than superficially playable. And - with all due respect to the efforts of the modders of ETW, NTW and TW:S2 - the limitations to modding of the recent titles just don't allow a transformation into greatness like it was possible in RTW and M2TW.

Don't get me wrong, Rome 2 Vanilla will certainly be much better than RTW Vanilla: I consider Shogun 2 CA's best Vanilla game yet and I expect that Rome 2 will hold up to that standard. However, that is not the standard that made me spend thousands of hours with RTW and M2TW, RTW-mokds and M2TW-mods, to be precise.

Rome 2 would be a fine game, but - mark my words - only serve to disappoint.

I think, and the reason I chose to post this info in this sub-forum, that most people do look forward to the next EB as opposed to RTW2 itself.

I mean come on..even if it was the exact same game at least it will have naval battles

**Lysimachos** · 06-28-2012, 07:42

Originally Posted by TruePraetorian

I think, and the reason I chose to post this info in this sub-forum, that most people do look forward to the next EB as opposed to RTW2 itself.

That's just the thing: There will never be something like EB for Rome 2. Ever.

**Hernan Cortles** · 06-28-2012, 20:17

I not excited for Rome 2 Total War or whatever you call (Thanks Sega for making confusing titles) Because i pretty sure the game would be less modable that the previous game, just look how each title becomes more restricted to mod, even with upgrade graphics, naval battle, i still wait for EB 2 just for the historical accuracy since CA doesn't give a shit about historical accuracy, and instead it will be a bunch of DLC like special units DLC, Extra blood DLC, previously exclusive content DLC, damn i miss the old days where you just get the full game and not just a 70% full game with 20% DLC and 10% exclusive content, even the expansions are worth a lot that a overpriced DLC

**Fluvius Camillus** · 07-03-2012, 00:10

Since I for one don't mind ahistorical games and would love to play it..... Today is a glorious day! It's official!
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...4%A2-announced
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/tota...ayer-and-mods/

I guess my Intel i7 and 8GB RAM will still be modern enough to handle the awesomeness!

~Fluvius

**TheStranger** · 07-03-2012, 00:19

Ah I just wanted to post this pictures too but Fluvius Camillus was faster :) . Although it will not be like EB I have to say that these two screenshots look very good, and I am kind of curious how the final game will be.

**TruePraetorian** · 07-03-2012, 06:42

Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus

Since I for one don't mind ahistorical games and would love to play it..... Today is a glorious day! It's official!
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...4%A2-announced
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/tota...ayer-and-mods/

I guess my Intel i7 and 8GB RAM will still be modern enough to handle the awesomeness!

~Fluvius

And now comes the demanding for a mod-friendly game. DEMAND IT.

**moonburn** · 07-04-2012, 03:40

i confirmed it on my gaming website strategyinformer

well i hope this game will be more moder friendly and give more options better ai (both combat and strategy ai ) i hope it allows for the creation of subfactions inside a single faction (pretty usefull for the eleutheroi like give the hability for a region to retain 80% of the cash it makes to develop it´s infrastructure and military so regions with more power get to be more powerfull isntead of having it all dissipated by the poor eleitheroi regions wich where never important enough)

i hope for a true political module where how your society is organised reflects on how much manpower and it´s quality is available to you (like you play a germanic faction your faction leader becomes too powerfull and threatons to become a king and he gets strangled )

i also hope it allows for the limitation of recruitment slots so that only the greatest generals can have more then 8 regiments on it´s armies (a bad general could only recruit/maintain 4 regiments on his stack) that can give a great rpg strategy aspect to the game that forçes you to develop your generals generalship instead of keeping him safelly tucked away (ofc this wouldn´t work in a city where you could keep a full stack but once your out depending on the general you had a limited stack )

the eye candy is nice and all that but it´s the same as getting lucky and picking the cutest girl in the party only to discover the next day that she doesn´t have matching eye colour becaue she lost her green eye contact lense and all of a suden her beautifull face is right there on your pillow because her face was actually makeup and her hairdress is all messed up and she as crappy oiled skin and is actually ugly as hell bellow the makeup (and yes i´m well aware i didn´t mention the silicone all over her body from her lips down to her ass and tights )

**Vilkku92** · 07-04-2012, 13:59

Originally Posted by moonburn

the eye candy is nice and all that but it´s the same as getting lucky and picking the cutest girl in the party only to discover the next day that she doesn´t have matching eye colour becaue she lost her green eye contact lense and all of a suden her beautifull face is right there on your pillow because her face was actually makeup and her hairdress is all messed up and she as crappy oiled skin and is actually ugly as hell bellow the makeup (and yes i´m well aware i didn´t mention the silicone all over her body from her lips down to her ass and tights )

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