New DLC campaign confirmed: Wrath of Sparta! Also more Attila info.

[easytarget]

I have to ask, this is more than 1ypt right?

[Crandar]

I have to ask, this is more than 1ypt right?

It's one turn per month, old stick!

[easytarget]

Then I'm pre-ordering the second is shows up on steam.

[Hooahguy]

Then I'm pre-ordering the second is shows up on steam.

Are my eyes deceiving me? Or did I just read that you are going to pre-order something?

[Sp4]

You could mod your main campaign to be 12tpy, but yes. This campaign DLC actually looks semi interesting. I hope all the other factions besides Sparta and Athens are more exciting than wet baguette.

[easytarget]

Are my eyes deceiving me? Or did I just read that you are going to pre-order something?

It's surely a sign of the apocalypse I realize, but note, I didn't say Attila, just this new DLC. haha

[The Outsider]

And what does this dlc add to the grand campaign? Nothing?

[easytarget]

And what does this dlc add to the grand campaign? Nothing?

Exactly, because there's no saving the GC in my view.

[Hooahguy]

And what does this dlc add to the grand campaign? Nothing?

"In addition, troop transports act more as cargo ships than combat vessels, and are no longer able to ram in naval battles, reducing the unfair advantage of troop convoys in naval warfare. This change will be retroactively applied to all ROME II campaigns."

[hoom]

So Peloponnesian war after all & no Macedonian Wars

Its a popular time period so not too surprising but I'm not totally sure Hoplites vs Hoplites vs Hoplites is going to be that much fun.

Unramming transports is such an obvious thing I can't understand why its taken so long.
Hopefully comes with a model change to a roundship rather than the silly penteres out of nowhere.

Screenshots via Steam

[Hooahguy]

They also announced Panhellenic games for the DLC as well:

To the ancient Greeks, the Panhellenic Games were an important tradition, a fantastic spectacle where people were brought together to be entertained, to compete, and to be crowned champions. Taking place over a four year cycle, the victors of the games were lauded throughout Greece. Olympic champions often went on to help found colonies.

In Wrath of Sparta’s campaign, your attitude to the games will affect your public’s opinion of you. If you choose to ignore them altogether, they may become annoyed at your lack of involvement. Sponsor a winning athlete however, and you may gain a skilled general.

Alongside the Panhellenic games, Wrath of Sparta features a busy calendar of religious and cultural festivals, which provide various factionwide effects.

[CaptainCrunch]

There once was a time when an announcement for the Peloponnesian War would be huge for me... then R2 released and kicked me in the jimmy. It's hard for me to get excited about this stuff. For one, hoplite warfare won't be well represented in this game because CA have never been able to create a reasonable facsimile of how a real phalanx worked historically. What they have now is basically nonsense. Wouldn't this have been an ideal time to really step their game up to where it should be and get with the historians, mo-cap actors and animators and completely revamp the phalanx mechanic for the TW series? I mean this would be something to talk about! This alone would be a selling point! This is hoplite warfare after all, you'd think they might consider it a little more important than adding some new textures and details to the map.

How about naval battles? How significant a role did they play in the struggle for dominance between Athens and Sparta?! Are they gonna bring anything new (and significant) to the table to address the atrocious naval battle mechanics? My crystal ball says 'no'. Oh wait, they finally did something to address the cartoonishly overpowered transports 15 months after release. I don't know man, some people eat up everything they release, which is cool for them. But free time has become the most precious commodity for me and I find myself demanding a bit more from my entertainment these days. It just looks to me that CA are too lazy or simply not concerned about getting the details and the overall game right. I mean, they gave Sparta walls! Real sloppy. There are people out there in the modding community improving the game in their spare time that are making CA look like amateurs in my estimation. When I think about what a campaign like this could be like if it was well executed, it brings tears to my eyes... *sniff*sniff*