To the right are the province details which list a province's wealth and income, as well as public order and culture. The Thracians are a tough people in a hard land, and no easy pushover for anybody. The Thracians are not considered by Greeks to be a Greek people, but they have been influenced by many Greek ways- and have influenced the Greeks as well. From here, you can pass edicts to give your region a bonus, as well as construct new buildings or upgrade existing ones. Mercenaries The award-winning Total War series returns to Rome, setting a brand new quality benchmark for Strategy gaming. Welcome to the Danube, river of wild terrain and even wilder men. The province tab works in a similar manner: click on any city to bring it up. Fielding 500 war elephants, gained through negotiating peace on his eastern border with the Emperor. Seleucus sealed his overall victory at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BCE. You can also hire more units and mercenaries. During the turmoil of the Wars of the Successors, the Seleucids were able to claim and expand Alexander the Great’s eastern empire, as well as parts of Asia Minor. The province tab shows all the provinces you have discovered and known factions displays the other factions you have encountered.īelow the map is the end turn button, along with information about your treasury, income, food supply and the current date of the campaign.Ĭlicking on an army will bring up the army overview panel, here you can view details about the army and its general, as well as change an army's stance. Total War: Rome II Factions Units Auxiliary Corps Units in Custom Battle Buildings Technologies Household Regions Mercenaries Total War: Rome II: MODs Radious Total War Mod Divide et Impera Total War: Rome II: ICONs BullGods Unit Icons Normals Rome IIUnits Icons. Here, you can conduct research to unlock new units and buildings.Ībove the map is a pop-up list of information such as event messages and the forces tab, which lists your armies and fleets. Night raiders are lightly armed with axes, but the black dye that they cover their bodies with has as much effect. Here, you can increase or decrease tax levels to gain more money at a loss to public order and growth.Īcross from that is the technology tab. Substantially more aggressive than their other barbarian relatives the Gauls and Britons the Germans have a number of specialized units whose main purpose is only to attack. The trade and finance tab will show a breakdown of income and expenditure as well as current trading partners of your faction. To the right are the objectives where current objectives and the final victory conditions are displayed. The faction summary tab is located on the bottom-left, here you can see your current political situation and look at the characters in your empire in more detail. On the top-left of the campaign screen are the game options and the Advisor, who will pop up now and again to offer assistance to the player.
They are weaker in prolonged melees, if they are not able to deal a decisive blow early on.Learn how to dominate the ancient world by using the campaign UI in Total War: ROME II with this handy guide.
The tradeoff for better offense is a lower defense making them better suited for charging into a gap, or for dealing a heavy blow to enemy units. The Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack adds a new playable culture comprising three new playable Factions to Total War: ROME II, for use in Single or Multiplayer Campaign modes and Custom and Multiplayer battles. Archers, heavy infantry, shock infantry, light and medium cavalry with onagers, ballistas, all play a part in their armies, and the fact that they have no unique units is sadly used to judge this faction, often overlooked, as a whole. Sword Infantry: Sword infantry is usually known by their attack capabilities, compared to spearmen's more defensive skills. Introduction: The barbarian faction Dacia has one of the most balanced unit rosters in the game. So in short while they have no advantages from the phalanx formation they are more flexible and are able to respond to a number of threats better. While not as lethal as pikemen against horses or infantry units when attacking head on they are able to move faster and are better for screening for enemy horsemen as they can catch up to them. Spearmen like pikemen carry stabbing weapons into battle but their weapons are much shorter but also more muneverable. Once the formation has been broken pikemen are rather weak one on one unless if they are elite units like Spartans. Infantry will pay a high price to break through their front ranks as well! While these units are amazing in the front they are vunerable to being flanked, as they are slow and make a large mass they are extremely vunerable to missile fire especially when they stay in phalanx formation to move. They can form phalanx formation that present a row of sharpen pikes in the front which is lethal to calvary. Pikemen or Phalanxes carry long pikes into battle.