Rome Total war 2

McSasquatch wrote: »

I think the game broke my PC.

Nah, it didn't, but looks like my GPU is fecked. Had problems with it during the summer, so I reseated the cooler and thought that had fixed it (actually think I was talking to a boardsie about it at the time?). Anyway, problem is back whilst playing this on even low settings - a quick Google suggests the VRM is possibly to blame.

Anyway, no conquering for me for a while... Bizarrely, I did get a letter in the post this morning telling me I'm due a €1600 refund for PPI sold to me incorrectly, so I'm curently very tempted to blow it on a new PC even though the bedrooms need decorating. :rolleyes: Feckin' responsibility.

So enjoy lads; I'll be reading the thread with envy.

PM me. I can sort you out with a temporary GPU replacement.

thegame983 wrote: »

I never actuallt thought about the benchmark. I've been running everything on extreme and it runs fine.

I am reletivly new to high end PC gaming so I'm not really a FPS chaser. I literally never thought about it. I presume less than 30 is bad and over 60 is good. Just need to find a balance between FPS and graphic settings.

Same for me. It doesn't bother me. If it starts to lag a a lot in big battles I just drop down the graphic settings until that battle is over and then go back up to extreme again

thegame983 wrote: »

I only played the prologue last night and had a quick look at the grand campaign but its interesting that that aswell as having 3 Roman families to choose from there are 3 Cartheginian families.

The 3 Greek States (Sparta, athens, Epirus) are all under the Faction of Greek states. Macedon and Egypt (and the Selucids when they arrive) are two different 'families' the same faction. It's pretty interesting and could lead to some cool Alliances. Imagine all the Eastern Kingdoms revolting at the same time to oust their Roman oppressors. Scary.

I've still not seen this balance of power(between roman families) thing come into play. I don't even pay attention to it anymore.

My FPS was around 7! Stuck everything on medium and it's running fine - not that quick at loading between turns but it isn't laggy during gameplay.

Started my game with the british Iceni people. Instantly made a mistake by sending troops towards my closest ally (dumonii) and peeving them off as I didn't have a military access treaty with them.

Then went to invade my closest enemy (Demetae), sent the spy up and had a peek around, and it showed that they had seriously understaffed military. Sent my General straight up to have a go at them, when I got there and went to attack I realised the spy forgot to mention the 1000 or so troops which the Demetae had in support (be it from allies or other), I backed down and spend the next few hours, gaining technology and building my city, with my only bit of aggressive action being the occasional sabotage from my spy.

Finally got to the stage where I had the cash for mercenaries, and was able to recruit one or two new units (british balistas for one). Decided my last action of the night would be to build up two large armies and launch an attack.

After five more turns and I had the guys of 1800 men across 35 units across two armies, on the march I went!
When I got there for my first skirmish (against a fortified general) it showed that my 800 men +1000 reinforcements, would be up against a meager four units inside the fort with reinforcements of 1000 or so.
A pop up came and said something about large armies (which I didn't read) and I unclicked the control large armies, assuming that the AI would take control of my reinforcements (big mistake!)

I went to the battle, set up my formation and clicked start battle. About ten seconds in, the popup came that the enemy reinforcements had arrived, and all one thousand of them were immediately behind me!
I didn't react in time, and within minutes my general was dead and my troops were shamelessly fleeing! Ruined so early on.

Learning process and I think I will begin it all again tonight.

Question - When starting off what's the best way to go about building cities and populations fast and what technology route should you go down.

Going to start again with the Iceni, and given their location a navy would be pretty necessary relatively early on.

I don't know if unclicking the button dismissed my reserves, or merely I didn't last long enough to see them come in to play. I'd suggest reading the popup and not just dismissing it like I had done.

Only 4 historical battles!:eek:

Surly you can unlock more.

grizzly wrote: »

To anyone who ordered Amazon, how did you get the Greek DLC? Did it come in an email?

Haven't got disc yet, it was posted on Monday. People are going mad on amazon forums as few people/no one seems to have DLC yet. It will come by email.

If anything I think they're a little long. Units seem to take forever to get anywhere on the battle map.

coolguyrko wrote: »

I know. I've played every total war game :P they even with that they still seem to take forever to get from a to b. maybe I'm just impatient for success.


Yeah at this stage the game is pretty amazing. Only had one problem and that's a ship sailing through land on the battle map. :eek:

maybe it's that gondola/hovercraft combo that Roger Moore's Bond uses.:D

Actually I just realised I've also bought every TW game ever released also, including all the expansions - The Viking Invasion for MTW 1, Barbarians for RTW 1, Kingdoms for MTW 2. I bought the alexander expansion pack for RTW1 when it was released in about 2006, but can't remember when I got it to see if I could re-download..

btw, have they released a patch for the most glaring glitches/bugs yet?

ZeroThreat wrote: »

maybe it's that gondola/hovercraft combo that Roger Moore's Bond uses.:D

Actually I just realised I've also bought every TW game ever released also, including all the expansions - The Viking Invasion for MTW 1, Barbarians for RTW 1, Kingdoms for MTW 2. I bought the alexander expansion pack for RTW1 when it was released in about 2006, but can't remember when I got it to see if I could re-download..

btw, have they released a patch for the most glaring glitches/bugs yet?

I'll try put up a pic later. Not at the computer right now.
Not sure. I thought I saw something about one but I didn't early pay much attention tbh. I'm too busy conquering my way round to give up on it for a patch(unless they make it compatible with my save)

Apparantly they're releasing a patch on Friday. Hope it's save game compatible