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[iamthelol]

uh huh

[Whitefoxsniper]

PTW!

I've never really thought that artillery was effective against infantry in the total war games. With the exception of cannons against mounted units.

[Mephansteras]

PTW!

I've never really thought that artillery was effective against infantry in the total war games. With the exception of cannons against mounted units.

Well, I had a blast using siege weapons against the Gauls last time I played RTW as the Julii, especially when defending up a hill. I also had good luck using them against phalanxes, who generally aren't too good at dodging anything because of the tight formation.

[pisskop]

Catapults will destroy ai infantry, should they hit. Just put a line of legionaries on either side.  No fire!  bad!

For their parts scorpions and ballistas are great for sniping out ai leaders (or otherwise stationary units).  Fire is okay on these if no friendlies are in front of them.

[timferius]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/08/23/total-war-rome-2-reveals-its-plan-for-post-launch-free-dlc/

Well, that's interesting and nice to hear. So on top of paid DLC, they plan to add free stuff here and there too. Including the Seleucid faction in October. For free. Weren't people clammering about them? I didn't play the first Rome, and I don't know much about the period, but I'm pretty sure I saw a few  riots or some such when they weren't announced as playable.

[USEC_OFFICER]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/08/23/total-war-rome-2-reveals-its-plan-for-post-launch-free-dlc/

Well, that's interesting and nice to hear. So on top of paid DLC, they plan to add free stuff here and there too. Including the Seleucid faction in October. For free. Weren't people clammering about them? I didn't play the first Rome, and I don't know much about the period, but I'm pretty sure I saw a few  riots or some such when they weren't announced as playable.

If I remember correctly, the Seleucid faction had pretty much everything. Good pikemen, legionaries, heavy cavalry, chariots, even elephants. Their few downsides were also easily manageable too. I'm not surprised that they were one of the more popular factions.

[Mephansteras]

They were also very important historically, being the Persian remnant of Alexander the Great's empire.

[umiman]

Artillery battles you say?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=22281170

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=22281171

[Sharp]

In most field battles siege weapons are fairly useless unless you already have overwhelming odds in which case they can be useful for having to waste less men on the enemy, in an evenly matched battle I would prefer a unit of cavalry instead of an onager or ballista, that being said I have managed to win completely outnumbered battles by turtling up in the corner and having my siege weapons just go crazy on the advancing enemy but it's a bit mean because it's exploiting a limitation of the game to be immune to flanking and forcing enemy to bunch up.

I'm having fun in a new campaign as Scipii on hardest difficulty, managed to take Apollonium in turn 2 with the assistance of the Brutii who didn't siege it and actually did all the work in killing everyone and then handing over the territory for me

[loose nut]

If I remember correctly, the Seleucid faction had pretty much everything. Good pikemen, legionaries, heavy cavalry, chariots, even elephants. Their few downsides were also easily manageable too. I'm not surprised that they were one of the more popular factions.

Their downside – in campaign mode – is that they are in a really crappy position to start with and you have to defend your cities against repeated Egyptian sieges with practically nothing but militia hoplites. Once you get past that point and your unit roster opens up you can do anything you want. "How would I like to kill Romans today? With elephants? With chariots? With cataphracts? With my own legions? With good old-fashioned phalangites and Cretan archers? Pass me the grapes, I must ponder this"

[pisskop]

Yup poor, small, and under tension from the get.  But fun with just about everything in its rooster.

[loose nut]

Also there is little in RTW more beautiful than opening up a battle by smashing the Egyptian general's personal chariot with the first flaming cinderblock thrown from one of your onagers.

A cavalry unit may be strictly more useful but onagers are hard to beat for style.

[timferius]

I am extremley dissapointed in myself.
For the most part, I had pretty much ignored this, stayed out of the hype, not read anything. Then, 2 weeks ago, I preordered, and it was all downhill from there. I've ready every dev-post I could find, watched all the videos, and still have a week left till release where I can't bear to pick up another strategy game for fear that I'll wear myself out before I get my hands on the new game, despite my desperate craving for a good strategy game lately.
I had done so well...

[Tobel]

I am extremley dissapointed in myself.
For the most part, I had pretty much ignored this, stayed out of the hype, not read anything. Then, 2 weeks ago, I preordered, and it was all downhill from there. I've ready every dev-post I could find, watched all the videos, and still have a week left till release where I can't bear to pick up another strategy game for fear that I'll wear myself out before I get my hands on the new game, despite my desperate craving for a good strategy game lately.
I had done so well...

You really fell off the wagon. I've been playing EU4 to get myself in a strategy mindset. I tried booting up RTW but that just hurt my soul. One week mate, you can do it. Play some skyrim or something. RTWII is coming out the day after I'm done with my internship with nothing to do for a month. Joy of joys.

[umiman]

September 3 can't get here fast enough.