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[Teneb]

Thanks to some investigation, users have figured out what the next dlc for Rome 2 is about. It's a campaign pack about the Second Foundation of Rome and will feature playable Rome, Veneti, Tarentum, Senones, Syracuse. I hope that's not all of them, I wanted a playable Etruria.

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[Hanslanda]

Time to be surprise Iceni again. I like to make big armies in Britain, then sail to Egypt and stuff, to start EXTREME long range wars.

Have you, by chance, read the "A Scotsmen in Egypt" let's play?

I have not but I will now. I do this sorta thing all the time. Romans in scythia is especially fun.

[Teneb]

Today a bunch of news got dropped, it seems. Since I am in vacation, I'll sum up what I think is interesting for each.

Spoiler: A New FLC array for TWW2 (click to show/hide)

If you can't see it properly due to phone or whatever, the two unanounced LLs have a Dark Elf and a Jungle background respectively. I guess they are aiming for a total of 4 LLs for each launch faction. That there seems to be room for one more FLC after the Lizardmen one is interesting.

For Throne of Britannia, it was stated earlier, though I can't find the source now, that the obligatory Blood dlc will be free for people who own the Attila one. Also there's a beta update called Allegieance.

Spoiler: Highlights appear to be (click to show/hide)

- The Allegiance mechanics, that work like Rome II's culture or Attila's religion and represent the population's loyatly to a particular group.
- Dyflin and Sudreyar get a new start bonus "Pagan Kings", that give them unit replenishment but also spread "Usurper" allegiance. They'll eventually get an event regarding if they want to convert to Christianity or not.
- Nearly all minor settlement buildings, save for religious ones, now branch at Tier 4.
- For major settlements, there are two new building chains, "Merchant" and "Workshop". There's some other new chains that require specific resources on the province.
- New unique buildings have been added to towns of Grianan Ailech, Achadh Bo, and Hwitan Aerne.
- Estates have been changed, and now there are several types with various effects. Characters can also wish to own specific types of estates, and get disgruntled if they don't get them.
- Political action cost now scale with fame, meaning they start cheap and get expensive later.
- New character traits were added.
- Battle AI is better, will favour hills and hold units in reserve (I've observed this has started to happen in Rome 2 as well as of it's beta).
- Bunch of balance changes I am not getting into.

As if that wasn't enough, there was the monthly "What are we working on" blog post. From it, we can tell there's going to be apparently some sort of betrayal mechanic in 3 Kingdoms, Rome 2's next DLC will be formally announced soon, and TWW3 is still in preproduction + Chaos jokes.

All in all, Total War is in a pretty good state.

[Tack]

Fingers personally crossed for Kroak and Malus darkblade, although I can see the former being PLC.
Maybe temple guard guy.

[Levi]

I hope they eventually add a playable vampire faction for the vampire coast.  I think it would be fun to play over there instead of being smushed between the empire and the dwarves.

[Persus13]

I know in the first game there were mods that made all the factions playable. There something similar for the second one yet?

[Teneb]

I know in the first game there were mods that made all the factions playable. There something similar for the second one yet?

Crynsos Faction Unlocker. It is also a requirement of a lot of other mods.

[Persus13]

Total War just streamed some calming music this morning, then dropped the trailer for the new Rome II DLC two minutes from the end.
Full Stream (with Trailer)
Trailer

[Teneb]

Here's the steam page

[Tack]

I will play if I can use the original Pyrrhus.
This is my lifelong dream.

[Mech#4]

A small patch is currently in opt-in beta on Steam. Called the "Reinforcement Beta" it focuses on re-fixing the bug where reinforcing armies arrive from the wrong side of the map to where they're located on the campaign map.

It also fixes and changes a few other small things, though it is by no means as extensive as the ones that usually come with DLC packs.

Patch notes:

• Reinforcements should now enter the battlefield from the expected direction.
• The Tier 3 and Tier 4 Dark Elf entertainment buildings can now be constructed by those who do not own The Queen and The Crone.
• Fortress Gates, Skavenblight, Hell Pit and Occupied Elven Colonies can now be upgraded by those who do not own Tomb Kings.
• Sisters of Slaughter are now recruited from Tier 3 Halls of Ravaging.
• Tomb Kings’ Skeleton Warriors and Skeleton Spearmen are now available to recruit from the Infantry Level 1 building Open Graves

The change to Tomb Kings is an interesting one. I kind of liked how you could recruit armies of skeletons basically anywhere, but perhaps it was a bit too armies-for-nothing.

[Teneb]

• The Tier 3 and Tier 4 Dark Elf entertainment buildings can now be constructed by those who do not own The Queen and The Crone.
• Sisters of Slaughter are now recruited from Tier 3 Halls of Ravaging.

They didn't fix it so much as they've bypassed it by shunting the Sisters of Slaughter to another building.

[umiman]

The CA dripfeed of news is starting again: https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/9isdl7/a_fantastical_announcement_draws_near/

Looks like it's a treasure map? So probably announcing Sartosa?

Edit: There was also some sort of false outrage ending in some people brigading Rome 2's scores because someone lied about how you can recruit tonnes of female generals as Rome or something like that. Then it turns out they cheated it either with photoshop or mods and the only female generals you can hire are really low percentage or 50% as that one African weed nation or whatever.

Either way it's pretty dumb.

[Teneb]

Edit: There was also some sort of false outrage ending in some people brigading Rome 2's scores because someone lied about how you can recruit tonnes of female generals as Rome or something like that. Then it turns out they cheated it either with photoshop or mods and the only female generals you can hire are really low percentage or 50% as that one African weed nation or whatever.

Either way it's pretty dumb.

Oh no, it's way dumber than that.

Youtuber ArchWarhammer decided he wasn't making enough outrage and manipulated the game until he got 5 female generals, and then started claiming that the devs had issues a secret patch that caused all generals to become female and how this is an outrage, where is muh 'historical precision'. Then to make sure this was an actual shitstorm and not a mere shitbreeze, actual literal Nazi newspaper The Daily Stormer (that I am not going to link, and you probably shouldn't search for) issued a piece about how in Total War, white soldiers are being replaced by women and black people (though obviously they used a pejorative term).

Did people look at this and calmly check the information? Of course not, that would be sensible. Instead they started review-bombing the game about how Rome 2 has no historical precision (Gauls in Arabia? Just fine. Women in my game? OUTRAGE), how it is SJW, how it is dragging politics into their precious gaming (which is a laughable complaint, since culture and politics might as well be the same thing), and so on and so forth.

Things got even more inflamed when a CA community manager said that there were no changes, the game was working as intended on that aspect and no plans were being made to change anything, and that if they still didn't like that to mod it or stop playing. Obviously this led to more OUTRAEG and cries for the community manager to be fired.

In short, youtuber and literal nazis inciting outrage, plus a huge load of misoginy and racism because of course.

[LordPorkins]

Hey, So, does anyone know if theres a mod to increase the amount of people you can have a campaign with in Total Warhammer? From what I've heard 2 can bring you up to 4, but I was wondering if you could get to like one player for every faction