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The Warscape engine powers the game's visuals and new unit cameras allow players to focus on individual soldiers on the real-time battlefield, which may contain thousands of combatants at the same time. Like its predecessor, Rome II blends turn-based grand strategy and civilization management with real-time tactical battles. However, the player also has the option to play further, as there are no timed victory conditions. The grand single-player campaign begins in 272 BC and lasts for 300 years. Total War: Rome II is set in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East in the Classical antiquity period. It was offered as a standalone edition and a free upgrade to all current players. In September 2014, an Emperor Edition was released, which added macOS support and addressed many of the technical problems in the game, as well as overhauled AI battles and upgraded certain visual elements. However, it proved a commercial success, surpassing all other games in the Total War series in both sales and number of concurrent players on its release day. Rome II received generally positive reviews from critics on release, but was criticized for its significant technical problems. It was released on 3 September 2013, for Microsoft Windows as the eighth standalone game in the Total War series of video games and the successor to the 2004 game Rome: Total War. By maintaining naval superiority over the Romans you will be able to keep them at bay until you are ready to face them.Total War: Rome II is a strategy video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. If you want to you can even put an army on some ships and send them down to conquer Egpypt or Carthage. Once Greece is secure you can choose to go toe-to-toe with the Romans, to expand north or east. Uniting Greece should be pretty straightforward now. Start pupming out Phalanx Pikemen in Thessalonica ASAP to replace your militia hoplites. Well, that’s it, you’ve survived the first few turns of a Macedon campaign. Build a port in Sparta and Larissa and a practice range in Bylazora. Recruit another peasant unit in Thessalonica and another bireme in Corinth. After the battle you should leave one general (preferably not your leader or heir) and a peasant unit in Corinth. Your cavalry advantage will once again win you the battle. Attack the Brutii army, even if you are not at war with them. Send the retrained militia hoplites from Athens and Sparta towards Corinth and combine them with your main army. Fifth turnĪ Brutii army will have appeared outside Corinth, maybe even besieging it. Build a port in Athens, stables in Corinth and a wall around Sparta. Train a bireme in Corinth, Light Lancers in Larissa and a peasant garrison in Sparta. Merge depleted units of militia hoplites, retrain them and send the rest of the army to re-inforce Corinth. After the battle march your army to take Sparta and occupy the settlement. You should be able to defeat it and the re-inforcing garrison as long as you remember to use your huge cavalry advantage. Fourth turnĪttack the Greek army just outside Sparta. Build a shrine in Athens or roads if there already is one. Train peasants in Thessalonica, Larissa and Athens.
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Ask some money for this and try to secure an alliance with Dacia. Dacia and Thrace will approach you with an offer of trade rights and map information. Your spy should infiltrate the settlement. Send the rest of the army towards Sparta. Merge your units so only one or two units of militia hoplites are not up to full strength and retrain those units. Third turnĪssault Athens and occupy the settlement. Build the following: City Barrakcs in Thessalonica, Governor’s Villa in Bylazora, Port in Corinth and Paved Roads in Larissa.
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Train another unit of peasants in Thessalonica. Send the remaining infantry from Thessalonica further south and let the garrison from Larissa (excluding the peasants) join them. Let the garrison of Corinth (excluding the governor and peasant unit) join them, just as all cavalry (including general) from Larissa. Take all the cavalry from the former Thessalonica garrison (including the general) and send it to besiege Athens. Take the entire garrison from Thessalonica and send it south towards Athens. Move your spy towards Athens and your diplomat towards Thermon. Raise taxes to Very High in all your settlements as well. Queue a peasant unit and a shrine of choice in all your cities. However their early military is weak, so getting access to more powerful troops will be an important goal in the first few turns. Macedon is in an ideal position to unite Greece quickly. It applies to all levels of difficulty, however. This guide was written and tested while playing on the hardest difficulty level. If you want to play as them you first have to make them playable first. By default Macedon is an unplayable faction.