Thread 2082209

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>>2082209 (OP)
Did they ever get an artist to do new building icons or is it still placeholder-tier?

>play EB2
>major factions can't or won't expand out of their start positions
>entire game is stomping 10 star rebel/neutral stacks
Grimothy

>>2082228
>play EB2
>Romans cannot into testudo

why wouldn't the gr**ks just become proper catholics ????

>>2082307
Greeks an L*toids have never gotten along

>>2082209 (OP)
HOSTIS TRUCIDATA

>>2082272
What's supposed to happen to the 3 guys in the rear? Do they just die?

>>2082663
the banner gives them plot armour

>>2082209 (OP)
Now post the scuffed looking Alexander map Greece.

>>2082228
>>entire game is stomping 10 star rebel/neutral stacks
older total war games suck nuts for this reason

>>2082663
i checked the rulebook and apparently you just remove another guy instead if they get hit

>>2082572
HOPLITAI HAPLOI

>>2082209 (OP)
Fun fact, the Greeks are the most satisfying faction.
So much enjoyment retaking lost Greek cities like Syracuse, Marseille or Olba and then curb stomping the surrounding non tank-factions with mighty Hellon spear and shield. I've won crazy battles. Like 600 against 2000 and I'M the one sieging.

>>2082572
SOMATOPHYLAKES STRATEGOU

>>2082744
Yeah whenever I go back to anything pre Attila most factions just sit in their starting positions, build all the full stacks they can afford, and then never do anything

EB1 >>>> EB2

>>2084378
>>2082209 (OP)
rome 1 is so pretty and the music is goated

>>2084459
It looks and sounds like shit, no reason to play it when Attila exists

EQVITES

>>2085130
SAMNITI

>>2085116
>today i will post wrong statements on 4chan
i get it, it's fun to pretend to be retarded

>>2084378
Bactria, my beloved.

>>2084378
Is Bactria the true VGH nation?

>>2084261
>>2083470
EQUITES CONSULLARI

>>2085720
BOZ BOZ BOZ

>>2085727
"DONNA'-PISSA-IN-MA-BODY!"

I wish I still had the patience to play EB

I like EB2 too but some of the scripts in it are dumb

>>2086813
based koinon hellenon chad

Pick one for me please besides Baktria and Rome

RTR >>>>>>> EB

>>2093480
Epirus

>>2094217
why are there like 7 factions on crete
not even going to say anything about the 10k provinces, but why 7 factions on crete

>>2082228
In my experience it generally takes until like the 220s or so to factions to start getting their ball rolling in EB2. I am not sure why, though.
>>2093480
Armenia
>>2094367
Excessive philohellenism, mainly, see also those 3 single-province coastal factions west of Crimea.

>>2094423
Iirc the dev team first focused on the hellenic/hellenistic world and will update the rest later. Simply put the documented world has more options for history autists to insert things like unit variety and the such than the illiterate tribes. Dont get me wrong I basically first play as the suebi almost every rome era game but there’s much more content to be focused on the literate world

>>2094217
>100 gorillion greek factions
>roman and carthaginian diverse degrees of dominion over their respective neighbouring minor and medium polities is represented by single mega blobs

My beloved, I havent seen you in so long...

>>2094454
There are two megablobs on hat map and they aren’t cartage or rome
Granted rome could be smaller for the player but it’s not absurd given the starting date

>>2094460
Also due to cost of units if you do start as one of those megablobs you will be hemmoraghing income and suffer from painful rioting for a while

>>2094454
we'll see if that changes with the rome update. they put all the factions that will ever be in the mod in this new soon™ update.
>>2094447
also pretty much this. it makes sense to start with the greeks. has factions that everyone loves to play, their units basically form the standard for the entire world because pretty much everyone borrowed equipment from the greeks, thus making it easier to then do the modeling work down the line for all the other cultures and its far easier to pull sources from in terms of unit design and all that. romans are going to be pretty sick though. next summer gonna be litty.

>>2094460
>There are two megablobs
Wrong. For example, Carthage's hold over the other punic cities required a lot of overt force, bro, which is why you got things like the Mercenary war after the first punic war. At the very least cities like Utica should be represented as vassals if cretan minor #1738 is going to have a tag.

>>2095245
Carthage gets stomped by Massalia I feel about half the time

>>2094457
early game is so boring

https://youtu.be/mXuPHvbzwZs?si=5oa-_TBCyczEUrpV

need roman update, NOW!

>>2093480
You probably picked one by now but I really enjoy Macedon and Carthage

>>2094457
This keeps crashing when I try to start a new campaign. What I do wrong?

Where can I get a copy of Rome I that doesn't run like shit? The Steam version is fucked.

>>2110343
>Look for the total war eras 6-disc collection and install Rome+BI+Alexander using the appropriate discs
>After installing, copy over the No-CD patches for the game+expansions which can be found down the page here: https://github.com/anzz1/openspy-client?tab=readme-ov-file
>Download dxvk 2.4.1 from: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.4.1
>The file you want is dxvk-2.4.1.tar.gz
>Navigate through the archive (you may need something like 7zip) until you get into the x32 folder (Rome 1 is a 32-bit program, you need to use the 32-bit dlls)
>take both the d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll files from this folder and place them in your game's install directory (next to the game exes)
>make sure your GPU drivers are up to date

This is what I did and the game runs very smoothly. If you want to play vanilla I recommend installing BUG-FIXER v3.36 from here if you don't already know about it: https://rtw.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=3991

>>2093480
Carthage is a great starter faction. Just focus on the ports and you'll be rolling in dosh.

>>2110343
runs fine for me ;^)