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I am hyped for Exodus
BIGGER Kentucky James XXL said:vomit
Rome 2 is the only total war game with some decent variety in infantry where heavy swordsmen don't dominate everything. My main gripe with radious is how it tries to fill every gap in every faction when the gaps are what makes the factions interesting to begin with. Athens is a spear faction full of specialised hoplites who are challenging and fun to use against celts and romans, so by adding elite swords it just obsoletes all those unique units with one swordsman you can spam. If anything, using the swordsmen is cheating, while stretching your pikes across the entire map is realism.
The most fun I've ever had in a campaign in any total war game was playing pre-dlc garamantia with nothing but cheap spearmen and slingers vs Rome. It's not even particularly hard, but it feels so much better when you make the tools rather than being handed them on a platter.
tl;dr you're playing the game wrong reeeeeeeeee
Also radious is triple overgay
I admit I'm no expert at Rome 2, but the way I've been looking at it is, spears are for holding the enemy, swords are for killing them. Sword units seem much better at inflicting casualties than spearmen, but I can often rely upon my hoplites to hold a position for an extended period of time while I work on flanking the enemy with other units. That is, if the hoplites don't get completely overrun like they did against those Romans. And I'd definitely want swordsmen if I was besieging. I lost a battle once when I sent a bunch of hoplites over a wall, only for them to get flattened by a zerg rush of barbarian levy spears once they were inside. Hoplites can't cut their way through defenders the way swordsmen can.BIGGER Kentucky James XXL said:Rome 2 is the only total war game with some decent variety in infantry where heavy swordsmen don't dominate everything. My main gripe with radious is how it tries to fill every gap in every faction when the gaps are what makes the factions interesting to begin with. Athens is a spear faction full of specialised hoplites who are challenging and fun to use against celts and romans, so by adding elite swords it just obsoletes all those unique units with one swordsman you can spam. If anything, using the swordsmen is cheating, while stretching your pikes across the entire map is realism.
Arvenski said:I admit I'm no expert at Rome 2, but the way I've been looking at it is, spears are for holding the enemy, swords are for killing them.
I'm starting to doubt you've played the Odryssians for more than a few turns...BIGGER Kentucky James XXL said:So long as you survive the first few turns its easy as pie.