Rome 2 - What faction?

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**Trondheim**

djones520 wrote:
CA just opened up the Baktria faction for play, for free today. Damn them... a new faction I want to start now.

Anyways, Facebook is a hoot. Such a hate storm on there. Someone told me I like to lick CA's butthole because I simply pointed out that people are hating on them for giving us free stuff.

Wat.... Is that so? I will never cease to be amazed by some folks.

On a side note, just had a quick spin with Bactria and well. yet another hellenic faction. Although it was nice to start with some decent troops for once. But I had hoped for something a bit different than a another Alexander sucsessor kingdom. But ti seems to be good, will definitly sink more time into it when i get the time to do so

**djones520**

Yeah, they seem to like the Hellenic factions. To be fair though, Baktria is the faction I've seen most folks going on about, after Selucia.

**Bromsy**

It's not like there aren't mods that open up pretty much every faction if people really cared.

I just find myself running out of steam on the game because I hate the forced civil war. I play with the Radious mod, so by the time the civil war hits the traitors spawn 16 stacks of dickholes and it's just a big pain to stamp them out.

**nels1031**

News from Joystiq, regarding Rome 2:

In lieu of offering yet another downloadable content pack for Total War: Rome 2, developer Creative Assembly has opted to let fans roll their own units, factions and conflicts with the release of the Rome 2 Assembly Kit.

Though still in the beta stages, the Assembly Kit is a full-featured suite of tools useful in modding the historical strategy game. According to publisher Sega, the Kit includes everything necessary to modify the game's existing assets, as well as import/export tools for pulling artwork, audio and character models into the game from third-party programs. The Kit also includes a swath of "example data" which should be useful for nascent modders.

The best news, however, is that the Assembly Kit is available free of charge to anyone with a copy of Total War: Rome 2 and an Internet connection. Full details on the Kit and information on how to download the tools can be found on the Total War Wiki.

Get us a Warhammer mod stat, modders! I know one exists in some form already, but I want a new one! I'll give you a month for a fully functional map of at least the Old World and a few related factions, or I'll take you mom out to a nice steak dinner and never call her again!

I bought the Caesar in Gaul expansion and didn't really feel grabbed by the actual campaign. Just seemed like more of the same. Admittedly I didn't get deep into it, but I did enjoy playing as the Galatians in the main campaign and conquering everything to the east of mordern day Turkey, but now I'm too lazy to turn my armies around and conquer the west now.

**Grey Templar**

Nice, hopefully it has map built into it too. Otherwise we'll have Warriors of Chaos rampaging through Gaul(not a bad thing mind you)

**Commander Cain**

Hmm, sweet. I only just started playing the game (was waiting for the bugs to go) but it will be nice to see some proper mods appearing soonish.

Also the fact that it will be free is is very decent of them. Honesty I was expecting CA to be trying much harder to grab our money than this, kudos to them.

**Grey Templar**

I think the bad PR of the release is the biggest reason its free. They need to make up for all the bugs.

They still haven't quite fixed the combat AI. And morale still needs tweaking. A battle between 2 full stacked armies should last longer than 3-4 minutes, of which 3 minutes was running to engage.

**Palindrome**

Grey Templar wrote:
I think the bad PR of the release is the biggest reason its free.

CA have always been very keen on mods, they did exactly the same thing with Shogun IIRC.

**Grey Templar**

But was the DLC free?

I don't remember any free DLCs. Plenty of mods on the Steam Workshop but that's independent modding.

**Palindrome**

Grey Templar wrote:
But was the DLC free?

I don't remember any free DLCs. Plenty of mods on the Steam Workshop but that's independent modding.

By DLC do you mean the mod tools? If so, yes they were free.

Prior TW games didn't need mod tools as they were easy to mod (all you needed to do was change text files).