posted 11 February 2013 06:38 EDT (US)
Download Content is incoming, for sure. DU touched on faction DLC in his thread here, but what of expansion packs? CA have supplemented their main games with both unit and expansion DLC since the series first started to use Steam.
Empire: Total War had the average "Warpath" featuring the Indian tribes in America. Napoleon, the pseudo-expansion to Empire, had the Peninsula campaign. Although I didn't play it, I believe it was well received.
Shogun 2 had the excellent "Rise of the Samurai" - which rather than magnifying a portion of the conflict, set the clock back a few hundred years and focused on a different conflict, with different units and a differently designed campaign map. Then came the much larger, and also standalone, expansion "Fall of the Samurai", with the starting date 300 years after that of Shogun 2's main campaign. With another new set of factions, campaign, and it's own faction-DLC. The main game was rounded off nicely, the DLCs allowing it to cover a wide time span and three distinctly different eras.
As for Rome II, what expansions are we likely to see? I personally doubt that CA will go the way of Shogun 2, and have different 'eras' across the whole map - Europe will be too large to redesign and re-populate with factions and unit rosters in this way. So, will they simply re-make the previous Rome DLC? Alexander and BI? They didn't remake the Mongol invasion for Shogun 2...
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Empire: Total War had the average "Warpath" featuring the Indian tribes in America. Napoleon, the pseudo-expansion to Empire, had the Peninsula campaign. Although I didn't play it, I believe it was well received.
Shogun 2 had the excellent "Rise of the Samurai" - which rather than magnifying a portion of the conflict, set the clock back a few hundred years and focused on a different conflict, with different units and a differently designed campaign map. Then came the much larger, and also standalone, expansion "Fall of the Samurai", with the starting date 300 years after that of Shogun 2's main campaign. With another new set of factions, campaign, and it's own faction-DLC. The main game was rounded off nicely, the DLCs allowing it to cover a wide time span and three distinctly different eras.
As for Rome II, what expansions are we likely to see? I personally doubt that CA will go the way of Shogun 2, and have different 'eras' across the whole map - Europe will be too large to redesign and re-populate with factions and unit rosters in this way. So, will they simply re-make the previous Rome DLC? Alexander and BI? They didn't remake the Mongol invasion for Shogun 2...
A A R S
:: The Sun always rises in the East :: Flawless Crowns :: Dancing Days ::
"We kissed the Sun, and it smiled down upon us."
)). Then your economy is easily the best, The Celts and Berbers are too weak and easy to conquer, the hordes are pretty much dead by the time they reach Roman borders, and by then the WRE is stable and more than powerful enough to take on the ERE and hit the victory conditions, and if you wish to continue, unite the Roman Empire and conquer the whole map. Easiest Total War campaign I've ever done, and this was on VH/VH, they should have made the hordes, Berbers and Celts tougher, so this would be giving Rome a tougher initial challenge militarily, a future threat, and making Rome less prepared for civil war.