Total War: Rome 2?

[Alcibiades]

Glad to see that a faction that was playable in the original will be able to be played...in October.   

[Crazy_Ivan80]

The I'm-not-buying-that-cause-you're-milking-it-DLC is available now though

[Tamas]

So what will be the deal with the Seleucids until October? They will have generic stuff when you fight them or what?

[Lettow77]

Carthage's own Canute raged against the tide
Vexing no ocean's currents, but history's flow
Raised to resent it at his father's side
The rash family presumed to find in fate a foe

Plucking out his eye in offering,
He sought to see Rome's demise
But destiny does not deal in bartering,
preferring to make ruin of all men devise

Empty achievements he ably accrued,
Putting  men upon the altar of his ambition
But all across italy, he could only brood
upon his vain and hopeless mission

A brother beheaded, a nation destroyed
thus the fruit of the talent he so ably employed

[Syt]

[Bluebook]

Anyone have this game yet? Im on the fence - should I buy it or not?

[MadBurgerMaker]

I have it but haven't played it yet.  Heh. 

[garbon]

I don't think I'm interested. Certainly not before some gold release with all the features.

[Valmy]

Why exactly is being descended from a loser civilization that may have sacrificed children something that would give blacks moral and self-respect?  I would think the fact black ancestors lived in relative peace, bothering nobody, in Africa for thousands of years before Arab and European douchebags ruined it would be more points in that area.

[Syt]

I had it pre-loaded. Now it decided to download an extra 9.9 GB.

[DGuller]

Hannibal was black?  I think he's thinking of Cleopatra.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I had it pre-loaded. Now it decided to download an extra 9.9 GB.

They said it had to unpack to full size, then there's apparently some sort of 2gb patch.  I forgot to turn on my computer this morning so it would be done with all that stupid shit this afternoon.

[Queequeg]

No Bactrians, no money.

[Agelastus]

Hannibal was black?  I think he's thinking of Cleopatra.

Who was not black either, of course, her ancestors being Macedonian in the main - heavily inbred Macedonians at that.

I think there may have been a Caucasian-Armenian admixture in there as well, but the main part was Macedonian.

Anyway, what's wrong with just using the old descriptions of "Meditteranean" or "Olive skin" for the peoples who live around the sea down there? It fits much better than black or white, and ignores the frothings of the "African-American" fringe and the whole race/language argument. People who live around that sea tend to have brownish skin due to the climate...

As for the game, having skipped Shogun 2, I'm feeling my way into it. My first impressions are that the interface is cluttered and ugly (those unit cards!!!) and that the cities take up too much room on the campaign map (they seem to crowd out everything else in some areas.)

Also, as usual, there's some very iffy naming/design decisions on the campaign map...

The battles seem to be alright though, and I'm pleasantly surprised by the level of graphic detail my computer can handle (with maximum unit size.)

[Razgovory]

Okay, that's to good.  I have to respond to that one.