If you place them behind your lines they will often fire right into the rear of your men.Īrchers: Typically good at range, they vary in quality among the different factions but Egyptian and Cretan archers have historically been higher end. They also work well on the flanks of an enemy to cause additional enemy losses. The biggest drawback is that they cannot arc their shots very well. Combining high rates of fire with good accuraccy they make excellent skirimishers. Slingers: These units excel firing on enemies on the open ground or firing from higher grounds towards targets that are lower then them. As they are very light they excel at running after fleeing enemy and dealing additional losses. However they are expendable so place them in front of valuable units to soak up missile fire. Armed with only a weapon and little else they make poor soldiers and rout easily. Peasants, Mobs, Plebs, etc: Citizens thrust into battle typically to defend their home or lands when under attack. They are weaker in prolonged melees, if they are not able to deal a decisive blow early on. The tradeoff for better offense is a lower defense making them better suited for charging into a gap, or for dealing a heavy blow to enemy units. Sword Infantry: Sword infantry is usually known by their attack capabilities, compared to spearmen's more defensive skills. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms and others. As with Rome: Total War, Rome II is set in the classical antiquity and focus on the Roman Republic.
#TOTAL WAR ROME 2 WIKI SERIES#
The eighth standalone game in the Total War series of video games, Rome II is the successor to the 2004 game Rome: Total War. So in short while they have no advantages from the phalanx formation they are more flexible and are able to respond to a number of threats better. A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. Total War: Rome II is a turn-based strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, and was released in September 2013 for Microsoft Windows. Contents 1 General Information 1.1 Campaign Map 1.2 Engine 1.3 Gameplay 2 Playable Factions 2.1 Greek States Culture Pack 2.2 Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack 2. While not as lethal as pikemen against horses or infantry units when attacking head on they are able to move faster and are better for screening for enemy horsemen as they can catch up to them. Total War: Rome 2 is the eighth Total War game by the Creative Assembly, announced in July 2012, and released on 3rd September 2013. Spearmen like pikemen carry stabbing weapons into battle but their weapons are much shorter but also more muneverable. Once the formation has been broken pikemen are rather weak one on one unless if they are elite units like Spartans. Infantry will pay a high price to break through their front ranks as well! While these units are amazing in the front they are vunerable to being flanked, as they are slow and make a large mass they are extremely vunerable to missile fire especially when they stay in phalanx formation to move. They can form phalanx formation that present a row of sharpen pikes in the front which is lethal to calvary.
Pikemen or Phalanxes carry long pikes into battle.
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