I really liked Rome at War!
The only bad thing is that I just joined the bandwagon of playing it when the MOD was already discontinued for a while, and it has several bugs that make it difficult to play:
- If I wanted it to work in English, the images didn’t sync well
- If I wanted it to work in Spanish: the texts didn’t change well.
- The enemy AI didn’t work at all.
Still, while I tried to test the unique units of the old era and the game model, everything worked on was pretty cool.
When Age of Empires II: Return of Rome came out, I still missed Rome at War.
However, if with this new series of DLC using the Return of Rome model, a new AoE2 game model is created, I will be very happy, and I’m very excited by this new DLC.
We could even consider civilizations like Israel, Rome (Republic), Rome (Empire), Carthage, or campaigns where you don’t have to use the anachronistic clubmen and axeman.
That’s cause they unified classical and late antiquity which imo is not a good move cause Germans may make sense for a game set in ancient era, until the 3rd century AD at the latest, but in that century Germans started to form the confederacies that would eventually take over Europe (Franks, Vandals, Goths etc). I’ve always said that late antiquity belongs more to a dark and medieval ages themed game than one about bronze and iron age but few took me seriously because stuck with the default view of 476, so now you know why I was insisting on that.
Basically, it’s a gold source that is fished (similar to whales in AoE3)
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Is it regenerating gold ressource?
I heard something going that direction.
Witht he new civs you can even get Wood from them - which would make them super valueable on Water maps in the lategame actually.
I like the direction - and it will probably get some tweaks. Very positive they will become an integral part of the warter map scripts in the future.
Yep similar to whales just with a limited amount of gold instead of unlimited amount of gold to get as seen in the following video
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Hm…
idk if that’s so good.
The issue with this is that this only adds one additional timing to the game where it would be important to get the water.
Meaning it forces up a cetrain meta play instead of allowing players to come up and work out different strats.
I disagree, many time appropriate civs would be best fitting into Chronicles than in normal AoE2. For example, civs that represent individual HRE city states, or individual Japanese Clans. The same way BFG contains individual Sparta and Athens civs.
