Rise of the Roman Republic the next chronicles?

What is the next Chronicles going to be? Wars of the Diadochi? Or could it be the Rise of the Roman Republic? I hope it’s the Roman one. I don’t have the unique units ideas all in place.

Roman Republic, Etruscans, The Samnites, The Gauls, Epirus. Carthage.

Roman Republic. Infantry civ.

Unique units: Principes, heavy infantry with charged pilum throwing javelin attack every 60 seconds. Hastati trash infantry with weaker pilum attack, but only cost food, no gold.

Castle unit (fort.) Triarii, expensive slow training, spearmen (not spearman class, just infantry, but bonus vs cavalry) who inspire Principes and Hastati by giving them 10 extra HP, 1 more attack, and 1/1 armor. Make nearby infantry regenerate 30 HP a minute. Of course none of this stacks.

Civ Bonuses. Infantry attack 50% faster. Farms generate wood. One wood per 15 food. Rams and Scorpions are 50% cheaper. Scorpions plus 1 range and attack 33% faster. Palisade Walls have x2 hit points and 2 wood cheaper, 1 wood per wall. Towers have x2 hit points. Outposts plus 4 line of sight.

Etruscans. Monk And defensive civ. All buildings regenerate 50 HP a minute. Hoplites receive plus 1/1 armor, receive 50% less bonus damage applied to them. Priests cost 50 less gold. Relics give 50% more gold. First temple immediately gives you a one time relic. Buildings receive 50% less bonus damage. Towers plus 2 range.

The Samnites. You do 50% more damage and receive 50% less damage in higher elevation. Skirmisher move 50% faster. Towers do 50% more damage up hill. Hoplites move 50% faster and have charged throwing javelin attack. Archers and infantry receive five food and gold per kill. Receiver trickle of 1 food and gold while damaging a building per second.

The Gauls. Infantry generate food simply by existing, one food every 15 seconds. No stone walls. Infantry and archers move 20% faster. Infantry and archers can walk between trees. Infantry have 40% more HP, but no armor blacksmith upgrades. Archers fire 15% faster. Tree last 50% longer. Lumberhacks generate food, one food every 15 seconds.

Epirus. Hoplite and elephants civ. Hoplite 10 additional hip points and move 20% faster. Reskinned battle elephants in stable. Receive half the amount of resources a unit costs per enemy kill. No other economic bonus.

Carthage. Elephant, and economics civ. War Elephants, should not have to explain elephant too much, move slow and costly, but powerful. Trade cards and trade cogs 50% cheaper. You receive one trade card for free with your first market. You receive one trade cog for free with your first dock. Resources last 20% longer. Town Centers work 10% faster. Villagers generate gold simply by existing, one gold every 30 seconds. Trade carts and trade cogs generate 15 food a minute.

All units take 50% longer to produc, navy units do not suffer penalty. Mercenaries produce much faster but they cost twice as much.

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We dont use two words for civilization names in aoe2.

The first Chronicles ended with a teaser for the next one. So maybe the 2nd one will do the same. Will know soon.

I think Rome is the big topic they want to get to because their mod was focused on Rome. Also it’s certainly the most popular ancient civ too.

I’m not going to comment all the random bonuses you listed there. They don’t seem well thought out at all.

Until now.

Just something not existing yet doesn’t mean it will never exist.

Since “Romans” already exist in the base game they gotta come up with something now. “Romans (Chronicles)” would be strange. SPQR could be an option.

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People really just keep forgetting that the Diadochi happened don’t they?

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Didnt we just get Lac Viet?

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Of course, that’s why having a Chronicles DLC with the Diadochi wars and Pyrrhus of Epirus (Yes, a better one than the RoR with Chronicles civs) would be great at some point.

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Sure, probably will be a Diadochi one (323-281 BC) and then yes, Rise of the Roman Republic (509-390 BC)…the Punic Wars are in 1 DE so you can jump to Celtiberian and Lusitanian Wars (181-133 BC)…then Cimbrian Wars and Gaius vs Sulla (113-86 BC) and finally a remake of Caesar campaign (81-45 BC)…

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Yes.

I mean seriously. How many copies do you think a Diadochi DLC will sell compared to a Roman Republic themed one?

Though maybe they want to save Rome for later or they get both in one DLC. Let Romans fight against Epirus at the end of the campaign or something. Then they already have Romans for the next theme where you get Carthage, Gauls and some other enemy of Rome.

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Not everything is about milking specific groups for money.

Battle for Greece focuses on the Ionian Revolt at the start, I don’t see how that’s something to milk and trick…I mean get people to buy it.

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The Ionian Revolt wasn’t a large part of the marketing. Most people probably didn’t even know the campaign would start with that until they bought it.

Not saying that they can’t make the Diadochi part of a DLC but I don’t think a DLC fully focusing on them would sell that well. So as I said maybe they make a Diadochi campaign with Romans at the end and that way get a civ in that many people want to see.

But how knows. Maybe we’ll get a teaser at the end of this campaign too and then we know where we go next.

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Pyrrus invasion. First Punic war. Maybe even second Punic War !

That could also include rise of rome with sabines etc but it sounds more legit to start with Pyrrus invasion.

For the civs:

  • Rome Republic
  • Carthaginian
  • Latins

It’s also known as the Titanomacy, the War of the Titans. There’s the title for anyone looking for something with a bit of pizzazz.

Pretty much. We’ll know as soon as someone finishes the final level.

“who should your Empire go to after you, Alexander ?”

“to the strongest !”

Most peaceful succession plan of all times :upside_down_face:

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:joy::rofl::rofl::rofl: far far way, 20 year after.

Sparta with Ares god first.

I think a Diadochi/Pyrrhus Chronicles could be good to bridge the gap to Rome, and also to get the Rome civ built now, so that in later Chronicles they can focus civbuilding manpower on the other civs. Also adding the Rome civ in Diadochi/Pyrrhus could help get Rome hype right away even though Rome isn’t directly being covered right away

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I thought that the Pyrrhus campaign was pretty solid

The best one of the bunch

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It was great for RoR, but now that Chronicles exist it feels like it lacks the unique units and stuff that are included in Chronicles where RoR lacks them, so a small remake or a few missions won’t be bad if it was a part of the Diadochi wars.

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What if they gave us the Roman perspective on it in the next Chronicles?

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Tbh with how many Roman campaigns we could get, maybe better to use Pyrrhus for that period

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