"Bloody Push of the pike!" Topic

I've played some hours of Rome 2 as Selucids, after spending most of the game beating my head against hordes of steppe horse archers in Asia Minor.

I finnaly got to fight som Civilised people. After extreminating Rome quite simply, I was plesantly supirsed to find Macedonia attacked one of my allies, I used that as an excuse to fight them as I wanted Macedonia anyway!

I marched on Macedonia from Athens, but one of my armies was ambushed by two Macedonian armies, 4400 vs my 2200.

I never got a good pike vs pike battle against Egypt, as they got wiped out very fast.

So blody push of the pikes

How did you beat Rome? I played the original Rome Total War. I found that cavalry was the key…as history might suggest. I could pin them with impunity with my pike and sweep their cavalry away. Once the battle was won on the flanks, it was a matter of attacking the center from all sides.

Thats my strategy to.

I play with a mod, meaning battles are a good 100-200% longer, So if both side are about equal in cav, it will be a nail biter.

The mod makes it so that cav in the ass while pinned forward makes even the best elite tirarii run pretty fast.

I've had sevral nail biting battles, against diffrent enemies, where all my cav is busey with enemy cav(cav vs cav battles can last ALONG time) As even low quality cav now take alot more punishment. before dying/running.

Generaly pikes don't run against forward attacks unless something kills or disrupts them(so javleings or arrows)

Cav no mater how good is useless against pikes head on.

Rome was weakend by the time I got there, They had only rome, 2 cities in southern italy and corsica. I had only one major battle against them. (and one major loss at sea)

Infact besides Macedonia, I have not had any real fights or meets with any major power, sparta just has two cities, standing there not doing anything, athens had only one city which I took no prolem, Ptolomy was useless, Carthage got wiped out with not having any contact except trade agreement with them.

My of my 16 hours in this campaign have been spent fighting damn horse archers in asia minor.

I now control central and southern italy, corsica, Part of greece and macedonia, most of Turkey, Syria, Egypt, most of todays Iran. There are no major competion left against me. I have 15 armies, most other factions have 1-3.

Looks like the Seleucids are the new Roman empire!

I played the Carthaginians and ran all over the Romans. I took the direct route through the toe of Italy before Rome could fully mobilize. Rather than bypassing Rome itself, I lay siege to it immediately and kept an extra field army in the area to fend off all attackers. Rome fell to the siege after it gave one pathetic attempt to sally forth when it was too late. Army half starved and completely demoralized, my Punic soldiers had no problems. I quite the game when I met the victory conditions.

All this talk makes me want to play again.

Rome 2 has, sevral "extra" campaigns, (that you have to pay for)

One is 2nd punic war, another is penopelisan war. caesars gallic wars and constantine.

The mod I uses also adds(for free) wars of alexander.

Playing against rome or playing as rome in Rome 2 is boring(atleast with out mods)

1. Hastati is useless probebly one of the worst in the game(on the level of desert spearmen)
2. With in 20 turns you will most likely have done the marien revolution and hastati, principes and triarii disapears, so that happens some 150 years before it did in real life.

I remebmer I played as Carthage (before the 2nd punic war campaign was out) and I went to war with rome early and like in the year 300 bc. I met roman caesarian legionares.