I use war dogs all the time. .they average 150-500 kills vs light troops.. I actually think they are overpowered. LOL I have one Roman Legion Named Cerberus.. it has 3 war dog units.. and they munch.. everything.
Spartan Phalanx pikeman (defensive AI) vs Roman Legionaries (hard difficulty) would take multiple retreat to exploit the automatic javelin volley while charging.
I always use attack dogs. I think some people treat them as a troll unit for pissing around with, but they are genuinely brilliant. Helped me defeat Carthage, by pulling their light infantry into small streets, then jamming them between two packs of vicious dogs, and then slaughtering them with two units of hastati. Cheap and effective troop setup
They're effective at dealing with light infantry. In a settlement battle you can send 1 or 2 of them into a town and they'll usually kill 50-90% of the enemies inside. [The militia units anyway]
the quality of the spears and the archers and their veteranship also play a role and also their are a lot of other factors so that itself doesn't make the game bad
Hey THFE, I just bought the campain and started campain. But I dont quite get it.. could you create a beginner toturial videos? Like what you should do and think about....
Just buy the game, then before starting campaign just create a custom match and scroll through each faction. May I suggest Pontus, they've got the widest variety of eastern and western soldiers and start in a fortified position
Sry but the Elephant player was rly terrible. When u play elephant i would highly comment to activate the melee attack. When u wont do it, your elephants will almost only carge into them...and then just stay around. With elephants u want to walk through enemy lines the are not supposed to just stay around and get hit.
Would have liked to see the number of units per army, any upgrades and w/o the Cav for Rome, or at least, keep them out of the fight. Good clip though, nice camera work!
Runs fine for me, my issue is the horrid UI (imo), and way too quick battles, I mean if two units attack each other, the odds are one is gonna break and run within 30sec
Hello Everyone, I'm about to get this game soon and I've been a fan since the original Rom Total War. I just wanted to ask. I don't have the game yet but I was wondering where I can see the list of units for each faction online. I can't seem to find it anywhere online.
But , even if I bought it , wouldn't I be able to patch it / ubdate it , if the issues are fixed ? I mean I am not buying it from steam , i ll probably get it from my local store , it's 10 euros cheaper there , but the thing that worries me is if i ll be able to run it . I guess i ll take a look at its specs before deciding ...
can u go show and go through the stats of each unit u put against eachother before the match? it would help noobs like me a lot with number-crunching and stuff. cheers mate
Hey Oakly, what are your specs and how well does it preform? Interestingly I've found I can't tweak the setting in game, or the fps goes to hell no matter what setting is chosen. It is to be expected though. AWESOME GAME.
Why no dog leads or soldier in charge or the legion pack of war dogs with battle pack dogs attack formations ? In sync with the solider, calvery or legion attack formation?
Hey, i'm building a new computer and I want to run Rome II on it's highest graphics, do you think the AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB 16X with an i7 will be able to handle it?
if you need help doing battles i would love to help. As far as the next vid goes. I say do like a fully upgraded 1 unit vs like 5-10 weaker units. or the individual fighting that TheSGH101 talked about that would be AWESOME!
Killian Billian That is true; in real life you can even hold an elephant or a horse at bay with nothing more than a long stick. What's more, most animals don't willingly step on other living animals. But this is Total War: Rome II. When you do have animals collide in such an irrational manner the odd physics involved stand out.
In Total War Rome 2, Pathfinding AI has always been an issue, especially when your computer handle a lot of programming. Infantry enter a city gates, pause a moment before resume. Infantry suddenly stop before resume charging. Calvary running about(try to reformation) before they snap out and run away from danger. Elephants animation was intended to charge at a certain acceleration before the deceleration animation take place(ie: reaching and stampede a group of human soldiers). But with so many things the computer has to process for the game, it can go Potato sometimes. Also the AI has the tendency to precisely stop a fast moving charge to prevent you from gaining the advantage, which leads to the odds and wireds we seen in all the Total War series.
I however only fought Elephants in Custom games, Online you rarely see them, since they been nerf, buff a bit then nerf badly. They got a lot of counters, cost a lot and cannot stampede medium infantry or higher by simply walking through them. for running over infantry, Chariots are more lethal.
OMG Now i am worried again ! I could run Shogun 2 on ultra too but i am not willing to buy a new laptop or pc . Now i don't know if it is worth to accually buy the game or not ...
Ahhh that would explain how you can have awesome graphics AND run fraps! I'm guessing CA will release some kind of graphics patch.. (plus I've noticed a kazillion bugs in the tutorial campaign, which actually prevented me from being able to finish it :P)
wardogs are awesome in this game,normally I have about 5 groups in every army I have sometimes I get 0 losses in battles:\... although they glitch out sometimes
I got the game, but did u guys know that seige battles are a slow as fuck? Ive got vista im taking a new one but buildings take a lot of energy so seiges are less fun by that but, the rest works fine
anyone else finding it impossible to run? i can run shogun on ultra yet i cant even run rome 2 on low without it lagging and omitting sounds and everything its terrible!
nice vid man! also, is anyone else getting terrible performance in Rome 2? I could play shogun 2 on ultra no problem but I can't even run Rome 2 on low without low frame rates, and the graphics look terrible (I think it just needs a patch to smooth these things out.. I hope)
Where did you get those War Dogs? I really want to try them out but what nation do they belong to? I thought the Suebi had them. Please don't hate on me I'm new to Total War.
Some kind of Horse vs chariot thing. I know playing as the Brits my chariots wreak stuff but you only get a handful of them and I'm not sure how well they would do vs more traditional Horses.
not really anywhere online but basically rome has the most units the rest have a less the greek states are all pretty similar macedon and egypt are pretty good in terms of variety the iceni have chariots the parthians have a lot of horse archers that can help generally but there aren't really any sources I know of
Was this during the reign of Caligula or Nero? I could see either one ordering this battle, then watching from a nearby hill making, *Pew!* *Pew!* *Pew!* noises. :P
Yeah same here, even on low settings I get only 25fps in the forest benchmark Shogun 2 ran soooooooo much better for me than Rome 2 has so far, and I can't get the graphics to look good in Rome 2 either (The textures are all pixilated and jagged on both low and high settings)
Gonna suck making cinematics with those graphics settings. I blame the performance issues they are having right now. Especially given my specs should not be lagging at all given I built my computer for 1800 dollars. My specs run crisis 3, arma 3, all the other total wars and more no problem
While watching this vid i was a little bored, i think you should add some commentary during the battle so we know more about what's going on at that time in the battle. Hope this helps.
3:33 That dead elephant is like I'm just gonna slide right outta here
I use war dogs all the time. .they average 150-500 kills vs light troops.. I actually think they are overpowered. LOL I have one Roman Legion Named Cerberus.. it has 3 war dog units.. and they munch.. everything.
they can do some work on a heavy infantry unit thats pinned by another infantry unit
Malakith skadi has a twenty stack army of war dogs
Called the Canis Lupis
3.01 " The men are wavering" and the 2 deer are sh.t.ing themselves....
Such a tragedy. How many men's lives could have been spare if only those timid deer imparted their martial wisdom? We will never know...
Spartan Phalanx pikeman (defensive AI) vs Roman Legionaries (hard difficulty) would take multiple retreat to exploit the automatic javelin volley while charging.
It was a Pyrrhic Victory.. Unleash the dogs of war - now I know where this saying came from.
its in the options under user interface
yes indeed they were a swarm
3:00 That deer sure has eye for tactical analysis.
I always use attack dogs. I think some people treat them as a troll unit for pissing around with, but they are genuinely brilliant. Helped me defeat Carthage, by pulling their light infantry into small streets, then jamming them between two packs of vicious dogs, and then slaughtering them with two units of hastati. Cheap and effective troop setup
They're effective at dealing with light infantry. In a settlement battle you can send 1 or 2 of them into a town and they'll usually kill 50-90% of the enemies inside. [The militia units anyway]
the quality of the spears and the archers and their veteranship also play a role and also their are a lot of other factors so that itself doesn't make the game bad
gotta a video addressing that soon
Hey THFE, I just bought the campain and started campain.
But I dont quite get it.. could you create a beginner toturial videos?
Like what you should do and think about....
Just buy the game, then before starting campaign just create a custom match and scroll through each faction. May I suggest Pontus, they've got the widest variety of eastern and western soldiers and start in a fortified position
Sry but the Elephant player was rly terrible.
When u play elephant i would highly comment to activate the melee attack.
When u wont do it, your elephants will almost only carge into them...and then just stay around.
With elephants u want to walk through enemy lines the are not supposed to just stay around and get hit.
+proggen4fun 0:07 - The elephants are controlled by the CPU.... ofcourse they would suck :p
Would have liked to see the number of units per army, any upgrades and w/o the Cav for Rome, or at least, keep them out of the fight. Good clip though, nice camera work!
Yeah I am having the same issue on my computer and have to rely on my brothers
All those dogs look more like ants from a distance. Man this is crazy.
Would've been nice if dogs horses and elephants had unique animations when fighting each other
After watching this and a spectator battle from princeofmacedon I have decided to use savage dogs as the Arverni
thanks
I hope this video really pisses PETA off.
Runs fine for me, my issue is the horrid UI (imo), and way too quick battles, I mean if two units attack each other, the odds are one is gonna break and run within 30sec
Could you let the best unit of every faction fight against each other to see wich unit is the best in the whole game . I would appreciate that thx
In Rome they were great really cheap to maintain and they inspire fear. There best used to chase down skirmishers or flank a unit once its busy.
When ever he says 'this is a shameful display' I always say it back in my head like the guy from shogun 2
Yeah I can do that in the future
im MAD im having a lot of issues trying to make Rome total war 2 work but in the loading screen it awyas says RMT 2 not responding
on my brother's computer that is the only one that can run it he has a GTX 770
Could you edit the unit files to have units of 1 and lets see some indivizual fighting :D
Hello Everyone, I'm about to get this game soon and I've been a fan since the original Rom Total War. I just wanted to ask.
I don't have the game yet but I was wondering where I can see the list of units for each faction online. I can't seem to find it anywhere online.
But , even if I bought it , wouldn't I be able to patch it / ubdate it , if the issues are fixed ? I mean I am not buying it from steam , i ll probably get it from my local store , it's 10 euros cheaper there , but the thing that worries me is if i ll be able to run it .
I guess i ll take a look at its specs before deciding ...
can u go show and go through the stats of each unit u put against eachother before the match? it would help noobs like me a lot with number-crunching and stuff. cheers mate
Hey Oakly, what are your specs and how well does it preform? Interestingly I've found I can't tweak the setting in game, or the fps goes to hell no matter what setting is chosen. It is to be expected though.
AWESOME GAME.
Why no dog leads or soldier in charge or the legion pack of war dogs with battle pack dogs attack formations ? In sync with the solider, calvery or legion attack formation?
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Hey, i'm building a new computer and I want to run Rome II on it's highest graphics, do you think the AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB 16X with an i7 will be able to handle it?
How did you get the unit flags to disappear and therefore make it appear more cinematic?
How do you do to have many elephants
How'd you zoom in at 2:40
I can run Shogun 2 on the highest graphics, but here on low it is running on 10FPS, anyone had this? knows how to fix?
i bought rome 2 today and the game lags every second on the campain map and the battle itself but my computer is good can someone help me
the dogs are slighty smaller then the actually were the cannis corso is the dog that the roman used they look like pit bulls the size of a great dane.
In campaign are the war dogs worth it or pretty much just fodder?
How do you get the cinematic mode? Not the one in the bottom left that only zooms in to the unit but the one wher3 all the flags and ui dissappear?
I think its because he is using the battle replay
press "k"
if you need help doing battles i would love to help. As far as the next vid goes. I say do like a fully upgraded 1 unit vs like 5-10 weaker units. or the individual fighting that TheSGH101 talked about that would be AWESOME!
Gladiators fighting the various war-animals (war dogs, elephants, etc.) would be cool. Recreate the bestiarii fights.
02:59 ---> Is it just me or that deer is your military adviser? "The men is wavering!!!"
Someone explain to me how dogs can block 1 ton elephants from going where they want to go?
By barking at it, elephant also easily intimidated by group of vicious animal that was trained to stand against large animal
Elephant should be afraid of dogs, especially against a whole pack of them
Killian Billian
That is true; in real life you can even hold an elephant or a horse at bay with nothing more than a long stick. What's more, most animals don't willingly step on other living animals.
But this is Total War: Rome II. When you do have animals collide in such an irrational manner the odd physics involved stand out.
In Total War Rome 2, Pathfinding AI has always been an issue, especially when your computer handle a lot of programming. Infantry enter a city gates, pause a moment before resume. Infantry suddenly stop before resume charging. Calvary running about(try to reformation) before they snap out and run away from danger.
Elephants animation was intended to charge at a certain acceleration before the deceleration animation take place(ie: reaching and stampede a group of human soldiers). But with so many things the computer has to process for the game, it can go Potato sometimes. Also the AI has the tendency to precisely stop a fast moving charge to prevent you from gaining the advantage, which leads to the odds and wireds we seen in all the Total War series.
I however only fought Elephants in Custom games, Online you rarely see them, since they been nerf, buff a bit then nerf badly. They got a lot of counters, cost a lot and cannot stampede medium infantry or higher by simply walking through them. for running over infantry, Chariots are more lethal.
OMG Now i am worried again ! I could run Shogun 2 on ultra too but i am not willing to buy a new laptop or pc . Now i don't know if it is worth to accually buy the game or not ...
you should do war dogs vs cavarly
Cannot comprehend that many wardogs all at once...
A you should do a video of all horse I forgot what they called but anyway fighting spearman and do dogs for the horse to ...
I will soon do a video of Giants vs Elephants. In the mean time you can check out my video of Giant Germen warriors vs Roman legions in my channel.
Ahhh that would explain how you can have awesome graphics AND run fraps!
I'm guessing CA will release some kind of graphics patch.. (plus I've noticed a kazillion bugs in the tutorial campaign, which actually prevented me from being able to finish it :P)
Would love to see a video on system reqs. I've got friends that can max out Arma 2 and 3 and still cannot run this well..............
"No animals were hurt during the making of this video."
So was is really effectiv against elephants?
wardogs are awesome in this game,normally I have about 5 groups in every army I have sometimes I get 0 losses in battles:\... although they glitch out sometimes
Im running the game on ultra with a windows 7 home edition, but i have a 4550 ati radion. I also had to lower my resolution to lower lag.
Elephants are well balanced and incredibly strong melee units.
when i get dogs i have to say release the dogs of war
I got the game, but did u guys know that seige battles are a slow as fuck? Ive got vista im taking a new one but buildings take a lot of energy so seiges are less fun by that but, the rest works fine
is it possible to have 1080p resolution on your videos or is it because youtube hasn't finished processing yet?
narnia mod already out ?
the voice acting sounds great!
anyone else finding it impossible to run? i can run shogun on ultra yet i cant even run rome 2 on low without it lagging and omitting sounds and everything its terrible!
I agree , I mean I know what to do but still it is fun to watch it and learn stuff
nice vid man!
also, is anyone else getting terrible performance in Rome 2?
I could play shogun 2 on ultra no problem but I can't even run Rome 2 on low without low frame rates, and the graphics look terrible (I think it just needs a patch to smooth these things out.. I hope)
Where did you get those War Dogs? I really want to try them out but what nation do they belong to? I thought the Suebi had them. Please don't hate on me I'm new to Total War.
Some kind of Horse vs chariot thing. I know playing as the Brits my chariots wreak stuff but you only get a handful of them and I'm not sure how well they would do vs more traditional Horses.
not really anywhere online but basically rome has the most units the rest have a less the greek states are all pretty similar macedon and egypt are pretty good in terms of variety the iceni have chariots the parthians have a lot of horse archers
that can help generally but there aren't really any sources I know of
Do druids against arcani, if possible
This would be a mite messy
Royal Spartans vs Preatorians (im not quite sure how to spell that)
If your game is slow turn the graphics down, the default is extreme for some reason
lol the Deer is like the men are weavering
Can u do goats against chickens? Would be cool :P
That's a lot of wardog droppings. I'm not following in march behind them.
No the grapichs are ARE AWSOME
Was this during the reign of Caligula or Nero? I could see either one ordering this battle, then watching from a nearby hill making, *Pew!* *Pew!* *Pew!* noises. :P
Are the dogs talking?
Do the dogs have any morale? If they do they shouldn't as they have no sense of death.
Yeah same here, even on low settings I get only 25fps in the forest benchmark
Shogun 2 ran soooooooo much better for me than Rome 2 has so far, and I can't get the graphics to look good in Rome 2 either (The textures are all pixilated and jagged on both low and high settings)
Now that's a zerg rush :)
thanks :)
At 00:14. Someone leaked the cinematic video in Rome 2.
Have spartans hold their lines against the lines of barbarians or even romans. a full infantry battle :)
Gonna suck making cinematics with those graphics settings. I blame the performance issues they are having right now. Especially given my specs should not be lagging at all given I built my computer for 1800 dollars. My specs run crisis 3, arma 3, all the other total wars and more no problem
hahah that should have been the title
This is extremely silly. Thank you.
While watching this vid i was a little bored, i think you should add some commentary during the battle so we know more about what's going on at that time in the battle.
Hope this helps.
I really hoped that the dogs would win the battle when I clicked the video. and now I am very happy :)
not as much as the dogs fireworks it was back to rome tw, that was hilarious
Nice video!
you could say the dogs went...DOGGY STYLE!
lol if only you could do dogs vs cats! :D
btw what are your specs?
If the AI didn't just kill off its elephants when they started panicking the dogs would've lost.
What did he say?
"you can't fool a roman twice" cicero
"hail piracy" Girahanus Kaius Mavu
No animals were harmed in the making of...oh. Oh no...