But we also have two new victory types as well. You can still have military victories where you conquer a certain number of territories. We have a number of different victory conditions to reflect that. Just because you’re playing campaign doesn’t mean you have to conquer the whole campaign map. “How am I going to deal with all that?” But you can play a game of Rome II just in one little corner of the world.
The important thing is, it does sound a bit daunting. By comparison, we had only around 50 units when Shogun II initially released, and they were all very similar, because of course it’s a single culture, with just a few minor variances. If you’re playing as one of the Germanic barbarian tribes and you’ve conquered your way down to Africa, you could hire some war elephants or camel riders. Wherever you are in the world, even if you’re not back in your home territory, you can always recruit mercenaries, which will be relevant to the local area. We have around 700 battlefield units to recruit, including mercenaries. In terms of factions, you have nine playable factions across three cultural types: barbarian, Greco-Roman and Mediterranean, and then eastern kingdoms as well, which have a very different look and feel, very different units to field. It stretches from Portugal, the coast of the Iberian peninsula, over to Afghanistan, and then north to south it’s from the northernmost tip of Scotland to the Horn of Africa. GamesBeat: Tell me some of those stats about how big the world is.īickham: The campaign map is about four times the size of Shogun II’s.
Here’s an edited transcript of our interview with Bickham. Total War: Rome II captures historical periods like Hannibal’s wars against Rome, but once you take control of it, you start making your own history.
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