Remember Band of Brothers? He's talking about those guys: "They're all about their small unit tactics and being in enemy territory and working, effectively, guerrilla warfare. "Think about the 101st Airborne," Bickham said at a recent preview event for Rome II. Teching for naval superiority or a strong farming economy, for example, is much more direct than it was in Shogun II: Total War.Īs you might expect from Creative Assembly, Studio Communications Manager Al Bickham explained the army tradition system with a historical comparison. On the macro level, military and civic developments are now divided into three subcategories (management, tactics and siege for military, economy, philosophy, and construction for civic) you can hop between at will. Creative Assembly wants to give every army in Rome II: Total War a similar legacy, to make them more than masses of faceless troops.Īnd here history and gameplay merge in a really exciting way: as an army accrues victories, it will also accrue traditions, transforming a generally skilled army into a highly specialized one.Įvery upgrade system in Rome II-from the revamped military and civic tech trees down to the abilities of generals, agents and armies-encourages specialization. But as a unit, Legio X Equestris were instrumental in Caesar's conquest of Gaul.
Equestris' individual legionaries are not remembered by history.
Over that 20-year period, thousands of men died or retired as veterans with lands they had helped conquer in Gaul.
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