Do you have a good shot of the entire armies fighting? Also once you get to the republican era in this addon do you get the hastati, principe and triarii (as well as the velites of course) or is the campaign set so early that the romans only get their poor version of hoplites? I wonder if Etruscan Hoplites fight differently to Greek Hoplites in both formation and fighting style??
I can get screenshots, sure, but I'm busy playing at being an Insubres not testing the Romans. If you are asking the game to properly differentiate different hoplite fighting methods, you are expecting the game to invent a whole new analysis of the period -- not likely -- I think Burning Blue is the only game that has ever offerred that kind of original research and analysis. Moreover -- suppose Rome2 or a DLC had done a completely correct re-analysis of hoplite warfare -- that would just guarantee an internet shit-storm and totally mis-informed people told us all they were going to sue for how hoplites were being misrepresented etc. etc.
Actually the Plataea of the Hoplite game does such a good workman like representation that you can get a better idea of what Herodotus reports -- that that's not likely in most games -- even Field of Glory 2 has an amazingly bad version of Plataea.
Yeah. I would settle for being able to see my men. I need to check out rome2 on the computer I built my friend which is much newer than mine.
Here's Etruscan Hoplites and spearmen effectively in columns during the reassembly phase of the battle. At this point, Samorix, the Ex-Priestess's replacement, has busted the Tarquinian line and is assembling the army on a hill before finishing off the enemy cavalry and chariots and leaders and archers in the woods -- having no cavalry, no chariots and few archers of her own, this can be a tricky moment especially if they pick off her and her elderly sword guard lolly-gagging in the woods as has almost happened -- she was saved by a passing gang of slingers and some spearmen that she had "inspired" earlier who were still pursuing some chariots)
