7 Things I Wish I Knew Earlier About - Rome 2 Total War

I am not saying these are things you don't know. I am just saying that they are a little bit unknown, and I it would have helped me, as a beginner, if I knew them earlier. : ) Also, feel free to leave in the comments any of your own, unknown, in-game knowledge, that others could possibly do with.

Hey, don't feel bad about the equipment thing. I have 2500 hours in Rome 2 and just found out about sending the family members as diplomats thanks to this video. Turns out I'm not big on diplomacy. Guess that's why it's not called Total Diplomat.

670 hours... didnt know you can send diplomats :D

As the graphics quality of games has increased over the years, so the quality of game manuals has correspondingly decreased.

Before the video: I know everything 18 Sec in: wtf i didn't know.

I find Left click unit drag incredibly useful, i was hoping for such a thing since Rome 1. Then you can hold Ctrl while still having left click held, and you can rotate the formation. Very useful if you don't want to create a locked selection group. One thing I wish i knew earlier, is that the cinematic view can be used to manually aim your artillery. That alone made me think of artillery as the new king of the battlefield, while in Rome 1 that role was reserved for heavy cavalry.

I took 3 provinces from the etruscans in Rise of the republic today, just with one of my sons's (assuming i play as my family leader) wife. This mechanic can be very OP. The only Problem: The more you use the mechanic, the more expensiv it gets. The cost will get lower over time when you don't use it constantly. It can get up to 7000 Talents, when you use it 4 times every turn for 2 turns in a row...did this today, wasted around 50.000 talents in Rise of the Republic in 5 rounds for 3 settlements. ^^

Actually keeping your pikes farther back is better because when you push them too close, the enemy gets close enough to engage in melee and kill your pikemen. If you play enough multiplayer you will realize this. Keep them at a distance so they can make a maximum use of their melee attack and defense

Man I beated the grand campaign with literally every Rome Cartago and Greek faction... and I never knew how to place the fucking equipment holy shit man god bless you for this video

I love how he felt the need to mention that it was his IN-GAME wife

Is there a way to disable clouds on the campaign map? Or reduce them? Not being able to see anything unless you zoom way in is the worst design ever.

I have been using this mechanic and it's possible that you get a settlement gifted even though it's the first time you send diplomat or you hadn't sent a diplomat to that faction the turn before. It seems that it's more probable to trigger the higher relationships are with that faction. I can't confirm this, but it seems that it doesn't happen when you play in Legendary. In my last two campaigns I couldn't obtain a settlement which I needed to complete a province from a ally even though I sent diplomats during a lot of turns.

Didn't know the first one, i knew the rest, and the left click thing, i never experienced. Thanks for video Mel!

Your accent is fantastic. Love the way you speak clearly. Great video, so much I didn’t know about Rome 2.

total war rome 3 Better quality, more option to trade, treat or threat enemies, more fighting animation, more fluid animation Im waiting

Wait there are more total war games? Not just total war Rome. That's crazy

500+ hours on Rome 2 and didn't know placing barricades was a thing...

I thought it was a great video!!!! Brand new to Total war 2 very helpful. Hilarious about the Carthage comment!!! Keep up the great videos!!!

Great video m8!

If you take Pikes off of formation attack while in pike formation, they'll continuously attack the enemy and deal massive damage. Try it against AI one on one.