is this game just a steamroll?

[Kilkito]

Just purchased this game a few days ago cause it was on sale got thousands of hours in the old rome total war + medieval 2 total war. Is this game just basically a steamroll? I tried playing on hard and very hard and both times never came across an AI army out in the world every time they were just sitting in a settlement.

[Arsaces]

Play mods, such as DEI; you will get your challenge.

[Citizen X]

Like the majority of games, the AI in Rome 2 is garbage. If you are expecting awesome historical battles with a decent army and strategy, then you will definitely be disappointed. The real fun is in the multiplayer where battles are much more even and interesting. Unfortunately, they recently updated this game after 6 years of no content basically to remove the game chat from MP, so the experience just recently got alot worse. The golden age of Rome 2 MP is sadly over

[Yews]

The community has been generating content CA never bothered to make themsevles and fixing bugs CA never bothered to fix since like forever, I guess they figured that the community would come up with an alternative space to meet and play as well.

[Alwyn]

For a player with thousands of hours in Total War games, Rome II can be a steamroll - especially if you're playing a powerful faction, such as Rome, the Arverni or Macedon.

In my experience, the AI is less passive on the campaign map than it was a few patches ago. Are you playing with the latest update - patch 20, the Ancestral Update - or have you rolled the game back to a previous patch?. When I first played Rome II, and played as Carthage, the early game was easy - now it's more challenging.

I wonder which faction you were playing, if you never saw an AI army out of a settlement As others said, you could try mods or multiplayer - or you might want to try different faction in the grand campaign. For example, when I play as Carthage, Roman legions attack my colonies near them (and my African coastal lands, if they take the colonies). In the west, Iberian factions invade Carthage's colony there, while in the south, Numidian raiders can be disruptive.

[Kilkito]

Originally posted by Alwyn:

For a player with thousands of hours in Total War games, Rome II can be a steamroll - especially if you're playing a powerful faction, such as Rome, the Arverni or Macedon.

In my experience, the AI is less passive on the campaign map than it was a few patches ago. Are you playing with the latest update - patch 20, the Ancestral Update - or have you rolled the game back to a previous patch?. When I first played Rome II, and played as Carthage, the early game was easy - now it's more challenging.

I wonder which faction you were playing, if you never saw an AI army out of a settlement As others said, you could try mods or multiplayer - or you might want to try different faction in the grand campaign. For example, when I play as Carthage, Roman legions attack my colonies near them (and my African coastal lands, if they take the colonies). In the west, Iberian factions invade Carthage's colony there, while in the south, Numidian raiders can be disruptive.

I played as Carthage at first and restarted a couple of times once I got the hang of it and my first moves and basically just took over all of Iberia, Africa, Sardinia and Sicily. This was on very hard and I didn't see any armies out in the world just stacks sitting on their settlements, tried Rome after that and just built up research + provinces in a bid to try play tall to get a good game but same result I saw one Carthage army try to push up from Sicily but retreated as soon as I moved an army close them and their ships with a full stack of 20 just stayed near their settlement for 10+ turns. I'll probably check out some mods.

[Kilkito]

Originally posted by Blue Unity:

Play mods, such as DEI; you will get your challenge.

I'll take a look at it cheers mate.

[bearfieldlee]

There are some AI mods too which seem to work well. I just play with a lot of graphical mods and an AI one and have great fun.

[Red Bat]

It's a problem with the whole series. Shogun 2 throws a pretty big lategame hurdle against you, and Warhammer has the AI eventually carve out vast empires, but other than that, Rome 2 is about as aggressive as the AI gets in this series.

The AI is a little more aggressive in Rise of the Republic, but that's only because the settlements are mostly one turn marches from each other.

[BRAN MAC BORN]

IF you want the greatest challenge of any mod out there then use Wars of the Gods-Ancient Wars and one of the WOTG Slaughter sub mods on very hard difficulty..doubt if you survive past 10 turns...try and see.

[oujosh29]

I've had good luck with a couple AI mods I've been experimenting with if you're interested in trying them out