“This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry.
“When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.” The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.” “The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. “If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with true measure and then perform his work according to plan. If a gentlemen dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?” The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. “Thirdly, the gentlemen warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.” His ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. Through to autumns with an eye on the changes of the season.” Using agricultural instruments, he sees springs “As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower…īoth those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.” “The way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” “When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. “Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy,Īnd there is no need for many refinements of it.” “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” “Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. “The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.” “Having been born into the house of a warrior, one’s intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.” All the cities are meticulously planned with architecture appropriate for the specific nation.All loading screen philosophic proverbs & war-art quotes are here. Battles are highly detailed: we can even observe the battlefield from behind a soldier’s back. In Total War: Rome II Warscape engine, a modernized graphic engine was used. We have to control the fights in various districts in order to capture them all. Cities are so big that holding the central square is not enough. As the general, we can move camera however we like which enables us to both admire our soldiers or get into a more tactical view. Battles are very diverse and they can begin in different ways like for example a beach landing. We can use our fleet together with regular soldiers. Thanks to this, the player doesn’t have to focus on every tiny fragment of the map, instead simply controlling bigger areas.Īs usual in the Total War series, we can personally lead our army to the victory, controlling the troops in real time. Each region needs to be separately conquered, but it is administered together with others as a part of one single province. The area featured in the game is divided into hundreds of small regions grouped into bigger provinces. We have centuries to bring fame to our name, with the game beginning with the year of the Republic of Rome’s coming into being. In an open campaign based on a system of turns we can choose how we want to rule and conquer rival provinces in order to expand our own territory. In the game, we control the leader of a nation of our choice (it can, but does not have to be Rome itself) in order to fight for territorial domination and power. Now, after their last affair with the Japanese shoguns, they let us come back to Rome: Total War: Rome II is already the second time we get to control Roman legions. The experienced team of developers have also created all the previous installments including Shogun, Medieval and Empire.
Total War: Rome II is another game from the critically acclaimed Total War series belonging to a British studio called Creative Assembly.