Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition News

Out of all the historical Total War games, Rome II still commands a solid core of loyal fans even though the ancients-era strategy game has been around for nearly eight years now. It's safe to say, a large part of the game's enduring appeal is the mod scene.

Rome 2 mods helped uplift the game when it wasn't at its best, and as the game matured these same creations helped keep things interesting with various overhauls, realism projects, and other quality of life changes. Divide et Impera is a long-running project that's currently the second most popular mod on the Steam workshop, and it's just got a new major update.

You can read the full patch notes, but in summary this update brings new and improved units to a number of actions, new UI features for population and supply mechanics, new buildings, and some fixes for some long-running bugs that have been previously reported. This update brings the mod to version 1.2.7, and it was previously in beta for a few months.

Read the rest of the story...

RELATED LINKS:

The Avatar: The Last Airbender Rome: Total War mod has hit beta

The best Total War: Rome 2 mods

Re-enact Avatar: The Last Airbender's wars in this upcoming Rome: Total War mod

I don't know what I found more surprising, the fact that someone had made an Avatar: The Last Airbender mod for a Total War game, or that the game they chose is the original Rome: Total War.

In case you missed it, The Last Airbender: Total War is a total conversion mod that offers a custom campaign map and custom battle maps based on the popular Nickelodeon show. It has portraits and models for the five major characters, including Avatar Aang, as well as for some of the primary antagonists. Unique unit skins for each of the nations have also been rendered.

The mod reached its beta milestone earlier this week, after a concerted nine-month development effort by the mod team. They're keeping things restrained for now, and will develop the mod depending on player feedback. The main campaign is set at the start of Book 1: Water, although there is another campaign that's set just after the genocide of the air nomads, where you get to command Fire Lord Sozin.

Read the rest of the story...

RELATED LINKS:

Popular Total War: Rome 2 mod Divide et Impera gets major update

The best Total War: Rome 2 mods

Re-enact Avatar: The Last Airbender's wars in this upcoming Rome: Total War mod

If the peaceful resolution of Avatar: The Last Airbender wasn't what you had in mind, this Rome: Total War mod will let you change that. The modification turns the strategy game into a battle between the four elemental nations of the world, Aang and Zuko right at the forefront.

The Last Airbender: Total War will be a top-to-bottom transformation, turning all the available families and factions into the element-based kingdoms of the popular animated series, and replacing the models with the Avatar's beloved cast of characters. The plan is to have as many aspects of the animation as possible, letting you just straight up go to war, or play out your favourite pivotal scenes and moments of battle.

The mod is unfinished, but according to the latest update from creator KurdishNomad on ModDB, a 2021 release date is on the cards. Two campaigns will be available: an open-ended one featuring Sozin as he leads the Fire Nation in the world war that frames the show, and the main plot, though only some of that will be playable at first, as KurdishNomad works out all the logistics. In previous posts, you can see the settlements for the Water, Earth, and Fire nations.

Read the rest of the story...

RELATED LINKS:

The best Total War: Rome 2 mods

Total War: Rome 2 DLC guide

Sega's PC games are now fully recyclable - extra cost is "a price worth paying"