Total War: ROME II - Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack DLC

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The nomadic tribes have a ton of potential, but a modder would have done it better (and free). The roster is actually better than some, but trade is stifled all around; even if you offer enough money that you're looking at a 20 turn ROI. It's ridiculously done, the various "Notorious Family member" scenarios are often forced and hurried with unsatisfying results, and for $7.99 I expected more.

9 euros for 3 factions can be a good deal... not in this case. there are three factions, massagetae, royal scytia and roxololani they are almost the same combination of heavy cavalry and horse archers you have to play your entire game ONLY with this combination... why? because there are no infantry except for ONE unit and don't expect to have variety on the cavalry, most cavalry is simply an upgrade from the previous type units so heavier lancers, heavier horse archers and heavier melee cavalry (if present in the roster). these three campaigns without mods are the personification of boredom (or a sentence to death by monotony ;)). With mods they became a little more interesting And the final disgrace... the nomads... AREN'T NOMADS!" exactly, they have cities and the same buildings for germanic and celtic factions (only differences are the temples). DON'T BUY THIS

Most unique of all the culture packs. The nomadic factions concentrate entirely on cavalry, mostly missile cavalry, while their infantry is only good as a diversion. The campaign plays very much the same as the most barbarian factions, but the unique approach to tactics are truly worth it. It should have been in the base game however, as original Rome Total War featured Scythia in the base game.

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[h1]Total War: ROME II - Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack[/h1] Three factions of nomads who are practically indistinguishable from each other. Aside from the absurdity that factions are now unlocked via DLC and not by conquest like in Rome 1, the nomad factions are painful. They have virtually no infantry units, just cavalry, and with the stupid AI and poorly done unit collision, playing these factions is torture, and fighting them is the most annoying activity in the Total War series. Even the Mongols and Tartars in Medieval 2 had plenty of foot units to balance it all out. https://youtu.be/uB_NTkfv1e0

Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack: These 3 factions are really hard in the early game. You wont have very much gold for investments and the few armys you can afford may have to stay at settlements just to stabalize the public order. BUT CA appearently saw this and to compensate (at least for the lategame) they give you the 2 most overpowered things in the entire game: 1) The ultimate ability in the purple talent tree: +3 public order (all provinces) -10% building cost (all provinces) (from talent lvl2 onward) As soon as you have 3, 4 generals with this talent public order is ridiculously high and buildings get really cheap 2) The temple of argimpasa (or however its called in english...) +4 public order +2 cultural influence +100 agricultutal wealth (goes up to 400(!!!) on lvl4) +5% agricultural income from panem et circensis and its base cost is only 1400 Its hard to describe how OP this religious building is. Other factions have to sacrifice stats to either get that much public order or that much wealth. Heck, the only other "normally balanced" income generating temple that most factions have gives +2 order, +2 influence, +60 wealth and neither order nor influence increase with the lvl of the building. Here, with Roxolans for example you just build this argimpasa temple in every single region of every single province and you get more income and public order than with any other building. Oh and since you have 4 of those temples (lvl3 in this example) in your province you have like +40% agricultural income when you activate panem et circensis wich buffs it to even more ridiculous hights. Conclusion: Buy this DLC if you like a challenging earlygame and an exploding amount of ressources in the lategame.

Welcome to the worst DLC in this game, ive beat the game as royal scythia and let me tell you, I wish they paid me to play that campaign. unlike the desert tribes pack the nomadic tribes are a copy paste celtic culture, with zero infantry (which I could get over if that wasnt the case with all three of them) they all have basically the same units, and start in basically the same area. not really nomadic either as you start in your capital and you know.. you cant change it. I wouldve loved something like numidia where you start out as being able to create confederations but get something like satrapies or client states, or even a basic tribute system where factions pay you not to attack them. after youre "the horde of the step" thats where your diplomacy ends and that takes about 5 percent of the actual campaign so for the remainder 95 percent, have fun attacking walled cities with horse archers, getting ganged up on for no reason, and only getting gold from peace deals. the horse archer rush is alot more fun as parthia, trust me, not worth it

The nomadic factions pack is , I believe , a must-have pack for all dedicated players in the game . It offers a completely new culture with a completely new playstyle that demands from the player to be on the edge constantly and to watch his troops' actions all the time. It offers a challenging new way of playing Rome 2 and an intersting culture which changes completely the way you play . No heavy infantry troops that have little range of movement capabilities . The Nomadic Tribes are all about speed and horses , so they require extra attention when in the battlefield . I absolutely recommend this to any player who wants to give his game a new feel .

Nomadic tribes that arent nomads and have the same city sistem as the greeks or romans and with no exclusive game mechanics woooow what a crap.