Total War: ROME II - Empire Divided Campaign Pack - Europe

Total War: ROME II – Empire Divided

• A new grand-scale Campaign Pack for Total War: ROME II
  
• Plunges players into the crisis of the third century, a critical turning-point for Rome
  
• Play as one of ten different factions across five cultural groups
  
• New Heroic Factions with elaborate victory conditions, famous leaders and crafted event-chains
  
• New period-specific events, dilemmas and missions
  
• New Campaign features: Plagues, Cults and Banditry
  
• Restructured technologies and unique new buildings

Playable Factions

• Defenders of Civilisation: +15℅ morale for all units in own or allied territory
  
• True Rome: Roman factions share a major diplomatic penalty with other Roman factions

• Iron Fist: -50℅ resistance to foreign occupation
  
• Marching Orders: +15℅ movement range for all armies

• Romanisation: Public order bonus (max +6) from presence of Latin culture
  
• Administrators: -20℅ political action costs

• Enlightenment Ruler: +20℅ research rate
  
• Piety: -4 Banditry for each cult building (all regions)

• Terrors of the night: Can always choose to fight night battles
  
• Looters & Raiders: +150℅ income from raiding and sacking

• Voyagers: +20℅ movement range for all fleets
  
• Settlers: -50℅ building conversion costs (all regions)

• Horsemanship: -20℅ recruitment costs for all cavalry units
  
• Ancestral Blades: level 1 weapons for sword units upon recruitment (all provinces)

• Tribal Conquerors: +20℅ morale for all units vs Barbarian Tribes
  
• Ambushers: +50℅ chance of successfully launching an ambush

• Centralised Authority: -5 Banditry (all provinces)
  
• Silk Road: +20℅ income from all commerce buildings (all regions)

• Local Dominance: minor diplomatic bonus with Eastern & Nomadic factions
  
• Aswaran: +20℅ charge bonus for all cavalry units

• Noble Guard: +3 experience ranks for commander’s unit
  
• Westward: Minor diplomatic bonus with all Roman factions

• Nomadic archers: +25℅ ammo for all ranged units
  
• Warlike people: +3 army recruitment slots in home province

• Horse lords: +2 experience ranks for nomadic cavalry recruits (all provinces)
  
• Steppe Dominance: Moderate diplomatic bonus with all nomadic barbarian tribes

• Heroic culture: +20℅ charge bonus for all units
  
• Sacred springs: +6 sanitation (all provinces)

• Fierce independence: +20℅ melee attack in own or allied provinces
  
• Cultural aspirations: Moderate diplomatic bonus with all non-barbarian tribes

New campaign features

Heroic Factions

New General Skills

New Narrative Technologies

• Aurelian’s technologies chart the journey of an emperor who must reform the military, then unify and defend his empire.
  
• Zenobia’s technologies tell the story of her rise to power.
  
• Tetricus’ technologies reveal his Republican political views in an age of fractured empire.
  
• Hormizd’s technologies portray him as a ruler living up to the image of his predecessors, the great kings of the past.
  
• Cannonades’ technologies tell a tale of Gothic bloodlust, and the many challenges his people must overcome in order to unify and persevere.

Updated building chains

• Rome features a new Administration building, which deals with tax collection, agent improvement and countering banditry
  
• Naval Training buildings can now be constructed in the capital of a coastal province providing bonuses to ship recruitment
  
• Palmyra gains a new religious building chain that is dedicated to the gods Baalshamin, Aglibol, Yarhibol, Malakbel and Nabu
  
• Armenia gains a new religious building chain that is dedicated to Christianity
  
• Several new unique buildings are available to selected factions. These are Rome (the Grand Temple of Sol Invictus), Palmyra (the Great Colonnade, the El Kanat irrigation system and the Grand Temple of Baal), Sassanids (the Grand Statue of Shapur I) and Armenia (the Etchmiadzin cathedral - historically, the world’s first Christian cathedral)

New Units

• Legionaries
  
• Heavy infantry units – Praetorians, Jovianii, Herulianii
  
• Equites Dalmatarum – famous light cavalry
  
• Clibanarii and Cataphractarii – very heavy cavalry, precursors to medieval knights

• Taifali Cavalry – famous associated barbarian cavalry (distinguishing shield designs)
  
• Gallic Legionaries – distinctive from Roman Legionaries
  
• Gallic Axemen and Longswords

• Palmyrene Legionaries – distinctive armour and a preference for spears
  
• Hamian Archers – famous middle-eastern foot soldiers
  
• Palmyrene Cataphracts – eastern-looking heavy cavalry
  
• Armoured Camels – exotic eastern-style cavalry