Expeditions: Rome - the final Expeditions game from Logic Artists

[Sensuki]

Just got up to the second pacification mission, yeah it's pretty hard (on Insane difficulty, anyway). I definitely don't have the best praetorians though.

Basically you just have to torch all of the caches in the first couple of turns and then try and survive long enough for them to explode. Pretty annoying with those Alchemists throwing fire bombs at you and every mother and their son grabbing a Pilum from the dispensers and throwing them at you (good AI though!). I survived with 2/6 guys and it took several attempts but that was basically me eventually resigning that I wasn't going to ace the level. Seems to be that if you wait one turn to set the barrels on fire it traps more enemies in the fire.

I took Caeso, 2 x Sag, 1 x Veles, 1 x Triarchus (who cant heal yet ~_~) and another Princeps. Maybe I should load an earlier save and try a different squad.

I imagine some praetorians that can avoid AoO or have some armor and a lot of MP could rush the pilum dispensers or something.

 

[Sunri]

Just got up to the second pacification mission, yeah it's pretty hard (on Insane difficulty, anyway). I definitely don't have the best praetorians though.

Basically you just have to torch all of the caches in the first couple of turns and then try and survive long enough for them to explode. Pretty annoying with those Alchemists throwing fire bombs at you and every mother and their son grabbing a Pilum from the dispensers and throwing them at you (good AI though!). I survived with 2/6 guys and it took several attempts but that was basically me eventually resigning that I wasn't going to ace the level. Seems to be that if you wait one turn to set the barrels on fire it traps more enemies in the fire.

I took Caeso, 2 x Sag, 1 x Veles, 1 x Triarchus (who cant heal yet ~_~) and another Princeps. Maybe I should load an earlier save and try a different squad.

I imagine some praetorians that can avoid AoO or have some armor and a lot of MP could rush the pilum dispensers or something.

Use fire arrow skill

 

[Sensuki]

I have one Sag with Fire arrow and used it on a barrel, it just takes 3-4 turns for the caches to eventually explode

 

[Sunri]

I have one Sag with Fire arrow and used it on a barrel, it just takes 3-4 turns for the caches to eventually explode

Yea, you just need to survive, shouldn't be that hard.

 

[Sensuki]

I've beaten the mission I'm trying to beat it with more people alive at the end.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

make sure you're using weapon swap(especially for aid to stop bleeding out) since the game doesn't really explain it
it says it uses your action point but it didn't seem to for me

 

[Darth Roxor]

Spoiler

'a pussy'

ok Roguey was right

 

[Jinn]

it says it uses your action point but it didn't seem to for me

Yeah, I haven't noticed it using an action point, but you can only swap weapon sets once per turn. Maybe they changed it to that and just spaced out changing the tutorial text about it or something.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

it says it uses your action point but it didn't seem to for me

Yeah, I haven't noticed it using an action point, but you can only swap weapon sets once per turn. Maybe they changed it to that and just spaced out changing the tutorial text about it or something.

It would probably be pretty useless outside of stopping bleeding out if it cost your AP. It's a good thing it doesn't, being versatile/creative shouldn't be punished.

 

[Sensuki]

Got it with 5/6 alive this time, that's better. The guy who went down just had a light injury.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Dont think difficulty has anything to do with it. I am playing on Hard and had the same missions as well (for me it was like burn wood supply for pirate fleet, Roman deserters, Spartan´s in a cave, ambush a weapons convoy plus a few I probably dont remember, few other pacifications are done as legion missions).

 

[Sunri]

Got it with 5/6 alive this time, that's better. The guy who went down just had a light injury.

Are these missions randomized you think? Because I'm at 9/11 in Asia Minor now and can't for the life of me remember a mission like you describe. There was one where you had to blow up 5 crates of greek fire, but they just exploded right away, I didn't need to wait afterwards. Maybe it's because I'm on Hard and you on Impossible that you get an extra objective?

No, I don't think they are I had the same mission.

 

[Shrimp]

Got it with 5/6 alive this time, that's better. The guy who went down just had a light injury.

Are these missions randomized you think? Because I'm at 9/11 in Asia Minor now and can't for the life of me remember a mission like you describe. There was one where you had to blow up 5 crates of greek fire, but they just exploded right away, I didn't need to wait afterwards. Maybe it's because I'm on Hard and you on Impossible that you get an extra objective?

It's one of the very first pacification missions so maybe you just forgot about it?

 

[Cnaiur]

Too early to say something about the mechanics of the game, but at least the performance from using unreal engine is a major step up vs. the unity shit Logic Artists used until now. Smooth panning, short load times, not too shabby.

 

[Shrimp]

I would really like to know what their thought process was when they decided to not add a way to sort equipment by category or type. Sorting by name is the closest option since a lot of generic equipment pieces share the same names, but you still have to scroll through the list to make sure there's nothing at the bottom. It defeats the entire purpose of sorting your items in the first place.

 

[Sensuki]

The Spartan Cave pacification mission was pretty easy. Spartan Leader had no chance lol.

 

[Jinn]

Not really sure why centurions even exist in the game,

I'm pretty sure one of the biggest reasons is to flesh out your camp and to give you options for assigning camp roles while leaving your unique companions available for exploration and interaction. Beyond that, the series has always tried to give the feeling of leading a large group, and has always tried to include these auxillary party members as a way of achieving that. So far, Rome has done it much better than in Viking by making them play an actual regular important role, thus causing the player to have to actually manage them and train them up. I remember thinking how bizarre it was how they did it in Viking, and how I just had these camp drones doing menial tasks, until they made me use them in battle in like one instance throughout the game, which was unfortunate because they all sucked ass in combat by that point. Pacification missions was apparently the answer to that, and it seems like a pretty fun solution to me.

 

[Larianshill]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

Historically accurate bug. :^)

 

[Reinhardt]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

Historically accurate bug. :^)

 

[Shrimp]

Anyone knows how to craft more throwing spears?

I assume you've found them by now, but the scrap trader in the Court of Heaven sells the materials to craft them.

 

[Larianshill]

Yeah, I've assumed that the smith in Memphis would be able to sell them, but it makes sense to buy it from literal spearchuckers instead.

 

[Larianshill]

Almost done with Egypt. Time for another thrilling siege section.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The hell does no one use axes in Rome.

 

[Alienman]

The hell does no one use axes in Rome.

Uncivilized weapon used by barbarians... oh right.