Let's Play Never Second in Rome Demo [BLIND]

[Gandalf]

Let's Play Never Second in Rome Demo!

It's cool stuff. First music track reminds me of ToME.

1. Let's make our dude.

Bred for war which arouses fear and sometimes envy...

2. Let's pick Mr. optio.

Gnaeus Lamponius. Perfect! Conclusively our brighter side of command.

3. Our guys and our other guys - together.

Looks like a bunch of weaklings, but it's better than hiring some small kids (child labor).

Well, good luck guys!

3. Let's start the game.

Roma Invicta! Git gud fellas!

Oh dear...

No hope, there is no hope for Rome...

Player 1 enters the game! CENTURION, 80 souls... 80 souls! That's more than passengers in a BUS!

Well, I'm going to wrap it up here for today. To be continued...

 

[Gandalf]

4. Camp operations

Turn 1 begins. Time to train (inventory looks OK, so there is no point in trade at this moment).

For this first day our guy is going to sharpen his weapon skills and gain some educatation.

Our Century should train too, of course.

Clicked the Next Turn button and the reults came in. Gandalf got paid 1,4 sestertium and inferiors got abused. Not bad, I like it.

Second turn ended with a dose of green letters and a mysterious button on the right. Let's click it.

Oh dear, it's an event. Well... let's choose the option number 3 and punish this little girl for being an absolute idiot.

Vincit qui patiturm, kid.

Next turns ended with bunch of happy endings and a dose of balancing the bad (right side of the screen). Most importantly our guy got fed... to the latrine duty guy.

Another event. We're not skilled with javelins that much, so I'm a little worried. Let's see what are our options. Hmm, I chose advance and maitain formation.

Not bad. They can walk!

Ah, the javelins... adiuta deus!


17 versus 15




Now onto hand-to-hand combat. Parati!

And the results are in! Looks nice, but there is still trainging to be done.

To be continued...

 

[Andnjord]

Thanks for covering this game, this is gonna be gud

 

[Dayyālu]

THERE IS A SEQUEL TO LEGIONARY'S LIFE AND NO ONE TOLD ME

My hat to ye, LP'er

Not even angry you stole it from me, simply disappointed I didn't get to it first

 

[Malakal]

THERE IS A SEQUEL TO LEGIONARY'S LIFE AND NO ONE TOLD ME

My hat to ye, LP'er

Not even angry you stole it from me, simply disappointed I didn't get to it first

Same, can't wait to play it.

 

[Modron]

THERE IS A SEQUEL TO LEGIONARY'S LIFE AND NO ONE TOLD ME

My hat to ye, LP'er

Not even angry you stole it from me, simply disappointed I didn't get to it first

He did say he had been working on something for years was likely to announce it this year. You can try the demo at: https://www.arobertigames.com/never-second-in-rome/

 

[Gandalf]

5. More of camp operations

The strategy I've came up with for the remaining turns is to train our guys hard and balance the table on the right to the absolute 0.

As seen above, it's sitting at +5 administration, +10 supervision and +5 other duties.

An interesting helmet icon appread at the start of the next turn. What could it mean? Let's click it.

Looks like a standard bearer and watch commander can be appointed. Interesting... Well, it's time to expand our dream team!

Picking it up would be wiser, I think, (click).

A big "generate" button has appeared after manually picking up the strong, medium and weak skills for our gentelmen, so I've click it and the resulls are as above: ⬆

Welcome on board, soldiers!

Last turn left us with some resources: +5 administration, +20 supervision, and +15 other duties.

This configuration should balance things a bit. Let's see...

Oof, - 5 administration, -1 morale. It looks like there is still one more turn to do. That's fortunate, let's balance the things once and for all.

I set it up for a little education penalty...

I've just realized that I have not addressed the 12 points of strain for our guys in the century. Well... that's unfortunate. I'm not going to tackle it this time. End turn...

6. Moving on

Finally! Camp operations ar eover and a Move On button has appeared.

After pressing it a text manifested itself on the screen...

Shieet, let's move on.

Buying time, yup, this is going to be us, I think.

Finally, we're moving on! Gloria Romae!

Well, I just hope this demo has battles! (click!)

To be continued...

 

[Dayyālu]

The demo has battles.

I wish it didn't. It feels wrong to be underwhelmed by this, but the battle engine is.... iffy at best. I didn't like it and I'm amazed.

 

[Gandalf]

The demo has battles.

I wish it didn't. It feels wrong to be underwhelmed by this, but the battle engine is.... iffy at best. I didn't like it and I'm amazed.

Sounds bad...

As far as I understand the game is really early in the making process and will hit Early Access stage in a couple of months (could be early 2025). The developer seems to be open to feedback.

 

[Gandalf]

7. Moving on (part 2)

I have a feeling that the combat will occur any moment now, so below are the summaries of our guys:

Javelin skill seems to be pretty weak. I hope there won't be many ranged encoutners this early in the game.

Troop opinion should change to +2 after next turn of the camp phase.

Looks like our guys are somehow really into engineering...

I hope it's enough.

Back to this screen. Let's continue.

Good, I'm counting on it!

Allright... let's build it.

Our guys are amazing engineers, so I'm going to simply just click on the next turn button.

Stil pressing it...

Too easy! Roma Invicta!

8. The story unfolds...

Looks like it's 3 enemy tribes versus us.

No hiding behind the bushes! Let's fight!

Javelins... Heck with that, it's sword time!

COMBAT TIME!

It's the Ceutrones guy. Hit him in the head!

Fast forward to turn 13, our guy is doing pretty well (as expected).

The enemy is almost dead. Changed the attitude to wing icon. Let's finish him off...

...aand he's DEAD! ROMA VICTRIX!

Not even a scratch...

+1082 crushing victory, +5 combatativness, +15 valor

It's very tempting to fight those too, but our guy is fatigued, so I'm going to play safe here and join a nearby line of legionaries.

Back to the camp, I guess.

To be continued...

 

[Gandalf]

9. Towards the battle

Let's check out the stats of our guys before continuing.

Lingering fatigue 6, interesting. I hope it won't be a problem before the next fight.

+5 to troop opinion. Very good, our guy is being likable.

They're still fatigued, which is not so great. 12 is a lot, I think. Let's move on.

(click).

Heck no! Crushed by almost 10 points difference. Ability 46, which one is it?

We've reached civilization and rested a bit. The fatigue got lowered. Good, good, good!

Looks like a job needs to be done. Let's continue.

Fine by me, Caesar...

We have the best engineers in the world, so let's send them. Let's go build a bridge, guys!

Great job. Guys like this are the real treasure.

Enemy spotted.

Trecherous dogs! They're getting bolder and bolder with every day!

Let's see if he'll change his mind in the next episode!

To be continued...

 

[Gandalf]

10. Big surprise

I've decided to spoiler images, so the page will not become harder to load. Click on the spoilers to view images.

Let's inspect our guys before moving on.

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Fatigue is completely gone - good!

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12 fatigue - bad.

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Let's continue.

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Food is important, I support that idea.

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Good, we're going to face some real skilled warriors.

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Shieet. Two fronts is no good. I guess w'll going to help in some way.

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TO BATTLE!

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Or not.... let's buy us a blessing for the value of 500 coins. To arms! Adiuta Deus!

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A challenge has appeared! Only 1000 points... piece of cake! Let's fight!

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Onward!

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Javelins... it's a hit. Two enemies down. Good start!

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Let's go with the steadfast commitement.

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Heck, we failed to seize the initiative and recieved 8 and dealt 4 damage.

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The enemy changed their commitment. Good, press on!

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Next turn ended with one threat to the enemy. That's pretty weak.

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I had to go with very cautious / cautious commitement this time due to the imbalance raising up. It needs to stay within -5 to +5 or else the fight will became extremely chaotic.

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Summary of the first lull. We're doing OK, I think.

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Clicking on the golden scrolls showed these kind of pages. The leaders of both parties are on the same intellectual level. Interesting...

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They've started the next turn with super cautious approach.

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+6 imabalance made me tone down the commitment. Our standard-bearer got into individual fight!

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Let's see how good he'll do in combat against Helvetian light infantryman.

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HIT HIM IN THE HEAD!

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The enemy was very defensive, but our guy has managed to scratch him a bit in the second turn. No fireworks this time...

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Modest victory. Lucius, the signalist did his best.

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Let's continue the main battle!

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Our guys landed 3 kills during the last phase of the second lull. That was AWESOME, 3 KILLS!

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Summary time! We're doing some progress. Let's continue.

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A save and exit button has appeared.

To be continued...

 

[Malakal]

The demo has battles.

I wish it didn't. It feels wrong to be underwhelmed by this, but the battle engine is.... iffy at best. I didn't like it and I'm amazed.

They grew on me, felt too long at the start but now I kinda like them. The ebb and flow, fatigue and formation focus.

Wish there were more maneuvers tho.

 

[flabbyjack]

What engine is this made with? Unity?

 

[Gandalf]

11. Unfinished Business

What happened next to the mighty century?

It is a mystery...

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Sorry for abandoning this let's play. I was so pumped for the Beyond Shadowgate that it took all of my attention.
Then, I've played other stuff and somehow forgot about this one.

Gaming is a hell of a drug.

In the meantime the demo got updated a couple of times, so I don't think there is a point of continuing this Let's Play, because the gams has changed quite a lot.
Looks like doing a demo was a bad idea after all.

I hope this run was somehow entertaining and uncovered some of the mysteries about the early version of Never Second In Rome.
I'd like to add that I have no interion to do a let's play of the final version too, so...

This is the end. Thanks for sticking around!