Total War: Rome II’s next playable faction is Macedon
By Alice Lynton on January 19, 2013 at 11:55 am
Following the reveal of Carthage (swoon!) and Rome (no, really?) as playable factions, The Creative Assembly has drawn back the curtain to reveal a new contender in Total War: Rome II. The Macedonians are the latest to join the fray, and according to the Total War Wiki, the third of eight.
Macedon is in a tight spot during the historical period covered by the latest strategy epic; it’s hemmed in by fellow Greek city states, Illyrians and Thracians, determined to keep the once powerful Macedonian Empire firmly inside the borders it enjoyed before Alexander the Great redefined the word “conquest”.
Macedonian players will struggle to forge alliances with other nations thanks to its historic role as aggressor, but earns a bonus fighting other Hellenic factions and barbarians, and gets more income and provincial growth from conquered vassal states. It relies on infantry and cavalry with an emphasis on heroic commanders, and is weak on the naval front.
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Source: VG247
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Thank you for mentioning Macedonians as one of the Hellenic factions, I am a Greek descendant of this faction and can’t wait to immerse in the story of this expansion.
Will there be spartans. Sorry idk this part of history much. All I know is that my greek friend told me that Modern Macedonians are different from Ancient Macedonians.
nanorazor,
I’m pretty certain the next faction to be announced will be the Greek City States (makes sense since they’re a very important part of Romes early conquests and own A part of Sicily at the start of the game). Under the Greek City States I’d assume Sparta will be a sub-faction or Clan (thats the new thing Rome 2s adding, where each Faction is split into other “Houses” hence why Rome is now only 1 faction rather than 4- but its rather sucky because it means they can’t opperate outside of their own Faction). However that’s annoying as Sparta should really be a faction in its own right, as it was in Roma Surrectum 2 (a fantastic mod for Rome 1 if you haven’t played it).
I’d also strongly bet that Gaul will be a faction as well.
nanorazor,
Well the truth is that Macedonians, ancient or modern are all a Greek faction, some other nation who are not Greek descendants claim the name Macedonian but since they have completely different language(other than Greek) and they lack historical facts that prove it, all people realise they just want to form a nation by stealing neighbours history. Now back to the question , I believe there will be Spartans as a subfaction on next update.