The Iceni are Total War: Rome II’s fourth faction

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Unless you’re a bit of a classical world geek (and who around here isn’t, amirite? *crickets chirp*) you might not have heard of Total War: Rome II’s newest faction. But once you see a picture of the Iceni, with their gold torcs and blue painted bodies, you’ll realise we’re looking at a Celtic tribe. And everyone knows what that means: total badasses.

The Iceni live on the border of the North Sea, and unlike mainland Celtic tribes, make fearsome use of slings in battle. Infantry is their main bag, and soldiers carry large shields, swords and spears, but they’re also famous for their highly manoeuvrable war-chariots, which carry javelins for ranged attacks.

This warlike tribe has an agricultural but advanced economy and a religious culture, and accumulates funds through ironwork, raiding and looting. Every time the Iceni leaders declare war, the happiness of their people increases. If they can unite Celtic Gaul and Iberia under their banner, they may dominate Iron Age Britain.

The Iceni join Macedon, Carthage and Rome as revealed playable factions; there are four more to come. Total War: Rome II is expected in October.

Source: Total War wiki

5 comments (Leave your own)
MuscularTeeth

comon! who hasn’t heard of the Iceni queen Boudicea.

 

Hopefully Darthmod will be made for this :) btw the latest version for ETW darthmod should be mirrored!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEteEpj2EM

Darth Vader stating he’ll never mod for a CA game ever again because they accused him of hacking and threatened legal action. CA did some really asshole things to Darth, he’s done some amazing mods and supported CA for a good 12 or so years now, and this is how they repay him..

 

muscularteeth: comon! who hasn’t heard of the Iceni queen Boudicea.

Me until I played Civ 5 :P

 

Wonder if this means the Germanic peoples will simply be merged with the Gaul or simply left out.

I want Berserkers that don’t actually go mad and run uncontrollable. Rather a mob of two hand weapon wielding raiders of doom with a dash of discipline.

 
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