Total War Rome II Roman Tech Tree

Hey, what's up guys, it's Oakley. I'm a you know, just a little bit late on this this came out earlier today But now of course, I'm back home so I can cover this This is gonna be going through the Roman tech tree something I want to point out is there's gonna be two main broad categories. That is Basically the same for everyone you will be able to research military tech trees and civil tech trees But what does change is the individual thing you research things you research inside of all these so each fraction will have its own Particular tech trees. So let's go through and take a look quickly at the Roman one So in order to unlock the military side of things everyone has to go or at least all Roman players have to go through the auxiliary camp It's a basic building that of course as it says here plus ammunition to all range units And then of course lets you recruit more units Then once you've done that you've unlocked the military tech trees and there's three of them that you could go through And get to various stages of the stages of proficiency first is going to be siege Then tactics then management So let's walk through the siege ones at the bottom siege has bonuses to the attacker and the defender so I think what's really cool about this is the fact that you kind of have to unlock the battering rams the siege towers and Sort of catapults towards the end of it and you can have bonuses as the defender that allows you to hold out longer have more Ammunition and stuff like that increases your surrender time all this stuff. I think is very very cool It was something that I thought was kind of a miss in previous Total War games where you had for example Rome one Anyone essentially could go on and I believe build siege towers. No matter how small the army no matter how Unadvanced or early in the game. It was you could basically Rank up your general. I think it was a hero with the mechanics were but I remember there being armies Basically anyone could have siege towers and that kind of made it seem not so Imposing to attack a city when you know, even the smallest army and the less cultured Civilization can develop these siege towers and take a city You could also have a sappers that seems like it's not gonna be so much the case here You really have to have a culture that's devoted itself to war to sieging that will be able to take cities Otherwise, you'll have to make do with taking it by storm or having some sort of treachery with your agents like spies So that's very cool It makes sieges that much more Important and it goes hand-in-hand with the fact that CA has made it so that there are less actual cities with walls they're decreasing the amount of Walled city battles and this goes to show that in order to crack those really hard nutshells. You're gonna have to definitely Invest in that so I think that's very cool both as the attacker and defender. I'm glad to see that happen I it'll make sieges that much more interesting and that much more imposing when you actually get an enemy that faces you with siege towers You know, they're definitely gonna have all the different perks that come with that In addition to that, you know, let's go and move on to military tactics So this is gonna be another one starts off with physical conditioning, which is just plus morale. I just got bonuses. So Plus this attribute plus that attribute blah blah It'll do that both for land and sea for defense for attack for charge bonuses Ramming damage and battle speeds for ships and it'll go on and on but also what this does is it allows you not only to get these additional buffs for your troops, but it also allows you to Build specific buildings. So, you know go all the way to strategic maneuvers at the end and you get the veterinary Basilica XR Sitoria and all this stuff this basilica equestrius So all of this stuff that I think now the tech trees don't themselves Or some of them do but they don't all allow you to build specific units What they do is they allow you to build specific structures and then those structures in term in turn I'm guessing will allow you to unlock special units. So that's kind of how it works So the most advanced cavalry tactics at the very end here that has its own particular building I'm guessing will essentially allow you to Recruit some of the better Roman cavalry units, maybe even come with upgrades or special armor and equipment So that's why you want to go ahead and pursue all of these because you won't be able to unlock the buildings Otherwise and also in terms of buildings, I want to mention that remember cities You can't build every single structure space is limited in your city So you have to sort of devote your city to be what kind of thing do you want it to be? Do you want it to be economic agricultural military? You have to pick and choose and along with that it Becomes more dynamic when you have these tech trees on top of that where you can't really pursue everything at the same time And you have to be more strategic. So let's see looking up at the top one, which is gonna be management This is mostly dealing with reducing the upkeep of all your units. It also allows you to unlock the champion Decreases mercenary costs and all the stuff so it makes it easier to Have a large military force keep them in the field for longer and have a lot of stuff And of course towards the end you see professional soldiery at the end you get Legion barracks so I'm guessing towards the end even the the Remuneration Reforms right there. I'm not sure if that's the Marian reforms But I'm guessing towards the end you can start producing the later, you know Legions and with that you would get the Lorica segment the segmented armor all the more late tech stuff here and also keep in mind that different Factions will have their own tech trees So they have said that the barbarians even though Rome in real life was able to kind of cut them off before they fully developed In game, you will actually be able to have that late-game tech as a barbarian or as another faction Let's go ahead and look at the Roman civil side of things So first unlock is gonna be the cattle pens plus income for your agriculture Then you have three choices, which are gonna be construction philosophy and economy construction Basically as it implies is all about building things. It decreases the costs of doing so it It basically decreases the the time it takes to do it It also increases your population growth and it unlocks a lot of different structures, which will have their own benefits to them So for example later on in the the course of going along this civic construction routes You can see that you get sewers public baths and all that stuff also the circus So that was very important in previous Total War games when your city started to get, you know in the late game very open overpopulated There would be you know plagues running through population and happiness due to squalor So this is something you're gonna want particularly going into the late game is have very developed cities where you can take care of your population in terms of Squalor and stuff like that and keeping them entertained. This is gonna be very large Maybe not so important in the the early game, but definitely in the late game This is what you're gonna want to focus yourself on especially when you have your military War machine moving along and you have your veteran legions. You're definitely gonna want to invest more so in your own cities Another way you can actually improve your population is through philosophy. This will mostly be in terms of population happiness culture Tax income taking away from correct corruption and also it unlocks some some Buildings towards the end not too many not as many as a construction one but also it unlocks dignitary has a bunch of stuff here that you're gonna want to look into in order to Additionally improve your population and as with the construction. This is definitely something you want to look into in terms of Keeping control of your population in the late game and making sure everyone is happy And that's definitely what you want to manage in the late game because there is the possibility of running into a civil war Then the last one is gonna be economy Of course, this is what you want to do in the early game is invest in your economy You have more benefits from the slave trade more agricultural bonuses you have a slaughterhouses one shop cattle ranches all sorts of stuff to boost your income and also have Dif you know decrease building costs and stuff like that And of course towards the very end, of course, you always unlock more late-game stops especially the latifundium the large-scale plantations that will be Essential for running your population and when you have large cities and they need to be fed That's definitely what you're gonna need So I would focus a bit more on the military early on which is what kind of any basic society and early society would do Is be more martial and then later on as you develop your cities and you're kind of core The center of your empire doesn't have much war going on I would start investing in these tech trees and try to improve your core cities And that goes, you know, not only for the Romans here But other civilizations which will have their own tech trees and we'll have a civil side, you know Don't forgo the civil side, especially in the late game. But anyways, that'll be it for this video. There's more stuff I want to cover more news that's come out. So, uh, yeah, I'll see you guys in the next video. We're almost there