Rome at War mod (AoE2)
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0:32 The mod (Romae ad Bellum)
1:50 Game mechanic changes from AOE2
4:45 Legionary
5:44 Praetorian Prefect
6:23 Roman Empire Bonuses
8:05 Roman Empire Unique Techs
10:01 Roman game plan
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Game: Age of Empires II Definitive Edition
The fact that they made sure that the legionary's attack animation is the soldier attacking from over his shield is amazing on its own.
Thanks for noticing :)
@@romaeadbellum1270 Such a good touch, great work. I remember seeing this a long time ago.
@@romaeadbellum1270 Great work!
@@romaeadbellum1270 are you guys aliens from the future
@@deadpirate625 No they're Romans from the past. :)
Honestly Microsoft should pay these people to help develop the game as this is incredibly impressive
Age of empires 1 remake 👀
@@gddid..1980 Age of empires 1.5 :D
AOE1DE definitely needs some more love. Both AOE2 & AOE3 had several DLCs but AOE1 seems largely forgotten by Microsoft.
That's how we got Forgotten Empires lol
@@Just_a-guy :DE
The Germani ressource camp is taken straight from age of mythology Norse and i love that, really loved how unique the factions where in that game
The choosable unique tech also seems similar to the god choosing in aom
@@veryoriginalname2515 aom is just a geniunely good game
They took many elements of related games, mostly AOE 1. Just looking some artillery
I just love how a good Norse player could absolutely ruin you day of you weren't careful.
Age of Mythology needs to be the next remaster.
Roman+AOE2 fans seeing this mod:
*"E R E C T U S!"*
Biggus Dickus !!!
😂😂
Roman campaign with Bigus Dickus as a hero unit when?
@@Brunosky_Inc After the Chaddus Maximus DLC.
I'm Gladius for that
I’m eye watering right now. I love the possibilities of modding for AoE2. Great work from the team!
Boy do you need to check out age of kings heaven
5999 legionary vs 22222 prefects
are u the real mike of empires?
“I’m a bit of a Roman Empire nerd.”
Me too, Spirit. Me too.
Personally I am a bigger fan of the Republic
@@riseALK the Roman Empire was a continuation of the Republic. Absolutely nothing changed.
I'm always impressed when people port mechanics from newer AoE series games into older ones.
AoM Viking/Norse? carts in AoE2 is impressive to me.
Exactly. Ox carts from AoM Norse civ, right?
@@jasontodd8296 It saddens me that spirit didn't recognize them. He should give a try to the whole series.
I love how features added to AoE2 that get hailed as innovative are all things that AoM already has. Oh look it's an Ox Cart!
i think the two different villager types the norse had could also be really fun
Now the real question is if he's going to review more
This new Total War game looks super retro. I dig it.
"Overpowered" is really only relative to what the opposing civs are like, so if the mod civs can only fight other civs from the same mod, then it's not really an issue.
I believe he's perfectly aware of that and used the word just to highlight the difference in balance mechanics between the mod and the base game
I disagree. Since many bonusses have a window of great impact, the stronger the bonus the harder it is for any other civ to overcome this power spike. If the bonuses are too powerfull the civ's with the earliest big buffs will have insane win rates.
That was kind of the logic used when I designed the civs. The balance is fluid however, and changes will be made when deemed necessary to establish a good balance between the Rome at War civs (they aren't meant to be played with/against the base game, so power levels comparative to AoE2 DE don't really matter, although the balance was intended to be relatively close to the base game).
@@longbow857 Most of the biggest power shifts are in the unique techs, because some of them let certain civs suddenly pivot round into something totally unexpected, or make some of their options much stronger. The civ bonuses themselves aren't really too broken for the most part, and compared to the base game, it doesn't feel like there are too many early eco bonuses.
The civs actually should have been designed to be UNDERpowered compared to base game ones seeing they are lower tech and have more ancient tactics, that way you copuld really compare, but oh well, I guess its too late for that.
This almost seems like Age of Mythology (with more civs) but without Myth Units
I thought that when I saw the mobile drop off point too. It's basically the norse wagon from AoM. It's interesting, we're seeing more and more ideas from AoM appear in aoe2 expansions and mods and I really like it.
@@MegaMaster1021 AoM’s my favorite of the series tbh
@@lordflarus Prostagma
@@deathdealer312 vulome
@@lordflarus Ees volli!
"I'm a bit of a Roman empire nerd"
You and me both! I had no idea of this mod, so glad to discover it 20 years into its development with this perfect guide! Thank you! Grabbing now
It's two years into development, and about 4 months since custom civs started getting added. We have no affiliation or ties with the original mod.
this is literally all i've ever wanted. AOE1 has good memories for me but it has not aged well.
Even AOE1:DE was very dissappointing. The mechanics were much better updated in AOE2:DE
Yeah. AoE1 was a good game, but AoE2 was a _great_ game, so much so that it's hard for me and I think a lot of others to go back to it. 2 took what worked with 1 and ran with it, expanded on it, built it up and introduced a lot of quality of life things that just make it feel so much smoother, and that's even been the case comparing current DE Age2 to CD or HD Age2. I hope the Age1 community gets just as much attention and love from the devs, bc I have a lot of nostalgia for that game, and even though I don't really play it anymore, I want those who do to have a quality game they can be proud of.
@@Septimus_ii I hate how it takes so damn much space, 20f*cking gigabytes and requires a modest powerhouse to run on. I'd love to play it at my laptop when i'm not at home but... eeh... guess il stick with basic modded ROR when "Definitive edition" is just a pretty reskin at best
@@sordos1 Not really. AoE 2 DE runs fine on a GTX 1650 at 3440x1440 (ultrawide 1440p). Had to use that very low-end GPU during the ‘GPU crisis’. Now, if the laptop you’re using is an ultra-book using some 15W CPU and integrated graphics, that’s like trying to use a Raspberri Pi to play and then complaining about performance.
@@sordos1 Well, this new mod requires the super hardcore graphics setting and it kinda is scary.
wow! this is pretty close to what I've imagined for years: some kind of ''Age of Empires 1+2''. I'd like a mod where you can start the game, for example, with romans, and once you get to the Iron Age, you can keep aging up to the Dark Age, choosing to become Italians, Byzantines, Sicilians, etc. The same with Yamato to Japanese, or Persians to Persians XD
Maybe AoE I: Rise of Rome. This isn't complete AoE I. No Bronze Age civs or east Asian civs.
Persian civ: I am inevitable
Empire Earth has entered the chat.
everyone in the steppes becomes mongols
@@davidpereira5969 everyone in the north half of Asia and east half of Europe becomes Mongol.... for at least 50 years
This looks really cool, you can feel the inspiration from age of mythology aswell, like the Ox Cart from Germani
I'd pay good money for an antiquity era Age of Empires game with the novelties and developments of AOE 2 DE. This game looks superb
The only reasons I always favored aoe2 over aoe1 were formations, and larger pop space
Age of Empires Online (which is still playable thanks to a fan project) actually kinda does that, though its also mixed with Age of Mythology a lot.
The new DLC is on the way!!
@@Parcian- Amen, brother 🍷
For me this is a bigger deal than any of the recent AoE2 DLCs. I have always liked antiquity more than the middle ages, and having AoE1 skins with AoE2 mechanics is the dream!
This mod has been out for years. You could have enjoyed it earlier if you had checked the mods section. 😅
I've tried AoE 1 a few times, but always got turned off by the rustic mechanics conpared to 2. This seems like a great mod to finally bridge that gap.
This is the best version of AOE2 to play right now. I'm especially impressed with what they did with naval options and unique techs. Looking forward to seeing more updates in the future.
Not gonna lie, would love to see you do an entire series of these modded civ overviews in a similar vein to this one. You don't have to go super in depth, after all these civs haven't been refined over years of development yet, but it would be a brilliant way to explore this mod.
As a huge Aoe and 0 AD fan, thank you so much for featuring this! Can we get more of these please?
This is what I've always wanted. I've always wanted Age 1 basically remade in the Age 2 engine/design style
Finally, the mod for me. This is everything I've ever wanted. Please do more civ overviews from this mod!
Very detailed and well thought out mod, the AoE2 devs could take interesting ideas from this. I really like the over the shield stab melee attack animation of the legionnaires, it is some great attention to detail.
love this. would totally watch breakdowns of all the mod's civs
I really like the idea to choose between unique techs. Maybe that is something new civs could use to make them a bit more unique. I think that giving a choice to all current civs would be a too much balance wise.
4:20
"Very unique mechanics": proceeds to describe the norse ox carts from age of mythology
And where else have you seen them
The funny thing is, I never played AoM, so I based my mechanic more on what I saw some custom campaigns do in AoE2 DE, but I can certainly see the connection, and it's entirely possible I was influenced without realizing.
This mod is amazing! Cool to know about the connection to the 0 A.D. team...I'd love to see a video covering that game as well!
Looks interésting, the thing is that pros should try It to encourage other players to play It like the fever of EW when a redbull is coming
It would be awesome if any of the pros were to cover it, that's another massive step in terms of the mod being able to grow
@@theconqueror7533 We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Downloading it right now! Age1 was the starting point for the franchise for me and watching the more refined gameplay of age2 with the skins, units and time period of age1 is all i really wanted for age1 de (sadly it was a bit lackluster, could have done so much more with that game).
This video is so important to me, because it makes me wanna make a mod that I was planning a long time; and also because SOTL showing a mod gives me hope that one day He'll make a video about Age of Chivarly: Hegemony
I loved that mod. Is there any way to get it for the HD version?
Yeah im downloading AOE2 RIGHT NOW i love the romans and mods so this is perfect. thank you for covering this!
0:49 Have you been reading my diary, Spirit? That is *exactly* me.
I love this! This may be too specific, but I'd love Civ Overviews about more of the Civs in this mod! Seems so interesting!
Absolutely mindblowing. Should be a official one!!
This is next level stuff. Easily the best Mod ever made for AOE2
Great stuff, I've been a fan of this for some time.
I hope 0.A.D. makes its way to this channel one day, that would be fun.
Fun fact we asked, but we were afraid the audience might be disapointed since it's an AOE channel.
Insane community work. It's amazing what these people are willing to do for free just out of passion.
Mod and custom content spotlight videos are always appreciated!
This mod sounds absolutely amazing! Who else would love to see civ overviews for the other original civs?
This is something I've been wanting for 20 years. Always loved the time period.
4:00 that customization is what I wanted for lithuanians-going the Christian way or the Pagan way
Thank you for highlighting this mod!
I was unfortunately disappointed with aoe 1 de(pathfinding, campaign (pop space of 50), no gates...). Therefore, seeing a mod which converts aoe 2 to aoe 1 seems to be a good alternative!
i think what i like the most is the fact that the units of different armies dont look exactly the same, which was always one of the things that bothered me the most about aoe1 and 2 visually.
This sounds phenomenal!
Thank you for presenting that mod. I will download it immediately.
The ability to choose unique techs is quite nice. It gives each civ some customizability, without making it too overwhelming
I love mod shoutouts! The
Modders often put a ton of love and work into their mods and I always like to see them get shoutouts in the community.
I hope they make this a purchasable mod!! It would be amazing if this was its own game mode with its own online ladder. I am salivating at the thought! This type of AOE2 modding opens up so many doors to other game possibilities as well, exciting times ahead
Oh yeah I’m downloading this! Thanks for bringing it to attention!
Great video. Keen to see more of these mods and things that liven up / keep fresh AOE2
If you want more total conversion mods, I don't think there are any. I'm pretty sure Rome at War is actually the only total conversion mod active for AoE2 DE.
I loved the look of OG AOE but a lot of the mechanics did not age well (no reseeding farms, poor pathing, bad AI) to see this is really cool!
It seems so well done! Very well desinged units. Congratulations to the developers 👍
This is an absolutely amazing mod - I hope they will continue with the great work, I'm off to install and try it out!
TH-cam recommended me one video from their official channel recently and I've been trying to find this mod ever since. Thank you very much, Spirit, this looks very good
04:19
He didn't mention the Ox Cart mechanic was taken from Age of Mythology. We are forgotten...
It actually wasn't though, considering I designed it, but never played AoM. I think it was probably mostly inspired by some of the custom campaign stuff in AoE2.
I love how features added to AoE2 that get hailed as innovative are all things that AoM already has. Oh look it's an Ox Cart!
If I'm not mixing up things as it passed to much time, warcraft III had exact same thing and they both released at 2002 if im not mistaken, i somehow firstly thought about wc not aom. Although I played aom more probably, but both ended mainly just with campaigns.
To be fair, it's innovative for AOE2.
So cool! I'd love to see more on this!
Holy shit, congratulations to the team for making this marvelous mod!. I hope they keep up the good work!.
I would totally be down for you reviewing all of the Rome at War civs.
It is very interesting to see how much of this mod ended up getting reused for the official Romans and Armenians/Georgians
"If AoE2 is you favorite game of the franchise but you like antiquity period more"
Yeah, that's me alright.
This gives me so much AOE 1 vibes. Takes me 25 years back...
Man, AOE1 in AOE2? I have been waiting so long for something like that, great work devs!
I see quite some aspects, most notably mutually exclusive techs to go in a particular direction , that I wanted to achieve in the aoe1 mod Age of Italy, but what never able to fully achieve myself (at least in part due to aoe1 limitations). Great to see this mod bringing rome to the modernized aoe2 by a talented team
Best way to feel like shit is when you love to make AoE2 mods and you see someone making a mod so much better than you do
This is amazing! I always wished there was an AOE game with 2's mechanics taking place in antiquity.
The more realistic sized buildings from 1 are 😍😍😍
And I just visited Rome this summer. This is just amazing.
Damn' I love it, I play a lot Aoe 2 DE, but I always love more the civs of AoE 1, Greeks, Egyptians, or Romans... the mod looks pretty insteresting, I want to know more about this!!
This mod
We need a toggle mode for villagers and monks in DE. There should be a ‘fight’ mode and ‘farm’ mode for these units since it’s almost impossible to micro an aggressive attack with them en masse.
The fact that both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire are playable reminds me of how in Galactic Battlegrounds (the Star Wars version of AOE2), you could play as the Galactic Empire in the base game and then as the Old Republic with the expansion.
This mod looks interesting. Glad you make a video on it and would like seeing more overview of the mod
This is so freaking cool !
Would love to see an actual "Phalanx" formation in game, where specific infantry units are locked into the formation and won't break away until formation is changed or all units are defeated. Damage mechanics would be similar to Inca's Kamayuk, where they gain +1 range and units in 2nd and 3rd row do damage through units in front of them. You could even give civ specific bonuses when using the formation. Ex. Spartans do +3 damage to Cavalry when in Phalanx formation; Romans gain +1 pierce armor / +1 melee armor when in Phalanx formation; Greeks gain 15% movement speed when in Phalanx formation. Bump up the population limit to 1000 and we've got some incredible gameplay.
I love this! Honestly, I love mod content in general, so if you want to cover anything like this I'm all for it!
This is amazing! I'd love to see you do an overview of the whole mod.
This is fun and interesting, for me the most fun part was to look at how the mod makers represent the romans and compare it to my own musings on the idea in the past. Remarkably similar, (with the differences largely being down to me designing to squeeze in alongside the existing civs).
choosable unique tech is straight up awesome idea
Now we just need this same level of detail given to AOM!
This is fantastic, it's exactly what we need
The different civs being so powerful in comparison to the base game ones make sense in a way, given how much more powerful the states of antiquity tended to be compared to the kingdoms of the medieval era
Remember the last roadmap, which said that we would see some 'ancient friends' in AoE2 or something like that? 👀👀👀
It's good that you put a explanation of the Roman-Greek term. Had it not been for that, there would be a huge and long debate about whether Byzantines are Greek or Roman. I' actually interested to see how they would incorporate this into the various custom campaigns.
I hope we can get these kind of complete overhaul mods for Age of Empires 4 as well!
The devs should properly port AoE 1 to the engine of AoE 2, overhaul all the civs, add new ones and also redo all the campaigns with the possibilities of the AoE 2 scenario editor. That would be so cool.
Wow thanks for the spotlight on the mod! Definitely going to check it out! I would love to see more civ overviews of this mod if you find the time.
This is the kind of mod I’ve been looking for for years.
Looks very cool! Cannot wait for even more civs, I feel like Slavs sieging Constantinople would be a dope campaign.
I have been hoping forever for something like this!
2:13 This is so nostalgic ;w;
I'll give a try to this mod, it looks amazing
This is awesome and i had no idea it existed. Thanks SOTL
I'd watch more rundowns of civs from this mod, its very interesting to see which direction they've taken the civs plus the upgrade system is cool.
Have always loved things with large bonuses, especially when there is no requirement for the mod to attempt to have balance for a competitive ladder, so this looks really cool.
The thing is, the mod does actually try and make it balanced, just not with the vanilla game in mind. It's designed (and will be rebalanced when required) so that the Rome at War civs are balanced against one another, because Rome at War civs and the base game civs are meant to be entirely non compatible in a single game.
This is really cool 😎, nice work to the dev mod team
NOISE mod, civs being OP while having to choose between techs is what make them fun, for example the roman empire techs are defensive techs vs offensive techs
Trailers OUT!
10:45 - _A Horseman (& two Centurions of the Apocalypse) casually walk across the sky..._
This mod looks awesome, I think I'll buy the game just for the mod
I know its basically an ad but man is it good. Microsoft should hire you to make ads for their AoE2 Expansions
Oh this mod is great. I’ve largely stopped playing because life got in the way. This may bring it back
The 'having 2 options' for castle and imp age are very similar to how the Age of Chivalry mod worked. Hope to see more of that!
I never played Age of Chivalry. The primary inspiration (if I had to pick one), would maybe be AoE4? With the landmark choices.
@@theconqueror7533 Age of Chiv redid everything as a focus on western europe. Factions like Saxony, Denmark, and Flanders were available. It was really well done. There are some people I know trying to port it over to DE
I had some blueprints for something similar and had intended to make something similar... and then my computer died and I stopped working on it altogether, so it's an abandoned project. And after seeing those models, I have to say they're doing a far better job than I'd ever have done. They did such an incredible job and I'd have never been able to match.
That said, I disagree with the factions they have planned. For example, Carthage and the Phoenicians should be the same civ as should the two Romans, the two Germans, the four Greeks etc. I feel this mod focuses primarily on the Iron Age which is a shame because the Bronze Age civs could have been an interesting showing with Hittites, Assyrians, and Babylonians. I'd love to see Roman architecture in use by Etruscans and Samnites whereas Greek architecture could be seen with Greeks, Illyrians, and Minoans or something like that.
Buuuuuut, the difference between their ideas and my ideas is that they're actively implementing it whereas I never even got close to having anything passable. So, I have mixed feelings but I'm glad for them anyways. Well done. :D
I think it's cool how they separated the different factions, the Roman Republic wasn't the same as the Roman Empire, and making a whole Roman faction with a unit roster of 250 BCE's hastati, 55 BCE's antesignani and 150 AD legionaries would be either impossible or a mess. Same with the rest, despite Carthage being a Phoenician colony, they were a culture on their own, its kinda like putting together 1700's USA with 1100's England.
If I was a modder I'll go even further by separating some "barbarian" tribes the same way they did with the Greeks. Celts and Germani were a bunch of different tribes and kingdoms grouped together by the Hellenics/Romans and only loosely based on cultural ties, (which its like saying Greeks, Etruscan and Romans were the same because they believed in somewhat the same gods), Franks had nothing to do with the Cherusci or the early medieval Vikings for example
@@DiocletianLarius Concerning Carthage being their own culture, when Alexander the Great sieged Tyre, many denizens fled to Carthage because they were the same culture. Furthermore, the differences between the Roman Republic and Roman Empire could be reflected through age progression.
After all, there isn't a Castilian Civilization paired with the Spanish. As such with the Athenians, Spartans, Cretans, and Macedonians, my favorite Greek City State is Syracuse. If they had gone the route you suggested with different tribes being represented, it would have been Dorians, Ionians, and other Greek tribes. Instead, they chose to display specific Greek city states rather than leave some ambiguity. So if I wanted to portray the Siege of Syracuse in a custom map, which Greek civ would I use? What about Massalia when Caesar, playing as the Roman Empire, fights against the Roman Republic?
It's not easy and there are no clear answers. However, despite this, they appear to be doing well enough regardless of what we think.
@@ThePoeticPariah I think they fled because it was their colony after all, like British rebels fleeing to British America. Carthage only become prominent and independent somewhat in the 700-600 b.c.e, after Tyre's full decline, and I'm talking about that Carthage, that not only was a independent entity as itself but also went through a lot of cultural changes, they even become hellenized, like many other cultures at that time. Historians tend to divide into "Phoenician" and "Punic" as separated cultures, and yes I get that Punic is the Roman way to say Phoenician, but they were still really different, only sharing common cultural ties like Latin America and Spain.
I agree, the Roman Republic and Roman Empire could be reflected through age progression, it actually is like that in a lot of games, but it tends to be messy or to lack things, and this way you could go full display and have different mechanics. Imagine if you want to play a Punic wars scenario with Rome vs Carthage and you stopped having hastati in the castle age?
It's not different tribes as I suggested, but different city-states and kingdoms (in the case of the Greeks), as they were really varied even in terms of religion in each polis. Political entities like the Ptolemaic Egypt and Macedonia, Sparta and Athens or Pergamon and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom shared a lot of cultural ties, but they werent the same, not even in a military (or we can even argue cultural) sense. The same thing I think about the celts and germanics.
I don't know what kind of civ you could use with Syracuse, as I think it also had their own culture (despite being a colony of I think Corinthians-Dorians?)
If you are talking about the Siege of Massilia, why would you use Roman Republic vs Empire? Caesar didn't become emperor. You should use Republic in both sides, but seeing that the "Empire" faction has Marian and Early Empire troops, I think you should go both Roman Empire, as it's closer chronologically