Totalwar series questions.

[Marcus Hortensius Castus]

Has anyone heard if or when, a rome mod will be released for mtw2

invasio barbororum II is in open beta in the hosted mods section for MTWII at the TWC, and maybe the .org. It is staged in the late empire. The early rome mods are still underway last I checked- and with MTWII being much LESS mod friendly (you can't make new building models AFAIK, unless someone cracked the code) many mod teams that had formerly considered switching to MTWII such as the RS team have reconsidered. It would look odd to lay siege to Alesia and find a 15th century French City staring you back!

I actually think the ETW engine allows for more possibilities. As you research it automatically upgrades the appearance of troops- Bayonets for instance change, and I'm sure that this could work for armor, and so on... so the the course of a campaign you can speed up, slow down, etc, the Marian and Diocletian reforms through your own military research teams. The engine also allows for proper, not scripted, Civil Wars, and proper ministers. The only thing I don't see happening is having the head of state as a field general which would hamper it considerably considering the feats of Vespasian, Caesar, &Etc.