recruiting and moving armies, research, diplomacy, trade, taxes or keeping the population happy/fed. Here it is important to watch all aspects which influence the empire's growth and the relationships to its neighbors, e.g. The main part of the game is spent on the turn-based (one turn represents one year which means no seasons) world map on which the player manages the empire. Each faction also has a set of unique goals to fulfill. The goal is always to take dominance of the antique world by taking control over the majority of provinces either primarily through military, economic or cultural means.
The game simulates overall 117 factions and the player gets to pick one of nine: Rome, Carthage, Parthia, Pontus, Iceni, Averni, Macedonia, Egypt or Suebi (more are available as DLC). Total War: Rome II is a grand strategy game set in the antiquity from 341 BC to 290 BC (the tutorial uses the three Samnite Wars as backdrop and the main campaign starts in 272 BC) and covers the whole known world from Spain to India.
