The presence of the eye on a unit's banner indicates that unit is not currently visible to any enemy units. When the eyeball icon is absent from a unit's banner, there is at least one enemy unit that can see that unit of yours. From twel70's Beginner's Guide to Total War Rome 2 on the Romanian Steam Community page, in the Line of Sight (LoS) section. Link In some older Total War games, units that could hide in forests would be shown as hidden by a small tree icon.

Yes, the AI troops have significant stat bonuses on very hard difficulty. For example on very hard battle difficulty your troops get -5 morale and AI troops get +10. You also get smaller penalties to attack and defense. However none of those bonuses should be significant enough that a farmer levy beats a sword band or you lose a 2v1 or fail to rout the enemy with repeated cavalry charges in the rear.

Try building an army with a single unit type. The Auto-Resolve stances increase different unit type. For example, you can build an army of Velites, which are cheap, and use the Protective stance, that increases missile units's strength, and reducere melee units's effectiviness. In fact, stances give the following advantages/disadvantages: The Agressive stance increases the effectiviness of melee units, reduces the power of missile units, and is likely to give in more casualties. For sieges, it also privirea a bonus for sieges engines. The Balanced stance is perfect for balanced armies, since it doesn't privire any unit type-specific advantage/disadvantage, and the casualties are moderate. The Protective stance gives an advantage to missile units, but it reduces the effectiviness of melee units. Casualties are usually lower. The same thing applies for ships. Bear in mind that Support Ships are the missile units, and Assault Ships are melee units.

I am not aware of an immediate one click/input way to do this, if there is one, I'd like to know it as well. I always just do it by: 1) Press the number to select the formation 2) SHIFT + click on unit you want to remove 3) CTRL + formation number again

There are 3 different victory types in Total War: Rome 2: Military, Economic, and Cultural. Every victory type requires total control of 6 different provinces among other conditions. The provinces that need to be conquered depend on the faction you play as. In the game, Jerusalem is a region of the province of Nabataea, and pretty much covers the entire territory of modern day Israel. Of all the 12 factions, only Parthia and Epirus will need to conquer Nabataea — and with it, Jerusalem — for their Economic victory. Since none of the victory types require any particular faction to be defeated, it doesn't matter if Jerusalem is independant or not. TL;DR No, unless you wish to achieve economic victory as Parthia or Epirus, or you're playing a campaign that specifically requires you to conquer Jerusalem, you will never have to conquer it.

High advice essentially tries to explain every little game concept to you whenever it is relevant. After one or two games, you really don't need it at all. Low advice is difficult to quantify. Unfortunately, there is no completely correct answer available because the game is very vague on the differences(which is why you are asking), as well as the extremely low chance anyone has tried testing this. The best answer for low advice would be that it tries to only give advice when it comes to the more complex aspects of the game, although in actuality, it is pretty much the same as high advice. Once you don't need high advice on, you probably don't need low advice on either. You mention that you want a setting that doesn't annoy you with little alerts, only focusing on the important battle aspects like your general dying. That is on no matter what you set your adviser to do. Everything that is said in battle is unrelated to the campaign map adviser. If that is your goal, no advice or low advice both work for that. As far as I know, there is no setting to turn off the battlefield alerts.

According to Total War Support Forum Wiki you can achieve this by editing the preferences.script file Q: The Encyclopaedia minimises the game and opens a web browser. How can I view the Encyclopaedia in-game? A: This feature can be modified through the preferences.script file found in: ~/library/The Creative Assembly/Rome2/scripts (for the Steam download) ~/library/Containers/com.sega.mac.rome2/Data/Library/The Creative Assembly/Rome2/scripts (for the App store download) Open the file and search for the term external_browser true; then change this to external_browser false; and re-save the preferences.script file. The Encyclopaedia will now open in-game. Reference: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/137170/rome-ii-mac-version-faq Caution: As always when editing configuration files, take a backup before editing it.

I'm fairly certain that there is no hard limit to the number turns you can have in the grand campaign. However, I don't think I've had a campaign last more than about 200 turns. If you actually work towards doing anything, you'll eventually either reach the campaign objectives or be destroyed -- so I think there's somewhat of a natural limit there, rather than one imposed by the system.

You can use the unit building to see the names of the units you can recruit, then the encyclopedia (help) to check that unit stats, or even compare them.

Is it because you are recruiting into an army that is away from a city? I'm not 100% sure about Rome 2, but previous TW games allowed you to recruit away from cities and included time for that unit to travel from the city it would be created in and merged into the army. Also - if the building or upgrade to recruit a specific unit is in a different city, travel between the recruiting city and the one you request the unit in will be added, too

No -- Champions, Spys and Dignitaries do not appear on the battlefield. They are only there to perform agents actions and / or give their acquired bonuses to your army.

You don't have buildings that give you iron. You can find iron only in certain provinces (they have an iron icon under their name). If you play Emperor edition, those provinces have their main building tree altered to produce certain buildings that upgrade armor or weapons. If you have normal edition, once you get access to iron, you can build those buildings on their own in any of the province "parts" (I think, it was long time ago).

There is a major difference between Total War: Rome 2 and Total War: Rome 2 Emperor Edition. There is only one version of Total War: Rome 2 on steam, and it's the emperor edition. There is no regular version on steam any more, and according to the devs the emperor edition is a majorly revamped version, with loads of new features, and an expansion as well. The emperor edition was given for free to all existing owners of the regular edition. From Steam: Big news! We’ve announced the Total War: ROME II Emperor Edition – the definitive edition of ROME II, FREE to all existing owners of the game, which comes complete with a large piece of new single player content. In Rally Point 21, we go into exclusive amounts of detail about what’s included.

Yes. If you bought the game on Steam, it is tied to your account and should be available for you to download on other platforms. That's what the "SteamPlay" icon on the store page means.

Both trait actually do affect gameplay to some extent. The first trait represents aggressivity, or how likely they are to declare war on other players. The second one stands for their reliability, or how likely they are to respect agreements or pacts. Basically, a warlike/reliable leader might or might not be a good ally; might be, because he'll most likely help you fight your enemies and probably won't betray you; might not be, because you'll be dragged into his own wars and might at times even be forced to take sides when he decides to go to war with one of your allies, which would force you into betraying one side or the other. At least, that's the theory. According to this steam community thread, it seems like allies don't betray you without a good reason, even if they are untrustworthy. Might be a bug or an oversight in the AI. Your own leader also has these, which change depending on your past choices; the more you break pacts or agreements, the less trustworthy you become; the more you declare war on others, the more warlike you become.

A province has a flat 3 recruitment slot, constructing additional unit producing structures will not increase the number of units that can be recruited per turn. However additional recruitment slots could be achieved through the use of edicts and techs.

Yes, it is only a visual/graphics settings. Your units will still have the same number of people in them a far as the battle simulation is concerned, but less will be drawn.

A lot of the more so-called 'Barbaric' cultures, e.g Iceni, Averni ,Suebi only have the ability to become confederations and cannot establish client states, i suppose this is because they are not advanced enough to do so unlike more advanced cultures like Rome, Macedon, Parthia, Selucids etc etc.

I think the guys at CA said that the city had to be upgraded to max to make it look like in your pic. Though truth is they did a really lazy and poor job creating this game. Rushed and unfinished.

Cons 1.) They prevent edicts. If a client state exists in one of your provinces you can't issue edicts because you don't control 100% of the province. 2.) They hold back provinces by limiting what you can build. You can't control what your client state builds, and even if you could, their building do not contribute to your province. 3.) I don't think the income from the client state tribute is significantly higher than what you would earn from directly controlling their settlement. 4.) It's impossible to diplomatically assimilate them into your faction. They will forever maintain their independence, no matter how long you rule over them. 5.) Client state or satrop by conquest; they will hate you for the war, for the conquest, and for the occupation of their city. Pros 1.) Their last one or two settlements are a considerable distance from your borders. It might be better to take what little you can get by forcing them to become a client state to avoid thinning out your forces to capture, and then defend their settlements. 2.) You need to end a war. If you are fighting wars on multiple fronts and need some relief, this might be a better option than a simple peace agreement. 3.) If you create a client state out of a peaceful faction without conquest or war, they will not have these negative modifiers. 4.)They do give you a positive modifier for treaties with the faction when you create a client state. There is a balanced and logical diplomacy system. Question 1: Yes, but you are very limited to what you can build. Question 2: Yes, they can break their status with you if you do conquest by violence however they are very unlikely to do that even when they hate you. Source: http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/96002-What-is-the-point-of-Client-States http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/95952-How-are-client-states-supposed-to-work