If you choose traditions which increase efficiency of your units during the attack on defenses and improving your siege machines, you create an army capable to assault enemy settlements in the first turn. The latter are useful mainly in Eastern countries, where archer horsemen and great foot archers will have an impact on the result of the battles till the end of the game.Īnother very important type of troops is engineer/siege legion.

For this reason I would suggest focusing more on bonuses for infantry than projectile units.

On the other hand, effectiveness of projectile units decreases with time and more important is to have heavy infantry. In the initial stages of the game, especially when playing with barbarian factions, projectile units are very useful - hence you should train at least one army in that direction. Which traditions should be chosen? Again, I recommend specializing your legions and armies. Same as with disbanding the army, this system allows you to rapidly move legion with traditions from one corner of the map to another. When raising a new army you can restore traditions, so your units will immediately use previously unlocked abilities. Even if your army is defeated or you disband it, the experience gained by it is not wasted. Traditions are of great importance in Total War: Rome II. If you have unlocked a new tradition, you'll be able to choose it from the list - with higher experience levels it will be also possible to 'upgrade' previously gained abilities. In addition you can check amount of experience points and current army level. When army advances to the next level, you can choose one of many available traditions, which will give bonuses to units within the army.Īfter choosing a general just press details button ( 2 key) and you can see name, emblem and unit history on the first tab. During the game, both the army and units in the army gain the experience points through battles. TraditionsĮach newly raised army has its own name and symbol. All units in the army were trained by a champion.Īs you can see, experienced units are more efficient in the fight than fresh recruits, so you should take care of them and do not use them in suicide mission if possible.

Rome 2 auxiliary units