Roads (10)

Learn about the 'Roads (10)' concept in Total War: Rome II. This guide covers unit classifications, formations, and special abilities to enhance your strategic gameplay.

This guide section for Total War: Rome II focuses on the concept of 'Roads (10)', which appears to be a reference to a specific aspect of unit management or game mechanics within the game. While the provided text is a general Unit FAQ, it details various unit classifications, formations, and special abilities that are crucial for understanding how units interact and move on the battlefield, which is directly relevant to any discussion of 'roads' or movement in the game.

Unit Classifications:

The game categorizes units into Infantry, Cavalry, and Siege units. Infantry forms the backbone of armies, capable of operating siege equipment and engaging in prolonged melee. Cavalry offers mobility and is effective for flanking maneuvers, charging, and pursuing routing enemies, though they are weaker in direct confrontation. Siege units are primarily for destroying fortifications but can also engage other units with reduced accuracy.

Special Abilities and Formations:

Units possess unique abilities that can significantly impact combat:

• Wedge Formation: Enhances cavalry charges with a slight damage increase.
• Cantabrian Circle: Allows horse archers to maintain a continuous missile fire while moving in a circle, though it tires the unit quickly.
• Testudo Formation: Makes infantry nearly immune to missiles but drastically reduces their movement speed and leaves them vulnerable to cavalry and melee.
• Flaming Ammunition: Increases the morale impact of archer attacks at the cost of accuracy.
• Kill Raging Elephant: An elephant unit ability to end a 'running amok' state by killing the elephant.
• Phalanx Formation: A defensive formation for spearmen that is nearly impenetrable from the front but restricts movement and facing.
• Warcry: Temporarily boosts the attack of barbarian infantry.
• Berserker Mode: Puts berserkers into an uncontrollable frenzy, attacking any nearby unit.
• Run Amok: A status for elephants and chariots that causes them to attack indiscriminately.
• Chant: Druid ability to increase the morale of nearby units.

Understanding these classifications and abilities is key to effectively maneuvering your armies, whether on open roads or during sieges, and is fundamental to mastering the strategic depth of Total War: Rome II.