Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar

A nice relaxing strategy game. When all else is tiresome I come back to this game. Would love to see a more updated version of this game, but it does what it needs to do.

[h1] Hodnocení 4,5/10, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34526713-Gaming-Professors/] Curator [/url] [/h1] Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar je RTS titul, který vás zavede na počátek tažení jednoho z nejslavnějších a nejschopnějších vojevůdců lidské historie. Jeho provedení však nenabízí to, co soudobé tituly v této kategorii, a to i přes některé fajn nápady. Jedná se spíše o levný a nepovedený klon série Total War, který kvalitou bohužel neoplývá. Když k tomu přičtete, že hra často padá, špatnou AI nepřátel, špatně fungující základní mechanismy a nefunkční achievementy, opravdu se nenachází žádný důvod, proč tento titul hrát. Kompletní recenzi naleznete zde: https://www.gamingprofessors.cz/hegemony-rome-the-rise-of-caesar-recenze/

I don't know exactly why it is, but I can't stop playing! Sure, graphics aren't good. Not by today's standards and not even 2014. It's also not as complex and deep (strategy and tactical wise) as Total War, BUT it does do some things very differently, plus it has some QoL stuff, that isn't even available in all/most other such games. Gold for instance is a fixed resource. You don't get more every "tick", but a fixed amount per mine or mission or from cities (taxes). This seems weird at first, but makes it actually very easy to control AND it allows you to try stuff. You need some money back? Destroy a wall in cities/camps that are no longer at the fringes. Thus reducing the "maintenance" cost of this structure. Or disband a unit, eliminating the units salary. Unrest of conquered cities is about the same as in other games, but with a very unique twist: you can "build" hostages and send them out of the enemies land (to your home city) and this will solve that issue :-) To be fair: it's a bit too easy to deal with unrest like that, but I had Total War games (especially the older ones), where this issue was uncontrollable and I've lost a lot of cities and income and stuff... so a middle ground would be perfect. Food is the easiest to come by. You have farms which you send workers to. Or exchange them for slaves you get by subjugating enemy units: they don't get a salary (or food apparently) and thus you can get the money back when you disband your workers. Genius! I'm in chapter 2 and I have several hundreds of slaves^^ God I hope they can't revolt, like in the movie and series "Spartacus". Food is then stored in cities/camps and used by your fighting men. They take some of it out in the field, but need to get back and stock up or their morale will drop drastically! The only problem with food is, that although it's transported along supply lines you have to create, it's a slow process. That means, even if you have 3k food available in your empire, only some is tickling through to the outlying camp your troops are stationed in! Troops also need "men" to get back to full strength after battle. But, they can only use men from their own headquarters and faction. Meaning, out in the field, they too will only get new recruits via supply lines, which is slow. Or you could march them back to their headquarters (that you can change) to fill them. You should also build your units in different cities, as there is quite a limiting cap on recruit-able men available and ALL units with that city as headquarters will draw recruits from that city, meaning after a tough battle, their wont be enough recruits available (even though other cities have more then enough!) Oh, nearly forgot about the cool, easy and quite unique way they handle troop movement and especially placement. In EVERY other game, including Total War, it can be a pain in the ass to setup your troops you want. Some games requiring you to not group the units, but use a special army mechanic and what not, which introduces other problems with selecting and moving units.... anyway, in this game it's easy AF: you generally use groups of units to arrange them like in any other game, but you can then change the direction and MOVE the whole group to a place you need them. With just a mouse click. No special voodoo needed! You can also move several groups at once "in formation" that way! Just select several groups and use the move feature and they will move their together. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Amazing! I don't think I've ever seen it done that smoothly and easily!! My score: 9/10 It could use some deeper systems, more complex fights, but it covers all it's basics and does them very well. Can't wait to play their newer game and what they might have improved. Ok, I had to edit this review and change it to negative after nearly finishing it: o) the performance late in Chapter 4 tanks; the engine it seems just isn't capable of handling the amount of cities, resources, slaves and armies that one has. I pretty much have to quit every 30min to clean the game up. o) but the absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ worst: [spoiler]after dozens of hours you finally conquering most of the map, you march to a specific, rather off-site location and [b]BAM[/b] a few random cities transfer over to a new faction (forget about any high-tier units you had in and around those cities!.[/spoiler] But that's not the worst of it: MOST OF THE SUPPLY LINES GET DELETED -> this means in just a second you loose 80% of all connections between the cities, camps, resources and thus have minus income in ever field and no food distribution what so ever! What the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell!? And after that is done and you move all troops you have left to those defected cities, the mother-lode comes to play, a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass rape: EVERY city starts to rebel, because for whatever ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason ALL HOSTAGES HAVE ARE GONE!!! Holy-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-moly, I haven't seen such a bummer in a long-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-while! I know it's manageable and I will prevail no matter what (my main army is just too strong), but it's just such a ... there is no fitting English or German word for it, so I'll just use Japanese: "Mendokusai". That's the most fitting description of the whole situation.

Hegemony: Rome має багато гарних ідей, але вони на жаль нівелюються досить довгим часом очікуванням переміщення юнітів, багами, тупим AI та одноманітністю. У сендбокс режимі племена можуть бігати один за одним, палити корівники та застрягати між холмів. Якихось великих амбіцій в них нема, то ж грати ні з ким, навіть на рівні "експерт" :) У режимі кампанії бувають місії де треба перемістити майже всі свої війська на інший кінець карти, і ця біготня займає реальних 5 хвилин. Причому одна половина ваших військ застрягне поміж холмів, а іншу половину переб'ють місцеві гали. Автосейв може це не зацінити та не зберегти. І треба перезапускати карту і знову чекати. З прикольних ідей: ланцюги постачання між містами, можливість захоплювати ворожі війська, класна мальована карта з фігурками на zoom out, величезна локація у режимі сендбокс. Можна пограти, але раджу перед цим провітрити хату, бо через 2-4 години вам буде душно від цієї гри.

ich kann diese ganzen Negativen Kommentare nicht verstehen ?! Das spiel ist teilweise mal Fordernd oder es sind kleine Fehler enthalten . Aber so an sich ist es ein tolles spiel, von Versorgung´s- Planung ,Niederbrennen oder besetzen alle vorhanden .macht einfach Spaß. eins muss ich ja anmerken habe das spiel für paar Pfennig bekommen, dafür Lohnt sich das aber nicht für über 20 Euro: D Da währe ich mir zu Geizig

Aufgrund der eher mittelmäßigen Rezensionen war ich anfangs eher skeptisch, aber nachdem ich es jetzt einige Zeit lang gespielt habe, muss ich sagen, dass es mir sehr gut gefällt. Läuft flüssig und ich zocke es lieber als Total War Rome.

Good game, good addition to the series. Well designed scenario play Sandbox is enjoyable, AI doing good challenges, but after so many factions played becomes a bit repetitive. Experiencing some performance issues (lag in time progress and click delay) in sandbox late phase.

ROMA VICTOR !!!