All the speculation is at an end. Gotta say I'm not sure how well Hegemony will translate to a larger scale. Ancient greece with all it's shrines, temples, and settlements had an intimate feeling to it that I loved.

I would also have loved for Hegemony to continue to bring light to slightly more obscure parts of ancient history, Rome and Julius Caesar is about as mainstream as ancient history can get, but if it gets the series more exposure and sales then it's more than worth it.

I can't wait to see the game in action. Hope we get something more than just a soaring eagle animation soon. ;)

I think the conquest of Gaul will fit the engine very well. But it will require some serious work on the diplomacy side of things to portray the reality of it correctly. And if the factions remain totally static as they are now I can see myself being very disappointed with it. We need helvetii migrations and AI factions attacking other factions and calls from them for Roman intervention and alliances and help, etc.

If they just make a mod of Hegemony: Gold (apart from the new wood resource) I will be disappointed. So...definately waiting to see more content on this!! =D

EDIT: Also, I don't want to nitpick, but the teaser movie says he arrived as a general but left as Emperor. Not really true at all, admittedly he paved the way for Octavian to become Emperor but Caesar himself never became emperor or king. He was (eventually) proclaimed dictator for life but that was some time after his Gallic campaigns.

A bit of peotic license is good. Am looking forward to seeing all the content you will be bringing out in the future. Do it justice, I do love hegemony!

I simply had to login to say Wohoooooo!!!!!

I really look forward to this game. I like Hegemony a lot, but the landscape was a little simple and looked the same every I look, so I do hope that you'll change that. And plz include a a kind of skirmish mode where I can start from scratch and build my empire against the computer :)

And one more thing, I would like to be able to zoom out a little more and still control my forces.

Just wishes and I buy this game anyway ;)

Forgive my ignorance but is Rome going to be about the rise of Julius Caesar or will it have a longer timespan?

That's interesting. I wonder if time in Rome runs at a slower pace than in PoM/Gold, since that game certainly wasn't beatable in 7-8 in-game years?

In regards to the sandbox mode, do you plan on coding in a Campaign AI that will attempt to expand at the expense of other AI factions? Or will you keep the same style as Gold sandbox?

How will the mission structure in the campaign be handled? Will it be like PoM/Gold, where objectives are grouped together, and the player is more or less free to do them in any order?

How many missions can we expect, roughly? More? Less? About the same? I'm asking because I really liked the mission based campaign of the first game, which did a great job of making me care about what I was doing, as well as providing excellent historical flavour. :)

Very happy about this...

How big will be the sandbox map?

Cheers

Great News!

I bought the last game and enjoyed it. I loved the learning history experience along the way with plenty of tidbits of information about towns and characters.
The single biggest issue (by far) I had with the game was exactly the same issue I had in Rome Total War and many other such games.

The mid to end game steamroller! Once you reach a certain size, you are unbeatable with big armies, good income and its get repetitive and boring really quickly. I struggle to finish any campaign (here and in most of the TW series for example) simply because past a certain point, I'm too strong and nothing is going to change that. In reality, this does not occur. Empire face challenges from within etc amongst other things. Caesar for example campaign typically with vastly less troops than those that opposed him. Anyhow, any thoughts gone into this issue?

Thanks and Good luck!

Sounds like it should be pretty cool. The 1st Century BC is probably one of my favorite time periods, too. Any plans to do any post triumvirate stuff? Might be fun to do the Civil War campaign between Caesar and Pompey. Or something with Pompey's campaigns against Mithridates, or any of his other stuff.

Sounds like it should be pretty cool. The 1st Century BC is probably one of my favorite time periods, too. Any plans to do any post triumvirate stuff? Might be fun to do the Civil War campaign between Caesar and Pompey. Or something with Pompey's campaigns against Mithridates, or any of his other stuff.

There really is alot of scope for this genre of game. The focus on smaller more intimate regions is refreshing. But I'm not sure the roman civil war would work too well. The area involved, for one, is staggering and the game would lose alot of the detail without a massive map increase. Secondly the politics played a large part in the civil war and I don't think the game quite fits that grand scale so well.

Having said that, lots of Caesar's other campaigns could work and there is still a whole host of other periods to focus on throughout history. I very much hope to see this game engine continuing and developing for at least a few more interations.

The campaign structure will follow pretty much the same formula as the earlier games with more similarities to the new Peloponnesian campaigns in Gold. Rather than the single large campaign we did in Philip which few people were able to finish, we broke Caesar's campaign into four chapters so there will be more options on where to start and player's who don't have time for a 60+ hour campaign can still try some of the later content.
This is a wise decision. I made it about 85% through Hegemony's main campaign, then had to take a break for awhile. When I tried to get back into it, it was so overwhelming I just couldn't finish. Not that the actual challenge was overwhelming -- I had more than enough resources to take out Sparta and Athens -- but the attention and concentration required for the real-time gameplay, combined with the sheer size of Philip's empire by that point, made it more stressful than fun, so I quit (which made me sad, because I love the game system and was determined to win it).