Total War: ROME II - Pirates and Raiders Culture Pack: become the scourge of the ancient world!

Buy Total War: ROME II - Pirates and Raiders Culture Pack as a Steam key on FrsGames.com and become the scourge of the ancient world with this culture pack. It introduces a new playable culture made up of three expert plundering factions, as well as new buildings, technologies, religions, unique traits, and land and naval units for Total War: ROME II.

Players can now plunder the campaign map as the Ardiaei of Illyria, and the Thracian tribes of the kingdoms of Tylis and Odryses. Each with their own military and naval units, these Balkan factions offer a whole new way of approaching ROME II's grand campaign.

New features

New Balkan cultural traits: Tylis, the Ardiaei and the Kingdom of Odryses are all adept at plundering, stealing wealth from under other factions' noses and striking fast and hard in enemy territory. They are also able to quickly assemble mercenary armies, before swooping down on military targets.

New faction traits: each Balkan faction has its own starting position on the campaign map and its own faction traits, for a unique experience during the campaign. What's more, the Ardiaei of Illyria prefer piracy, and the Thracians of the Kingdom of Odryses are excellent archers; as for the people of Tylis, due to Celtic migrations in Asia Minor, they have high-level infantry troops.

New religion: both the Ardiaei and the Odryses kingdom have their own religious buildings, bringing them multiple effects and advantages in the campaign.

New technologies: both the Ardiaei and the Odryses kingdom have their own technologies, which allow the player to unlock key effects and units replacing parts of the classic barbarian technology trees.

New units

Ardiaei:

• Illyrian marines: a high-level infantry of spearmen with medium armor.
• Illyrian raiders: a stealthy, fast infantry armed with axes.
• Illyrian noble hoplites: very powerful infantry with extremely heavy armor.
• Hemolia (plunder): fast boarding ship manned by Illyrian raiders.
• Hexere (assault): huge assault ship manned by Illyrian raiders.
• Tetrere (assault): large assault ship manned by Illyrian raiders.

Kingdom of Odryses:

• Thracian horsemen: fast cavalry armed with spears.

Tylis:

• Gallo-Thracian warriors: fast, powerful sword-fighting melee infantry.
• Tribal warriors: swordsmen with solid armor, skilled in defense.
• Pillage riders: multi-role, armed with sword and javelins.

New mercenaries

Soldiers from raiding nations know well the value of money and will offer their services to the highest bidder. When you play another faction, the following mercenaries and auxiliaries can be recruited in the corresponding territories:

Mercenaries:

• Thracian mercenary warriors: sword-talented melee infantry (Thracian)
• Mercenary reapers: scythian-wielding melee infantry (Dacia)
• Dacian mercenary skirmishers: excellent skirmishers armed with javelins. (Dacia)
• Illyrian mercenary raiders: stealthy, swift infantry armed with axes (Illyria)
• Hemolia (plunder): light attack ship manned by Illyrian mercenary raiders (Illyria)

Auxiliaries:

• Thracian auxiliary warriors: sword-talented melee infantry (Thrace)
• Auxiliary reapers: scythian-wielding melee infantry (Dacia)
• Dacian auxiliary skirmishers: excellent skirmishers armed with javelins. (Dacia)
• Illyrian auxiliary raiders: stealthy, swift infantry armed with axes (Illyria)