Expeditions: Rome - Class Guide

Going to spend my lazy Sunday playing this armed with your advice. :)

What about the Gladiator?

So glad that they added this game on gamepass. Would highly recommend it if you like history and are a strategy fan. Reminds me of xcom a bit.

I played Expeditions: Conquistadors is it by same company?

Does anyone know how exactly Triarius's Guidance skill work? Has Triarius be the one that downs an enemy for the skill to work? And how is the range measured? From Triarius itself or from the target downed?

Can you still get custom characters, the way you did in Expeditions Vikings?

I'm new to this type of game and find it all a bit overwhelming. Your videos are really helpful getting past that.

thx for the video

Great video. Please add chapters, so as to quickly find a class guide.

Just a simple correction: Feint costs a movement point (not an action), it's a great skill to use for flanking. Great video, thank you!

For Princeps in Defender the crossed skull passive allows them to shake off a negative effect at the start of each turn, with the progress through the game the AoE spam gets quite heavy and automatically removing poisoned, burning, and bleeding etc. statuses makes them more tankier and you don't have to spend items or much support from the medic class.

For Sagittarius the quick-show is a good investment as an immediately available skill. With leveling up, better bows and accuracy boosts the 30% is very low. And in closer ranges or ambushes it allows you to effective single-turn remove an enemy with an archer or cause enough damage to two to have you veles reap(er) through them more easily.

There is no respec option in this game which is rather stupid and progress impairing if you f up your characters build early considering the limited skill trees anyway. I for one played a few hours on higher difficulty before realizing Id really need to respec half my party so f that had to start over.

Having a shield with 30+ hitpoints is nice which is given by the last skill in the defender tree, I always go for it. For a damaging tank I would actually state the Triarus is better at it.

Do I have a chance with her :)))

one of the abilities from the defender subclass is really powerful, if you are surrounded by your allies, you decrease the overall damage taken by alot, personally i find it really useful when you get ambushed. but remeber to have 2 healers with cure and prefferably bring some throwable status-effect removers in case of fire bomb or poison bomb if you decide to try it.

Triarius destroyer is by far the strongest dps class lategame, actually, it's all about hugging your buddy Princeps.
Shielded Thrust as a main attack produces some insane damage, War Cry+Death Blow(Finisher) combo is the most reliable "kill half a dozen enemies or more in 1 turn" move in game, and then there is an unique pike that sends Triarius into "overwatch" mode if you end your turn adjacent to a shield bearer - which is a great synergy with Shielded Thrust.
And you aren't dying to archers as much as veles because of high armor.

Great guide! You're really underselling triarius-destroyer though. Reckless + resetting deathblow + 2/3 range pike means you can pump out multiple 30+ damage hits per turn by the midgame and do so *safely*. Combined with the ability to get at least 3 armor just from helmet and body armor and the pike ability that does more damage if you stand next to someone with a shield, triarius-destroyer can quickly become point, click, dead.

Good vid. However, would be nice if your mouse was only hovering over the skills you talk about when explaining them.

I completely ignored this game but looks like that was a mistake. Thanks for the breakdown.

I've been following your comment for a few months and I've grown fond of it, why did you delete my last comment? Or are the vlt filters that you have set?

I wish the game have skill lock , I have to fix my skill every time especially hand combat the skill automatically switch by itself

Great video. Thanks for this. I've just got this game and it already looks great.

The one class I'm still not sure how to use is sniper. I had my archers get the double dmg skill from that tree and that's it.

I'm playing on hard right now and my strat is: have 2 archers with Marksman's melee range 100% crit and Hunter's double shots; have 2 shield bearers with Brace skill. Have the shield bearer tank the attack of opportunity when needed, then let the archers move in and double shot, that's 2x weapon dmg and 2x crit damage. Pilum if enemies have shield/armor. Kill basically anything with minimal feat investment. Late game an assassin with flank is more reliable dmg dealer tho.

I really wish they hadn't been so liberal with the history of Rome. It's already epic, you don't need to embellish it.

Hey this game is great! Glad you're covering it.

Looking forward to your review for this game! Can't wait to play it ever since I played Expeditions Viking.

Love your content, and your pronunciation in Anglicized Latin is fine, but just in case you want the extra-nerdy Classical Latin pronunciations: Prin-keps, Wel-es, Treea-riuus.

honestly the armor shred mechanic is bad imo, any mechanic that essentially forces you to pick one specific class to counter it is bad design (yes i know you can have at least one companion with armor shred but it doesn't change the fact that you're limiting yourslef by not having two armor shred characters which results in players being basically forced to pick the armor shred class by default). Maybe i'm wrong since i haven't played a ton of the game yet but it feels like bad design

Naaah... I don't want to be the guy that waves the flag around :)

I want to be that guy that assassinate everyone with two swords or daggers or the guy that shoots people with a bow from a great distance right in their eye :)

Agreed that Triarius is the most effective class to pick for your main, not only do they have amazing abilities, all 3 of their trees are very useful. You can only max 2 trees by end game, so having 2 of this class on your team to cover all 3 trees is fantastic. Note that group buffs apply to friendly NPC soldiers who do show up in some key story battles. With your story companions you end up with 2 princeps, 2 triarius, 1 velens and 1 archer on my team and it works fantastic.

free comment.

About 8 hours in, really enjoying the game so far

This game looks cool. I can't wait to see your full review I have so many questions. But you typically answer them in your reviews so I'm holding back. Thank you for the guide Mortismal.

There's also a bow in Act 1 (in the temple) that let's you keep shooting with Interrupt, as long as you kill with it. Quite fun, when some low hp enemies rush you.

Good information, as always. Debated between a Vanguard and a Flagbearer for my main based on the trees. I chose Vanguard for the RP. But I'll definitely look at Flagbearer on the 2nd run.

Timestamps please?

Thank you for the guide! Dope work as always.

It might be interesting to play a character that doesn't summon elementals/undead or have eyes that glow in the dark.
(don't get me wrong, when Mythic power plays, I get the urge rain fire anything that moves on the map. - mundane might be interesting.)
Here's to septic wounds and Gregor Cleganes instead of mountains with leathery wings.

Perfect timing yet again! =) was just starting to look around for class explanations =) good show sir!

Good stuff. Keen to give this a shot because of you

I think the most interesting one is the hunter subclass, make me feel like I am the elf in lord of the ring. Not the strongest, but really bring ton of fun while playing.

Great reviews and guides thanks