Combined battles where the defender has a navy will retain their Victory Point.

Combined battles where there is no navy in the defending alliance do not have *Victory Points/Baggage Trains.

When an army in forced march is attacked on the Campaign Map, an ambush battle is now triggered, rather than a baggage train Victory Point battle.

It is a normal open field battle with any campaign generated penalties applied as before.

All armies that are forced to retreat, and then are attacked, no longer have a *Baggage Train battle.

When the player is attacked whilst in a minor settlement (not provincial capital), a new 'Sally Forth' button is available on the pre-battle panel to fight the attackers in an open field battle.

Improved the desktop icon for Total War: ROME II to support multiple resolutions.

the pyramids) from disappearing when the camera was set to certain angles.

Improved culling on the campaign map to prevent props (e.g.

Fix to prevent the games user interface from flickering when SLI is enabled.

Fix in Multiplayer Campaign, after Player 1 offers diplomacy to Player 2, Player 2 made a counter offer, then cancelled the offer, which caused the game to lock up for Player 1.

Optimised fire and smoke effects on the campaign map (improving the frames per second on all graphics setting, especially during the late gameplay where all faction territories are revealed).

Fix for a crash when performing an agent action on a wounded/assassinated unit in Campaign modes.

Fix for graphics crash caused by changing the games screen resolution shortly after loading a new Campaign.

LAN multiplayer modes are now accessible when Steam is in Offline mode.

Fixed a bug in the Graphics Benchmark frame rate display that reported the wrong per-frame time.

Fix for minor stutters & terrain rendering glitches on some gpu's when rendering the terrain.

Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map across all configurations when setting Effects Quality to Low or High.

Fix for lock-ups reported on loading into battle in DirectX9.

Frame Rate improvements on Campaign map on low spec Core2 Duo cpu's in windowed mode.

Significant improvements to multiplayer campaign speed, which is now limited by the slowest players machine.

Republic at war ai fix