Resources

If you define a resource as something in limited supply that you use to do something or to avoid something bad happening, rather than restricting the definition to something that you spend, that is use up, there are actually seven resources in Rome 2 Total War and not just wealth:

  • Unit production ability
  • Wealth
  • Food
  • Public order
  • Growth
  • Research
  • Imperium

Obviously I am not here referring to the raw materials and exotic goods resources that can be imported or exported as part of trade, but to the variables that your provinces are dedicated to husbanding or maximising, each one of which is vital for your province or empire’s wellbeing. Thinking about them all this way allows better appreciation of their interdependence and importance; it is a fatal mistake to focus on some and neglect even one.