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**Prince Toad** · 04-16-2005, 06:20 PM

I finished my game with the Greeks, and beat another one with the Brutii on N/H. (I know, I should probably put up the battle difficulty, but I don't feel like it. It just ups their stats anyway, not their tactics, so I don't want to.) Playing a game with Gaul on N/H. They start out huge and pretty strong, but their units kind of suck and they're in as bad a position as the Seleucids-- Brittania to the north (who, by the way, has nowhere else to go 'cept Germania), Germania to the east, Spain to the southwest, and Rome to the southeast. I've been attacked by all four, by the way, so there's no mercy there. At least I've been allied with Carthage for pretty much the whole time, so I don't have to worry about being attacked by sea from the south... for now.

I decided to cripple the Romans before they could get too strong-- I figured if they got too many strong units, I wouldn't be able to keep up with them using my Gallic crap-soldiers. It was tough, but I managed to destroy the Julii, march into Rome, and even take Capua, although I halted there. Brittania's been the most aggressive of the other barbarians in attacking me (since, as I said, it's either me or Germania once they take Hibernia) I decided to kick them off the mainland once they'd taken my capital, Alesia. As of now I've got a big ol' army sitting in Samarobriva waiting for a boat to get constructed (the places aren't even big enough for ports... I have to haul one up from Numantia, which should have been taken by now, but they keep breaking off the siege, lucky me) so I can eliminate them for good. Germania, I think, has other problems, so they only hit me once. Spain keeps sieging Numantia and then leaving. Maybe to protect some place against Carthage, I don't know.

You'd think having to fight with mostly Warbands would suck, but it's really not that bad-- they can fight better than they seem to be able to. The tactics shift from Roman-style fighting to barbarian-style fighting was surprisingly smooth, even though they're hugely different. With the Romans, your troops can outfight pretty much anybody up close, so you can more or less march up, throw pila, and kill. With the barbarians, you have to rout them-- especially if you don't have any swordsmen (or I guess other heavy infantry)-- so you use surprise, flanking, and cavalry charges a lot more. I never used to bother with ambushing from forests as Rome, but just today I've done it twice already, and I decimated both armies.

Damn. Love this game.

[ April 17, 2005, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Prince Toad ]

04-16-2005, 06:20 PM	#23
Prince Toad PC Mod Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Rookery Gender: Posts: 11,418 Thanks: 43 Thanked 56 Times in 47 Posts Points: 44,723.38 Bank: 22,313.30 Total Points: 67,036.68 Donate	I finished my game with the Greeks, and beat another one with the Brutii on N/H. (I know, I should probably put up the battle difficulty, but I don't feel like it. It just ups their stats anyway, not their tactics, so I don't want to.) Playing a game with Gaul on N/H. They start out huge and pretty strong, but their units kind of suck and they're in as bad a position as the Seleucids-- Brittania to the north (who, by the way, has nowhere else to go 'cept Germania), Germania to the east, Spain to the southwest, and Rome to the southeast. I've been attacked by all four, by the way, so there's no mercy there. At least I've been allied with Carthage for pretty much the whole time, so I don't have to worry about being attacked by sea from the south... for now. I decided to cripple the Romans before they could get too strong-- I figured if they got too many strong units, I wouldn't be able to keep up with them using my Gallic crap-soldiers. It was tough, but I managed to destroy the Julii, march into Rome, and even take Capua, although I halted there. Brittania's been the most aggressive of the other barbarians in attacking me (since, as I said, it's either me or Germania once they take Hibernia) I decided to kick them off the mainland once they'd taken my capital, Alesia. As of now I've got a big ol' army sitting in Samarobriva waiting for a boat to get constructed (the places aren't even big enough for ports... I have to haul one up from Numantia, which should have been taken by now, but they keep breaking off the siege, lucky me) so I can eliminate them for good. Germania, I think, has other problems, so they only hit me once. Spain keeps sieging Numantia and then leaving. Maybe to protect some place against Carthage, I don't know. You'd think having to fight with mostly Warbands would suck, but it's really not that bad-- they can fight better than they seem to be able to. The tactics shift from Roman-style fighting to barbarian-style fighting was surprisingly smooth, even though they're hugely different. With the Romans, your troops can outfight pretty much anybody up close, so you can more or less march up, throw pila, and kill. With the barbarians, you have to rout them-- especially if you don't have any swordsmen (or I guess other heavy infantry)-- so you use surprise, flanking, and cavalry charges a lot more. I never used to bother with ambushing from forests as Rome, but just today I've done it twice already, and I decimated both armies. Damn. Love this game. [ April 17, 2005, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Prince Toad ]