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Wow! Nice questions Your Lordships are discussing. If I may interfere?
@Doc. We are the only barbarians in the forest. It is our forest after all! And timing for GA is about right. The game is short and has to be fnished before turn 120. Otherwise risk of Rome winning with VP is too high. And we might have 10+ Armies.
@Rubberjello. It is a good luck for us and bad luck for them! There is a possibility that when our territory or world map was sold to Sassanids, this city was indeed undefended. Back then they immediately dispatched some forces to capture it. And their general somehow did not receive subsequent dispatches from the capitol. And we can survive 6 turns if it is only Sassanids. But the way this scenario works, alliances are easy to form. We can have either allies of enemies. Well, what can be better for a barbarian than a good fight to join in!
@Charis. I'm flattered. There is no way to buy Sassanids for war with Rome. This will indeed trash the economy. Also, this stupid general in charge of the advancing contingent.... I think he would be following these stupid orders still. And he is moving his force from Hunns. And be assured this city is left undefended this turn to move some forces to the eastern border. Is the defence bonus rounded up or down?
@JustusII. There is no practical point. Maximal defender that we face is legion with factor 4. Assuming cross-rive on a hill fortified, warlord attack 9 in army should take care of this with 1-2 hits maximum. In case of particularly bad pRNG, second may come to backup. Third and fourth are never needed. And attack bonus is +1 even with pillagers. Thus, third pillager gets attack 7 which should be enough in most cases. After this, army usually retreats before losing combat anyhow. A 5 attack heavy cavalry would chew and spit the army in no time whether it is defence 2 or 3 if it is really red-lined. Poor Visigoths! What do we use to distract Romans once they will be destroyed? We cannot build much more cities there ourselves and cannot afford to lose them then.
@Kabuki. The problem might be that once getting in next age, we cannot trade techs there with other barbarians. And they do not research there. Or am I wrong? And it is C3C but not Civ3 or PTW so researching is a way cheaper than byuing. And IMHO we don't need trebuchets or catapults. Our units have defensive bombard and our warlords are very powerful especially combined in armies. If it is Sid level, then may be some cats can be useful.
@Doc. We are the only barbarians in the forest. It is our forest after all! And timing for GA is about right. The game is short and has to be fnished before turn 120. Otherwise risk of Rome winning with VP is too high. And we might have 10+ Armies.
@Rubberjello. It is a good luck for us and bad luck for them! There is a possibility that when our territory or world map was sold to Sassanids, this city was indeed undefended. Back then they immediately dispatched some forces to capture it. And their general somehow did not receive subsequent dispatches from the capitol. And we can survive 6 turns if it is only Sassanids. But the way this scenario works, alliances are easy to form. We can have either allies of enemies. Well, what can be better for a barbarian than a good fight to join in!
@Charis. I'm flattered. There is no way to buy Sassanids for war with Rome. This will indeed trash the economy. Also, this stupid general in charge of the advancing contingent.... I think he would be following these stupid orders still. And he is moving his force from Hunns. And be assured this city is left undefended this turn to move some forces to the eastern border. Is the defence bonus rounded up or down?
@JustusII. There is no practical point. Maximal defender that we face is legion with factor 4. Assuming cross-rive on a hill fortified, warlord attack 9 in army should take care of this with 1-2 hits maximum. In case of particularly bad pRNG, second may come to backup. Third and fourth are never needed. And attack bonus is +1 even with pillagers. Thus, third pillager gets attack 7 which should be enough in most cases. After this, army usually retreats before losing combat anyhow. A 5 attack heavy cavalry would chew and spit the army in no time whether it is defence 2 or 3 if it is really red-lined. Poor Visigoths! What do we use to distract Romans once they will be destroyed? We cannot build much more cities there ourselves and cannot afford to lose them then.
@Kabuki. The problem might be that once getting in next age, we cannot trade techs there with other barbarians. And they do not research there. Or am I wrong? And it is C3C but not Civ3 or PTW so researching is a way cheaper than byuing. And IMHO we don't need trebuchets or catapults. Our units have defensive bombard and our warlords are very powerful especially combined in armies. If it is Sid level, then may be some cats can be useful.
(Techs) Uhmmm....This would be a big news flash to me. Do you have any numbers to back this up? I've never noticed a huge, dramatic change in the buy/research ratio in C3C.
? Anyway, we also get some real cash for Romes WM from our friends that is, about 40gp.
, another reason for a Temple in Syracuse. Change New Tingis to Temple instead of Barracks, since the chop there would be wasted otherwise, and culture expansion will pull in another Iron.
Also good move to put Stilcho in the army, two-thirds movement empty armies are NOT good! To answer your question about the Immortals, the two Sassinid starting Immortals begin the game elite. One other comment, since this is RBCiv rules, using workers as bait is a 
, we need to avoid doing so deliberately. Good idea on New Carthage, I like the cheap vet Raider factory. 
Oopsie - I thought this only ment to use them to absorb attacks/ trigger MPPs...but anyway, it worked in no way, maybe they toned down the attraction of Workers in c3c.
