Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

[Stormrage]

So is this thing updated with the gazillion of units that Sandris, Plotinus and the rest have made?

 

[pinktilapia]

If this means you volunteer to do so Stormy, certainly Seriously now, I won't put another second in this mod. The job has been done, as imperfect as it is. If someone wants to update RFRE, go ahead nonetheless, these units certainly would be a fine addition!

 

[Stormrage]

I am certainly not qualified to deicide what units should go in, Rome is not my area of expertise.

I know you are no longer working on it, but I thought one of the guys took over? Haven`t been following the thread much..

 

[Stazro]

I hope Christophoros is still working on it, hasn't shown a lifesign for some time...

 

[againsttheflow]

oh Christophoooooros! where aaare you? We definitely need to find him. *looks around* Nobody told him about the plan, right?

 

[Keroro]

I think that we scared him off...

We'll probably have to wait another 20 pages before we find someone else brave enough to make another patch. Seriously though, if it's just a case of adding some of Sandris' units in then I'll have a go sometime, I trawled through most while sorting Alexander out. Soon TM.

Soon is a trademark of Embryodead.

 

[areon]

Question, has anyone ever seen the comp actually make the Cimbri/Tuetones/and the third one I forgot wonders? I went into the map and removed the resource requirements but they still didn't get made in my latest game.

 

[pikmaster]

- Increase to two the number of Praesidium Parthica in Persian cities that were never historically conquered.

Hmm, I was able to conquer (using my army of 14 ballistas and Legio Consularis) several Persian cities - Susa (1 presidium), Siraf (2), Ectabana (2), Rhagae (2) and Thara (2). Persians offered me Herat, Sarmias and Hamadan for a Peace Treaty. So I reduced their possesions very much.

I tried to attack Persepolis (the capital) but found that 3 presidua are too many, because I wasn not able to bombard them and finnish off with an army, before they got healed.
So, if you put 4 presidia, that should be fine. Maybe also increase their defense to 30 and HP to 30?

As a side effect, I observed that chronicle advances (like 150BC-100BC) are happening later than they should. Maybe this is because Persians lost so many cities? I suppose Rome has one of the building which acts as a Great Library (gives you the advances already known by 2 other civs), but because Persians lsot their research, this is not happening. Which civs should drive the research forward?

- Praedator Pictus’ movement increases to 4

Why so much?


Cheers

 

[areon]

They want to increase the Pict movement so that the ones moving from the capital don't stop right outside of Hadrian's Wall waiting to be killed.

 

[World Destroyer]

So...Chris? What's the dillio?

 

[areon]

I just finished my first complete game with a few alterations of the hard map on consul. I turned down the spawn rate on Incursors and removed the Scythia-Germania alliance. Even with those changes I was barely able to compute some of the turns...anyway here are some pictures.

Spoiler Rome Peak :

Spoiler Saxons :

Spoiler Rome vs Germania :

Spoiler Damn Horde :

Rome's last days are numbered with 3 of those stacks heading south. Atleast the Byzantines will carry on for some time.

Spoiler Victory :

Funny story why Gaul stuck around so long. I had gone to war with them and taken their lower cities and made peace. A few techs later I tried to fight again but my computer kept freezing everytime I declared war on them. Yet the turns ran fine as long as I ignored them which presented some logistical problems of reaching Britannia before Picts showed up. Then when the Germans made their first invasion south I treated the Gauls as the Visigoths in the peace process by giving them the lands west of Massilia which is why they gained so much territory. I was able to reclaim some of the valuable cities before the end.

For my next playthrough I plan on trying something new of giving Incursors/Praedators hidden nationality so that war isn't required for Rome to lose ground. In addition I will rise the unit support cost because by the end I had 11k gold left even after some very liberal rushing of Stratiotes.

 

[pinktilapia]

Very nice report areon, nice new perspective on the late game. Thanks for the screenshots, too bad that horde did not have enough time to make it to Rome!

 

[jlvfr]

Those massive barbarian stacks are also what wiped me out

But you did a lot better than me, so congrats!

 

[DrewTate]

this needs to be made for bts

 

[pinktilapia]

This is being made for CIV Warlords by Primordial Stew: check it out

 

[Stormrage]

*Honey, facelifting is not a bad thing if they do a good job..

*OK babe, I know a good doctor - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=7376878#post7376878

 

[againsttheflow]

That's gotta motivate even the most cautious patcher...

 

[geminisama]

Can someone explain sea trade routes to me? I have the Pharus built, I have plenty of ports, but it still tells me "X resouces are unconnected, and require a sea route." By what I can tell though, this only applies to Islands.

 

[areon]

Only portus mercatorius do sea trading and they can't be built until Commerce. Some cities start out with them but have that chance of being destroyed when conquered.

 

[geminisama]

Ahh, thanks. :]