pinktilapia said:
Did anybody heard (or play) that
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the great invasions
Does kinda look like a shallow EU clone. But who knows?
Here is my compiled nitpick extraodanaire:
1) In the Chronicles age all of the techs say AC instead of AD. I've never seen AC before.
2) Could you make that wonder in Palma which gives slingers an improvement instead? Either that or just bag it, because I want it to be an improvement so I can sell it. Not worth the high upkeep cost at all. I just end up disbanding the slingers.
3) I don't really like the new barbarian resource system where you can't hook your cities up to the main network to build the auxiliaries. I understand that the purpose of it is to not be building barb units in Italy and such. Could we possibly make them unbuildable and make an improvement which auto-produced them?
4) I see that the Celtic Cavalry are made obsolete after Marius. They should definitely be availabe after then. Caesar used them extensively. Maybe obsolete them at Augustus or the Antonines.
5) The little popup science advisor thing for Sulla's rule reads, "With on each end Mithridates and Sulla, will the Republic survive?" I would add an 'one' in between 'with' and 'on' so that it says "With one on each ..." It would still be an akward sentence, but thats better.
And here is the progress of my empire since I last stopped:
216 BC Cisalpine Gauls defeated. But I must say that they but up a very brave fight, err.., no I dont. Matter of fact it was a complete pushover.
208 BC Massilia (siege) and Magna Graecia taken. Two Greeks down, three to go! Massilia is the city where I have the Gaul goods right next to it but everyone else has it somewhere else. But I swear I didnt move it! No really! I would never play RFRE so long that my memory is permanently affected, never.
200 BC Attack Carthage again, but with two prongs. Thats right, Im expecting their entire army just to surrender once they hear that I am attacking them from two sides. Bow before my incredible human intellect!
Eastern landing debacle (lose 4 legions, most of fleet, almost an army). We wont talk about this too much.
Western invasion hard but smooth with minimal losses. Im sure all of those Carthaginians were really hitting themselves in the heads now that they have finally realized that a foothold in Africa is MUCH worse to give to your archenemy than some stupid slingers I just disband anyway.
Get attacked in Sicily by several Numidian cavalry, almost lose city. When I first saw that stack of 10 attack cavalry land I thought, No problem, my garrison in Sicily will take care of them. Then I realized that most of my former Sicily garrison was killed on the beaches of Leptis Magna. Stop laughing! Now! What happened to that whole bow before my superior intellect thing?
192 BC Illyrium destroyed (easy side campaign). If you thought that Epirus was a sissy then you havent seen Illyrium. I mean, pink? How are soldiers supposed to valiantly charge into battle behind their disgraceful pink battle standard?
190 BC Begin siege of Carthage.
189 BC Carthage taken, very hard with moderate casualties
So ends my greatest enemy so far. It really wasnt terribly difficult when I look back on it. I think that war with Egypt helped immensely in my ability to capture Spain and win the first Punic War. I actually got most of my fleet destroyed during the second Punic War.
187 BC Aetolia conquered (one turn). Greeks. Baby blue. Need I say more?
War against Numidia. I figured that I should kill this little pest while my huge army is in the area. Multiple stacks of 10 attack cavalry cant be that bad, right?
186 BC War against Achaia.
183 BC Corinth (Achaia) taken. Look at that! A greek city state took MORE than one turn to kill. Theyll probably write some epic poem about that one.
Campaign against Numidians winding down.
Permagum taken with propaganda. Dont you just love taking this huge cites with 12+ defenders for a little bit of cash? Its really great. Finally a smart civ that recognizes the fact that they might as well join up with the almighty ass-kickin Rome.
Seems that Pontus is in some trouble, Sinope is in Persian hands and Syria controls the city to Sinopes east. I may invade Egypt next if the Pontic threat is truly removed.
177 BC Sneak attack against ME by Macedon. Im the only one allowed to sneak attack! They will pay for that!
Those sneaky Macedonians landed three phalanxes by Rhodus. By sheer luck my garrison of one praesidium and two velites holds the city.
Peace signed with Numidians after taking all of their take-able cities. Now we can go to Egypt!
Eliminated Pontus by propagandizing Chersoneus, their last city. Seems that the Syrians and Persians did a good job killing Pontus for me. That puts the Pontics pretty close to the Illyrians on the patheticness scale.
Next target: Egypt. Im preparing my whole North African army to attack the land of the Pharaohs. Thats 3 Scipio armies, one Consular army, 8 elite legios, 6 ballistas, and a crapload of velites. The Egyptians are in trouble
173 BC I used the worker-sitting-outside-city-to-draw-out-all-the-defenders trick to conquer Larissa and massacre its former defenders. OOOOooooo look its a worker! We wants it! We must send our whole army just to make sure it doesnt escape.
161 BC Capture Eretria from Macedon
Nicaea propagandized from Bithnyia for 1934 gold. Im amassing a nice Asia province now.
159 BC The conquest of Egypt begins! Take Bernice on the first turn with my three amphibious Scipio armies. Need I say? No casualties reported.
151 BC Take Cyrene from Egypt, almost no resistance
147 BC Propagandize Nicomedia
Egypt has sent several HUGE stacks against me at Cyrene! About 30 hoplites total and 10 pedites.
143 BC Massacred Egyptian army in the fields near Cyrene over several turns. I forced them into the open by positioning my (4) armies on the hills around the cities. It was a complete slaughter. I think the Egyptian army will be broken after this. The way to Alexandria is clear!
141 BC Finally finish off Macedon. I really wanted to raze one of their cities since they sneak attacked me, but decided against it. If the computer could have recognized an action like that and been intimidated I definitely would have.
) a wonder producing those units that can be built at the historical time that the civ should look stronger. Just an idea though, I don't think it is really necessary for the playing of RFRE.
