Strategy in Fall of Rome

[microbe]

Started as Visigoth, and kinda confused what to do. I'm close to Eastern Rome and Ostrogoths. Should I keep developing and be friendly to all other CIVs, and unite them against Rome one day, or conquer Ostrogoths so I could be strong myself and then fight Rome?

 

[Bambul]

I'm currently going through Fall of Rome playing the Huns. I'm not too far through, still building up my infrastructure. I'm starting to build barracks en masse and will soon mobilise for war.

Guess that doesn't help much though.

 

[Kute]

I played it as the Francs, I first settle as much land as i can, then i went all nice on the Roman to destroy the german, I don't like the way Romans are to the south and german to the north, I felt a trap there. Once I eradicate the german's 8th city I made peace with everyone, building an army big enough to deal with the roman legions, then I attacked.... The counter attack was a big, 1 and lonely heavy cavalry rushing on a poor worker i sacrificed. For some reason i forgot the warning given at the start of the scenario and was too shy to attack: Rome is cripple with corruption, they must have at most 2-3 shields a turn in their far-off cities. The hardest part was to secure the victory location from the other barbars. I hate to see friendly stack of death roaming my land. Be ready to be a traitor and rape your RoP, aim at 8 cities in at most 2 turns, then you won't have to worry about a counter attack. Don't accept MP, the other AIs will hate you if you destroy a civ before the 20 turns...And seeing there is nearly no culture in this scenario, most of the time you won't even have to rape your RoP, just use cavalry.
Worked for me on regent.

 

[aaminion00]

I hate the fall of rome scenario

I played as the franks, built up an infrastructure, somewhat beat up on the anglo-saxons, and then attacked rome. I just conquered 2 cities, and one victory location, but now the Roman counter attack is starting and half my cities have plague. I think I'll just restart as the vandals or something. What's really pissing me off is that the best conquest of them all seems to be medieval europe, and I have to first beat this horrible one before I move on.

 

[StabbingNirvana]

which are the playable civs in this scenario? i havent gotten the game yet, so im just wondering

 

[Beam]

The VP locations are important because they give Victory Points without war. Most of those are in either Roman or Byzantine territory, Visigoths are in a nice location btw to both declining empires.

What you need is a solid Warlord SoD, while building that kill a Barbarian tribe or 2, just to make sure to expand and to cover your *ss. Stay friendly with the AI because they build SoD's as well and are quite single-minded:slay:

Early game trading is extremely usefull.

 

[zurichuk]

I have a question about this scenario, I tried it first on a really easy level just to see what was going on, now I'm trying it at a harder level,

do you lose if either of the Roman factions reach 35,000 or does that condition only apply to the barbarians

 

[Smidlee]

Originally posted by zurichuk
I have a question about this scenario, I tried it first on a really easy level just to see what was going on, now I'm trying it at a harder level,

do you lose if either of the Roman factions reach 35,000 or does that condition only apply to the barbarians

i haven't got to that point yet but read that roman factions will win in vp around 100 turns so the answer is yes . you got to stop them both by 100 turns ( of course if you take some vp away from the romans will give you more time)

 

[zurichuk]

thanks Smidlee, i thought so but wasn't sure , anyway I'm in turn 45, already at war with the romans, 11 turns away from the Scourge of God wonder (fingers crossed) and 4 turns away from Sacking, so the SODs and warlord armies are coming soon