Too hard? Hmm... they just patched the game to make it harder. In the vanilla release, I was swimming in cash playing on VH.
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Too hard? Hmm... they just patched the game to make it harder. In the vanilla release, I was swimming in cash playing on VH.
There is a big difference between the fiscal handicap and good econ traits. Sure, once you're in mid-to-late game those do not matter anymore as you're likely swimming in cash.
Not sure this is the right forum for my question, but here it is. Does anyone know of any serious competition to CA in their old genre (as opposed to the "new", Warhammer-like games) of history based...
That battle difficulty slider is broken. VH campaign/Normal battles results in the AI still getting the VH battle morale bonuses (+10 to moralet). At least, that bonus is visible (can read it off...
I tend to join Dwarves (can trade with them) in their wars against Orcs (cannot trade with) on the first turn. Over time, especially if I carry out some hostile actions against Orcs, this adds some...
It is not your mod causing this. I've seen the same. Routers gain control over the gates in vanilla game too. They also sometimes are able to capture towers while routing... Even when not routing,...
Just use ambush stance to lure the raider army closer. You probably won't ambush them, but they are likely to stop somewhere where you can catch them.
I autoresolve through the Northern tribes since manual Chaos battles against Norscans are just a nuisance (I mean, those battles can be won, but are a really tedious affair of trying to sandwich the...
I start the second horde on turn 1; disband all your expensive units and just stick it out with marauders for a while (until you have accumulated a cash pile and can run a significant cash deficit)....
I played my first campaign as VC's and joined Dwarf wars early on to gain diplomatic favor with them. I helped them out a bit by wiping out any orc armies I noticed near; other than that: just kept...
Like wealthmonger says, build up the court line of buildings everywhere. In the central provinces where the effect of courts overlaps you'll get close to zero corruption even when you conquer the...
Slav strategy depends on which faction you pick. I played as Venedians and they get a huge bonus to agriculture (+100% income, no sanitation or po hit from any agriculture buildings) while suffering...
I think, your problem is that your territory is non-contiguous: bits here and there. In my campaign I try to get contiguous territory with lots of Osmosis influence for provinces that share borders....
- If you have cavalry (especially javelin cavalry) that can guerilla deploy you often set them up so they end up behind the enemy at the battle start and can hunt for the enemy general who tends to...
So far, the CA has been very opaque about the AI battle bonuses on harder difficulties in Attila (and Rome 2). There are various versions of community "guesses" of exact bonus values traveling around...
For me, on the upside:
- you've got a nice sand-box area in Iberia that you can consolidate and transform into an economic powerhouse (with anti-corruption buildings, mints and mosques' effects...
Yes, meant to include a ref to you, but, in the final version lost it; old brain, you know... Edited it now.
As to that point about islands: I'll have to check later. In the grand campaign, my...
It is possible. Asturias are highly likely to go for a NAP and trade on turn 1. From there, joining some war of theirs or dragging them into a war of your own can go a long way to secure an alliance....
I once built my Cordoba to a large size very fast (got around 70% corruption), and the anti-corruption courts helped a lot to reduce the said corruption rate to around 50% (in provinces with...
I have yet to see any effect of war weariness. Won one campaign as Cordoba (very hard difficulty) and another one as Asturias/Spain (legendary): never once war weariness affected me.
One thing of note is that in Charlemagne you want as much contiguous territory as possible (no far-flung colonies). Corruption goes up very fast (and, it seems, it is not capped as in Attila with the...
Playing as Cordoba I have around 2500 food (still with the original ruler).
There are not that many buildings in Charlemagne that use food. City upgrades mostly (and military buildings). Since I...
Did I read it wrong (in the patch notes) that corruption has been capped at 60% with Charlemagne release? In my Cordoba campaign, I see it at 65% and creeping higher.
I gave it a spin last night. On VH difficulty: a pretty easy faction to play with. Just pick your enemies with care; unite the peninsula and the world is your oyster. Try to play off the synergies...
Good job on traits! + rep.
By any chance, have you extracted all the original Attila trait triggers? Or have a link to somewhere where they're posted?
Just checked my Himyar save. Found a province where my religion was stable (not going either way) which happened to be Insulae Orientalis. My state religion: Judaism had influence of 29, while Greek...
I've played as Aksum for a while and held that dam. As Aksum you do not get the missions to repair the dam. Those get reserved exclusively for Himyar :D
80% and above are hard to maintain. I believe the "equilibrium" influence is the fraction of the total influence each religion takes. So, using what you mention (assuming no other religions present):...
For me, the easiest by far was Aksum. The hardest: probably Lakhmids.
Tanukhids are stated as "very hard" in the game, but they're not. Once you realize how to play the army stances (in...
Camel farms all the way :D
I have seen diseases spread from foreign countries that you have trade relations with. So, watch your trade routes: are they connected to foreign regions with disease?
Another reason is the...
Folks who play as Lakhmids (on legendary difficulty) report Sassanids declaring war on them within a few turns. I had the same happen to me when I was playing as Aksum.
Yes, done it twice with Carthage on legendary. Syracuse you should take out on turn 2 (impossible to reach on turn 1). Leverage your elephant generals in the starting battles (until you get sword...
When I did my Hun playthrough I had almost 100% HA's armies in all my hordes but one, the latter serving as a walled-city smasher specialist horde (with a good core of infantry + a few ballistae)....
Hmm, I've had situations where my troops were standing in burning forest taking almost no casualties and the ones they were taking could easily be attributed to the enemy's missiles. I wonder what...
This is nothing new. Trying to wreck the AI's economy has been an exercise in futility going back all the way to S1, especially on harder difficulties.
What the OP did not mention is that on top...
The problem with the archer ship method is that, at least in the early campaign, a couple salvos from land-archer unit will burn your archer ships in no time. Sassanids tend to have loads of archers...
I hear you about the interest income probably turning the campaign boring. I suppose it is in the game to give players a faction that can conquer the world old TW style without worrying about...
Like said above: use ambush stance. I typically hide most of my armies in ambush stance all the time. This throws off AI coordination and they tend to send unsupported stacks to their doom.
As to...
Raise your tech further. Imperium, in Attila, is tied to imperium.