SPQR guide : How to survive the first fifteen turns.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

- updated and finisht -

[Navajo Joe]

Hesus,

Thanks very much, this will be most useful in my next campaign of SPQR, and the use of screen prints is a wonderful idea, so I know how to position

[cnaeus]

nice to see the anti-gaul-tactic also in this guide. but i do want to tell you that you could try the following as i think it better when you're facing gauls: put all your units the same but put your hastati in a foor men deep block so that the gaps between your hastati units wont be to big. i normaly even make my hastati and principe line only 3 men deep and close the gaps all the way. but i think i will try your tactics to as they are more realistic

cnaeus,

[Hesus de bodemloze]

i will give it a try cnaeus, thx for the tip. +rep

[cnaeus]

no problem. i'll rep you too for all the help i recieved from you.(to give rep you just need to press the green button under someones avatar right??)

cnaeus,

[Hesus de bodemloze]

yes that' s right here is the link with explanation.

http://www.twcenter.net/wiki/TWC:FAQ#Reputation

[cnaeus]

i tried your formation against the gauls and i love it its the same when it comes to kill/death ratio but it look much nicer and its more realistic so i think im going to stick with it troughout my campaign. tnx allot!!

cnaeus,

[Hesus de bodemloze]

every thing depends on how fast you react, i mean keep your units moving. furst use your cav to deal with missile units afther you destroy them use them to attck wavering units. so act fast and you will have a lesser death rate. i normaly have some thing around the 10 or 15 %

[cnaeus]

yes but i just compared both our formations and when it comes to the number of casualties their both equally good. thats all i meant with it.

cnaeus,

[Samariten]

"Good luck with your game, don' t forget to save the game at important points like when you will start fighting an other armie becous you probebly will need to try over a few times when you attempt to fight hannibal.
Don' t forget to laod your script if you play with it."



Is it not against the houserules to reload saves just because you loose a battle?

[Hesus de bodemloze]

if you play by houserules it is, but this guide is for the new players of spqr and thy always underrate Hannibals power. And most players need to retry a few times becous thy will first play this game whitout the houserules. so it is more like a tip to save and laod it just to save some time.

[Samariten]

True i agree on that thank you...

[cnaeus]

where you tralking to me? because i dont have trouble with hannibal because i have some experience on this game

cnaeus,

[Hesus de bodemloze]

where you tralking to me? because i dont have trouble with hannibal because i have some experience on this game

cnaeus,

if you read the posts above you will notice he was talking about a part that i wrote in the guide.
and i didn' t make the guide for you cnaeus. But for all new members of SPQR.

but it happens that people who play SPQR for the first time underrate Hannibal' s power.

[S u l l a]

if you read the posts above you will notice he was talking about a part that i wrote in the guide.
and i didn' t make the guide for you cnaeus. But for all new members of SPQR.

but it happens that people who play SPQR for the first time underrate Hannibal' s power.

heh ... I still remember that first experience of Hannibal ... it was chaotic battle. Great surprise

[Hesus de bodemloze]

heh ... I still remember that first experience of Hannibal ... it was chaotic battle. Great surprise

Yes the same happened to me, i had to re- do the whole campaign for like 3 times in a row becous Hannibal defeated the 2 legions and i still had Theophanes to defeat and no legions left. It was very hard the first few times.

[Holday Boy]

looks like a great mod... lol it will probably cause my slowass computer to self destruct =p

[Samariten]

Im not entirely sure but i have some old memory that when hannibal was first introduced (6.4 perhaps) starting in italy he was alot more agressive then now. Which made it more diffcult since you had to act alot more quicker.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Hannibal is still agressive, start a new campaign and don' t move your legions you will notice he will attack Reghion or Paestum and assault it.

[Samariten]

Oh interesting thank you i guess i was to quick for Hannibal then since he lies in his grave as we speak...