reading those posts it seems like I am the only one who hasnt played as Rome I just think they are really boring. I like the hellenic factions but also the Thracians
Rome
Carthage
Greek City States
Macedon
Seleucid Empire
Ptolemaic Empire
Baktria
Armenia
Pontus
Saba
Gauls
Germans
Iberians
Thrace
Parthia
Scythia
Massalia
Syracuse
Cyrenaica
Epirus
Pergamon
Bosporan Kingdom
Galatians
reading those posts it seems like I am the only one who hasnt played as Rome I just think they are really boring. I like the hellenic factions but also the Thracians
most people have played rome evenif its just to beat pyrrhusm their reason? because its rome
ive tried every faction apart from scythia and parthia, im currently playing as rome only i abandoned italy and chose antioch as a starting point
it is quite fun to fight both the ptolemies and TSE at the same time while being limited to pre-marian units
that save wont work anymore so i will have to start a new one
what faction do you think i should use and where should i migrate them to?
Last edited by Pinkie Pie; July 22, 2010 at 06:57 AM.
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i will really like to remove Arabia deserta region with maybe 2-3 or 4 cities also add 1 or 2 regions in north-west Africa so Saba and Cartago cant expand more easy . especially Saba is really skater around Arabia penisiula when they unified Arabia
Fix the problem, not the blame!
XGM Diplomacy AAR - intelligence and voting
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...24#post3680924 :hmmm:
I believe that FrozenSol means to say that Saba's cities and armies are quite scattered once it conquers the Arabian peninsula. Fair enough, I think.
I've given almost all of the campaigns a go at some point, if only for a dozen turns or so. The ones I've played the most would have to be Pontus, Macedon, Rome and Carthage, although I've given Armenia and Saba a couple of shots. I've never actually finished a campaign.
You know what's weird?
Since I started playing the Total War
game series, I don't think I've EVER
finished a campaign.
EVER.
Not in the vanilla games, not in mods, never.
But I've never stopped having fun either.
I suppose that's a good sign.
I have never played as rome.......in this mod, i dont like playing as them there always toooooo overpowered for me i prefare playing with less powered factions that usually don't survive with ai =D
Last edited by DimeBagHo; September 13, 2010 at 09:31 PM.
Macedonia is best
the barbarians make it chalingeng in the begining then its easy just pown the greeks
Macedons, Greek_Cities
Last edited by zoser; September 13, 2010 at 05:54 AM.
hmm ive played with GCS, Sycaruse, Macadon, rome, saba, baktria, parthia, gauls(galatians), egypt, carthage on xgm
Tho GCS is the only faction ive only ever bothered to conqure absolutly everything with. Had abit of a blast with a gcs general was fortunate egnogh to have him named Leonidas so I made him king and took araund half the settlements on the map with him (he lived to be 84 hehe.
My favourite has to be Baktria tho the baktian merc cav looks soooooo good + nice mix of units and easily avialabe indian eles, plenty of mines for the economy and powerfull empires to take on close by
Saba is not bad either but their starting position can make it abit of a boaring start and their general unit really really suck with a 1hit point system. I lost like 6 generals faily fast as I am used to make good use of the gen unit to save men....
havent played only with Gaul,parhia selucid schytia,spain and rome
ive tried all factions and all provincials
"I, Pinkie Pie, declare that these treats are fit for a king, or a queen, or a princess!"
"Me? Ruin? I'm not the ruiner, I'm the ruinee! Or is it ruinness? Ruinette?"
"She's ahead of the litter all right. The pick of the litter. The cat's pajamas. Oh wait. Why would Applejack take some poor kitty's pj's? That's not very sporting of her."
"More balloons! No, that's too many balloons. More candy! No, less candy. Ooh! I know! Streamers!"
"Oh my gosh. Hold on to your hooves – I am just about to be brilliant!"
I tend to find a faction I really like, then play them to death. It was Rome at first, then GCS (and the Cyrenian and Pergamum provincials), then Saba, and now it's Armenia. Of all campaigns I've played so far the Armenian one has proven the most exciting - a central starting location with potential enemies on all sides, an exciting unit roster with some awesome late-game units (Cataphract archers!) and the possibility to expand in nearly any direction make it a really memorable campaign.
I've restarted my Armenian campaign probably five or six times just to try different things, and not once has the political landscape stayed the same. In my latest effort the Seleucids and Scythians have maintained their alliances with me (even gifting money from time to time, crazy buggers), I've wiped out Pontus and am fighting the Indie Greeks for control of Asia Minor. Parthia is looking very dangerous, having taken a neighboring province from the Seleucids, but so far the stacks they send into my territories only use it as a causeway to get to Scythia and we remain at peace.
My only gripe about Armenia would be that the Armenian legionnaries were removed - I'd have loved to use them, but I guess the Kardakes swordsmen are pretty much the same. If not better!
I was in almost all groups of XGM version 3 onwards, up to 5.7 has not played for a while but I have the desire to play again.The most interesting was to campaign for MMOG - begins in the middle of civil society in the war - a real nail biting stuff. Caradog Mad - quite mad conqueror 10-star General of the Iberia, Gaul and Germany - has died at the age of 80 years chief of forces - at a price at each end of a long struggle at first because I thought it was absolutely garbage as a member of the family, because all its negative aspects since he died, he was a god.
http://img13.imageshack.us/i/romeg.jpg/
http://img835.imageshack.us/i/rome1x.jpg/
how is it possible to go into debt with the money and I have over 100 cities?
Holy crap, that's a lot of corruption and a hell of a big army upkeep. You need to manage the taxes on your own, build more law buildings and make sure your capital is set to a settlement that's the most centered in your territories for equal distances to other cities. see http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...64#post8825664 for avoiding corruption traits on your governors.
I'm not sure how the building "Martial law" works(try to get DimeBagHo to explain how they work if you want to know that), but my guess is that you have that building instead of temples, am I correct? If yes; You should pretty much demolish every single one of them, and builid temples, the martial law building is a temporary building that is supposed to help you hold on to newly conquered settlements with very low public order. When the public order is starting to become managable, then you should immediatly demolish the martial law, because it seriously caps your income. As you can see yourself your trade income is laughable, this is probably the result of using martial law.
So my tip to you is; Demolish all martial law buildings and replace them with temples, thereafter(unless you already have done it) builid following buildings in as many settlements as you can; sea-ports, trade-caravans(eastern provinces mostly, I think), law temples(usually Jupiter for the romans), roads, markets and farms.
Because that trade income is something you can have in Athens, Kydonia and Pergamum alone.
I found the link from where DimeBagHo explains martial law a bit; http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=420802
Last edited by a-woowie.doowie; January 29, 2011 at 07:46 PM.
Just wondering, is there any other opening move for the Cyrene campaign besides to take Crete? It takes too long to go through the desert when you have sharp negative income, and is my only gripe with this otherwise awesome campaign. Also, is there a way to change our vote after we finish more campaigns?
Not that i know of.
You dont have enough forces in the start to stop the TPE advance. You dont have enough forces defeat the rebel armies of southern Greece.
All you can do is pick up nearby islands.
What i did in my current Cyrenne campaign was conquer Crete and give Cyrenne to TPE, then take rhodes and all the indie greek cities in anatolia.
You could try and take Syracuse or Salamis for a bit of diversity.