Conquering the known world

[El_Diablo]

I am playing the long campaign and have accomplished the victory condition of Imperator (taken Rome and control 50 territories). If I continue playing and eventually take over the entire campaign map (all 102 territories I believe) and wipe out all other factions, does anything happen? Does the game end? Do you keep playing with just yourself and some random rebels popping up?

If nothing happens and I'm expected to just sit around and twiddle my thumbs while my remaining incomplete cities just build away, does the game ever end after a certain amount of time? I know that in history, Rome didn't completely fall to Germania until about AD 400. So if I conquer the entire map, how long will the game let me sit around and do nothing?

[Phaedo]

Until you hit 1 A.D., I believe.

[El_Diablo]

That seems like a little too early to be stopping the game, are you sure? What year does Barbarian Invasion begin in?

[TheNavigator]

i think the end date is 46 AD or something. not 1 AD though. (never been there myself)

[Farnan]

After you conquer the world there is nothing else to do.

[John I Tzimisces]

I guess in Barbarian Invasion you could potentially screw up you kingdom on purpose, provided you're Roman, and start a war with the Roman Rebels...

[Marcus Scaurus]

End date is 14 AD.

[Flogger]

I think the end date for becoming Imperator is about 14 A.D, but once you've done that I think you just keep on playing forever. So you could end up in the year 2005!
But the only enemies you get after you've wiped out everyone else is a few rebels popping up somewhere.

[Zuwxiv]

I wonder if it would be possible to mod in a trigger: When you have the entire world, 50 % of the provinces (taken at random) rebel. Each gets a full stack of elite soldiers. If you beat them all, the credits roll. That would be hard to do, it would be like a boss.

I have never gotten to the "end"... I'm currently playing my first campaign where I was outlawed by the senate, and only for assassinating someone. Somehow it gets boring, once you control a third of the map, a loss of two full stacks is no big deal. But to your enemy, that is huge. After a certain point, it is just cleaning up.

[gardibolt]

Actually the game works something like that already. After I conquered the globe as the Julii there were still some rebels floating around in the Caspian Sea, so I kept going a few more turns to wipe them out.

To my surprise, many of my cities began to revolt and probably half a dozen turned rebel. Since I had changed to peasant garrisons, I had no way to take them back quickly and my 40,000d treasury quickly shifted to -50,000d. Shifting men around made MORE cities go rebel. It took some doing to take everything back again, at which point I finally stopped. Trying to KEEP the entire world is much harder than just trying to conquer it.

[Marcus Scaurus]

I've played about ten campaigns, but none of them later than 200 BC. I always like to play with the small factions like the Parthians and Pontians against the big guys like the Seleucids or Ptolemies. After conquered about thirty provinces the game becomes boring and unchallenging.

[Flogger]

when provinces rebel later on in the game, because my cities are quite large now and they have an arena or better, theyre always 'The Gladiator Uprising' and its really annoying because those units are pretty good!

[Scarecrow]

no its 330 ad guys, thats when barnarian invasion stars. The world is alot mor fun when u have more than 30 provices because u are more pron to attack witch would give u a better startegic knowlage of defence and attck.

[Scarecrow]

ive been having truble with my disc, it will not load any of my saves. do u know what pronlem could be

[Slimshoom]

did u patch to version 1.3 recently, if so, none of ur games that u saved on the earlier version will load.

[Scarecrow]

no i havent how do u patch version 1.3

[Scarecrow]

@fernan
how long have u been playing rtw and my computer will not allow me to use multiplayer it say wrong cd key or something. do u know what that means