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    Re: Macedonian Campaign Progression (Early game)

    Just another Macedon thread...

    You have strong units already at start and it isn't that hard to defeat every army in battle - some navy units help to defeat roman invasions. The only difficulty I...
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    Re: Game forcing me to make a siege assualt

    Are you sure that you can't just click on "continue siege"? I also see this notification popping up at the end of a turn when besieging a town, but normaly I can just continue the siege.
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    Re: Barracks or Auxiliaries?

    No reason for not building barracks where you want. I personally only recruit legions in Rome and build Auxilaries in other regions, but thats just a personal thing.
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    Re: Looking for a guide for pergamon,,,

    like always my first question: What difficulty?
  5. Sticky: Re: [Resource] Have an interesting save at a fun time period? Post it here!

    Sorry for that, this filehoster is a piece of sh!t and is somehow turning an .save file into an exe. Delete it if downloaded! I'll upload it again on an serious file hoster.
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    Re: Problem with macedonian campaign

    Most important to know: Which difficulty?
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    Re: About playing Rome historically !

    Liberate nations is your friend to pacifiy some borders - and historical very accurate.

    I also enjoyed my historical correct campaign with Rome. You can't make peace with Carthage once the war...
  8. Sticky: Re: [Resource] Have an interesting save at a fun time period? Post it here!

    To bring this topic back alive: Playing as Macedone at turn 167, most borders are secured. Playing on Hard/Hard, no submods.
    It took me many tries, but now I did it: Playing as Macedone and Marian...
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    No Marian Reform for ROME AI at turn 160

    Long story short: I'm as Macedon at turn ~160 and still no Marian Reform triggered for the Romans. They still use Principes (early) and Triarii (late) - shouldn't they already use Legionaris? Other...
  10. Thread: Client states

    by motaboy
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    Re: Client states

    Refusing a call to arms ends the client state status and, like ending it via diplomacy, gives you a diplomatic reputation malus if you declare war on them within 20? turns.

    I prefer to liberate...
  11. Re: What are your opening moves when playing as Rome?

    - spend money on military
    - defeat your enemies in italy
    - Don't attack northern italy
    - build up an economy
  12. Thread: Pikes are weak

    by motaboy
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    Re: Pikes are weak

    I usually don't use the attack mode / right clicking with phalanx units at all. I just send all my phalanx as 1 line in front of the enemy with holded right mouse button. Of course they don't do much...
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    Re: Some questions about roman auxiliares

    Welcome to the best Rome II mod :)

    1. Here's the list where to recruit which units (Area of Recruitment)...
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    Re: Non-Aggression Pact Offers

    Why not just accept them? You will face enough enemies soon ;) At least I did with Rome... And you can end these pacts after ~20 turns and ~10 more turns declare war on them without diplomatic...
  15. Re: What exactly does increasing difficulty/battle difficulty do in DeI?

    If you never had a civil war, why do you need a "no civil war" mod? I also had no civil war (though Im always trying to start one) in DeI or Rome II since a major update some years ago...
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    Re: Diplomacy Bug or my incompetency?

    To check your difficulty level press escape. Somewhere in the options you can see and adjust the battle difficulty. If you didnt adjust the battle difficulty before it will be the same as the...
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    Re: Diplomacy Bug or my incompetency?

    Like popovic said, its the diffulty. Recommend difficulty is normal, on hard it was quite a struggle for me with rome. But neither on normal or hard declared the spain factions (or any other faction)...
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    Sticky: Re: [Feedback] Impressions, Critiques and Requests for 1.2

    First of all: Use punctuation marks and paragraphs when writing a longer text. Hitting spacebar after a punctuation mark also helps ;)

    So you say macedon and Epirus campaign is too difficult while...
  19. Thread: Taxila start

    by motaboy
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    Re: Taxila start

    Join a war - You can join a fraction that is at war with seleucidia and its satraps and declare war to only 1 satrap ;)
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    Re: Question on Supply Lines

    You can recruit them in regions where you have built a supply center - like you need to build barracks for units ;)

    But yes, afaik they will first consume the regional supplies before getting some...
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    Re: Help with Crossbow Unit?

    What you complain about is mostly how crossbows work :) They just cant shoot over your own units. Try to shoot the enemy flanking units (mostly cavalry) and flank with the crossbows yourself. Once...
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    Re: Black Screen Help

    Sounds to me like the old "driver was restored after an error". Do you have some identical issue in other games too?

    If so, download a GPU-OVERclocking tool like "MSI Afterburner" and DOWNclock...
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    Re: Makedon tips please?

    Yes, liberating Apollonia was the key for peace with rome. The liberated faction ended military alliance with me and soon got conquered. So now I was finally able to conquer Apollonia and it didn't...
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    Re: Makedon tips please?

    So now in my 4th try with Macedon I declared war on Epirus in the 1st round. Sent my agent to poison their wells every round. Of couse the Romans like me now, but still declare war :disgust: First...
  25. Re: Off topic - don't you just hate how armor never does anything in TV/movies?

    Thanks for mention the movie Waterloo, I just saw it and it was great. Aviable on youtube in many languages btw.

    I'd like to add the beginnings of "Gladiator" and "The Legion" as good historical...
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    Re: Barbarian tactics and strategy

    Afaik they usually used a spear formation: All the fighters build 2 or more "spears" of men that ran direct into the enemy formation. The best and mostly motivated fighters where the first arriving...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    Yeah, I read the note. But it only said "Gastraphetes got a little nerf", had no time to figure out what it really meant. But thanks very much to all of you to work so great with the community...
  28. Thread: Dacian Guide?

    by motaboy
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    Re: Dacian Guide?

    Thrace have some good resources and you have powerful friends in your home region. So I just left my home city unprotetcted (no big income at all) and conquered Thrace, starting with the western...
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    Re: Divide et Impera 1.2.2 Released!

    Still so many having trouble with Rome agression... Playing as Dacia I stayed out of trouble with Rome by just declaring war against everyone Rome is declaring war on. Now they are at war with...
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    Re: Divide et Impera 1.2.2 Released!

    All hail the developers of DEI! I will sacrifice 3 white bulls and 6 virgins (female btw) to your health!
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    Re: Tips and strategy for Macedon in 1.2?

    The start is quite easy, either conquer thracia or go south. I think going south is more lucrative. I think the most important part is avoiding war with rome :) I asked this question in the "DEI...
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    Re: Makedon tips please?

    Anyone managed to avoid a war with rome early in game? They always declare war on me after they defeated Epirus. I also declared war on Epirus so the Romans like me more - but they declare war on me...
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    Re: Politics Mechanics and Strategy

    I tried to spawn a civil war at mid campaign (on hard) too, but I failed... This political system is awful, was better in Rome 2 before the Augustus campaign patch. Before the patch there would be...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    Good posts here, nice discussing. Because of the aviabilety of many STRONG ranged units, I think we should discuss about the strength of these units (and not about which are the best or how many...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    Played on hard/hard...
    Italy can be held with 1 general, just recruiting troups when an enemy is attacking. Greece can be held without army after liberating all of the Balkan enemies. So just 2...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    I don't see why people are having more than 2 armies? Yes, I have many small armies to fight off rebellions, but most of the conquering I did with my Legion I and my Legion II. By the time you...
  37. Thread: Public order?

    by motaboy
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    Re: Public order?

    lower the taxes :)
    Edict "selling slaves" was very important for me - slaves give money, but also increase unrest. But like Cidalseepwalker said, check what causes the negatives.
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    Sticky: Re: [Feedback] Impressions, Critiques and Requests for 1.2

    Enjoy your campaign with DEI - it will be completely different :) None of my generals died before the age of 60 of natural causes, none of my agents before rank 10.

    But you still have to watch for...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    Was enough for me :D I'm pretty sure its 8, I just had 2 "main armies" with 4 crossbow units each after realizing how strong they are. I only used them after half of the campaign, but I think the...
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    Re: Crossbows too strong?

    Hail to you, chief of battle systems team :)
    Indeed, I just read the honga site about these units (thats why I edited the post), I didnt know crossbows where invented that early. Thats what I love...
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