I did it!

[Dodge]

First game ever with WRE is over, that was bloody hard. Best game I've had on a TW game without a doubt. Exausting and rewarding.

[LeonidasOfSparta]

i did it on vh/vh

wat was this diff

[Joul Ironhand]

Tempted to try as the WRE in BI, but its a little overwhelming with the situation at the start. I'd rather start with one city and build from there, rather than having a management headache at the very beginning.

No matter the difficulty, I say big gratz to you I've still to complete any game of RTW, vanilla and BI.

Mind you, i didn't really take BI that seriously after my game when my horde of about 5 full stacks of goths ran across all of italy, sieged and took rome at the beginning of the game.

[King of Kings]

I prefer ERE not because there easier just because they got good cav and i just really like using cav and with the inf to alwell, though it makes it a lot easier.

Anyway well done for finishing it

[Ephialtes The Dog]

KoK, where did you get the This is Sparta smiley?

[King of Kings]

KoK, where did you get the This is Sparta smiley?

its on the forums simley list if you type in :SPARTA: but in lower case

[Kratos]

Well done, I have yet to achieve that.

[Vault Dweller]

Well done! Post another screen when you get the whole map.

[Pansen]

Congratulations! Did it for the first time several weeks ago on M/M. At the moment I play the sarmatians on VH/M and it's quite a lot of fun to buy some provinces from WRE-empire and to be under it's protectorate. They are usefull allies indeed.

Greets Pansen

[Domitius]

Nice campaign, even if I'm not an expert on BI it's pretty hard to conquer and hold such a big empire together.

[Roman14]

if gotton so close to that and then came the Goth, Huns and franks taking away my Victory

[Pansen]

if gotton so close to that and then came the Goth, Huns and franks taking away my Victory

Yes those hordes are a big danger because it is so difficult to wipe them out completely. My tactic with the franks: First I smash into ground their army and after that I besiege vicus franki with a small army. After a few turns I stop the besiege for a moment so that the can't die because of starvation. Consequently they just have to wait because they aren't able to produce anything...

Greets Pansen

[EMV]

Congratulations! Now conquer the whole map .

[LeonidasOfSparta]

:sparta: lol

[Rex Armeniae]

Nice victory

I never finished my WRE campaign, but I remember playing it on H/H and I got pwned. lol

[Roman14]

has anyone toke the entire map as WRE yet in this BI

[zedestroyer]

In my last campaign I retreated to Italy, in three turns I had no province outside Italy (except Sicily and Corsica) and I won in h/h difficulty.

[Roman14]

I tried that to but i was so far in debt it did not work. I always wanted to start out with a huge empire and now that i did i figured out its a huge headack but after going thru WRE you come out with alot of skill

[zedestroyer]

I tried that to but i was so far in debt it did not work. I always wanted to start out with a huge empire and now that i did i figured out its a huge headack but after going thru WRE you come out with alot of skill

Yes, I know what happened to you. You have to sacrifice the majority of your family members or they will drain your resources. I made the Empire Pagan so I managed to kill all Christian family members and the money problems disappeared. Don't forget to disband units, destroy all buildings and raise taxes to very high in the cities you plan to abandon. I managed to raise my treasury up to 50K. Reduce your army to peasant garrisons in Italy, Sicily and Corsica and to one field army in the north of Italy. Train some spies to watch out for the hordes and keep a diplomat in you former eastern province, I managed to ally with the Huns, the Vandals and the Goths and saw the Eastern Empire being destructed by those hordes plus the Sassanids in the East (they had betrayed me in the previous game) .