Hmmm, havent been here for a while for various reasons but anyway, howdy =)
Played RTW with the lastest xgm update, for the 1st time in months and getting the feel of it again.
m/m ai bonuses off (originally played as Armenia)
Playing as the Romans
The year is 266BC but i am playing with 8 turns per yr to simulate reality somewhat and because I wanted to have some continuity with the characters. It also helps if i wanted to write a story.
As you can see, I went the hard way and pursued a multifront war, not by choice mind you, I was invaded by carthage and the Roman rebels in the 2nd turn followed by gaul in the 8th turn. Then the pesky germans decided they wanted some Roman real estate. And thus began 14yrs of total war for Rome.
Once i seized Sicily, sardinia and corsica, I went for the jugular and seized carthago with my usual foolhardiness with 4 cohorts and a general who promptly bought himself an army in africa. Thank goodness their main army was busy at the time dealing with the Iberians and the eastern kingdom provinces. I decided to open up that southern front because I cannot allow the potential risk of an army landing on my shores (there were two landings already on the shores of capua and they werent small affairs, even brought elephants in the first stack) in the future ever again so i decided to take the fight to them.
As for the Gallic and German question it was a relatively hard decision to pursue a profitless war, but I felt that if they were dealt with early on, it will make romanizing them easier as well as the northern threat being eliminated once and for all. Once the Gallic front is crushed and colonised with good roman farmers, the two legions will be transffered south to Iberia as Iberian troops are massing at the borders and i only have half a Legion stationed at Emporiom. The other two legions on the german front will mark time until the threat of carthage is neutralised forever so tht the hybrid legion stationed there can be brought back home to Italy to allow to be rebuilt as a full Roman legion. Almost all the current legions are operating at under strength or with few of their support units so alot of my battles tend to be defensive affairs. Only one legion which is in germany has anything like its full complement minus calvary but the war elephants more than make up the deficiency =p
I would like to play more but my game crashes everytime i end turn and no error msg pops up. Must be stupid vista.....