Changing the Odds.
Through each campaign you choose, there is always a few nations who without fail succeed, and a few without a doubt who fall and die hideously.
Now, I've spent the last two campaigns offering my services completely to the survival of two failing nations. I wanted to see what would happen if they became super powers.
First play through;
First, I used the Woads to establish a stronghold in Numidias Tingi, to which I fought a duel war with the Scipii for Carthages lands in Africa, while fighting an offensive on the Iberian peninsula. I conquered the Gaul and Spanish lands offering the capture lands to Carthage so that they could rebuild.
No matter how much I aided with money, or gave land they continuously lost it again to Gaul and the last Spanish army until I eradicated them. They never regained Africa, even through constant Carthaginian uprisings in Carthage or my armies defense of their cities.
The campaign became a failure when my economy could no longer keep up with the multiple Roman armies and stop Carthage falling to Barbarians.
Second play through;
I played a pirate-esque campaign with Pontus, abandoning my original cities and taking the trade islands of Kydonia, Rhodes and Salamis for my new empire.
My mission? To ensure the success of the Seleucid empire.
My first turns were tedious, using my time to build up my cities to port and trade level, gaining trade routes and finally obtaining an alliance with Greece after taking Rhodes from them.
By the time I was ready to go on the offensive the Seleucid had lost Antioch, I marched into their lands taking Sardis and offering it to the Seleucids, 5 years after that Antioch as well, though they refused the gift consistently, I ejected the city, hoping it would rebel to their control again, however it became rebel and would not pass into their hands again.
I retreated my forces to Salamis for retraining and to link with another army, my goal was now not to take Egyptian lands, but to curb their production facilities by exterminating their population and raising their cities to a militia technology level.
I launched a two pronged attack, one at Jerusalem. Which took too long, due to the copious amounts of Egyptian armies that where present in the area. The other attack was directed at poorly defended Alexandria.
In a succession of years, I raised Alexandria, Thebes, Memphis, and Jerusalem, eradicating multiple Egyptian armies with my own chariot archers and Pontic heavy jav cav.
None of this was enough. My Greek allies and Macedonian trading partners fell to the Brutii and I was forced to pull out of Egypt to restabilize my economy. There was two options, taking the Hellenistic peninsula or attacking the Armenian lands of old Pontus.
I opted for taking the Brutii on as I needed the trade from Armenia, and the Romans consistently attacked my via navel warfare, not allowing trade at all.
When I was distracted and fully committed in my war from Kydonia with the pre-marian Brutii and the odd Scipii force, the Seleucid fell to a combination of Armenian and Egyptian sieges. That was a bloody ridiculous waste of time.
Have you ever been able to keep a failing nation alive? Or have you ever witnessed an unlikely nation become a superpower?
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and the city only has one unit as a garrison!
Originally Posted by Copperknickers
