playing as a non Roman faction

[HereComesThePain]

If I wanted to play as the Macedonians, how would I give myself the ability to recruit diplomats and keep the Romans from being immediately slaughtered by the Gauls and Carthaginians? Or ally them with everyone else and put everyone at war with Macedonia?

[czePowerslave]

To what I know, you should play just Romans as mod is balanced towards them. Other barbarian or better said other factions in general are just...well unbalanced towards playing I think

[HereComesThePain]

My Roman file is going good.. 88 provinces and 20 legions on VH/VH. It's just stressful and I wanted to do something simple for a while. Its taking like an hour+ per turn

[czePowerslave]

Got a screenshot ? id love to see that!

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Playing on VH/VH? What is this with poeple wanting to play on those settings? For some reason i don' t realy believe all of this.

[HereComesThePain]

My favorite general and his army
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they're all pretty much like this
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looks like i broke a few house rules though.. especially the mercenaries, but its not like i'm using elephants and spartans

[lt1956]

Quit playing on VH and play on Medium and by house rules and the game will be more fun. You shouldnt use cheats either, and dont ask me how I know you did. ;-)

[czePowerslave]

Id like to know how you know

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Because he needs to gain a lot of money on such a short time period. If you compare the two screenshots you will see he played for 24 years and already has imperial legions. He probebly has a lot of them to defeat all those enemy armies, upgrading his city' s with all those buildings isn' t cheap as well. He defenetly used the money cheat.

[czePowerslave]

Buut, I wonder, in normal game that is just 48 turns right?

[Hesus de bodemloze]

No normal it will be 24 with script it will be 96 turns.

But still 96 years isn' t enough to get a lot of money to upgrade every thing and have a lot of leagions becous playing on VH will increase your enemies as well. On medium settings you get on gaul armie in VH you will get 3 or so.

[czePowerslave]

I thought that in normal game you had 2 turns per year, ie for 24 years 48 turns etc

[hiho TW]

guys does playing on vh campagn difficulty increase how hard it is to keep cicys happy and un rebeling? and how hard it is to make money? ide reely like to know, thanks.

[Hesus de bodemloze]

Playing on VH makes it more difficult then it already is, so yes it will be harder to get money and you will get attackt more ofthen and all the rest. Play on M/M and use house rules and you will love this game.

[Valerius Tiberius]

I'm not so sure of the realness of that campaign :hm:
He conquered the hardest factions, has super good legions (imperials already?) and is just in 175 BC.....

I don't care how you play, but I like a challenge and to play SPQR TW as it should

But as long as you're having fun man

[HereComesThePain]

its the mining
it actually does look like cheating though.. but i'm making about 100k a turn off these mining cities. Arretium brings in 20k on its own, plus all of spain and the barbarian towns. its hard to dump it all, thats why i cant help myself with the mercenaries. i captured carthage first to rush the marian reforms, took spain and worked my way across the barbarians to the north, finished there and took rome/greece/thrace. Try and you'll have the same results

[czePowerslave]

But to trigger the imperials this fast + need to build the palace which itself takes alot of time + only moving in so much territories as shown is plain impossible. Even with the 96 turns, which I doubt happened as garrison script wouldnt really let you rush like that, its not possible

[HereComesThePain]

apparently i'm a hacker as well as a cheater. thats fine, ill take it as a compliment. regardless of the rudeness, hostility and accusations, it's a hell of a mod and i've enjoyed every bit of it
would of been nice if we didn't get so off topic though

[czePowerslave]

Its not accusation. Its simply we do not believe you. If LT, guy who created this very mod says you did so, I am going to believe him no matter what you say or present. If you want to play as non-roman faction, you would need to redo alot in the game, better ask someplace else etc

[BiggBudd]

Back to topic, goto export_decr_buildings, paste in line governor buildings under the roman one's
agent diplomat 0 requires factions { macedon, }.
goto the strat file and search for hannibal and Theophanes, and move them them to either spain or africa useing the co-ords.
character Hannibal, named character, command 5, influence 4, management 4, subterfuge 1, age 16, , x 195, y 140
x and y are where on the map they start.
Give the romans a big cash start say 500,000
And forget about useing the diplomacy settings in strat file, they only last a few rds and the ai will attack most allies soon enough. put all faction to neutral ie 100.
if this post dont make sence u aint good enough to edit these files
Ps have played many campaigns as other factions, great fun, not as in depth as the roman campaign, well worth modding. Had one campaign in 6.4 as the germans where i got the romans to take over most of the med, made me retreat to russia! But to mod the game to get the roman to take over requires hours of changes as the ai cant hanndle named units or destroy captured temples, therefore cant expand due to the neg temple bonuses, they never get past the mid france even if you give them millions to many revolts.