I have a Question if one can play Rome indefinitely

**The-Scythian** · February 16, 2009, 03:50 PM

Hello everyone, I am new on this forum, and I would like to starts off my posting here by asking a question I have had on my mind for a while.

I've played vanilla Rome and BI for a while now, as Julii and the Eastern Empire respectively, and I have won the game(completed the requirements for victory), but have chosen to continue playing. My question is, can the game, provided that I do not conquer every possible territory, continue indefinitely in either game?

P.S. Now that I think about it, I have one more question. In Alexander, what is the point of the India faction?

One does not seem to be able to play it, nor does one encounter it at any point in the campaign. One can't even play the historic battle against Porus, so why even include it in the custom battle?

I didn't get that part.

**Sunday213** · February 16, 2009, 04:08 PM

Its just kind of a throw away faction like the Celts in B.I

**luke_liddle** · February 16, 2009, 04:34 PM

Its for custom/historical battles

**The-Scythian** · February 16, 2009, 04:51 PM

Oh, okay.

But, can anyone please answer my first question?

**Scutarii** · February 16, 2009, 05:17 PM

If you haven't edited descr_strat, the game will end in 14 AD. If you go into descr_strat and modify the end value, you can set it to end whenever you want (ie: essentially indefinitely).

**The-Scythian** · February 16, 2009, 09:34 PM

Thanks, now I know.

**Subrosa Florens** · February 16, 2009, 10:38 PM

If you have RTW at 1.5 or BI at 1.6 you can keep playing beyond the end dates listed in descr_strat. It will ask you if you want to keep playing is all. I did a Defensive Scythia Campaign a while back and found out.

**The-Scythian** · February 16, 2009, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by Subrosa Florens

If you have RTW at 1.5 or BI at 1.6 you can keep playing beyond the end dates listed in descr_strat. It will ask you if you want to keep playing is all. I did a Defensive Scythia Campaign a while back and found out.

Oh, wow, thanks.

I technically already won in both vanilla and BI, I'm just glad that now I can keep my empires for as long as I want.

-chuckles- Oh you poor barbarians, now you'll never be rid of us Romans, muwahahaha.

... wait, hold on, how did you get to play scythia, which mod did you use?

**Scutarii** · February 17, 2009, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Subrosa Florens

If you have RTW at 1.5 or BI at 1.6 you can keep playing beyond the end dates listed in descr_strat. It will ask you if you want to keep playing is all. I did a Defensive Scythia Campaign a while back and found out.

Good to know. Defensive campaign bore me to play, although I did like reading about Severus' a while back.

You get a +rep for actually playing to 14 AD.

**The-Scythian** · February 17, 2009, 09:45 PM

I plan to play BI until 1453... he he he...

**Subrosa Florens** · March 11, 2009, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Scutarii

Good to know. Defensive campaign bore me to play, although I did like reading about Severus' a while back.

You get a +rep for actually playing to 14 AD.

Severous' Defensive Germany and Defensive Frank AARs are what inspired me. I did an AAR of it over at RTWH. It was probably my most difficult campaign ever. The lack of resoures really pushed me to make the most of what little I had. This was the campaign where I learned to take on rebel armies with lone Generals. Not just because I had few troops, but also to get them up in experience fast.

Surprisingly, it was also very exciting. I was invaded almost every year by either the Armenians, Thracians, Dacians, and finally Romans. I probably saw more battles per decade than I would in a normal campaign.

**Sextus Molestus** · February 16, 2009, 10:56 PM

Very interesting, Subrosa Florens, +rep for you, and a chocolate chip cookie (if you dare ask for oatmeal...I'll...I'll...you don't want to know).

**Selifator** · February 17, 2009, 01:28 AM

There is no mod, a simple edit of the descr_strat file to make all factions playable. Follow this link to see how.

**Lord Thesaurian** · February 17, 2009, 06:05 PM

you can keep playing for as long as you want after victory. I know a guy who played for 100 yrs after he conquered the whole world. He actually experienced the huge slave rebellion led by Spartacus, and took another 100 to get all his territory back!

**SonOfAlexander** · February 18, 2009, 07:21 AM

You can pretty much play as long as you like but MY GOD it would be boring and high maintenance and unrewarding...

**The-Scythian** · February 18, 2009, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by SonOfAlexander

You can pretty much play as long as you like but MY GOD it would be boring and high maintenance and unrewarding...

I like keeping the empire I built up.

Generally, I try to bring it to its maximum historic boundaries, and from there simply keep playing defensively against the other factions I've let survive. Kind of like the day to day running of an empire rather than an epic conquest.

Doesn't stop me from playing new campaigns in the meanwhile, but I treat the established, old Empire of mine as a home of sorts within the scope of the game.

I don't know, does that make me weird?

**Sextus Molestus** · February 18, 2009, 02:23 PM

No...I'd actually think it funny and satisfying to see my empire grow to such greatness for so long that every settlement is a huge city and all buildings are built. Now that would be cool...and I'd mediate other faction's wars, so that whoever's left at the end of my conquesting would stay alive and weak...for example, if Spain and Gaul were still alive and clashing, I'd kill the stronger one's armies to even the playing field and keep them from killing each other completely.

**Lord Thesaurian** · February 18, 2009, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by The-Scythian

I like keeping the empire I built up.

Generally, I try to bring it to its maximum historic boundaries, and from there simply keep playing defensively against the other factions I've let survive. Kind of like the day to day running of an empire rather than an epic conquest.

Doesn't stop me from playing new campaigns in the meanwhile, but I treat the established, old Empire of mine as a home of sorts within the scope of the game.

I don't know, does that make me weird?

perhaps not weird, but definitely, um, unique