Playing as different faction, still great challenges

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 05:17 PM

We all know that SPQR was made for harder campiagn with the romans, but after awhile i and "maybe" other people like to have different armies and starting areas, well anyway i played as carthage, so i remember someone posting months ago, "that is it fun to play as other factions and get a challenge?" and alot of people said no, and they get to many bonuses etc, well while the bounses are true let me tell you it had been a hell of campiagn!!! I am having a great time with carthage for these reasons:
1-Playing on VH/VH
2-Lowered my money
3-Did a little editing for the romans so they have a chance and a challenge for me in italy
4-not using any cheats
5-i am in 202 bc and only have 4-5 more cities then starting
6-THE GUALS, i had epicccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc battles with them in ibera never befroe have i seen such a detailed blitz on my iberian cities then every before (even maybe harder then the roman fights i had)
7-and the germans might have like 28 armies of chosen axemen and beserkers waiting for me at their borders
8-since i am having epic battles with the gauls,the romans have now made alot of armies for a challenge (still have a foot in italy tho)
9-and never before have i seen the iberans make hugh armies (i mean i really cant take 3 last 3cities of them becoz they just circle their cities with armies!
10-and the best part is i looked around the map and their is like 3-4 full armies at each city for every faction just waiting not even attacking, and britions have atleast 8-11 full armies in thier captial area! TRULY EPIC
11-but the best reason for it all is LT said if you have fun then do it, which i really am, i am sitting for half and hour think about moves and tactics becoz 1 false move in the upper gaulic cities will turn my operation into a failer (not to say but it has made me a better commander)

SO IN ALL I AM JUST SAYING SOEMTIMES IT IS worth it to play as another faction sometimes becoz their is alot more challenges THEN YOU SEE! if i figure out the screen shot thing i will post some screens of all the armies sitting around the map and cities!

**Mont** · May 31, 2009, 05:29 PM

Sounds like your having fun, But I would not consider playing another faction on this mod, cause of the diplomatic situation at start. Do the romans get the script garrison like the AI does.

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 05:31 PM

O Yes, i forgot to put that u still get garrsion script, and you can simply add diplomats in EDB IF YOU WANTED, but since i went to war with gauls, germans hate me also and the roman senate as well as the romans and (maybe HOPEFULLY NOT THE GREEKS BECOZ I GET HUGE TRADE BONUESES WITH THEM IN MY PORTS)

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Mont

Sounds like your having fun, But I would not consider playing another faction on this mod, cause of the diplomatic situation at start. Do the romans get the script garrison like the AI does.

O i see wht you mean with the "the diplomatic situation at start" well its to late for me now becoz while i can change the relationship of the factions so that every1 hates me it wont work, I WOULD HAVE TO START A NEW CAMPIAGN, and i really dont want to do that, to many hours wasted, no matter what tho i am sure i will be at war with more people soon, not all at once tho.

**Mont** · May 31, 2009, 05:38 PM

Interresting reading CG,+rep, but It seems you have to change alot to play as a diffrent faction, I mean the at start relation of all the factions would need to be changed.

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 05:41 PM

thxs mount +rep to u too, it wont let me?

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 05:50 PM

"but It seems you have to change alot to play as a diffrent faction, I mean the at start relation of all the factions would need to be changed"

ahh..... well the faction relationship is tricky but the other stuff, is easy stuff, the only real thing was giving the romans some more bonuses but it was just a matter of copying and pasting stuff, but there is some things to do if you wanted to play as another faction. but if ur a medium/good etc modder then its easy stuff, but you are right. nice to see you again

**Mont** · May 31, 2009, 05:47 PM

Nice to hear from you again CG, dont think I would go to the lengths you have to play a diffrent faction,(I like playing roman), but as long as you have fun and enjoy what your doing that is really all that matters.

**Mont** · May 31, 2009, 06:03 PM

It seems like you really need to do alot of work, If I was going to play as carthage, I would play RS or the long awaited ( still waiting) Punic war mod, I play SPQR for the challenge, if I was after a historical mod I would play 58BC or FRRE etc. Thank you to all the modders out there, people like you who create these mods make RTW the game it should have been.

**The10thLegion** · May 31, 2009, 06:29 PM

Nice to see you are having fun with a new faction. Is it possible for you to show us a map of your empire?

To be honest i only tried another faction once, and it was Scythia which was in the least, very boooorrrring...

+ rep for you though for taking on Gual

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by The10thLegion

Nice to see you are having fun with a new faction. Is it possible for you to show us a map of your empire?

To be honest i only tried another faction once, and it was Scythia which was in the least, very boooorrrring...

+ rep for you though for taking on Gual

O yes i will be posting screens of my empire and those hordes around the cities!

**lt1956** · May 31, 2009, 07:50 PM

Garrison script works for all factions EXCEPT whatever the player is playing. It even works for Iberia and Numidia which are removed. :-)

I originally wanted to make a SPQR for most of the factions, like SPQR: GREECE, SPQR: Macedon, SPQR: Egypt, SPQR: Carthage, SPQR: Parthia etc.

it isnt too much work the problem is adjusting all the stats to balance for the faction and fix Romans to be Hard Core. then you would have a Full download for every factions which is a Pain, I might be able to do a Small Patch for. But really it would need to have a mod manager to switch, but its possible, its the Time problem I have, but I too at times wanted to take Egypt and conquer. I used a special music for Egypt if anyone noticed?

**Carthage General** · May 31, 2009, 09:15 PM

Yup i know lt time is always a pain in the butt but i am a pretty good modder so i balanced out the romans for a challenge (lol even tho they only have 1 city left) it was tought to kill them becoz i you know what, so i made that easier to for them, but for all the factions they seem to act very tought and i can see down the furture it wont be a easy skip anywhere down the map.........

no i am sorry i cant post the screens it wont let me and it says something with the website needs info from computer to do so, so i am not doing it, if i can make a vid or something on you tube just showing my map i will or i will show you my map when i hopefully take the world

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Anyway 42 cities so far and getting 200,000 income a trun from gold and silver mines + normal tradeing and mass trading from italy with the greeks and dacians on the shores!!!

Factions Destroyed and almost destroyed:
Romans
82% Guals
Roman Senate
2% German
70% Iberians