How not to die as Julian with whole empire.

**Julianus Flavius** · July 13, 2009, 09:47 PM

I am encountering some major problems with playing as Julian. From the second turn, all my provinces start rioting, damaging money-making structures and eventually revolting. The barbarians just keep coming and I easily sink below 100000 denarii negative. I am even playing on easy settings but get stuck. Help please!

**julianus heraclius** · July 13, 2009, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Julianus Flavius

I am encountering some major problems with playing as Julian. From the second turn, all my provinces start rioting, damaging money-making structures and eventually revolting. The barbarians just keep coming and I easily sink below 100000 denarii negative. I am even playing on easy settings but get stuck. Help please!

Well, you are only 2 turns in. It will take alot of work to get yourself out of things. This campaign (Iassume it is the 361AD) is a pretty tough one and is designed to test your stratigic and tactical skills to the limit.

**Julianus Flavius** · July 13, 2009, 10:52 PM

I go a few more turns in, all my field armies revolt and I am negative a couple of hundred thousand denarii! No armies, no money to make new armies, lots of scary barbarians and that's just on easy! It appears my skills leave something to be desired

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · July 13, 2009, 10:54 PM

Wait, your armies revolt? Are your generals disloyal?

**Julianus Flavius** · July 13, 2009, 10:59 PM

Yeah, most of my starting generals are disloyal. I try switching them for loyal ones, but it appears they don't appreciale being left in the middle of nowhere for the winter, because I can't afford forts for them to reside when not on campaign!

**PSEUDO ROMANUS** · July 13, 2009, 11:13 PM

I guess that is what you get for abandoning the true faith and the Lord of the universe

**Julianus Flavius** · July 13, 2009, 11:22 PM

I usually go for a mixture of religions, whichever is the most prevalent I support in every settlement. I've already tried the all pagan but the jews hated me for it and the majority of my settlements revolted because of it, or I had to set their tax rates so low I made no money!

**SeniorBatavianHorse** · July 14, 2009, 10:13 AM

Hmm, I had some revolts and rebellion of generals but not to the degree you have had! I am in the year 366 AD and making a clear 26,000 odd a turn. Early strategies included raiding and pillaging the Pictish settlements to gain money. Ransack and loot any regained Roman town which rebelled if it was Christian, fording the upper Danube and sacking the Quadi main settlement even as their warbands rampaged through the limes, and generally fighting a ton of Iazyges who eventually wore down all my main armies in the Pannonian provinces so reducing my army wages! I bottomed out somewhere around180, 000 in the red and then pulled back into the black about 3 or 4 turns ago. So: 4 turns per year equals 20 turns or so of debt before recovering.

Things are very precarious in my campaign now but I am at last enrolling fresh troops and building many pagan temples to encourage much bull sacrifices!