Julius Ceasar Campaign Strategy

**Total Roach** · October 21, 2009, 10:09 PM

Am thinking about doing this for my 1st provincial campaign, any tips, strategies and what I should expect most welcome.

**Total Roach** · October 22, 2009, 04:16 PM

Wow, no one done this campaign?

**Lycurgus the Lawgiver** · October 22, 2009, 05:58 PM

Just dive in the game, I don't think it will be much different than any other prov. campaign

**Total Roach** · October 22, 2009, 06:13 PM

Not played any of the Provincial Campaigns yet, thought I might try after the current Imperial Campaign I'm doing.

**Scutarii** · October 22, 2009, 11:01 PM

I haven't played it but have loaded it up to look at it. Looks mighty tough, if you ask me. I'd say a quick trip into Italy/Sicily is in order, even at the cost of some cities in Gaul. You also need to train up a decent army to defend Gaul from barbarians in the North and romans in the south. Once you've got ITaly/Gaul, take Iberia, then Africa, then Greece, etc. I can't really give any more specific advice.

**Boriak** · October 23, 2009, 01:53 AM

I thought Caesar's campaign is not finished yet.

**magraev** · October 23, 2009, 01:59 AM

I read that it crashes sometimes, so play it at your peril! That said it looks very interesting and extremely hard. There are two legions in Italy that each matches yours and your "home" provinces are gaul, and they are rebellious and not very wealthy.

I would suggest blitzing Rome to get some of their barracks over on your side, and use the fact, that you have the better general.

**TM Is Back** · October 23, 2009, 05:28 AM

Have not yet played it, *shame on me*, but I recommend the following:

Blitzkrieg. Take down the two enemy stacks in Italy and conquer it. You'll have a nice empire then from which you can invade Africa and Greece.

**Fouch** · October 23, 2009, 02:53 PM

It's a tough campaign. I played one a few weeks ago so I'll give you what tips I remember. Start off by beefing up your economy in gaul. Land clearances and paved roads. Take your main army and march into Italy. No matter what happens elsewhere keep them conquering Italy until you have it all. You'll start off with a smaller stack of auxilla in gaul. Send them against Emporion immediately as you will quickly face a Roman counter from Iberia and Emporion is actuallly big enough to get you a city baracks and legions to work on that border. In Illyria your towns are very vulnerable. Large roman stacks will march out of greece early in the game. I held these towns for a time by focusing on building up a large army of Illyrian mercs. Still I eventually got pushed back to Patavium but at least by that time I had a city barracks there and legions to hold the line. In the north you can expect a massive gaul stack to get shipped over from Brittan which will start to pick off your vulnerable northern towns. I wound up sacrificing several towns while building up armies of gaul mercs. After losing a few battles I ground down their original stack and was able start slowly retaking territory. Thankfully all the gaul mercs I had were enough to keep the Germans at bay until I had most of gaul back and some legions in the north. Probably your biggest challenge is the simple fact that most of your starting towns in gaul aren't big enough to support legions. I countered this short term by enslaving most of northern Italy but my peoples happiness definitely took a dive from that.

That's how I went about trying to overcome most of this campaigns challenges. Hopefully that helps.

**Lord Fred** · November 03, 2009, 03:37 AM

Ive just started this campaign (H/VH), not sure if there have been changes recently but there were 4 starting stacks of rebels in Italy. I managed to beat the first & second fairly easily (25-30% causlties) but the third stack attacked on the same turn as the second before I could retrain or retreat and I got clobered.

I had just managed to break the flanks with my units of cav when the center collapsed under the strain from losses from the previous battles & VH. Now i've lost most of my starting units and Patavium is under siege by the 4th stack....... have to see what I can do from here.

Ive noticed that these stacks are of the same quality as yours, from a historical viewpoint I thought Ceaser was able to use his vetrun legions to take Italy fairly easily and quickly then the main challenge came in Greece?? Don't know how true this is but could it be moddled that way by giving him better troops but a much more major retraning problem?

**chazap** · November 22, 2009, 11:06 AM

after reading these post i played the campaign on VH/M....it did in fact crashed often so saving was a must....but i have to ask, what is the point of this campaign? i sacked Rome with julius and thought for sure all rebel Roman cities would instantly convert (unify, i guess), but they did not. and Ceasar dies like 20 turns into the campaign.....just asking...

**DimeBagHo** · November 22, 2009, 01:36 PM

Apart from the ctds it sounds like your campaign followed history fairly well. The empire didn't simply unify behind Caesar as soon as he took Rome. He had to fight to gain control - first in Greece against Pompey, but also in Spain, Africa, Egypt, and finally in Asia Minor against a resurgent Pontus. Then he was assassinated, (about 5 years after he had crossed the Rubicon). Two more rounds of civil war followed.