Questions and observations
Hello people
I played an earlier version of RS for a while back, then had a brief spell with SPQR but didn't like it too much and now I'm back in the game with the latest RS version, which would be 1.6 I think. I'm absolutely loving it, played the Romans for a while, played a few other factions for a few turns just to use a phalanx for a change, I loaded an older roman campaign which i suspect was M/M and accidentally triggered the Imperial reforms, thinking I was triggering a Marian reform, while I was just starting to use my first Marian Legions out of Rome, i went from filthy rich to bankrupt in a few turns and the micromanagement as well as the easy difficulty made it boring, so I started afresh.
So it's firmly back to Rome on a H/H campaign where I'll try to be slightly historical and rational about stuff.
Now, there are a few things I would like some feedback about, so here goes:
-Reforms:
The early legions were citizens who put on their Hastati/Principe/Triarii gear when a battle was to be fought. Because every neighbour and his dog wanted a piece of Rome, there was always a battle to be fought and the armies of Rome were active all the time, all over the place, they got slightly more standardized by the senate and gradually, from around 217BC / 518AUC, the hast/princ/tria distinction got blurred into the general 'legionair'. So VE legions appeared from around 510 AUC which usually applies in-game because I build the relevant barracks in Rome by that time.
these legions do their stuff for a long long time until Marius comes along around 628 AUC and raises unique Legions on his own. These are the first 'consular' legions and the in-game application is when Rome builds the highest tier barracks which lets you train the unique 7th and 11th legions. The rest of the empire is by that time still using the good old VE type legions.
All the equites, velites, town watch (roman light infantry) etc are still recruitable all over the place, you simply get your first Named and Numbered Legion.
So far, so good, I assume I am correct up to this point, (please tell me if I'm not).
But now the misty part comes, I've browsed the forums and from what I gathered, you are supposed to use these Marian legions for a while without triggering the Imperial Reforms by building the imperial palace in either Mediolaneum, Patavium of Tarantum or Byzantium. So the player should gradually upgrade a few other 'starting' settlements like Arretium and Capua, which will release the Numbered Legions from those bases. Without triggering the imp. reforms, you could raise the 13 numbered Legions which are in the readme as the first consular legions.
Is that correct?
50-100 years later, you could 'trigger' the reforms and that's where all the Auxilias and all the numbered Legions magically appear.
The reason why i'm unclear is that I triggered said reforms in about 540 AUC im my previous campaign, with only 2 marian (consular?) legions in the field and i got befuddled by the huge number of legions suddenly available, mixing up both marian and imperial legions which gave me two 3rd legions etc
so playing historically, it's VE legions from around 510 AUC and the 7th and 11th legion from Rome at around 620 AUC (No ingame message appears about any sort of reform, you just recruit a unique legion, yay)
more numbered legions from Italy as time drags on and 100 years later the full-on ingame 'happening' of the Imperial Reforms (the one where the game tells you: Reform)
-Terrain
All the boring flat fields of brown or green are replaced by wonderful rolling terrain and beautifully diverse battlefields now, this is obviously a fantastic thing.
But, I am finding that the AI considers the terrain perfect for hill-defense. Every single time. Whether they outnumber me or not, whether I have a ranged advantage or not. After dozens and dozens of battles, only in a handful were the AI armies coming at me. The vast majority starts with me watching 15 minutes of time compressed boredom where my whole legion has to march to the far end of the map, where the huge AI army sits idly on the biggest hill they could find.
Another slight problem: the whole battlefield is considered 'woody' so every unit is almost always hiding and my artillery can't be deployed anywhere except it's starting position. I understand that this is an issue with tree radius in some file somewhere but I can't remember where i read that.
Am i the only one having these issues? And can they easily be fixed?
That's it for now, this thing has become hugely longwinded and long but I'll post it nonetheless.
Any help/advice/confirmation/correction/comment is appreciated, thanks.
Bosje out
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Originally Posted by SkyVodkeR
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