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    Default House rule questions, need help

    I want to play a SPQR-camapain strictly using the house rules, although I also want the game to be both challenging andfun.

    Lt, whats your policy on captured settlements? Do you occupy, enslave or exterminate?
    I'm playing as Brutii, and all the cities I've captured have been enslaved, although I'm going to exterminate Corinth for obvious reasons. :original:

    You aren't supposed to capture more than 20 provinces before Marius, but is raiding cities ok, ie capturing a city then enslaving/exterminating and selling buildings but then leaving the city to riot?

    I hate just waiting for the Marius reforms, is it alright to bring stacks into enemy territory even though you have 20 provinces and raid the land, destroying all enemy armies but leaving the cities?

    Do you sit back in the cities and wait for the enemy to come to you or do you march into the enemy territory looking for enemies?

    In my current Brutii campain I've only been playing for a few turns and I've captured and enslaved 3 greek cities already and I'm planning to take the rebel city notheast of Italy, as the senate has asked me to do it. I've only used the armies I had when I began playing, the only thing I've been training is levies to use as garrison.

    Prehaps I'm moving to fast , but what should I do;

    sit back and let the enemy come to me
    march into enemy territory but avoid to capture the cities
    or sth else, whaddya think?

    suggestions and help would be apprectaited!
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    Savage_Swede's Avatar Carolus Rex
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    How many cities do you hold at the moment? Greeks must be an easier foe than gauls, i conquered northern italy and i just reached massilia, it took me 30 years! But i recently met five full stacks of greeks at the city of segestica, i had one legion against their 12,000+(!) man army. I lost my whole legion but i managed to kill 10,187 of them...
    I guess greeks get very powerfull when you dont touch them for 30 years.

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    I have 7 cities. I just sent a legion to help out the julii in the north, but my 900 man force was assaulted by a force 3 times as large and was forced to pull back. Those gauls are pretty mean. I'm currently considering hiring some mercernary barbarians to give the gauls some of their own medicine!
    Killing greeks and macedonians are a real semester on the other hand, my kill ratio is about 15 Greeks/macedonians per roman(15:1)

    Savage_Swede what difficulty are you playing? I'm playing M/M...maybe I should change to VH/M.
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    im playing at VH/M. VH for campaign
    And why bother buying barb mercs? They are as usefull as dogshit.

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    Well, everybody´s campaign develops different. I have no troubles with Greeks, I fought them just couple times around Salona, which I have taken form them and now they just survive getting beaten by Maceconians. They do not bother me. They have only rest of their cities. On the other hand since I have taken Aquilea I keep my 1 or two legions around, because Germ. keep bothering me all the time. And these men can be tough....Ugh. And they got as far as to borders of Macedonia...They are everywhere.
    I do not use barb.mercs much playing VH/M

    Now I am 217 BC and Marius has just come....

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