A thank you and a minor question.
I've always loved this time period most among all the TW games, so even though my badass new pc is finally running smooth as silk I decided to pop in RTW and of course came here as I've done the last 7 years to find a mod. I've played EB, RTR, SPQR, Surrectum, Three Kingdoms, Vlad, probably a few others but decided to give XC a try for no other reason than it had a much smaller download than EB and I was hankering to play. And man I gotta say what a pleasant surprise this mod is. I hesitate to say this is the BEST RTW mod cause there are so many good ones but this is a great blend of new factions, features, units, role playing elements, yet maintains enough of the vanilla feel to not overwhelm you in complexity so any moderate to veteran player can jump right in and have a blast. The economy isn't all screwed up to make up for AI stupidity, and there isn't as much time wasted in assimilating cities as in EB or RTR to slow the game down or turn into Seige Total War. I could go on with all the things I like (provincial campaigns kick ass imo) but in sum this mod is a perfect middle ground, so thanks to everyone involved in producing this mod.
My question isnt even really technical or tactical. I've had a pretty successful campaign as Syracuse, I essentially replaced the Carthaginians by about 240 but grew a little antsy to try something else so I started yesterday as the Bosporan Kingdom in the provincial campaign and they are quite interesting but the campaign itself has been kinda insane. I don't know maybe I'm just bad at the game but I'm having trouble expanding and its already like 252 BC and I only have 4 settlements under my control. The diplomacy blew up in my face kinda all at once though the Sarmatians are the only direct threat but they are a real handful when you can't train a lot of troops. Pontus, Seleucia, and Thrace all declared war at once, and consequently Rome, Macedon, and Armenia all left the alliance leaving the stupid Ptolies as my only "freind". I made a blunder at the beginning by just kinda letting Sarmatia take Tanais even though I could have sent like 3-4 units up there and assaulted it while Sarmatia was my ally and take it out from under them like I did with Phanagoria, but for some reason I went directly for Olbia instead. My experiment in Anatolia failed after 5 years trying to defend Nicomedia and Sesamus, now Pontus is pretty strong once I razed everything and let them take it so I could rush home and defend against the Sarmatians (I can't support multiple field armies). Even the other greeks are very hostile towards me, threatening to attack if I don't pay tribute or hand over map information. Should I attack them? What have others done with this campaign? In general what does anyone think I should do to turn things around? I guess I should take Tylis and Byzantium but I can't get free of the Sarmatians to turn my eye elsewhere. I can't even afford any good troops like Thereuphoroi or Bosporan archers and I know phalanxes aren't the way to go, I've done better with just Peltasts, Politikoi, and Scythian Horse Archers along with the two units of Thereuphoroi I kept from the get-go.
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