Migration campaign with the Seleucids

**justinwhitaker11** · February 13, 2012, 03:02 PM

I've been thinking about starting a migration campaign with the Seleucids. Mainly because I dont want to go to war and wipe out egypt so early b/c I always feel after I beat them I am pretty unstoppable and the game gets boring. I was wondering if anyone has tried this or if anyone has tips or suggestions for a migration campaign. I'm probably going to sell all my eastern cities and keep the one close to rhodes. Any ideas? Thanks.

**Genius of the Restoration** · February 13, 2012, 05:23 PM

Where do you plan to migrate to?

**Macedon1an** · February 13, 2012, 05:23 PM

Migration campaigns are one of the funnest thing you can do in RTW

I once did a Seleucid migration to Britannia.. firstly I conquered the middle east to get some cash, after that I trained the best troops I could, put them all in a ship with 2-3 young generals and sailed to Britannia, conquered all the Briton towns, made Londinium my capital, and dumped all of my previous settlements (I destroyed every building in them before I dumped them, so the faction that would conquer them would have a hard time), and "camped" on the island until the Romans came... It was quite fun...

**Pounders** · February 13, 2012, 05:44 PM

I did a migration to Brittania as well. I did it differently in that my last city was under siege as I captured Londinium. I was in massive debt and about 12 years of making small profits I managed to scrape together a force of Levy Pikes and militia hoplites and take Gaul. Probably the most fun I've had in a campaign.

**justinwhitaker11** · February 13, 2012, 06:14 PM

Havent decided yet. Was thinking about just extending west with my western most settlement and giving the others away or going to Carthage or Britain. I guess the first idea really wouldn't be a migration but would still be fun I think. Really just dont wanna have to take the east so early.

**Bonez** · February 13, 2012, 07:45 PM

My best idea for you to do a migration campaign would be to get as many troops and ships as possible early and launch two seperate fleets with armies on each, land one in spain on that Cartaginian settlement, and another on the other settlement right below it and work your way up from the one in spain and take Italy and work on the other to get to Egypt from the other direction and give them more time to build up.

**justinwhitaker11** · February 16, 2012, 07:09 PM

That was a great idea. One thing i find weird is that no one will take my old settlements even if i try to just give them away as a gift and egypt usually ends up taking most of them by force. Anyone know how the diplomacy cheat works or have any ideas. Last time i decided to raise the taxes sky high so they would hopefully rebel before someone started war against me to take the darn things. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks.

**Bonez** · February 16, 2012, 07:54 PM

well the force diplomacy thing is just force_diplomacy accept/decline (only use one of either accept or decline), but if you try to give as a gift ask for some money and the AI may accept them, personally I've never tried to give away a settlement yet.