My Dacian Campaign
I have played many campigns since buying RTW a long long time ago, but I have never conquered the entire map. It wasn't my intention to do this with Dacia, but I was having such a good enjoyable campaign I thought I may as well carry on.
First of all, there was a twist. I was playing a slightly modded game, in that although I selected Dacia I played as Brutii for the first 8 years. I did this by switching factions, using a mod I made.
I started out as Dacia and disbanded a lot of their troops to make it even harder to expand. Then I swapped to the Brutii for 16 turns.
NOTE: In this entire campaign, I did not fight a single battle, it was all auto-resolved. I lost interest in the tedious battles a long time ago.
As Brutii I quickly wiped out Macedon and then moved on to the Greeks. I repelled the Thracians and took Byzantium. This gave the Brutii an impressive early empire (as if the romans need help - they destroy everyone in RTW anyway). Now I changed back to controlling Dacia.
At this point it is 262 bc. The Brutii empire stretches from the boot of italy and almost touches asia minor. They are now on the doorstep of Dacia, their most likely victim to future expansion.
Dacia's 'empire' isn't looking to swell. I made this campaign to be difficult as Brutii would bombard me with troops, I somehow overlooked the Germans. Dacia had 3 cities when I took over, but had lost their capital to thrace. This was a big problem. I had few troops and was just in the red (-100 i think).
The Thracians had a good garrison so the little forces I could muster, I sent past my previous capital and attacked their city to the right (Campus getae is it? - below scythias capital). I realised early that I must have these two as they will have sea trade and will be easy to defend. Meanwhile the germans just take my top left city, which eliminates my only other army. Now I have two cities, both currently undefended. Now, I must move fast. I quickly secure the thracian city and the scythia cpaital above it. I retrain, build troops and head for MY capital. My generals (I had 3) put the odds in my favour and I win and take back my capital. That gave me 5 cities until the Brutii appeared and stole my city to the left.
I didn't advance from those four cities for some time. I fought off numerous stacks at my capital. This was making my army of falxmen elite. It was a beautiful sight to see all those chevrons. I really didnt realise how good they are. Anyway, when they were all roughly on high silver chevrons, I made my move. The start of my empire. I sent the stack south and it destroyed all it met. I attacked cities, sacked and destroyed all buildings. I exterminated everything giving my leader the title: 'The Butcher'. All Greek and Macedonian cities were ruined and so I headed for Italy.
For some reason, I decided it would be cool to revive Greece, so I gave them their cities back, and loads of money (they would later betray me!)
Now I do the same to Italy, with the same stack. Eventually, I reached Rome.
By this time, I have secured my rear and have a few stacks inside my empire, an quite an impressive one, just for repelling the Germans. I secured the rear by killing off scythia and finishing off Parthia. Annoyingly, the black sea has grain imports which made my populations hard to handle as they were too high. If you ever play dacia you will see that they don't have much to keep populations happy so this was a constant problem.
I started to reallt pick up the pace now and I had stacks on all fronts, securing many cities (exterminating them of course). I also, had to destroy all markets and traders to limit the populations. I checked the faction rankings and saw that egypt was very close to me. So, I despatched my elite stack to egypt on its own.
This is the early damage it caused. I was delighted that Alexandria allowed me to retrain my army to have gold swords and armour, now they looked even better. At this time, my faction leader was old. His son, and heir, was fighting egypt from above, but they never met up and he died and they closed in on eachother. So, the new faction leader took over th elite army. Oh and it had an elite fleet to escort it which I will show later.
NOTE: You will notice that one city has rebelled. I often had to let cities rebel and then exterminate them to keep order.
By this time I was very powerful and had loads of stacks on all fronts. I sent my elite stack from egypt all the way to sicily. Then it took carthage, went west to tingi and back up to palma where it ended.
This was my awesome fleet at the end:
I was, however, having major problems with public order. My capital was byzantium and so cities in eygpt and all cities to the east and north east were hard to handle. I didn't want to keep handling that for much longer. Therefore, I was pretty happy when:
I really enjoyed this campaign. If anyone can be bothered to read such a long write-up then please add any foughts or questions.
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Originally Posted by Ghoulem
