imperium const. strat

[TheWayOfZen]

anyone have any strategies for playing this faction. im have great trouble
surviving.

greg

[Mylae]

well, well, well.
I guess troubles come here. people who says WRE is unplayable should get away of the imperium constantini. It is doomed to fail in few turns by history, and replaced by a decaying roman empire.

Ingame, a realistic possibility is to burn down all your cities, crashing all buildings to get money, and then disband inutile troops. concentrate ALL your forces in a city, and, if possible, sack the abandoned ones.if you resist the first 15-20 turns, then the economy could became a bit favourable to you, and if you are able, you should get rid of red debts.
a possibility is to have a skilled spy in a your settlement; send your diplomats to get peace treaties to barbarian, even giving them the town (where you have already destroyed all). barbs should immediately occupy it, and your army get out of it; using the spy, immediately reconquer the city, and sack it. then send again the diplomat to get a new peace treaty. sell world info, cities, all but not money.
Then, you could try to expand slowly, in a defensive fashion that could be more aggressive - depend by the situation.
once, playing in H/H, i manage to resist with them several turns before the powerful hordes of burgundians get rid of me

[TheWayOfZen]

in my wre campaign i destroyed all my cities except in italy. then
i disbanded all my troops in those settle ments and pulled back only my large
stacks to itally. also i pulled out my heavier troop from crthage and
made an army in the boot of italy. in doing so i have crushed the
visigoths .after this was done i disbanded my armies,keeping
only one army to defend. soon i had brought myself out of debt.
i am expanding slowly. but i am meeting to much troubles with
the huns and the ere. so expanding is always a gamble of
which boarder to leave exposed; since i get attacked by full stacks
each turn.

but the imperium const is very very hard so ill try what you suggested.
btw people that have trouble with the ere dont have anything
to complain about if i can bring the wre back to and expanding
status. ere is a cake walk.the only thing i think need some help
in the mod is time. by the time i fixed the wre it was 422! great
mod though only got 1 or 2 ctds.


regards
greg

[Mylae]

sorry for the ctd... we're working for you