Do you guys consider it cheating if I ....
If I go around and pillage a whole lots of the enemy cities just to weaken them but not conquer them.
let me explain:
I am playing RTW, Darth mod, v8.
united rome campaign, VH/H. absolutely great game.
here is the map:
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/8...ymaprv0cc6.jpg
It is about year 210bc. I have managed to conquer all of Italy (except sicily), gaul (up to the traditional border with germanica), Britannica (except ireland) and all of ibera.
the game starts at year 280bc, so it has already been 70years. meanwhile, carthage has totally finished off the numidians (the first to die). they own all of western africa easily and have the world's biggest army, and massive navies i do not dare challenge. and they own all the islands there, palma, sicily, corsica, etc. but luckily im at peace with them and we have trade rights.
the germans are doing alright. at war with them, but since i guard the rivers, they dont dare attack.
now the macedonians. my question is about them. they have grown quite strong. owning all of greece and macedonia and very wealthy and they have been at war with me for ages. they keep sending full stack after full stack of very good troops to patavium. i even built large stone walls and put a full stack there. i nearly lost the city when i had to fight off 3 full stacks one after another.
so out of my 3 neighbours, i only have mecedon to worry about. after 70 years of fighting, i wanted a break. some time to build up my cities and invest in them since most of them are on blue public order since most of the treasury was going towards the wars. but the macedonians are a pain.
so do you think its fair and ok for me to load up a ship with lots of artillery and ranged units, and sail them around greece and attack all the macedonian cities and kill everyone and sell all the buildings? this is surely damage their economy and they probably won't send full stacks my way for a while.
but i ask because, on one hand, i think it happened in history. for example the vikings were famous for raiding and getting rich.
but on the other hand, the AI does not do so. so it can be argued that its not fair since AI doesnt do it.
or do you think that since the AI is getting massive happiness and $$$ bonusses that its alright since they will quickly get back on their feet again with the $$$ bonus?
for a while i was thinking of doing the whole raiding thing around greece, then moving on to pontus and ptolemy and use all that money (which im sure it would be in 100,000s) to fund my so called investment into my cities.
but then im just crippling them and maybe ruining the game for myself by weakening my enemies in a cheap manner.
what do you think?
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Originally Posted by DARTH VADER
