Rome Total War Babarian Invasion

Originally posted by Constantine XI Originally posted by Heraclius  Lol nice one  I actually think a province there would be good, infact I think the map could use seriously a load more provinces. The Balkans for example is pretty empty, you take Athens and you just automatically own half of Greece . RTW had about 6 provinces in Greece originally, Italy is the same, far to few provinces for it to feel realistic in terms of it being a game.   I definitely agree with that. You know, if it really isn't so hard to edit the whole game like they did with the RTR 6.2 I would love to create a whole game starting from the year 525, or alternatively (I think this would be more fun) from the years 610 or 726. I seriously prefer RTR 6.2 to BI. It was just more realistic, many more units, more provinces, more factions, more interesting characters, it really had it all. I suspect I will uninstall BI in a month or two and reinstall RTR 6.2. I had a game on there as Parthians where I had 89 provinces , good thing I moved the game file into another folder so I can resume it.

 So right about RTR 6.2, last night I uninstalled BI and RTW and installed everything from scratch due to loads of niggling problems. I've got 1 RTW that has RTR 6.2 on it and another fresh version of RTW which i'm going to use for BI.

 I've been playing RTR 6.2 all day and I love it, almost forgot how good RTR really is , it really addresses the problem of provinces and cities. I like how in Italy there are loads of new cities instead of just 1 city controlling a massive region. Then I looked at Asia Minor and was stunned to see theres about 7 cities in the west alone!!!  

 It actually add some realism to an actual military campaign, anybody who has read an account of a real-life campaign will know that it wasnt just grab the biggest city and thats it, you have to capture cities along the way, secure a base before you can go about total conquest. Sicily in RTR 6.2 is a great example of this, it gives you more options and gives the AI more chances to fight back.

 I'm bored of BI to, ever since it decided that my save should be corrupted thus making it unplayable its kind of lost its attraction.

 I've been playing RTR so much lately, Macedon is just so much fun to play as bahahahaha 13 thousand dead Romans in a decade  theres so many famous battle markers in Illyria its ridiculous

 Hope your better soon mate.

 I've never really tried playing the Pontus, Armenians or Sarmatians. I havent the patience, one mistake and your dead .

 The Romans are great in RTR, the only problem is that the Marian reforms are the proper historical date so you stuck with your original unit roster for the best part of 200 years. Which isnt a big deal with other factions, but when I know that I will have proper legionaries I get anxious for the date to hurry up . To be honest at first I gave up as the Romans because I kept messing up against Pyrrhus for some stupid reason and bankrupting myself.

 If i have 1 criticism of RTR its that cavalry is almost to expensive to employ in significant numbers. Especially for Rome at the start when you badly need cavalry but it costs over 1000d to hire them!

 Macedon kicksass though I set myself the goal of trying to reconquer the entire empire of Alexander since the extended map now allows this possibility, the fact i'm closing in on this goal is great  RTR over BI anyday.

I outlined some of what you need to do as the WRE back on page 3 of this topic awhile ago  

  http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5919& ; ;PN=1&TPN=3

 To sum it up though;

1, Disband as much of your army as you can, get upkeep down to 30,000d, most cavalry will have to go. Plus most of your navy except a few ships to transport troops between Italy and Africa and Gaul and Britain. There is a small field army in Gaul which you can use right away to attack the Alemanni settlement, if you take that 1 settlement then that faction is destroyed so you can get rid of 1 threat immediately.

2, Sell off all barracks and stables etc in all but a few provinces, Rome and Carthage plus 1 city in Gaul, Britain and Spain should possibly be allowed to keep some infrastructure.

3, Depending on which religion you choose to favour, if a province is close to rebellion then move a general who is the same religion as that city to govern it for awhile. Also try not giving generals with poor loyalty any significant armies atleast in the first few turns. If you favour Paganism sell off all Christian buildings and replace them ASAP with Pagan ones. But only in provinces where loyalty isnt so low rebellion will be inevitable.

4, You will suffer a roman rebellion within the first few turns, but because youve sold off most military buildings, the rebel armies will be made up of mostly peasants so you can easily deal with them. Exterminating your own cities is sometimes something you must do to stop yourself going bankrupt. 

5, Don't try and hold everything, it can't be done, focus on the Rhine frontier, Carthage and fortifying your position in the Balkans as best possible. Also don't waste your men defeating brigands all the time, they are a pain but you havent got the money to keep retraining troops so only use your armies early on to fight true enemies.

 Assuming the rebellion isnt to bad and you don't go bankrupt, then your going to be very busy trying to hold the Rhine against the Barbarian and the Balkans against the hordes.

 Good luck I guess, you bloody well need it

 EDIT: As a sidenote, for all BI's faults, one triumph is to properly allow the player to experience the truly desperate situation the WRE was in during the late 4th and 5th century. Compared to the ERE the WRE strikes me as an empire which has imploded several times over.