Oaty
12-29-2004, 00:30
Played as Carthage and got to a point too quickly where it was clear I was going to win.
It was close in the beginning but huge A.I. mistakes makes Carthage too easy
So what I'm wandering who would be a notch harder than Carthage.
And what went so right with this campaign. I did have some humiliating victories in the beginning but hey a victory is a victory. Well I can't complain about Julii's tactics in the beginning. They sent 3 hastati and 1 archer but I had shipped in 2 balaric slingers and 2 Iberian infantry and train militias there. I held them off on there first 2 invasions. But Julii had came in with 20 units for the 3rd round so Caralis got abandoned. Now heres where it went bad with the A.I. The Scipii went after the Greeks right away but for one they piddled around with them second of all they split there forces ~12 units besieging Syracuse and ~15 units came after my field army wich got defeated. The bad part of thier defeat was they came at me in 2 waves wich allowed me to make piecemeal of thier army.Now because of Carthages weak units I had taken enough casualties that I had to restrengthen my army. A few turns later I'm back up to strength so I head over to Messana but my army is still weaker than thiers so I head over to my besieged alies(Greeks) and save thier butt. Since they piddled around so long it allowed a tactical manuever of combined forces to annihlate thier Sicilian force once and for all. Messana was assaulted (elephants) immediately the next turn and thus made the Scipii worthless. Now all is not lost for the A.I. as I had to put my resources to the Iberian peninsula and thus was not allowed to mass an army in Sicily/Carhage for an assault on Italy. So I take the Iberian peninsula and figure the easiest way to Rome is to take the northern route. Since Julii never weakened the Gauls those southern cities were all close to being minor cities. This allowed mass production of troops there wich lead to a quick conquest of Northern Italy when the senate split there army in 2. Now if the Gauls were forced to deplete there cities due to pressure from Julii I would have been halted quickly as the only reenforcements could come from Corduba.
It was close in the beginning but huge A.I. mistakes makes Carthage too easy
So what I'm wandering who would be a notch harder than Carthage.
And what went so right with this campaign. I did have some humiliating victories in the beginning but hey a victory is a victory. Well I can't complain about Julii's tactics in the beginning. They sent 3 hastati and 1 archer but I had shipped in 2 balaric slingers and 2 Iberian infantry and train militias there. I held them off on there first 2 invasions. But Julii had came in with 20 units for the 3rd round so Caralis got abandoned. Now heres where it went bad with the A.I. The Scipii went after the Greeks right away but for one they piddled around with them second of all they split there forces ~12 units besieging Syracuse and ~15 units came after my field army wich got defeated. The bad part of thier defeat was they came at me in 2 waves wich allowed me to make piecemeal of thier army.Now because of Carthages weak units I had taken enough casualties that I had to restrengthen my army. A few turns later I'm back up to strength so I head over to Messana but my army is still weaker than thiers so I head over to my besieged alies(Greeks) and save thier butt. Since they piddled around so long it allowed a tactical manuever of combined forces to annihlate thier Sicilian force once and for all. Messana was assaulted (elephants) immediately the next turn and thus made the Scipii worthless. Now all is not lost for the A.I. as I had to put my resources to the Iberian peninsula and thus was not allowed to mass an army in Sicily/Carhage for an assault on Italy. So I take the Iberian peninsula and figure the easiest way to Rome is to take the northern route. Since Julii never weakened the Gauls those southern cities were all close to being minor cities. This allowed mass production of troops there wich lead to a quick conquest of Northern Italy when the senate split there army in 2. Now if the Gauls were forced to deplete there cities due to pressure from Julii I would have been halted quickly as the only reenforcements could come from Corduba.