View Full Version : Playing past 14 AD...
anubis88
03-23-2010, 19:51
Well, in my current Roman campaign i'm at 93 BC, and i'm still having loads of fun. The Marians really revive your game, and it's awesome playing right now.
However i also want the Imperial reforms to happen, when they should, around 27 BC, but that leaves only 45 years of playing with them. I really want to know what happens next. I remember someone said that nothing happens, and that you can continue the game, but then again someone said you can't continue it. What happens then? Does the script end?
Also how many of you have the experience of playing with the Augustan units? What changes after the reform? I mean in a useful way, not you get the new units etc... Which units stop being recruitable? which units stay? Any help would be welcomed
Unintended BM
03-23-2010, 20:03
I think the script stops, so other factions won't get financial aid and other stuff the script does won't happen.
Fluvius Camillus
03-23-2010, 21:39
I guess if you got 14AD you will be forced to got bsck to the menu, because it is simply, the end.~D Any confirmation?
BTW, the year 0 does not exist:book:
~Fluvius
anubis88
03-23-2010, 22:00
BTW, the year 0 does not exist:book:
~Fluvius
Yeah, learned this the hard way last week in college. Made a misscalculation on an important paper, when comparing how much time passed between certain falls of rome. My mentor wasn't to angry though
Megas Methuselah
03-23-2010, 22:18
Naw, the script really doesn't end, does it? I've always been told that you can easily play past 14 AD...? :dizzy2:
Macilrille
03-23-2010, 22:43
Try a search, I am almost certain the same question was asked and answered half a year ago. I am also almost certain that the answer is you can play on, but the script stops, including seasons, or that the RTW script itself stops, so you cannot at all.
"Search" is your friend...
Edited to add, I did the search for you. Here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?117375-Can-you-play-past-14AD) is a thread that presumes to give the answer before the Roman-flaming starts (and people wonder why I dislike the Roman-haters).
This has nothing to do with Roman-haters! Argh! haha, but I have to say it's sad to hear that one can't benefit from script when playing past 14AD. Too bad, but hey, it's been a fun game!
Cute Wolf
03-24-2010, 06:02
yes you can ;p but with extremely oppresed AI
Ibn-Khaldun
03-24-2010, 10:05
Can't you just edit the script to allow you to play longer?
The season-script won't work past 14 ad, but I don't see why the other parts of the script shouldn't keep working.
lionhard
03-24-2010, 11:45
Has any 1 even lasted till 14AD in a campaign?
hehe I know I haven't - and still I worry about it every single new campaign...
Macilrille
03-24-2010, 14:59
This has nothing to do with Roman-haters! Argh! haha, but I have to say it's sad to hear that one can't benefit from script when playing past 14AD. Too bad, but hey, it's been a fun game!
No Vartan, it has not, but follow the link and you will know what I meant.
Africanus
03-24-2010, 15:37
Well, in my current Roman campaign i'm at 93 BC, and i'm still having loads of fun. The Marians really revive your game, and it's awesome playing right now.
However i also want the Imperial reforms to happen, when they should, around 27 BC, but that leaves only 45 years of playing with them. I really want to know what happens next. I remember someone said that nothing happens, and that you can continue the game, but then again someone said you can't continue it. What happens then? Does the script end?
Also how many of you have the experience of playing with the Augustan units? What changes after the reform? I mean in a useful way, not you get the new units etc... Which units stop being recruitable? which units stay? Any help would be welcomed
I thought I read somewhere that there is a 66 B.C. crash when playing as Romans that can't be overcome. Anyone know if that's true? I'm about 50 years away in one of my campaigns and have been starting to wonder about that.
Macilrille
03-24-2010, 17:34
Not true. A guy posted that he had completed a campaign to AD 14 a couple of months ago.
Cute Wolf
03-24-2010, 19:12
Has any 1 even lasted till 14AD in a campaign?
I have (but that is in EB 0.8 or 0.9, forget my first EB version :wall:) still remember about my very - very first campaign, played in nearly half a year, as...... *prepare shields and horses to avoid the unintended consequences*....
Romans Romaioi Barbaroi.... *running toward empty steppe before any fellow Romaioktonaios notice that...*
Seriously, until 24 AD or somewhat...
I have (but that is in EB 0.8 or 0.9, forget my first EB version :wall:) still remember about my very - very first campaign, played in nearly half a year, as...... *prepare shields and horses to avoid the unintended consequences*....
Romans Romaioi Barbaroi.... *running toward empty steppe before any fellow Romaioktonaios notice that...*
Seriously, until 24 AD or somewhat...
Don't worry, we'll excuse you for that time...
WARRIORS, to arm, I want the head of that traitor on a silver plate, do not burry nor burn his body for it shall be the meal of the wolves. May his soul be cursed for a thousand generations. GO NOW AND COMEBACK ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND HIM
Cute Wolf
03-25-2010, 01:10
Don't worry, we'll excuse you for that time...
WARRIORS, to arm, I want the head of that traitor on a silver plate, do not burry nor burn his body for it shall be the meal of the wolves. May his soul be cursed for a thousand generations. GO NOW AND COMEBACK ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND HIM
Heck, It was my very2 first campaign with EB... no, I wasn't a traitor then :grin:
Hannibal Khan the Great
03-25-2010, 02:50
Maybe he was just intentionally leading them to disaster :whip:
anubis88
03-25-2010, 10:13
Seriusly, is there any way to "cheat" the script, so it works longer? Make it think that it's a 100 years less?
Africanus
03-25-2010, 13:42
Not true. A guy posted that he had completed a campaign to AD 14 a couple of months ago.
Good news!
Macilrille
03-25-2010, 13:59
Those good news can be found here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?118406-Insert-appropriate-Latin-phrase!-14AD-Finished-Hurrah...).
However, why on earth would you want to play past 14 AD? Most of you will have already blitzed to the VC before (including me), so why bother?
anubis88
03-25-2010, 14:03
Those good news can be found here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?118406-Insert-appropriate-Latin-phrase!-14AD-Finished-Hurrah...).
However, why on earth would you want to play past 14 AD? Most of you will have already blitzed to the VC before (including me), so why bother?
Well i won't... It's 95 BC and Cyrene has just joined me. The levant won't fall for another 30 years at least, after which i will launch an invasion on Gaul. After Gaul, Egypt will became a province as well. But I still plan to "try my luck in N Germania" and finish conquering Spain with my Imperial legions.
I play EB during my sleep now, in my dreams. This way I can use the time I used to spend during the day on more important endeavors.
Arthur, king of the Britons
03-26-2010, 22:21
I play EB during my sleep now, in my dreams. This way I can use the time I used to spend during the day on more important endeavors.
Better cut down on the hallucinatory substances my friend..
Megas Methuselah
03-27-2010, 06:55
Better cut down on the hallucinatory substances my friend..
NyQuil (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-11/st_nyquil) is your friend.
Marcus Darkstar
03-27-2010, 17:09
Well, in my current Roman campaign i'm at 93 BC, and i'm still having loads of fun. The Marians really revive your game, and it's awesome playing right now.
However i also want the Imperial reforms to happen, when they should, around 27 BC, but that leaves only 45 years of playing with them. I really want to know what happens next. I remember someone said that nothing happens, and that you can continue the game, but then again someone said you can't continue it. What happens then? Does the script end?
Also how many of you have the experience of playing with the Augustan units? What changes after the reform? I mean in a useful way, not you get the new units etc... Which units stop being recruitable? which units stay? Any help would be welcomed
Question still having loads of fun at 93 BC is what i aim for... How do you do it?
longest lasting game i had was like 190 BC
It takes practice to have the longevity that some of us guys have on this forum. Mwahaha. NyQuil isn't helping.
Marcus Darkstar
03-27-2010, 18:12
It takes practice to have the longevity that some of us guys have on this forum. Mwahaha. NyQuil isn't helping.
I have an irresistiable urge to kill and conquer... plus I can be impatiant....
:( I actually want to read more of the walk through time pop ups that come every summer. they were fun before i basically seen them a dozen times before...
I also realize the dam punic wars took so dam long.. really make a difference when Carthage isnt a AI.
I also realize the dam punic wars took so dam long.. really make a difference when Carthage isnt a AI.
huh?
Hannibal Khan the Great
03-27-2010, 19:06
I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!
Marcus Darkstar
03-27-2010, 19:54
I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!
correct. Carhage ingame doesnt even get any Q (... long name) ships ingame when playing against it. ingame it feel more like a second punic war without hannibal. Carthage totally striped of its navy edge and a purely militia/light infantry army. I know it would require additional scripting and starting stats but Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.
and of course after you take Silicy and its islands of Sardinia/Alatia Carthage AI goes bankrupt from Gisgo stack, and the Iberia stacks. So it barely does anything until you kill.
t Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.
I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?101787-Quintus-Sertorius-Guide-to-Conduct-Becoming-of-a-True-Roman-(Redux-for-EB)
Marcus Darkstar
03-28-2010, 15:21
I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?101787-Quintus-Sertorius-Guide-to-Conduct-Becoming-of-a-True-Roman-(Redux-for-EB)
meh i doubt ill try to stay historical in conquests but the legion sizes interest me. My main consular army had 4 units of each line (leves, hasti, princeps, etc). His at least calls for drastic reduction in this. ( lol i guess my army would be like a Roman Cannae army in comparison in size)
anubis88
03-28-2010, 17:10
Question still having loads of fun at 93 BC is what i aim for... How do you do it?
longest lasting game i had was like 190 BC
Well, i guess you just have to be that sort a guy... The Romans are especially suited for playing this long, since you get 3 reforms that drasticaly change your game. After the Marians you get like 10 new units, which is incredible for someone like me, who played with every unit available from the start. To get new units in 110BC is really awesome.
Try limit yourself what you conquer. The game is much more challenging if you don't blitz everyone...
p.s. My former question still stands.. Does anyone know how to trick the AI to make the script last 100 more years?
Marcus Darkstar
03-29-2010, 00:54
Well, i guess you just have to be that sort a guy... The Romans are especially suited for playing this long, since you get 3 reforms that drasticaly change your game. After the Marians you get like 10 new units, which is incredible for someone like me, who played with every unit available from the start. To get new units in 110BC is really awesome.
Try limit yourself what you conquer. The game is much more challenging if you don't blitz everyone...
p.s. My former question still stands.. Does anyone know how to trick the AI to make the script last 100 more years?
I guess the only real option would be to change the ingame date (though never tried it before). I'm fairly sure theres a cheat for that.
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