The Gladiator uprising...

[jsteph]

So yesterday as I was finishing my conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. I noticed all of my cities near the black see were getting rebellious.

Well, I owned Byzantine and the two cities to the north there. When I get a mission from the senate, take Nicodemia. It had been owned by the Brutii, but now it said Gladiator uprising, I was like what is that. So I lay siege, and lo and behold, both cities north of Byzantine go with that rebellion. Granted this was my 2nd time playing, but I do not remember that happening last time.

I played Brutii first, and this time Julii, going another faction next game. I will say one of those armies had like 8 Gladiator ranks, they were tough. the other city went mostly horse archer and peasant. Horse Archers, no match for real archers.

Anyway, has anyone else have that happen? I realize I am a slow player, but getting good money taking on the barbs is difficult to say the least. I was so happy when Macedon attacked one of my barb cities, gave me an excuse to take the Aegian peninsula. Which of course it rich.

[Dooz]

Yep. I think the Gladiator Uprising is a nice little touch they put in the game. I enjoy it quite a bit. I think it probably happens every campaign at some point... might be wrong... still waiting to see one of them garrisoned with one, Captain Spartacus ~:) .

[Craterus]

I've seen the Gladiators completely annihalate the Brutii in Greece/Macedon and own almost all the cities there. Of course Brutii came back with predictable vengeance and predictably won back all their land.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I see you have been mentioning the predictable romans a lot lately Craterus, having some anger issues about that? In some ways their rise was predictable in reality....

I have gotten this a couple of times, once in the city south of Carthage, it was refreshing after killing the desert folk and the Gauls to finally fight some strong troops, I killed them all, on to the next group of decent warriors.

[Marquis of Roland]

In my Julii campaign, I had about 3-4 gladiator uprisings. These battles are FUN FUN FUN!!!! ~:cheers:

Since playing Julii I concentrated on Western Europe, I didn't get a chance to see any from Brutii or Scipii, but the ones I had I never allowed to spread to more than one city.
The first time I fought them I had my ass kicked pretty hard, as I didn't really look at troop disposition nor did I click to see the city say "gladiator uprising". These guys were tough, hard-core killers! They wiped the floor with my early legionaries which was my garrison troops (not like I tried any tactics either since their troop count was so low and I was watching TV). I wanted to bribe them, but they pissed me off by handing me my first crushing defeat!

I sent in one of my field armies with a 9* general to "deal" with the problem, defeated them in the field, and laid seige to their city, and had a great brawl with them on the city walls. Sent in all Praetorian and Urban cohorts up the seige towers, and it was STILL a good fight.

These guys certainly earned my respect, but I had to hang them up along the Appian way anyway ~:cheers:

[Dooz]

You're a cold man Marquis... a cold, cold man...

[The Stranger]

Gladiator uprisings are so cool, i had a hard time defeating their army

[Brutus]

I've never had a gladiator uprising, when do they happen?

[Craterus]

I see you have been mentioning the predictable romans a lot lately Craterus, having some anger issues about that? In some ways their rise was predictable in reality....

I would prefer it if it was 50/50 in those wars that always come. I'd prefer to face different factions in the late game rather than Scipii in North Africa, Brutii in the Balkans and Julii in Europe. It's always the same. If sometimes Carthage beat Scipii, Macedon beat Brutii, S.E beat Egypt then the game would be a lot more exciting to play.

[Grey Area]

It happens differently sometimes. In my Carthaginian campaign right now the Scipii were wiped out by yours truly very early on. The Brutii have taken the southern Balkans but are blocked off to the north by the MASSIVELY powerful AI Thracians who own almost everything from the Black Sea up to the Baltic, and have both the Germans and the Scythians as Protectorates! Before I destroyed them the Julii had been blocked in by the tough Gauls and had only taken that single city to the north-west of their capital in the Tuscan coast (Arretium, is it? I forget exactly). In the East, the men of Pontus and the Seleucids have been allied since turn 1 and are fending off the Egyptians - they seem deadlocked.

So my late game rival is going to be a very powerful Thrace plus their vassals, and most likely the Gauls (who, having not been molested by the Julii, have built up their tech and have some nasty looking stacks wandering about...).

Sorry, Off-topic but there ya go. ~:)

[Uesugi Kenshin]

It would be more exciting if it was say 60/40 advantage Romans, then it would usually be the romans who won, but they would still be defeated fairly often.

Gladiator uprisings happen when a city rebels when it is either romanized and has an arena or better, or when a city rebels that romans control, after previous owners die and it has an arena or better.

[pezhetairoi]

Gladiators are mean, but still, they're just like any other army that isn't mine--defeatable. I caught Spartacus in Athens, once. Looks like he found his ride in Brundisium after all. :-) I made his career a very short one.