Emperor Aurelius
09-21-2005, 00:06
Hi I need advice on my campgain.Sorry if this is kinda long but please read it!
Hello.I was recently playing as the brutaii.First let me give you some history.First my empire took over all of greece and macedonia.We then took parts of dacia and segestica in illyria.Once this was completed I launched an all out invasion of pergamum and hilocapolois or whatever that city north of rounds is called.Once then I started an island hopping campaign.You see the Egyptians attacked me when I when I was advancing even farther into turkey!Their navy inflicted heavy losses and their soldiers more then matched my histatii!Luckily I was preparing a secret army of newer soldiers in Athens.It included the amazing preatorian guard and other high powered units.I shipped it right towards egypt adn slipt thru the egyptian navy.My allies the thracians(who I gave 500k too!Had conquered much of dacia and russia and were by now a superpower and their navy kept the Egyptians busy).
I then attacked rhodes,crete,cyprus,cyrene,and I even took carthage and syracuse which both rebelled from the scipii!My cities in turkey were under seige but by now I had several cities producing early legionary cohorts,preatorians,roman calvary,and urban cohorts that managed to turn the tide of the war in turkey.My forces captured Alexandria and memphis.But the main problem was that Egypt still controlled a cast empire which took over ALL of the Selucid emprie,egypt,and half of turkey!As well as their last stronghold in egypt.Plus they sent WAVE AFTER WAVE of troops.Endless lines of Egyptian armies constantly attacked my cities and armies!Finally I put cyprus to good use.I stacked 1200 soldiers from cyprus and had then raid the cities of tyre and antioch.Using catapults they took the walls.Then they burnt every building in the city to the ground and massacred the population.Then they left for cyprus again.My "palestine pirates" as I called them really damaged the Egyptian economy by obliterating those cities.They even sacked the Egyptian capitol of Sidon itself!Then left...
So sounds good doesnt it?Im winning arent I?WRONG.I WAS winning.That is until my economy blew up.ALL OVER MY EMPIRE cities are rising in rebellion!I now have to keep an average opf 700 soldiers in EVERY SINGLE CITY IN MY EMPIRE.This does not even count the cities with LARGE garrisons of sometimes 1500 soldiers.Or the HUGE feild armies all over my empire!Also my economy went down the drain despite all of my overseas colonies!Carthage and syracuse rose in rebellion and I aad to massavre the populations to put them down!Cypruss has now been garrisoned with 2,200 soldiers.1200 of them are my legendary palestinian pirates.The other 1000 are there to stop another insurrection.EVERY SINGLE CITY IN MY EMPIRE ROSE IN REBELLION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MY CAPITOL AT THE ISLAND OF CRETE!Cyprus once produced 1,300 gold per turn.Now it produces -900.The egyptian provinces are in constant revolt too!
To stop these revolts I went on a massive purge of my empire.I massacred populations from Italy,to greece,to sicily and carthage and cyrene,to egypt!I massacred AT LEAST 150,000 of my own civilians!Several times my own armies were bribed and turned on me!Rebels are rampaging thru greece and other areas of the empire!It got so bad that I even had to call in my allies the thracians to aid me in a battle between macedonian rebels near thesalonica!
My point?What do I do!? How can I secure my colossal empire and put an end to my once great but now miserable economy?I thought about abandoning cyprus,egypt ,carthage,and syracuse.But Im afraid to for 2 reasons:
1)If I back out of egypt and cyprus the Egyptians will take all 3 of those territories back and recover from the damage ive done to them.They are already revocering from my 3 city raids and are preparing to launch a major offensive to retake Egpyt from me.Once there who's to say that they will not launch another invasion of the 3 cities I hold in turkey?Or even attack greece and crete themselves!
2)If I evacuate Carthage and Syracuse then the Scipii will take them and when I have to launch an invasion of their empire in the civil war that is to come they will be EXTREMELY POWERFUL!
So what do I do?
Hello.I was recently playing as the brutaii.First let me give you some history.First my empire took over all of greece and macedonia.We then took parts of dacia and segestica in illyria.Once this was completed I launched an all out invasion of pergamum and hilocapolois or whatever that city north of rounds is called.Once then I started an island hopping campaign.You see the Egyptians attacked me when I when I was advancing even farther into turkey!Their navy inflicted heavy losses and their soldiers more then matched my histatii!Luckily I was preparing a secret army of newer soldiers in Athens.It included the amazing preatorian guard and other high powered units.I shipped it right towards egypt adn slipt thru the egyptian navy.My allies the thracians(who I gave 500k too!Had conquered much of dacia and russia and were by now a superpower and their navy kept the Egyptians busy).
I then attacked rhodes,crete,cyprus,cyrene,and I even took carthage and syracuse which both rebelled from the scipii!My cities in turkey were under seige but by now I had several cities producing early legionary cohorts,preatorians,roman calvary,and urban cohorts that managed to turn the tide of the war in turkey.My forces captured Alexandria and memphis.But the main problem was that Egypt still controlled a cast empire which took over ALL of the Selucid emprie,egypt,and half of turkey!As well as their last stronghold in egypt.Plus they sent WAVE AFTER WAVE of troops.Endless lines of Egyptian armies constantly attacked my cities and armies!Finally I put cyprus to good use.I stacked 1200 soldiers from cyprus and had then raid the cities of tyre and antioch.Using catapults they took the walls.Then they burnt every building in the city to the ground and massacred the population.Then they left for cyprus again.My "palestine pirates" as I called them really damaged the Egyptian economy by obliterating those cities.They even sacked the Egyptian capitol of Sidon itself!Then left...
So sounds good doesnt it?Im winning arent I?WRONG.I WAS winning.That is until my economy blew up.ALL OVER MY EMPIRE cities are rising in rebellion!I now have to keep an average opf 700 soldiers in EVERY SINGLE CITY IN MY EMPIRE.This does not even count the cities with LARGE garrisons of sometimes 1500 soldiers.Or the HUGE feild armies all over my empire!Also my economy went down the drain despite all of my overseas colonies!Carthage and syracuse rose in rebellion and I aad to massavre the populations to put them down!Cypruss has now been garrisoned with 2,200 soldiers.1200 of them are my legendary palestinian pirates.The other 1000 are there to stop another insurrection.EVERY SINGLE CITY IN MY EMPIRE ROSE IN REBELLION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MY CAPITOL AT THE ISLAND OF CRETE!Cyprus once produced 1,300 gold per turn.Now it produces -900.The egyptian provinces are in constant revolt too!
To stop these revolts I went on a massive purge of my empire.I massacred populations from Italy,to greece,to sicily and carthage and cyrene,to egypt!I massacred AT LEAST 150,000 of my own civilians!Several times my own armies were bribed and turned on me!Rebels are rampaging thru greece and other areas of the empire!It got so bad that I even had to call in my allies the thracians to aid me in a battle between macedonian rebels near thesalonica!
My point?What do I do!? How can I secure my colossal empire and put an end to my once great but now miserable economy?I thought about abandoning cyprus,egypt ,carthage,and syracuse.But Im afraid to for 2 reasons:
1)If I back out of egypt and cyprus the Egyptians will take all 3 of those territories back and recover from the damage ive done to them.They are already revocering from my 3 city raids and are preparing to launch a major offensive to retake Egpyt from me.Once there who's to say that they will not launch another invasion of the 3 cities I hold in turkey?Or even attack greece and crete themselves!
2)If I evacuate Carthage and Syracuse then the Scipii will take them and when I have to launch an invasion of their empire in the civil war that is to come they will be EXTREMELY POWERFUL!
So what do I do?