Monarch
04-14-2006, 16:45
I've had some time now to fiddle around with my Romani campaign and I'm having alot of fun. Stuck it on easy campaign as it was my first :P But put battles on normal. The only annoying thing I find is when a unit has the peasent unit card, because then it takes me a while to actually figure out if the units archer/peltast/cav/inf or other lol. But obviously still a beta so that's to be expected.
Other than that it's great. Took me a while to get to grips with it though, at first I had Rorii as my back bone unit (they looked quite good lol from appearence) but then when AI bottlenecked the gate and my rorii just got slaughtered by those naked guys and other alike units I rethought and started mass producing Principes (better value for money than hastati imo). Fortunes turned around I took have the italian peninsula sicily, sardinia.
But after constant naval blockade form Carthage I decided I had to retaliate, however I couldn't make a naval fleet that would compete so I decided to launch amphibious landings on Kart-Hadast (I just made it as from sicily you can get to Africa in a turn) and then I would move on to take their other ports, cutting them off at the source lol.
I now have Kart-Hadast and have another Carthaginian African city under siege. I figure after taking Carthages African ports the blockades will stop and I can turn on Makedonia :laugh4: I'm leaving Gaul alone because I don't want to own an empire of mud huts :no: lol
Anyway, thanks EB for relighting my interest in SP! I've been playing BI MP for months now so it's nice to try something different.
-Monarch
PS. When is the 8.0 coming out? I can't wait. What additions will there be? (I'd love some more unit cards lol)
Other than that it's great. Took me a while to get to grips with it though, at first I had Rorii as my back bone unit (they looked quite good lol from appearence) but then when AI bottlenecked the gate and my rorii just got slaughtered by those naked guys and other alike units I rethought and started mass producing Principes (better value for money than hastati imo). Fortunes turned around I took have the italian peninsula sicily, sardinia.
But after constant naval blockade form Carthage I decided I had to retaliate, however I couldn't make a naval fleet that would compete so I decided to launch amphibious landings on Kart-Hadast (I just made it as from sicily you can get to Africa in a turn) and then I would move on to take their other ports, cutting them off at the source lol.
I now have Kart-Hadast and have another Carthaginian African city under siege. I figure after taking Carthages African ports the blockades will stop and I can turn on Makedonia :laugh4: I'm leaving Gaul alone because I don't want to own an empire of mud huts :no: lol
Anyway, thanks EB for relighting my interest in SP! I've been playing BI MP for months now so it's nice to try something different.
-Monarch
PS. When is the 8.0 coming out? I can't wait. What additions will there be? (I'd love some more unit cards lol)