Midnight
08-28-2006, 19:07
I decided to give BI another bash, since I'd not really played it much, and I'd heard the map was more dynamic than in RTW. I took the ERE, VH\M, and I've destroyed the (reasonably aggressive but hopelessly out-produced and out-matched) Sassanids.
It's 374 AD, and I'm occasionally using toggle_fow to see how everyone's doing, since I'm interested in how the western part of the map changes. Hmm.
The supposedly shaky WRE is phenomenally strong, with Lepcis Magna and Aquincum having gone to the West Roman Rebels. The WRE swiftly re-took Lepcis Magna.
The Saxons have failed to siege Campus Frisii twice - the Franks have it now. The Burgundii and Lombardii have taken a couple of rebel provinces. The Alemanni took two provinces and lost their capital to the WRE. The Berbers have done nothing.
The Celts have 1 1/2 stacks outside Dal Raida, and England is all but undefended, yet they refuse to make a move against their enemies! The Huns ignored the Roxolani (fair enough), sieged the Sarmatians, lifted the siege and moved south (why lift?). I'm defending the way to Constantinople with 2 forts and tough armies in each, and Sirmium also has a good garrison. The Huns decided not to attack, but mill around doing nothing. They've been doing this for a good few turns.
The Vandals sacked one of the Goths' two towns, and then moved back to the Sarmatians. Since then, they've been sieging the town one turn, lifting the siege the next, then sieging, then lifting... uh, what!?
Basically, nothing's happening except my destruction of the Sassanids. Only the starting two horde armies, who're almost frozen with indecision, are in a Horde, and the WRE's not exactly looking frail.
Oh, and no wars or ceasefires other than the starting ones have been declared, except for the Vandals and Huns warning me, before being too petrified to do anything.
Sorry for the long post, but is it always this static? I dearly miss MTW's fantastic campaign map fluidity - nothing was ever the same twice, and sometimes really crazy things happened, but something always happened.
Am I missing something here?
It's 374 AD, and I'm occasionally using toggle_fow to see how everyone's doing, since I'm interested in how the western part of the map changes. Hmm.
The supposedly shaky WRE is phenomenally strong, with Lepcis Magna and Aquincum having gone to the West Roman Rebels. The WRE swiftly re-took Lepcis Magna.
The Saxons have failed to siege Campus Frisii twice - the Franks have it now. The Burgundii and Lombardii have taken a couple of rebel provinces. The Alemanni took two provinces and lost their capital to the WRE. The Berbers have done nothing.
The Celts have 1 1/2 stacks outside Dal Raida, and England is all but undefended, yet they refuse to make a move against their enemies! The Huns ignored the Roxolani (fair enough), sieged the Sarmatians, lifted the siege and moved south (why lift?). I'm defending the way to Constantinople with 2 forts and tough armies in each, and Sirmium also has a good garrison. The Huns decided not to attack, but mill around doing nothing. They've been doing this for a good few turns.
The Vandals sacked one of the Goths' two towns, and then moved back to the Sarmatians. Since then, they've been sieging the town one turn, lifting the siege the next, then sieging, then lifting... uh, what!?
Basically, nothing's happening except my destruction of the Sassanids. Only the starting two horde armies, who're almost frozen with indecision, are in a Horde, and the WRE's not exactly looking frail.
Oh, and no wars or ceasefires other than the starting ones have been declared, except for the Vandals and Huns warning me, before being too petrified to do anything.
Sorry for the long post, but is it always this static? I dearly miss MTW's fantastic campaign map fluidity - nothing was ever the same twice, and sometimes really crazy things happened, but something always happened.
Am I missing something here?