So having played a number of RTW campaigns I decided there had to be some awesome mods out there, and of course then I found EB. So I started an Epeirote campaign. Its 240 bc and i've come a long way. First turn in complete RTW fashion I sent the northern greek army to pellas to besiege, the southern one to demetrias to beseige, and then scrapped together an italian army by emptying my cities. I took arpi and capua on successive turns. Turns out two front wars are much more difficult in this game because of army costs, but the 2nd, 3rd and 4th turn enslavement/massacres really helped my bottom line. I was out of debt by the time the romans counter attacked with 2 half stacks besieging both capua and arpi. Luckily Macedon was getting ripped a new one by KH. But by 240 Italy is mine, I'm mopping up Mainland Greece, and a Neutral Carthage has the audacity to march a one unit army up and down Italy doing nothing, they will be dealt with shortly...
On to my questions:
In my roman wars I was putting similar number of classic hoplites up against equally mixed hastati/principe and I could barely win battles and took huge losses, my tried and true pin and pincer tactics only just worked well enough to just pull out the victories. I compared their stats and granted they were better but it wasn't a huge disparity between units. Is this game that much harder than RTW (like are enemies getting massive morale bonuses or what?) or are my starting units just the shite i thought they were.
2nd question, government. Havn't even touched this yet in my game. Is keeping the existing Macedonian or Roman governments intact wrong? Will they govern any better in terms of happiness (from my readings i gather i'll have access to a larger building tree, better trade, etc when implementing my own)? I assume its logically like they are my subjugated allies but if i destroy a government building to impose one of my forms, will the settlement come to a screeching halt as i wait for the new government to be built? Will i be able to recruit the same units/any units during that time? will all the buildings i built under the old government become obsolete?
Lastly the computer ai seemes to be doing very little in terms of fighting amongst themselves, KH and Macedon, Ptolomies and Seleucia, and the Aedui and Averni, and thats pretty much it. Is this to be expected? Will they start more as the game progresses? It was always one of my annoyances from RTW that the only really sustained campaigns run by the ai were against me, and maybe thats cause i'm really agressive (read:reckless) and piss everyone off, but I was hoping for a bit of ai infighting...
anywho that was pretty long, but i appreciate your responses, Thanks!
