Ever gotten one of those missions...

Senate missions are usually pretty easy for me, take this settlement, blockade that settlement, aqquire trade rights with this faction, yada yada yada. However, when ever I seem to be doing good, the Senate goes and throws an impossible assignment at me. Recently in my Brutii campaign I was mopping up the Macedonians when the Senate told me to blockade Thessalonca. Fair enough, I said so I sailed my fleet of Triremes up the Aegean, and find that the Thessalonca port is being blocked off by 3 Senate Biremes! I couldn't get through to blockade it. So I moved back to let the Senate ships out. They never moved, I failed the mission, and the Senate told me to do it again 3 years later, which I also failed. Really annoying. :furious3:

I've read on these boards that you can blockade a port by moving an army over it... I have not yet tried it myself, but I guess you might give it a try: I suppose you'll have a spare army left somewhere in that region as you are mopping up the Macedonians...

I remeber as Scipiio faction, I started the very first mission on the very first turn I got was to take Syracuse. Alright, I have nothing even near a full stack at the beginning even if I do consolidate my forces, I wonder how much time it'll take to make an army to take syracuse, and the city has stone walls and a full army of hoplites and peltasts... I was like wtf >>;;;.

Well when i was playing the brutii, i got the mission to blockade sparta. So i gathered up my small fleet and to my surprise when i got there the greeks had three huge stackfulls of ships. It was near impossible,and i was like into my 10-11nth turn!!

Thats not fair, they asked me to blockade sparta 2 more times, again and again i failed. How can i blockade sparta if the greeks have sunk my whole navy!!?? :furious3:

You can blockade / besiege the port of any city with an army on land.

You do not need a single ship!

Yea, I know that now. Fortunately it doesn't matter as I have sacked Rome. They were getting annoying and the opertunity presented it self. Made my life very convienient. Unfortunately I gave them Palma earlier in the game to get them off my tail, so now their weak navies keep harassing my Quintiquireme fleets.

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You can blockade / besiege the port of any city with an army on land.

You do not need a single ship!

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Yeah ok, this is 10 turns into the game and i've just captured thermon. There were greek armies and macedonian one between me and sparta, and i did not want to piss off macedonia just yet.

Allied forces should be able to pass through the same map square. My Hastati shift formaiton to create avenues through which other units can move up, the same should be true for allied units.

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Originally Posted by TigerVX

I remeber as Scipiio faction, I started the very first mission on the very first turn I got was to take Syracuse. Alright, I have nothing even near a full stack at the beginning even if I do consolidate my forces, I wonder how much time it'll take to make an army to take syracuse, and the city has stone walls and a full army of hoplites and peltasts... I was like wtf >>;;;.

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they also ask and syracuse wont attack it just falls to u and they may attack on the last ditch effort to save syracuse but that means they leaves the gates and rush at u.

My favorite impossible mission was during the middle part of my Julii campaign. The Brutii had pretty much wiped the floor with the Macedonians at that point and the Senate had a mission to ask for their surrender. I had a diplomat in the area, so I figured, 'Easy enough'.

Looking at the area I discovered that the only Macedonian city left was Sparta. Fortunately, the roads in the area were good, so it would only take two turns or so to walk down and hand them their surrender papers.

Unfortunately, just as my diplomat got near the city, the wandering Brutii legions decided to lay siege. This, of course, prevented my diplomat from walking in (sort of silly as a diplomatic end to a seige should be an option). Turn after turn they held the siege. Figuring they'd capture the city and put the Macedonians out of the picture, my diplomat began to walk off to do other things before dying of old age waiting for my 'brethren' to let him in.

A turn later, I get the 'mission failed' and didn't think much of it. About three turns later, the Senate offers a mission to have the Macedonians surrender. Apparently the Brutii decided to walk away from a city they could've easily assaulted without much loss. My diplomat was close by still, so he again made the trek to Sparta. He ended two 'steps' away from the city, which was clear and free with no Brutii force in sight. Upon the start of the next turn, guess who's blocking my diplomat from entering the city again?

I swear the Brutii were deliberately playing this game to lower my standing in the Senate (I was clearly the favored family there at the time). Needless to say, when the civil war broke out, they were the ones to suffer my wrath. Sparta eventually fell...to an amphibious assault force of my own because I was sick of the 'let's play with the city like a cat with a wounded prey' strategy the Brutii were imposing.


My favorite WTF? mission came shortly after the above. Dacia had been a quiet, friendly neighbor of Rome throughout the campaign. They had even helped the Brutii in the east, although they weren't that effective and quickly lost whatever they gained (usually the Brutii coming in an liberating the recaptured lands). Then the Senate gave the mission to make them surrender. Were I roleplaying my family, I probably would've been floored at this request, but sort of expected it as inevitable, game-wise. What DID shock me, however, was when I looked at the diplomacy screen. Dacia was neutral with me (even helped against the Gauls), neutral with the Scipii, and ALLIED with the Brutii. Only the Senate was at war with them. What a loopy bunch of politicians! Of course, the next turn the other Roman factions did as they always seem to do and went the way the Senate pointed and declared war. As for me, I almost contemplated civil war at that point and defending Dacia, but it was too risky at that moment, especially for a foreign AI that would probably attack me because there's no way to tell it why you're doing something. Instead I decided to ignore the Senate's request and never went to war with them, watching sadly as the Brutii lap dogs trashed their long term buddy without remorse.