Senates Money

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07-31-2005, 10:49
Mahrabals apprentice

Senates Money

Where does the senate gets its cash from?

I am playing the SPQR mod and have wiped out the brutii, and the scipii only have capua left. I have blockaded Romes port and blocked the roads between Rome and capua, and alos the road heading north. BUt they are still churning out Pretorians as fast as i can kill them. Does any know how I can starve the senate without blockading Rome and having my armies mauled by their all pretorian armies, becuase i am struggling to deal with them atm. I have fought 3 battles with them and won 1 and i'd call 1 a draw. 2 of the battles were traditional style full stack battles. I lost 1 (with an experience army of armoured hopolites, cretian archers etc) and I won 1 (with an army of raw recruits,mainly standard hoplites) but only with massive casualties. I also drew (well technically lost) a battle with a..... unusual army. 20 units of militia cavalry :charge: . Javelins seem to be a little over powered and this allowed me to defeat a julii army and then take on a senate army. I just ran them all forward, and as they ran out of javelins I ordered each unit to route.
So I retreated (they won), BUT i kill 377 pretorians and they killed 72 militia (so that feels like a victory).

But if they produce troops at their current rate I am never going to be able to take Rome, so i need to cut the cash flow. :help:
07-31-2005, 16:31
Gaius Drakan

Re: Senates Money

What difficulty settings you playing on??

The AI tends to get unlimited money so all that stuff about blockading ports is useless, (if your on H/H or VH/VH) I think
07-31-2005, 18:49
Cheater

Re: Senates Money

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The AI tends to get unlimited money so all that stuff about blockading ports is useless, (if your on H/H or VH/VH) I think

I'm not entirely sure about that. You see, in the desc_Strat.txt they show how much money each faction starts out with, which regions they have everything else. I kinda find it hard to believe that the AI can just have unlimited cash out of nowhere. I firmly believe that they have finances like everyone else.

Also, I think that the Senate faction is a unique faction in regards to the fact that they cannot be destroyed by simply killing all their family members. I think that they DO have some kind of hardcodded thingabob that causes them to be better than others in that regard.

Also, you need to understand that they don't seem to do any construction or anything else than order around the other Roman factions.

But of course, I could be mistaken.