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ive had that problem in other mods, not this one though. When i start a war with another faction I blitzkrieg the hell out of them ill take cities and exterminate them and allow them to retake the city I dont care I win through slaughter of their populations. Also dont waste your time with little stupid cities go after the big army pumping cities and exterminate them you can also destroy their barracks and any other building possible to just wreak havoc.
Another strategy that has worked well for me in my Baktria campaign is helping uprisings in Seleukid settlements. It's a great way to get them off your back while you build up. Saved my butt too after they took Baktra, I just planted 4 spy's and harrassed them with my forces drawing more of the garrison out of the city till Baktra went back over to me. Worked great on many of their peripheral settlements, such as the ones that bordered me, and with a network of spies I managed to cause revolts in every Seleukid settlement bordering me. Again, good way to keep your larger enemy empires occupied if you need more time to build up economically and militarily.
hum... I should try this strategy...Quote:
Originally Posted by stupac
I was suffering the same problem as you os wanted to slow donw an little...
I've just started an campain with Cartage and didnt wanted to start in Total war so early, wanted to grow up an little.... So I payed the Lusotannan small gifts to make them happy and started to work in the romani with spies and assassins, keeping an rebeld province between me and they... Now I'm at their doors with an stack made mostly of medium african spearmens (Libians and Libio-Phoenician) and some Cartaginian medium cavalry but also with one unit of elephants (i just love them, much more than in vannilla :2thumbsup: , and desesperating while waiting for the new skins), other unit of Iberian Lancearii (yay, Iberian catrafacts :beam: ), other unit of Iberian assault infantry... And an 1/4 stack of numidian cavalry coming to annoy, ambush and harrass them as Hannibal did with them.
And they werent expecting this, even if they already were at war with me (due to their war declaration on my Auedi allies and an assassin's failure), and most of their armyes are in gaul so they're toasted (no AI army ever beated me in an field battle in EB when there's elephants in play, no mater the side, I always makes them to favor me and to give me victoy) :2thumbsup:
im kinda havin this problem right now to.. i mean im doing fine but im as KH and have selucid, ptolmaio, and Romani on me ive taken all of Selucids major cities but they keep sending stack after stack and ive takin the key settelments for ptolmaio and rome but the stacks are non-ending and soon ill end up fighting Carthage also =/ im playing defensive with Arche and offensive on Rome/ptolmaio so i can grab the required settelments from them, but grrr it gets kinda frustrating.. :furious3:
(P.S. i havent used any cheats yet or money scripts)
(P.P.S. it sucks having the Saka as only ally cuz i had rome and hai but when rome attacked me hai supported them not me =/ (the'll regret that :laugh4:) and saka are gettin woped by Backtria and Saurmatae)
Im playing as the KH and early on had the massive war with the selucides. The money script help cripple them, but early on I launched as massive offensive, and gifted many of their cities to pontus, who were my protectorate. The problem was when pontus betrayed me for the romans, and now had a substantial empire of their own. But its better then fighting the selucides, as their stacks are mainly full of crap.
It works quite well, but make sure you keep the nation your using as a shield weak otherwise they'll turn on you eventually.
I think the best you can do is like those guys said, deep raids sustained by Mercs to maintain your numbers, and remember to use the Mercs as fodder, your own units (even midling ones) are far more important.
btw, Its generally better if you blitz say, ten provinces at once, and then leave a few big armies to safeguard your conquests while you consolidate. Worked wonders in my Romanii campaign after some Mak dweebnicks attacked my without provocation. Managed to take Demetrias, Pellas, Athens, and Chalkis (The Peloponese was in possesion of the KH), and left them impotent.
The real trick is to take as much as you can, then sacrifice whatever you cannot comfortably hold. Say you take two lines of cities that you would be very hard pressed to defend with your few stacks? The solution is to burn down everything there and leave it to rebel. When it rebels there will be several nasty mercs for the enemy to deal with, and you'll have breathing room to bring in your Reinforcements and consolidate your holdings.
The key to winning a war is to seem weak where you are strong, strong where you are weak, choose battle only when you know you have already won, and always make sure that you are in a comfortable position while your oponent is tired/overextended. All from Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Play on M/M seems to slow the AI up and allows you to bribe of enemies. Playing as Romani I can get to 170BC playing slowly before I hit uber war I have to fight a big battle about every 3 moves.
Works well for Romani don't know about other factions.
The ultimate solution would be a merging of the TW games and Paradox's EU games/