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I thought maybe our Italian army could launch an attack on the Gaul on the adratic coast. March up that coast and assault Patavium. Help clear the way of Julii armies for the faction leader approaching through France.
Money was easing in the last two turns after those big Roman city captures. If you engage in much toop building or mercenary hires you could tip the finances into the red unless expansion also occurs.
There are plenty of low quality troops around.
Good luck.
Just a note to say I am up to 214 Summer[1], currently besieged in Mediolanium, A lot of hard fighting awaits between here and Rome. IIRC, the faction leader is 48 and we hold only around 24 provinces.
[1]This PBM has been a little squeezed out by the time required to oversee the Will of the Senate one.
Glad its still progressing. Hope the elephants for the special mission are safe.
Yes, they are - there was a tense moment when my elephants were among a lot of legionnaires throwing pila and I suddenly started to wonder what I was doing. But they all surivived and then I realised they were not the elephants for the special mission anyway! ~:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Severous
I've made it to Rome with the elephants in tact. I'm thinking of stopping here. The faction heir is 52 and we are far short of 50 provinces, but the rest of the campaign looks like being a slog.
The savegame is romefalls.zip, so anyone who wants to take this campaign further can download it and play on.
I'll post a write-up in a few days.
I may interject a ruling here where; as long as we’ve completed our other objectives; the “Obtain 50 regions” objecting will be unnecessary.
So:
Have we captured our target regions?
Have we eliminated our target factions?
Do we control Rome?
If the answer is “yes” for all these I will close this campaign as a complete success as I am long a believer that a good campaign does not require 50 regions to be held but rather to reach that “critical mass” where defeat is near impossible in the given game settings.
Another Note: I am currently without a home PC, I installed some hardware and the PC died as a result (being looked into now). So, whilst I’ll have my new net connection at home this week I won’t have a PC to use it!! (damn!).
My aim is to playtest for two new campaigns:
1) an RTR based one
2) a BI based one
Once I have a working PC at home I will work towards setting up both these if possible.
As of the savegame I uploaded, we controlled the Rome and the regions. I did not realise Numidia was a target faction, but playing on a couple of years, we take their last settlement (and knock out the Julii).Quote:
Originally Posted by Braden
Sounds good. I would recommend checking out Goth's "all factions" mod for BI (or even his Julianorum mod if you want to do a mega-Roman campaign). It brings the game up to (about) RTR standards - with very nice unit graphics - and makes the hordes more threatening. You can find them on the RTR forum on the featured mods sub-forum.Quote:
My aim is to playtest for two new campaigns:
1) an RTR based one
2) a BI based one
Once I have a working PC at home I will work towards setting up both these if possible.
Econ21 - can you finish that last little thing? Seems odd to pass it to a new player if that's all that's left to do.
I can declare the PBM a success then!
There you go, Numidia destroyed - plus elephants resting in Roma.
https://img148.imageshack.us/img148/...hageend7gf.jpg
I hereby formally Close this PBM as a Major Victory!!
- now everyone cheer. Go on!
and there was much rejoicing...
http://www.geocities.com/fang_club/much_rejoicing.jpg
Thank you Braden for organising the campaign and allowing me to participate.
I enjoyed using the Elephants to batter a way into towns and crush AI infantry standing in the breach. It was the four AI attacks over one end of turn that I will remember most. Never been so heavily attacked before.
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dang nvm
Yeah, Capua appears to have been a strategically important juncture of the campaign and hard fought for accordingly.
Once we had it though, Carthages Navies couldn’t be stopped!
Hannibal99 – Once I have repaired my currently broken home PC I will be conducting another (perhaps two more) PBM’s so keep looking.
You Carthies are going down in the WotS
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