being new to the eb experience, i had a hard time playing this mod recently as smaller factions (getai, epirus, macedonia, greeks). so recently i attempted a carthaginian campaign on easy/medium. all was going well, financially and militarily until shortly after the siege of capua. after taking it, i found i could not keep public order in check. it was virtually stuck at 40% with a full army in it, decent governor, and low tax rate. now capua is a large city (10k) with plenty of public order buildings, but the unrest is insane. after rioting threatens to destroy my army bit by bit, i move most of my stack out of the city. sure enough the city revolts back to back roman rule and spawns 12 units inside it
wtf???
so what choice do i have, let a city destroy my army until it decides to calm down or maybe i should just exterminate all major cities i conquer? these choices are retarded. meanwhile the ai factions receive so much "under the table" money, they can afford to lose all their major cities and lose every battle but still be healthy enough to keep recruiting huge armies to do endless battle with me that will slowly but surely wear me down.
like i said, this is a big bitch fest. but is there seriously anyone else out there that sees the unrealistic manner in which the campaign is portrayed? because there is a lack of intelligence and tactical skill on the part of the ai, the challenge factor should not be replaced with money bonuses, morale bonuses, and spontaneous spawning of large numbers of units.
while we are on the topic of spontaneous spawning. about the same time as the revolt of capua, an eleutheroi army spawned in southern italy. and there wasn't even any eleutheroi city there anymore. these armies should at least appear in or near eleutheroi cities.
also, units available and requirements need to be viewable in game. at this point, its virtually a guessing game whether i can recruit a certain unit under a certain government with a certain level of barracks. i've wasted so much money building several levels of barracks for foreign natives or factional barracks all to find out nothing or next to nothing is recruitable with that government. or even to find out there isn't even any suitable recruits in that region period. i've seen the recruitment viewer and its pretty good, but a lot more helpful for people with two computers in the same room.
now for all those who are about to post just to hate on me, don't even bother. i'm only interested in seeing how to deal with the city revolt issue and what everyone thinks about the ai and the bonuses they receive.
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