Any tips for Roman campaign?

**gabba202** · 06-01-2008, 14:17

Hey i just started a new roman campaign...anyone got any tips for me to maximize my conquesting efficiency

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-01-2008, 15:12

The Illyrian coast has mines and ports, grab them ASAP for lots of income. Asia Minor and Greece are also loaded.

**johnhughthom** · 06-01-2008, 15:50

I think the best tip for the Romans is to try and roleplay, they are a very easy faction to use and steamrolling over Europe can get boring quite quickly. Trying to play historically (read QS' AAR for how to go about it) is a good way to go about a Romani campaign.

**delra** · 06-01-2008, 16:03

Challenge 1: If you can besiege Segesta on the first turn with your starting army and then win when they sally forth, you're too good to play Romans.

Challenge 2: Never have more than 3 units of same type in an army of yours. Stacks of Principes aren't fun. Add some hoplites and bruttian hastati (from Tarentum) instead of your standard Principes and Hastati, also some Gauls from the north (Neitos make excellent infantry and Brihentin are the best cavalry you will EVER be able to train). Some Ligurians from Segesta are also a nice addition to your stacks as cannon fodder/damage sponge. Corsica has nice archer/spearmen, Crete has best archers until you reach Syria. Just outside the Alps there are Helvetii tribes who can field some really serious units. So do use those, diversify your armies!

Challenge 3: Never exterminate.

Challenge 4: Go find Quintus Sertorius code of conduct to become a true Roman (and an AAR based on it) and play the way he did!

**Cartaphilus** · 06-01-2008, 19:15

I'm playing romani again, but now I'm trying to emulate historic events.

And I'm using the "force diplomacy cheat" to balance the superpowers in the east and to make Casse landing in Belgica, and create a statu quo in Gallia and Germania (I want to conquer the celts in the right time).

Now I'm busy with Epiros in Iliria and I'm fighting (to win) my second Punic War - I've put the sabean in some cities I've taken to emulate Massinissa's realm.

Very funny indeed.

**satalexton** · 06-02-2008, 03:52

'-' challenge 1 ain -that- hard if you know how to play cheap.... >_>

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-02-2008, 09:18

Originally Posted by delra

Challenge 2: Never have more than 3 units of same type in an army of yours. Stacks of Principes aren't fun. Add some hoplites and bruttian hastati (from Tarentum) instead of your standard Principes and Hastati, also some Gauls from the north (Neitos make excellent infantry and Brihentin are the best cavalry you will EVER be able to train). Some Ligurians from Segesta are also a nice addition to your stacks as cannon fodder/damage sponge. Corsica has nice archer/spearmen, Crete has best archers until you reach Syria. Just outside the Alps there are Helvetii tribes who can field some really serious units. So do use those, diversify your armies!

This is actually quite a neat little rule, though I'd say no more than two types of the same unit.

**satalexton** · 06-02-2008, 11:39

naw, it's more fun to have no more than 2 armies in teh field at all times.

I've used the initial units all the way up to the marian times by leaving capua unupgraded. n their exp are all maxed out. The polybian counterpart's up to silver 3 chevs.

not that hard since all the cash can be freed up for having large garrison units in border settlements and forts. I know it's not realistic, but having 2 armies that can carve through pretty much anything is kinda fun >_>

**johnhughthom** · 06-02-2008, 11:47

Originally Posted by delra

Challenge 1: If you can besiege Segesta on the first turn with your starting army and then win when they sally forth, you're too good to play Romans.

I loaded up a new campaign to have a go at this and I am not too good to play Romans...

**Cartaphilus** · 06-04-2008, 07:25

I post it here this question: Why the romani can build Type II Government (expansion) in places like Poland, Denmark, etc, where they never arrived???

They never held it territories beyond the Elbe.

**Aaldaemon** · 06-04-2008, 10:53

Everyone seems to love playing the Romani historically... I did that once too... but then I tried something else and it was exceedingly fun - I turned the armies of the Res Publica into fully Celtic armies (bar the generals and the odd unit, usually some Triari to act as the Roman "elite")... Gaul became my heartland of recruitment... and I started overruning Europe with streams of Neitos and Brihentin under the SPQR banners... Basically the Romans became the tax payers, with the Gauls their military enforcers. Gallia Victrix! Wish I still had the savegame, I was just about to take on the Gray Death with my Gauls.