Benefits of BI

[Aaldaemon]

I didn't like the way the invasions never stopped, even after you'd soundly beaten them and gotten a ceasefire. I went back to rtw.exe in frustration after that.

But do invasions ever stop? I don't know about that... the diplomatic "AI" is so bent on total war at times it makes me want to bang my head on walls. That's one of the major failings of RTW as far as I'm concerned... the "total war" aspect of its diplomacy. While one could understand the Romani behaving in that way, it's a bit hard to justify some of the behavior of the other factions. Something like "let's send an understrength army (against our hugely powerful neighbor who can wipe us from the face of the earth without blinking) to die every couple of turns sieging settlement X from now on till the apocalypse" is just something I don't particularly like... hopefully Empire will be the messiah of the total war strategic module.

[johnhughthom]

That looks very different to my experience of BI.exe. All I ever saw was small 3 or 4 unit armies being landed. I would love to be invaded like that.

[QuintusSertorius]

That looks very different to my experience of BI.exe. All I ever saw was small 3 or 4 unit armies being landed. I would love to be invaded like that.

Initially, I got some full stacks. But once I'd actually beaten the Qarthadastim, then it was this constant stream of 3-4 unit armies. Pointless and annoying.

[Aaldaemon]

Initially, I got some full stacks. But once I'd actually beaten the Qarthadastim, then it was this constant stream of 3-4 unit armies. Pointless and annoying.

/cries. I know what you mean oh ssssooooooooo verrrrrry weeeeeeell...

[lobf]

Initially, I got some full stacks. But once I'd actually beaten the Qarthadastim, then it was this constant stream of 3-4 unit armies. Pointless and annoying.

It was that way in my last game except with Sicily. This time around invasions were much less common but almost always consisted of a full stack.

[Ibrahim]

I'd be playing it, if the game didn't CTD from installing the city mod (well, at least that darth's mod was compensation).

[bigmilt16]

I see BI.exe and the unrelenting naval invasions as a means to encourage players to build a real navy and battle the carthaginians at sea. much of the punic wars were fought in the seas between sicily and north africa, and if you spend the dimes on a real navy, and keep an eye on when the enemy is loadin their boats, then you will actually be able to keep the invasions on corisica at bay.

in other words... if you use bi.exe, and play as rome, you MUST BUILD A NAVY. In RTW.exe you could play the entire game and not have to keep a standing navy as rome.

[QuintusSertorius]

Problem is auto-calc is screwed up on Hard or Very Hard campaign difficulty. Which means naval battles are screwed up. Nothing more annoying than Qarthadastim fives sinking everything you send against them, regardless of numbers.