How Rome Conquered the Whole Freakin' World: an Absurdist AAR

[Reverend Joe]

Edit: I want to establish, at the very start, that this is a bizarre comedy AAR.

Okay, so I suddenly got the whim to do what has to be the strangest idea for an AAR ever. I want to see if, given the most optimal game conditions (Easy/Easy difficulty and Imperial reforms at the game start) and an infinite amount of resources (ten million mnai at the game start,) a player as bad as me can actually conquer the entire world as the Romani. Additional changes are reduced recruitment times (1 turn reduced to 0, 2 to 1 and 3 and 4 to 2) as well as Darth's formations mod to add more flavor to battles. To make some concession, I will bring about the March of Time reforms immediately as well, though this will be more to spice things up than anything else. And yes, this is a true absurdist AAR; so even if you haven't noticed by now, it isn't intended to me taken even remotely seriously.

Anyhoo, this has always been a point of interest for me: if it is at all possible to actually conquer the entire map. Of course under normal conditions this would be impossible for me, hence the absurd start conditions. But to be fair, I have only seen it done once; someone conquered the whole world as Makedonia back in 0.8x. Point is, I feel like having some weird fun, and if a few of you want to come along for the ride, then come on board. Don't expect this to be updated regularly, though, and don't be disappointed if I stop short; I have a summer class, after all, and I only have a cruddy 4-year-old laptop to play on, and besides, video games just don't hold my interest much anymore.

I will be back later with the first installment; just need to get the reforms set up, download Fraps or something and complete my first round of blitzing.