After playing this campaign for like 6 months human time my Romani have eradicated the hated Ptolemaioi from Northern Africa and I'm attacking the Holy Land with 6 legions. Ptolemaioi attack furiously with their phalanx formations but A.I. while aggressive, sucks at force concentration and sends individual armies against me. I operate in a huge corps of 6 legions that stay together and surround the enemy before the main battle. You see, I've recently upgraded my video card so I can actually command a real-time battle with all those 5 legions running around on the screen. There may be a bit of a slowdown sometimes but it' minor.
Now, once you enter the battle screen and the reinforcements appear on the edges of the map the key to success is not the advance your formation too early. Give the A.I. reinforcements time to walk up to the enemy and engage. Only then I order my troops to run like hell into the melee. Very few enemies can take it.
I have another corps in Western Europe that's finishing off the Sweboz barbarian faction right now. I've left the Aedui alone on 3 tiny islands of land in today's France because they've been behaving and not breaking the alliance with me.
The year is 130 BC, 500+ battles won, I have all the latifundia in Italy but no Marian reforms yet.
My system specs:
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM @ 400MHz
512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Windows XP Home Edition
Sound Blaster Live!
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