Pointless playing Romani?

[konny]

Does anyone feel that it is somewhat pointless to play a Roman campaign given the huge area needed to be conquered and the ease at which you are able to produce high quality troops?

Unless you start spamming Extrordianrii - which should be kept extraordinary - the Roman units are solid good, but not high quality like the mass of elites the Greeks can recruite. The start of the campaign is easy with the Romans, but the game becomes much more challenging later on when the other factions are able to recuite their elites.

[QuintusSertorius]

Unless you start spamming Extrordianrii - which should be kept extraordinary -

the Roman units are solid good, but not high quality like the mass of elites the Greeks can recruite. The start of the campaign is easy with the Romans, but the game becomes much more challenging later on when the other factions are able to recuite their elites.

And if you're trying to take on some of the tougher factions before the Polybian reforms.

[NickTheGreek]

Definately not pointless, Romani is a great campaign and once you get going they have a really epic feel to them.

[Onehandstan]

Of corse it's pointless, if you think about it everything is pointless, anyway I digress, I am currently in a Romani campaigning and I am haveing a darn good time

[Roka]

not at all, limit yourself to historic expansion, and role play your generals, in my current romani game it is my most enjoyable campaign to date, its 245 and i have just recently took patavium (i know that's not historically correct but i had to do it as epeiros had it and they were sending stack after stack into italy to siege bononia), think i'll bide my time and wait for the polybian reforms before taking mediolanium and pushing into illyria

[Maion Maroneios]

IMO, no faction is pointless, especially in EB

Maion

[satalexton]

romans are fun, but Maks are better =P

ALL HAIL MAKEDONIA!!!!

[DeathEmperor]

IMO, no faction is pointless, especially in EB

Maion

I agree completely


Personally, I enjoy playing slow and steady instead of blitzing the map. It's much more enjoyable for me to spend a couple years building up my cities and economy, while the ai expands and become more powerful. That way I've got a couple empires with powerful armies to destroy that will take years to conquer, instead of a dozen small kingdoms that I can wipe out in a few turns.

[Chris1959]

I think the Romani are the ones for the long game especially if you aim to one day get to14AD. Add some of the mods like City growth and Allied legions and play semi-historical, though don't be a slave to the timeline!
My fundamental house rule is only fight when attacked or to keep the balance of power, think spheres of influence. Try to keep all the other factions "alive", lots of big gifts and forced diplomacy help here, currently I'm at 209BC and all the other factions are still going, though the Saka are besieging the last Pahvla settlement! Difficulty is M/M which seems to help diplomacy and slows AI growth.

[Tarkus]

Haven't written for awhile, but have been playing EB and visiting the forums alot...did ya miss me??

Anyway...I have to agree with the collective response. Playing the Romani is far from pointless! I'm into 186BC in my Romani campaign and I'm having a great time. My lands stretch in a continuous Republic from the entire Iberian peninsula to southern Transalpine Gaul to Illyria to the traditional Macedonian homelands (the Maks are now restricted to Asia Minor) to all of Greece. In the south I have coastal northern Africa from Sala to Lepki. While I'm bringing in about 60,000 mnai per quarter I'm trying to be restrained and disciplined in my economic and military approaches.

Militarily, I'm now restricting myself to occasionally hacking away at the Arverni in southern Transalpine Gaul around Gergovia -- Aulus Gallicus is awaiting his notification to return to Rome to receive his Triumphus. More importantly, in the East I'm in full "scorched earth" mode against the Ptolemaics -- have burned Tarsos and Side to the ground through raids from my naval base at Salamis(Kypros) and am fighting some fierce battles against seemingly infinite stacks of phalangitai and pezhatairoi on mutual border near Augila. Great fun..

[By the way...after taking Side I really wanted to give it to my Macedonian allies to help them direct pressure further eastward but, stupidly, I didn't have a diplomat in the area and the Yellow Death was approaching the gates of the now-smoldering city in force... ]

[Frederico]

Play on VH/VH. It will give you a consistent challenge until you reach the marian reforms. You will lose at least a quarter of the battles you fight and find you need to change any well worn strategies you have come to rely on. Clocked in 70+ hours of challenge on my campaign until I got CTD around 128BC. Would've played it to 14AD.

[General Appo]

You know guys, you don´t have to conquer a lot of land just because the VC´s wants you too.