Life of a Roman: An AAR

[johnhughthom]

Wow, that is some weird sister. Good thing he's not a Ptollie...

Well, he is "Welcoming To Foreigners" so perhaps he may want to try some of their strange habits out.

[johnhughthom]

Chapter 2

Embezzlement

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Rome sure votes some idiots into power. The Quaestor I worked under for the past year wouldn't have noticed had I walked into his home and walked out with one of his Persian busts under my arm. Which gives me an idea... Anyway, I doubt he will be entrusted with another office, he gave pretty mediocre games. They weren't awful by any means, he just showed little flair for spectacle and no innovation whatsoever. That he was able to put on even mediocre games considering I stole half of the money he raised shows I am maybe being a little harsh on him. You could even say I did Rome a favour, we hardly want someone who is blind to such theft under his own nose in a more important position.

I put all the money into more property, believe it or not the man I am living with now, a former Praetor who fought with my grandfather in Sicily, rents his home off me. He doesn't know this of course as I use agents, but he is paying me rent then letting me live there for a year rent free.

It's quite interesting here, I mainly help with his accounts and run his farms, I am certain by the end of the year I will have doubled his income. Unless I steal some of course, he isn't as stupid as the last guy though and it may be too risky. Dinner is great fun, there is always intelligent discourse, philosophy, politics, science, thankfully religion is rarely discussed as sometimes I find it difficult to feign an interest in such nonsense. There is always news from Hispania and Epiros which is much more reliable than you hear in the street. Apparently there is a big divide in the Senate, some believe we need another Legion in Epeiros, most Senators though feel one in Illyria and two in Epeiros should be more than sufficient-pointing to the fact two Legions are winning the war in Hispania.

Little else has changed, I still feel at home here, to be honest I am not looking forward to my military service at all. Not showing real enthusiasm would disappoint my father though, I have no doubt he would actually disinherit me if I tried to dodge it. No point worrying about it, it's two years away. Still no trace of my brother, I will have to give up soon, I see little else I can do.

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It's a pity there's no land bridge across the pillars of Hercules, taking Spain would be a challenge if those armies could get across.

[johnhughthom]

I'm giving up this AAR as I'm getting seriously ****ed off at the number of forest battles(especially when the campaign map shows otherwise), the same reason I took a break before. It's something I've always hated but been able to tolerate, this campaign seems to be worse than any other and I'm not enjoying it at all. I may come back to it in the future but I seriously doubt it.

[desert]

It's called "artificially induced deforestation".

Anyway, you could always just make things up as you go.

[gamegeek2]

plz don't give up. Use auto_win to save you from fighting battles you'll obviously win. With infantry battles, it gives fairly accurate results for a human victory.

[julius_caesar_the_first]

I agree. Please don't give up. It's such an interesting AAR.

[I of the Storm]

plz don't give up. Use auto_win to save you from fighting battles you'll obviously win. With infantry battles, it gives fairly accurate results for a human victory.

He's right. Look at the army compositions and decide whether you'd be able to win easily or not. If yes, then auto_win. I choose to do that often in order to save time and avoid repetitive battles - leaving more time to savour the really epic ones.

[Olaf Blackeyes]

NUUUUU!!!!!!!!! PLZ DONT QUIT THIS!!!!! ILL GIVE U 1000 balloons if u dont!!!!!!1