Controversial Suggestion for a Mini-Mod

[zooeyglass]

i think that's a rather interesting suggestion. i'm impressed you laid out various conditions, etc, and it seems like a nearly workable situation....however, i know next to nothing of modding, and wait upon more experienced opinions to suggest if it's possible, or playable at all. certainly i'd agree that if there were some way of indicating that the gap between sicily and carthage was more important than carthage towards pretty much any other port...that would be good!

[artaxerxes]

i think that's a rather interesting suggestion. i'm impressed you laid out various conditions, etc, and it seems like a nearly workable situation....however, i know next to nothing of modding, and wait upon more experienced opinions to suggest if it's possible, or playable at all. certainly i'd agree that if there were some way of indicating that the gap between sicily and carthage was more important than carthage towards pretty much any other port...that would be good!

I'm actually kinda scared of myself, seeing how bloody long that post got But I thought the actual idea sounded so far out ('walking on water from africa to sicily'), that I had to get some arguments up there, so people would know why I'm suggesting this

[zooeyglass]

I'm actually kinda scared of myself, seeing how bloody long that post got But I thought the actual idea sounded so far out ('walking on water from africa to sicily'), that I had to get some arguments up there, so people would know why I'm suggesting this

if anything i'd suggest that your thread title, esp with "controversial" in it, might put people off, and lead them to think it's another LS or flaming pigs kinda question, or some such....in fact, your suggestion was a good one, you explained yourself, and it's just up to people who know how to mod to explain whether it's possible, within the mechanics of the game....what's controversial about that?

....oh wait, you want to build a bridge from africa to sicily? are you INSANE??....hehe

[anubis88]

Well i agree with your basic concept, i just don't believe that this would be possible... I mean it might be possible, but there could be many side effects

[zooeyglass]

Well i agree with your basic concept, i just don't believe that this would be possible... I mean it might be possible, but there could be many side effects

...like elephants rampaging in italia....

[soup_alex]

Anything that could be done to advance the competetiveness and strategic flexibility of the AI (without too much bias) sounds delicious to me.

Oh, and artaxerxes—the AI doesn't need to consider steps 1-2 in a 1st Punic War scenario if Rome has already been pushed back halfway up Italy

[Shadowwalker]

@artaxerxes:

Interesting post.
I would suggest you try out Ferromancers "EB for BI" mod, as it (beside a lot of other things) highly improves the chance of naval invasions.
I install it since EB 1.1 (or even 1.0 ... not sure about that...) and played some campaigns as Romans and Qart'Hadast.
I can tell that at least Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica are not safe areas anymore.
And in most of my campaigns the AI also managed to invade Italy or North Africa with rather nice armies.

I highly recommend that you try it out.

[satalexton]

funny, i'm using Alex.exe and during my last 2 campaigns (as Pontos then now as Baktra) the Carthies are happily shipping stack after stack of elite pikemen and african infantry to eat some romans. Especially on my current one, the Aedui are giving them Romaioi a hard time, the Epirote's pushing up Italy from the east, Carthage landed 3 stacks to work their way up Rhegion...what surprised me the most is that the Makedonian AI (oh joy) are actually sending stacks into Italy through Illyria AND the ships the built from Ambrakia....it seems I won't be getting the Cat-tank bodyguard anytime soon xD

[Ferromancer]

Try playing with BI (link in my sig) or the Alex engine. Much more challenging with naval invasions.

[Mjolnir]

For those of us playing with RTW.exe this mini-mod would definitely liven things up. If someone makes this I would definitely use it.