Roleplay/Your Houserules

[Heilong]

I play on VH campaign and Medium battle difficulty. I do not replay battles or redo turns.

I limit myself by having only one city out of 15 produce field armies. For example, when I play as the Romans, I only produce troops in Rome. When I have conquered 15 cities, I allow myself to produce troops in an additional city (usually Segesta). This limits my expansion significantly.
However when I play as Rome, I build Brihentin in Mediolanium because Roman cavalry is pretty poor in my opinion (especially in the Camilian and Polybian eras).
I produce garrisons in another city (usually Taras if I'm playing Rome) and the garissons are entirely Akontistai. I never have garrison armies fight battles by themselves unless they are under siege and the AI assults the settlement.

I rarely use mercs. When I play as Rome I hire Merc Kretian archers and sometimes some additional cavalry. When I played as Pontus, I hired a couple of horse archers.

When I play as Rome my army usually comprises of 10 infantry, 4 cavalry, 4 ranged units and one or two family members. After an army engages in combat I bring up a reserve half stack comprised of 5 infantry, 2 cavalry and 2 ranged units to reinforce the main army. I retrain the remnants of the half stack. I amost never have the reserve half stack engage in combat unless its against rebels or its an emergency.

I always expel (the last option) when I conquer a settlement. I always build a type 4 government and recruit a Client Ruler to govern the settlement. I do not upgrade the settlement until the Client Ruler dies or until he is really old (60+).

I do use Force diplomacy but I do not abuse it. I only use it to make peace with the AI when the AI is too stupid to realize that it is loosing the war.

I do not cause rebelions in AI controlled settlements because the AI isn't advanced enough to use spies and assassins against me.
I do not bribe.

I do "sit" on bridges, river crossings and other choke points along the map. I feel that "sitting" is historical and makes the most logical sense.

After reading this thread, I will give the slave faction some extra money each turn when I begin a new campaign. In my current Roman campaign, the game is too far along for the slave faction to make a difference.

I have only played as Rome, Pontus, Macedon and Bactria.