RTI is un-winnable

**A1_Unit** · 09-12-2009, 03:44

I don't know who else is having this problem but when I play RTI Chapter 2 the French spam full stacks and I'm unable to match them. They can field 12 full stacks to my 2 (AI and their money cheats).

Not surprisingly, I can't win the mission. Is there any way around this?

**Prussian to the Iron** · 09-12-2009, 13:33

you mean the french and indian war part? I had trouble with that my first go too. heres what I found:

1. It is not fun at all. unfortunately, they made it a bit too much like the real thing, and have you going after forts and masses of indians and french, but don't give you any bonuses upon capturing the forts (each side wanted control of the Ohio valley so their merchants and trappers could pass through)

just spam masses of line infantry and auto resolve, in about half an hour youll get through that hell-hole.

**A1_Unit** · 09-12-2009, 17:09

But I can't afford to do that.

They have at least 3 full stacks at each path across the river to the target cities and one more in the city. I think I'll have to start over.

**Chaotix** · 09-12-2009, 17:42

Originally Posted by Prussian Iron

you mean the french and indian war part? I had trouble with that my first go too. heres what I found:

1. It is not fun at all. unfortunately, they made it a bit too much like the real thing, and have you going after forts and masses of indians and french, but don't give you any bonuses upon capturing the forts (each side wanted control of the Ohio valley so their merchants and trappers could pass through)

just spam masses of line infantry and auto resolve, in about half an hour youll get through that hell-hole.

Yep, I found that because it's a tutorial version, my armies could win nearly 90% of autoresolved battles against enemy full-stacks, and only lost when they were really depleted. In one battle outside Montreal Washington wound up dying, so I just took 3 or 4 turns to build up a new full stack, sent it after them, and won.

EDIT: Also, use your navy to navigate the St. Lawrence River. That defeats the need for crossing points.

**A1_Unit** · 09-12-2009, 17:56

Originally Posted by Chaotix

Yep, I found that because it's a tutorial version, my armies could win nearly 90% of autoresolved battles against enemy full-stacks, and only lost when they were really depleted. In one battle outside Montreal Washington wound up dying, so I just took 3 or 4 turns to build up a new full stack, sent it after them, and won.

EDIT: Also, use your navy to navigate the St. Lawrence River. That defeats the need for crossing points.

I forgot to say in addition to their full stacks they also have a large navy and it sunk mine. I'm going to restart and hope I can do better with blitzing.

**Discoman** · 09-12-2009, 18:29

It really is a hard section. I ended up winning by doing suicide assaults against cities, capturing them, getting the achievement, and then continuing on.