New romani campaign progress

[lionhard]

Hey everyone iv got a few things going on in my new campaign and i think other peoples advice may help me to make my decisions.

1) Iv blitzed the whole of italy north africa and most of spain (that was the origional plan, now im going to stop and just tech up for a good 30 years. letting other factions do the same

2) The problem i have is the eprirotes have dominated the east of my position (greece, most of lydia), makedonia have emmigrated over to lydia but just as they were beggining to form a nice empire the eperirotes had finished the greeks off in greece and had moved over to the makedonians.

3) I am stuck on what to do the averinni my allies are surrounding all my positions but have not attacked, so the 3 stack armies i had ready to repell them and the german armies that are swiftly moving down to italy, are sat doing nothing.

4) Over in lydia and the pontic stretch epeiros is dominating all in its way pontus seems to be holding out but wont for long, makedonia has 1 fort left then they are gone! and the greeks seem to be emmigrating towards the hai mountains oh and the seleucids have their share of the land and seem to be keeping half stack armies around their settlements.

5) the question is would it be a wise move to send my 3 stacks of well thought out armies into lydia to straighten things out a bit and give the smaller factions a chance of survival, at the same time i could be getting some decent experience for future battles. Or should i leave them to a certain death?

Oh and lastly the seleucid empire seems to be holding if not gaining more ground than originonally started with, they are about to wipe out parthia, do u think it would a wise idea to save parthia? They are a nice addition in the campaign and can be quite a nice challenge towards the end?

[Yarema]

what diff level do you play on? it seems strang that the arvernii didn't attack you yet. Attack Epirus, but beware your "allies"

[bigmilt16]

Sounds like the Germans are on the march. You need to protect yourself to the northern barbarians before you open up another front to the east unnecessarily.

[bobbin]

Given your territory is so large train up another army or two and send them to asia minor to mix things up a bit, one of your 3 stacks should be used to defend north Italy from any Epriote attacks from Illyria the other two i would place in southern Gaul (if you control it) to keep watch on the Arverni and guard the passes to Iberia.

Also use forts garrisioned a single cheap unit to block all the routes into Italy and Iberia, this will give you time to react to any attack as they will have to capture the forts to proceed (usually takes about 3-4 turns).

ps a screenshot of your situation would help.

pps I would advise getting the Force Diplomacy mod if you don't already have it to prevent the stupid AI from refusing to accept your gift of freshly conquered settlements.

[lionhard]

Ah yes forts good 1 :P

[lionhard]

Im not new to this, but in my last roman campaign i fought the germans for over 50 years before i could mass an army big enough to take their lands, in my new campaign iv let them spread right down to me and they hold twice as much, an all out war with them would take forever, iv already had a dry spell and 2 of our biggest armies met dealing out as much damage to each other, i managed to pay for a re-alliance, im hoping because me, the germans and the averini are all allies, when the germans come down again, ill hit them first and break their alliance with the averini then ill send an army near to the averini and german camps theirfor the averini will have to attack to help me, creating war between them 2, maybe helping me 2 v 1 :s i dunow :s ne 1 got ne better ideas, every time i get into battle with the germans they seem to be in dense forests and my troops suffer badly

[bobbin]

every time i get into battle with the germans they seem to be in dense forests and my troops suffer badly

Are you talking about the ones with the ridiculously huge trees that mean you can see all? there is a mod that replaces them with a normal forest.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=112360

[Sagittarius]

My advice would be:
1) Finish the conquest of spain - it is always nice to have easy to protect territory which gives you tons of money.
2) Since epeirotes are dominateing east of your position and for some purpose you want to help smaller nations - you can do that easily by hitting epeirote mainland - the greece - with those 3 legions from avernii border. It will drag epeirote forces on you instead of hammering small nations. Plus by takeing epeiros homeland you will effectively deny them of elite units, and what is the most important - this will get you control of greece - and that will grant you huge income to sustain at least 3 more legions.
3) Do not be afraid, you can easily afford moveing those 3 legions from averni borders to attack epeirote mainland and that is why - the time is on your side. With each turn your econ is improveing since you build up the towns. With worst possible scenario averni instantly will attack you, but your 3 legions repositioned to greece will provide you at leas 100 000 mnai in 1-2 years by razing towns plus additional income from conquered towns each turn. This means you will be able to hire new legions to respond the averni attack.
4) After takeing out the greece I would actually attack averni if they did not attack you by that time. It is good to deny germans space to expand.
5) Germans are doomed if you will fight the war of attrition with them. Their recruitment ability is limited to some 10 towns at best (same can be said about averni). This means if every season you will destroy at least 1 full army of theirs - they will bleed dry to death pretty fast. It took me 10 years or so to bleed them dry. To make them bleed faster - hire all the mercenaries in territories you wage war versus them - if you will not do that - they will :) I prefer them bashing mercenaries with their units, than me bashing the same mercenaries with my precious legions.



About saving parthia.. well... I believe you are too busy to save them - fighting too much in the east with unsecured west will have disastrous consequences. But I agree, parthian's is nice addendum. However difficult to battle vs them with romani. What I lack is heavy cavalry. And their heavy cavalry and cavalry archers seem to be immune to archer fire... it makes me cry seeing how my preciuos soldiers melt in the rain of their arrows and then get hammered by unstoppable cavalry charges.