New romani campaign progress

**bigmilt16** · 12-27-2009, 21:28

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** · 12-27-2009, 21:49

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** · 12-27-2009, 21:51

Ah yes forts good 1 :P

**lionhard** · 12-28-2009, 01:31

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