Spamming Stacks

[Macilrille]

That exact thing is the Achilleus heel of EB, just wait till the AS or Ptolies (whoever wins that fight) starts sending 3-5 fullstacks your way every turn.

The omly way to avoid it is to play on M/M (but to some extent it is still there) or keep buffers of Eleutheroi between you and the other factions. On VH/M land border means relentless war that will only end with enemy annihilation. There are many a thread with complaints on this and a few tricks to alleviate the problem.

1) Get peace, and preferably alliance, and give them 200 or so Mnai a turn (according to Ludens, I never tried it- i do not bribe my enemies to leave me alone).
2) Attack and sack border and recruitment towns, execute every inhabitant and burn all buildings, then leave it. But that leaves them so weak eventually that you might as well Blitz.
3) Keep strong garrisions at all entrances along your border. If long stretches of passable land build a Limes of forts with a missile and infantry unit in each as minimum and a full or allmost fullstack within reach within three turns of all of them, as well as at all riverpassings and passes.

[Beckis Robertus Californicus]

3) Keep strong garrisions at all entrances along your border. If long stretches of passable land build a Limes of forts with a missile and infantry unit in each as minimum and a full or allmost fullstack within reach within three turns of all of them, as well as at all riverpassings and passes.[/QUOTE]

Playing AS with the Pahlava pushing in on me every turn is becoming tedious. That is probably the best idea that I have not considered.

I will get right on it.

[Macilrille]

Works for Rome against Sweboz and Getai often. Dunno about others, you probably need a combination of it. And also, you need special tactics and organisation against the HA if they come.

[Dieu Le Fera]

It is usually a 50 - 50 whether AS becomes the Gray Ddeath or Ptolies become the Yellow Fever.

That's about the same with my campaigns. They both seem to have the art of the blitz down pretty good who ever gets the fresh start.

[ARCHIPPOS]

3) Keep strong garrisions at all entrances along your border. If long stretches of passable land build a Limes of forts with a missile and infantry unit in each as minimum and a full or allmost fullstack within reach within three turns of all of them, as well as at all riverpassings and passes.

Frankly i'ld find this a bit obsolete... although it certainly is highly realistic in terms of roleplaying the Romani (it was their actual defense system during their imperial years) i find that even on VH game difficulty the AI NEVER deep-invades your territories (i call this the anti-Hannibal effect). Instead the AI sieges your borderline settlements. Usually focusing on merely 1-2 of them for reasons unknown to me. Most EB players just pinpoint a convenient place/town to exploit this bottleneck effect.
Frankly i don't have any idea on how to counter your never-ending-war problem besides using the forced diplomacy mod and after seriously powing a faction for 15 years or so impose some kind of peace status.That could take away your game pleasure or make you really happy (some consider it cheating others see it as manually-resolving a game engine defficiency).It's not save compatible though (which means you'll have to fire up a new Romani campaign) ...

[Macilrille]

I perhaps neglected to mention that the heavy garrision tactic only works with people you are at peace with, will not force them to peace- and preferably allies. And only for a while, the AI is berserk. But then I find it works.

FD is quite good, but I do not use it.

[Olaf The Great]

Because of what Subo said, I am a Casse-phile.

[Intranetusa]

As Rome, I had no problem fighting the Avernai or Adeui Gauls. Are you wiping out their armies after every battle? If you don't kill them enough to make their army disband, they'll keep coming after you.

As Rome, I'd crush their armies down to the last man, and they won't attack me for 5-6 turns.


As Greeks, I'm currently fighting AS. Their armies are meh...overrated. I haven't seen full stacks of decent infantry from em either...just mostly levies that I crush without effort.