What Happened to the Romans?

**Fluvius Camillus** · 01-12-2010, 16:06

Originally Posted by Sdragon

The scrip for Marians gives you free barracks in all cities and breaks the old ones. The AI is probably just throwing all of it's money into repairing the old buildings only to have the script wreck them again. Only the repair them the next turn and so one. The result is a once rich faction wastes all it's cash. As far as I can tell the AI ALWAYS spends it's money on repairs first. That's my theory anyway.

If that is true we have a serious problem which should be removed in EBII.

~Fluvius

**Subotan** · 01-12-2010, 17:02

There wouldn't be any troops in Italy, because it would be assumed that as Italy is snuggled away nice and safe away from nasty foreigners, and that soldiers are on the borders. Evidently, they got the last bit wrong.

**Dyabedes of Aphrodisias** · 01-12-2010, 21:23

Originally Posted by Fluvius Camillus

If that is true we have a serious problem which should be removed in EBII.

~Fluvius

That would be quite a serious problem. But in my experience that isn't the case. When I took Roma I damaged the walls. That was a number of turns ago, and they still haven't fixed them. I believe I also remember that their barracks were damaged when I got there, but I'm not sure. If so, then this problem wouldn't be the case. I'll take Bononia for the Hell of it and report what I find when I get there.

**Unintended BM** · 01-12-2010, 22:08

I took Italy very easily on my Eperios game. Completely undefended because all of the romans were up in cisalpine gaul. I had more trouble with Sicily and Carthage. They like sending elephants from Africa, but Indian elephants are bigger.

**Dyabedes of Aphrodisias** · 01-13-2010, 09:57

Conquering Bononia revealed damaged barracks, but I just realized that obviously that's not to say the script hasn't been doing it every turn and the AI hasn't been repairing them.

**Drewski** · 01-14-2010, 06:47

It's easy to establish:- you just need a good spy to check out...and you could use a good assassin to sabotage barracks yourself.

Might start a new campaign Thurs Night, I'll try and remember to check it out myself :)

**Dyabedes of Aphrodisias** · 01-17-2010, 07:42

Small update (as if anybody cares :P). Ravaging Roma, Capua and Bononia and forcing peace with them seems to have awakened them. Now they control only Italia (minus Taras and Lilibeo), but a few years after I made peace with them, seven full stacks have come spewing from the peninsula, much to my chagrin. They didn't learn...

**Unintended BM** · 01-17-2010, 08:17

I had trouble taking Italy on my old Carthage game. Rome was completely undefended, I think they just had their faction leader in there, so I took that easily. The rest of Italy was pretty well fortified though, so I just held up in Rome with my crazy elite army and elephants and took Rhegion with reinforcements from Sicily.