Playing past 14 AD...

**vartan** · 03-27-2010, 17:35

It takes practice to have the longevity that some of us guys have on this forum. Mwahaha. NyQuil isn't helping.

**Marcus Darkstar** · 03-27-2010, 18:12

Originally Posted by vartan

It takes practice to have the longevity that some of us guys have on this forum. Mwahaha. NyQuil isn't helping.

I have an irresistiable urge to kill and conquer... plus I can be impatiant....

:( I actually want to read more of the walk through time pop ups that come every summer. they were fun before i basically seen them a dozen times before...

I also realize the dam punic wars took so dam long.. really make a difference when Carthage isnt a AI.

**Moros** · 03-27-2010, 18:41

Originally Posted by Marcus Darkstar

I also realize the dam punic wars took so dam long.. really make a difference when Carthage isnt a AI.

huh?

**Hannibal Khan the Great** · 03-27-2010, 19:06

I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!

**Marcus Darkstar** · 03-27-2010, 19:54

Originally Posted by Hannibal Khan the Great

I think he means the AI is too incompetent to last as long as Carthage or Rome did during the Punic wars. And he is most certainly correct!

correct. Carhage ingame doesnt even get any Q (... long name) ships ingame when playing against it. ingame it feel more like a second punic war without hannibal. Carthage totally striped of its navy edge and a purely militia/light infantry army. I know it would require additional scripting and starting stats but Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.

and of course after you take Silicy and its islands of Sardinia/Alatia Carthage AI goes bankrupt from Gisgo stack, and the Iberia stacks. So it barely does anything until you kill.

**Nobo** · 03-28-2010, 10:51

Originally Posted by Marcus Darkstar

t Carthage is a walk in the park as Rome even on hardest difficulty. Sure they have two full stacks in Iberia but they hardly use them, and Gisgo gets lost in the Desert so that only leaves a stack of poeni milita, inberi lights with two elephants in Silicy to contest your might for all of Silicy and Africa.

I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...(Redux-for-EB)

**Marcus Darkstar** · 03-28-2010, 15:21

Originally Posted by Nobo

I used to feel the same way about the game in general and carthage in particular, but then I started to follow Quintus Sertorious' RP guide and it has absolutely changed the game for me. https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...(Redux-for-EB)

meh i doubt ill try to stay historical in conquests but the legion sizes interest me. My main consular army had 4 units of each line (leves, hasti, princeps, etc). His at least calls for drastic reduction in this. ( lol i guess my army would be like a Roman Cannae army in comparison in size)