Some questions.

**Brandy Blue** · 09-30-2010, 00:53

You can get the legionaries auxillaries etc. after the Marian reform. That happens when at least one Roman controlled city has the most advanced possible government building. I think you need a pop of 24,000 for that to be possible. Probably you will be able to do this before the other Roman factions, but that is not such a big advantage as you might think. This is because as soon as one Roman faction gets the Marian reforms, the others get it free.

As for attacking other Roman factions, you cannot do it until either your popularity with the people is high enough for you to get the "bid for power" event, or the Senate becomes so afraid of you that they order your faction leader to commit suicide. Just refuse and they outlaw you. To become that popular with the people (or unpopular with the senate) just keep capturing more provinces. I think you need about 20-30 but I'm not sure.

As for becoming Emperor, well I never actually completed a campaign but I think you need to accomplish 2 goals:

1: control Rome
2: control 49 other cities of your choice

**Lord Reid of Britannica** · 09-30-2010, 01:08

All of the above is true that was said by Brandy Blue... (haha rhyme)

Except you don't need to wipe out the other Roman factions to become emperor, you just need Rome and 49 other provinces.

**Brandy Blue** · 09-30-2010, 01:12

Thank you for the correction Lord Reid. If I'd known that, I might have actually bothered to finish. I have edited my post to remove the mistake.

**Sp4** · 09-30-2010, 19:37

Thanks for the replies guys.

Yes, I figured I'd get the Legionaries (proper spelling now I think) after upgrading the first city with the Imperial Palace structure (at least that is when the 'A New Man' event (Marius' reforms) is triggered.

It is actually going quite well hehe. I never played as the Brutii before, only did the Julii because imo, red fits Rome better than green although green is my favourite colour =P

I can say now, that the starting ground for Brutii is awesome. In the beginning I took everything I had in SE Italy and shipped it to Greece and conquered that over the next 15 or so turns. Since then I have been slowly advancing north, getting into a war with the Macedons and Thracians and at the same time have been upgrading all my cities along the coast, recruited thousands of peasants from my starting provinces to ship them to the new settlements to give them a head start.

Now after just about a day of playing, I am controlling the entire Eastern Mediterrenean coast, save for the Egyptian coast to the south and I am getting a net profit of ~40,000 denarii per turn from massive sea trade. I am floating around 900,000 denarii in total and have started a war with Pontus and started invading modern day Turkey after taking Byzantinum from the Thracians.

I never thought playing the campaign on Hard could be this easy, I remember failing as Julii on Medium because of 'budgetary constraints'... I guess, if it were diplomatically possible, I could probably buy my way into Rome hehe.

/me lights another cigar and watches the thousands of trade ships and wagons go about their business.

**gollum** · 09-30-2010, 20:20

Controlling both sides of the Agean is like having a licence to print money. When you reach about 30 provinces or there abouts the civil war will start. Marian units are too powerful. Brutii is the most easy Roman faction for me. When playing as the Julii i take time to invade northern Greece and Asia Minor to get a piece of the pie from the Brutii. Rhodes has the Colossus that augments trade profits by 40% overall if memory serves - another super boost. Basically, the only real opponents are the Egyptians, which the player can grind to dust in a war of attrition eventually despite the panzer chariots. Easy as pie. Try very hard. Once you wipe out a faction it will become available to play. If you win a campaign all playable factions become available. Either that or you can edit manually the edt strategy file and make them available yourself. Many other fun factions to play, like Pontus, Armenia, Macedon, Germania, the Gauls, Carthage, the Seleucids. Enjoy.

**Myth** · 10-06-2010, 16:55

Never ever have more then 50,000 denarii in your treasury or your line of succession will become so corrupt they will be virtually useless. That's why i only build temples to Mars as the Brutii nowadays.

**Sp4** · 10-06-2010, 18:24

Is there anything you can do in thsi game without it having any negative effects?

**Sp4** · 10-06-2010, 18:28

Didn't find edit button =(

I now have somewhere around 2.5m denarii and I am at the point where I always end up after a while... my population doesn't like me, I have lowest tax rate and daily games across all settlements and started moving in a garrison of ~2500 soldiers into every city now.

Army upkeep is around 130,000 by now.

Profits per turn: -30,000

On a sidenote, how do you gain popularity with the people (to overthrow the senate)?