HELLO!!!!!

[PelicanMan]

Hey guys,

So I put in some turns last night on my campaign and as you can see I have two standing armies which are about to back stab my allies(haven't done it yet). The Arverni Are left with two provinces and the Aedui are getting way too strong. I have marked up the image to show where my two armies are headed. Hopefully this doesn't break to many of my alliances. As for Britain, the Towns/Large Towns-cities are sitting comfortably raking in cash. I have built up Scotland to boost as much morale and experience as possible so that the Skirmishers come out as monsters.

Anyways, have a look, let me know what you guys think I should/could do.

[The Croatian Knight]

Hey guys,

So I put in some turns last night on my campaign and as you can see I have two standing armies which are about to back stab my allies(haven't done it yet). The Arverni Are left with two provinces and the Aedui are getting way too strong. I have marked up the image to show where my two armies are headed. Hopefully this doesn't break to many of my alliances. As for Britain, the Towns/Large Towns-cities are sitting comfortably raking in cash. I have built up Scotland to boost as much morale and experience as possible so that the Skirmishers come out as monsters.

Anyways, have a look, let me know what you guys think I should/could do.

Maybe just use your 2 armies to take the strongest town first?

[Arjos]

You can gamble it, by storming with two armies, but you don't want to leave Bagacos undefended...
Maybe a garrison of 4 spearmen and 2 swordsmen should be enough :)

[PelicanMan]

You can gamble it, by storming with two armies, but you don't want to leave Bagacos undefended...
Maybe a garrison of 4 spearmen and 2 swordsmen should be enough :)

Exactly what I was thinking; I have a unit in the capitol plus another one on queue; same with Bagacos (1 swordsmen unit there and another one in the queue)

Maybe I should send 2 units back from the stack? I do not have any movement points left so it would have to wait until next turn (and I will also see what the AI has planned.)

Any other suggestions are well appreciated!!

THE P-MAN

[d'Arthez]

Building up Scotland for morale bonuses won't really work. Issue being that there seems to be a bug in the Rome-TW engine that causes these morale boosting bonuses from temples and such not to be effective. You can use it for role-playing purposes, but do not expect the RTW engine to grant you an increased performance of your scottish (forgot the name of the city) trained troops on that basis.

The issue of the poor defence of Bagacos is mainly due to the Sweboz. You don't want to end up waging a two or three front war (which you could get yourself into if Lusotannan / Carthage have expanded). Just keep a solid garrison in Bagacos, and that should ascertain that the Sweboz will think twice before attacking you.

If you have an alliance with the Arverni, you may want to consider gifting them a town, if that prevents you sharing a border with another major regional power, to allow yourself some more time to build up your economy and your Gallic settlements. Even though you are playing on large unit settings, depopulation of some of those provinces can be a serious concern.

[PelicanMan]

Hey Guys,
So as you can see, I went for the attack.



My main general held the bridge against 4 full stacks and I demolished all of them ( three 10 star generals). I refilled the stack and sent back the other units for retraining. They should be back in about 6 seasons. = )

I personally think that the healing for their generals is wayyyy to powerful. So far, this campaign has been a breeze. But I guess it might change when I fight the Romans.

Anyways, I made peace with the Aedui and now I think I am going to turtle in Northern Gaul and go for all of Spain.

I decided that instead if conquering the whole known world, I might as well go for my objectives. If you guys feel otherwise, let me know what you think and I might change my mind. Oh, if you have any opinions on what you think might happen or what I could/should do, let me know.

Thanks!!!

THE P-MAN

[d'Arthez]

I don't know if you have read the FAQs, but you could be looking to get ready for the Celtic reforms? As well as develop the economy and population base in Gaul, so you don't have to depend as heavily on reinforcements from the Isles.

Keep a decent stack on the bridge near Avaricum, to make certain you won't be receiving stabbity stab from the Romans or from the Gallic factions. Send a spy / diplomat to Spain and see what is going on there. If either Carthage or Lusotannan expand up north, then you can have a very interesting theatre up there.

An option would be to take out the Sweboz, though their lands do not offer that much in economic terms.