cant seem to find his posts and im new to the forum. I just remember this one post about someone using carthage i think who had a picture of his campaign and he had conquered the map in around 20 years. That was really fishy for some reason especially since he claimed he did it on VH/M. In very hard campaign mode, even as Carthage you could probably only afford 2 armies and reinforcements (especially since he did it in 20 years and thus couldn't have had time to build economy). also his army consisted of 10 units of those elite iberian infantry and 4 of those Spanish cats
If you do the math
1. to conquer to the end of the world using that army would require building up to that level of barracks in spain to access those units which took me about 4 years and then you have to train an army of those units which takes a few years
2. to conquer the world you have to face an assortment of troop types and use different tactics which didnt seem possible with the army he had (only had heavy infantry and cav)
3. in vh mode the ai spam stacks of phalangites which would make siege assaults almost impossible so you would have to wait it out
4. the distance from his capital makes pacification impossible
5. 1/4 seasons is winter which means you basically cant move your army
6. it takes one turn to build siege equipment and your spies are never lucky enough to open gates for every siege so you have to build siege equip which takes one turn
7. there are 199 provinces and you start with 8 which means 191 turns of building siege equipment = more than 20 years
8. you have to build pacification and level 4 gov and an allied general before you can move on = 3 turns 3x191 = 500 seasons =120 years
i mean do these people just change the date using cheats to show off or something??? the quickest world domination ive seen is like 79 years using sarmatians and that wasnt even all the provinnces just most of europa and asia minus the islands. now i would be willing to believe that but srsly the whole map with carthage in 20 years is a bit sus. I know there are some amazing players out there who can actually pull of a world domination by 200 bc but anything less than 70 years would be quite impossible. If anyone has done a world domination can i have tips plz :)
sorry about the bad maths btw im tired and just doing estimates. the time to actually pacify the region should be more like 600 seasons
and by elite iberian infantry i meant the regional ones not the assault ones which come with reforms
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