Caesar in Gaul Guide!!!

[Mhantra]

I love CiG as well, very focused and tight compared to the vanilla. I played as a Gaul tribe, still haven't finished it because it kicks me butt. Go figure.

However, I have played over 220 hours in vanilla and have enjoyed it. I stopped playing CiG for now because of:

I am being blown away by the DeI (Divide et Impera) mod. They changed the art, the rosters, the whole feel of the battles, everything. It feels like a standalone expansion that is polished. Really quite amazing. It feels like CA should just hire these guys to test and polish their games...lol

[Sociopsychoactive]

I just completed CIG as the gauls and am now playing as the romans. I found it a little bit of a struggle at first, then easy as pie as soon as I had a solid base. Throughout my entire gaul campaign the romans never declared war on me. It wasn't untill after I'd wiped out every other faction on the map that I turned to them, and even with the whole 'military escelation' thing I wiped them out without breaking a sweat. The trick is confederation. Every time I wanted land and such I would offer the owner confederation,. he would decline, I would declare war, lay siege to a town or destroy an army in the field then offer again. They almost always accept, and usually give me money on top. Even the belgians took my offer after I razed a couple of towns. I ended up with so many statesman from disbanding the stacks I got for confederation I never had to pay for a general once. The hardest fights were against Suebi and Massila, Suebi because the geography of germania is crippling and Massilla because they built up four stacks on an upgraded province capitol and refused to move.

I'll see how it goes as rome, but the key there will be divide and conquer, make frinds of gaulic tribes and get them fighting against each other, then wipe out the ones your not friends with one by one. My biggest difficulty so far with rome was taking a big enough province to build a military production base.

[TargetSlayer]

Have to keep your comments in mind when I play as one of the "Gauls."

Thanks mate.

[Sp4]

I love CiG as well, very focused and tight compared to the vanilla. I played as a Gaul tribe, still haven't finished it because it kicks me butt. Go figure.

However, I have played over 220 hours in vanilla and have enjoyed it. I stopped playing CiG for now because of:

I am being blown away by the DeI (Divide et Impera) mod. They changed the art, the rosters, the whole feel of the battles, everything. It feels like a standalone expansion that is polished. Really quite amazing. It feels like CA should just hire these guys to test and polish their games...lol

DeI is great but sometimes I think it is too easy, especially the cashflow.

[YAKOBU]

Hi there

I’d previously completed a CIG campaign as Rome on normal with previous patches but returned to the game for patch 1.9.1 to try Rome again on Hard.

In my minor settlements I built the farm and herding ground chains whilst in my capitals I concentrated on having the auxiliary chain and the public order buildings.

My standard campaign legions consisted of 8 Legionaries, 3 Spear Warriors, 4 Legionary Cavalry and 4 Roman Ballista as well as the General and a Champion. In each capital I generally left a smaller lower quality army to deal with rebels and uprisings.

In the first year I prioritised taking the whole of Helvetia with Caesar which brought the funds to continue upgrading Insubria and Liguria. I held back on upgrading Narbonensis as the only minor settlement you start with is at risk of attack in the early game.

Once winter finished it was time to take Caesar across to Narbonensis to take the 2 remaining minor settlements and the capital. This province then become my main troop recruiting centre after upgrading to get legions, auxilia and siege equipment.

Next I moved on to take Aquitania after factions within the province had started wars with me. I rested up again during winter. The following year I started moving through Pictavis and Gergovia and once these provinces were conquered I had a couple of uprisings and 2 of my clients states plus most other factions declared war on me.

I spent the next couple of years conquering my ex client states as well as clearing the rebels and solidifying my position in the lands I had already conquered.

Once my position was stable I took Lutetia and a couple of settlements in Aremorica to win by the military victory.

The main pain in the campaign was trying to beat back the horde of enemy agents. I managed to convert many to my side but once I was at war with everyone they became just too numerous. I ended up just ignoring them and concentrating on defeating each faction in turn to remove the agents from the map.

I realise I could have probably built better to gain more finances but just wanted to keep the game simple.

Rob

[easytarget]

Realize this is a tad late to the party, but hey, whatever. I played the CIG campaign back when it released a couple times up to the point of about 22-26 provinces, in other words rather close to the victory condition. These were campaigns like my current one played as Rome. What I've liked so much about this campaign besides the proper amount of turns per year (12 which allows the seasons, especially winter to have real affect) is the fact that this one plays out almost as if the Shogun 2 realm divide has been implemented only from turn one instead of mid to late campaign. Everyone on the map is hostile to Rome, occasionally they'll sue for peace, but it's only for some breathing room before they declare again. And the stacks that come at you come from all directions and from every possible source. In fact in the campaign where I was only a couple provinces shy I was basically beaten to stand still where I could hold my own against wave after wave of armies counterattacking to a draw but never able to finish them off. That for me was fantastic.

Ok, so, here I am coming back to CIG again, only this time to win. I've taken a slower development/expansion pace this time, made sure I had a completely developed base set of about 8 or so provinces before working to expand, and my expansion is maybe 1 or 2 provinces a year. I conquer, hold, develop, fend off the various wave of attackers, wait during winter doing very little but repair and rearm and then push out again. It's gone well.

I circle back here in the guide section to call out one peace of advice as Rome (seeing as how I've just encountered it), beware what I'll call realm divide part 2 in the form of a Gallic Rebellion which results in armies appearing all over the map in your provinces. Nice little touch that, I had some close scrapes beating this back because a couple of the factions I was already at war with decided this was a good time to push a couple stacks at me on the very same turn.

Anyway, as Rome, word to the wise, anticipate a hard fought battle the whole way on this campaign, one with the additional challenge of a sudden rebellion thrown in for spice mid-late campaign.

Brilliant little DLC this one. I've enjoyed every moment.

[Cazbol]

This settles it, my next campaign will be the Romans in Caesar in Gaul. Playing the Arverni was one of the best campaigns I've played and this really made me want to try it from the Roman side.

[easytarget]

Go for it, it was a blast every time I did it, even when I got overwhelmed by waves of stacks attacking me to a standstill. The 12 turns per year is so cool too, you really do have to take into consideration fighting your campaign during the right time of the year, especially in mountain passes that will decimate you or the enemy if you attempt them in winter time.

All of the DLC in Rome 2 proved to be the game's salvation for me. I really like every one of them. Taking on everyone as Caesar in CIG is just so fitting.