Quote Originally Posted by I_damian View Post
I think I've cracked the Western Roman Empire strategy, on hard campaign medium battle.

First turn, demolish most of the level 2 buildings in any provinces outside of Italy that DON'T produce food (destroy the food producing ones and you'll be like -1200 food on turn 2 lol). Combine your armies from all over the empire in to 2 armies. On turn 2 you'll have around 30k from the demolishing of the buildings last turn, use that to develop farms and sanitation and whatnot all over the place.

And just go from there.

It could all still go wrong because you'll still only have 2 armies for the first 5 or 6 turns, or maybe more, and you'll still have public order problems, they'll just come later then if you hadn't demolished all the squalor buildings.

I guess it's a little gamey but... it seems to be the only way to get a good start with the WRE.
Well, it's 397 here and I have almost four full stacks and a half-stack holed up in York, public order issues are starting to level off and I'm getting a grip on the rebels. I've run short of food but my major issue is cash - it's winter, so the spring of 398 has to bring major gains or I'll go broke.