impossible senate mission

**fastspawn** · 10-07-2004, 18:33

Has anyone ever got an impossible senate mission?

e.g. They ask you to blockade a port in 5 turns. but ur triremes can not reach there that soon. (My boats were near marseille and they asked me to blockade northern Spain)

I got an even more annoying mission. I bought appollonia from the brutii, and the next turn it revolted returning to the brutii. ANd if that wasn't enough (losing 150k gold), the senate asked me to return appollonia to the brutii... So i bought back appollonia for a lower price of around 30k, and gave it back to the the brutii, the message mission accomplished occurs, but the next moment a new mission comes in, asking me too... u guessed it, regurn appolonia. I DONT HAVE APPOLONIA!!!

anyway, i got around it by gettin a family member appointed censor just it time for the punishment to be meted out.

**Doug-Thompson** · 10-07-2004, 18:53

Originally Posted by fastspawn

Has anyone ever got an impossible senate mission?

Plenty, but there's almost always a workaround.

For instance, I got an order to blockade Thebes. Thebes' port is on the Red Sea. I didn't have a ship or even a port on that sea.

So I took Thebes, and got a message that the Senate mission no longer applied.

Other times, something is possible but not practical. For instance, I had a order to take a city. I could have stormed the gates with a slight chance of success, but chose not to. I kept up the siege instead and missed the deadline, but took the city and destroyed the large Egyptian army inside.

**Mori Gabriel Syme** · 10-07-2004, 19:05

I've had some like that. More often, the Senate missions do not advance my own policy; those missions I ignore altogether. In my current campaign while I was going at it with Macedonia, the Senate kept insisting that I blockade some Greek port or other. One of the last things I needed was to have war with the Greeks & be caught between two enemies, so I simply didn't do it. "Failing" in three or four missions hurt my standing with the Senate, but they came around after I had taken almost the entire peninsula.

**andrewt** · 10-08-2004, 05:32

Senate asked me to make Carthage a protectorate. I did and got rewarded. Damn Scipii attacked Carthage, destroying my alliance with them. Senate asks me to make Carthage a protectorate again but they are now refusing everything. I ended up having to completely destroy them so the Senate will just cancel my mission.

They also did the blockade a port I couldn't get to in 5 turns thing on me.

**The_Emperor** · 10-08-2004, 10:17

Another way to blockade a port is to use an army and place it directly on the port... The result is the same as a naval blockade and will win you the mission.

**The Marcher Lord** · 10-08-2004, 11:02

Sometimes I just ignore the impossible senate messages, particularly if all they are offering is another "exotic unit" rather than hard cash that will be dumped in my capital. I also tend to take a look and see whether I need to bother in case some other faction takes the city before I can get there. Somehow the senate always seems to come up with these dumb missions while I am finishing off some other faction at the other end of the world

**ToranagaSama** · 10-08-2004, 11:14

Originally Posted by The_Emperor

Another way to blockade a port is to use an army and place it directly on the port... The result is the same as a naval blockade and will win you the mission.

Good tip!

Yeah, I've had those seemingly impossible missions too, then I got hip, and strategically placed ships at standby points capable of reaching anywhere within 5 turns.

Like everybody I ignore some Missions, but make sure that I complete more than I ignore.

**chunkynut** · 10-08-2004, 11:19

I've had some difficult missions that have proved impossible but i don't think a lot of them are actually impossible.

For example a fleet can get to the target for blockade in 5 turns but can't make it due to enemy fleets movements blocking key areas that your fleet needs to pass through. Some of them are hinderances but i normally just do them any way - its like not getting excommunicated in MTW, hard but not impossible

**Ranges** · 10-08-2004, 11:20

Well, i guess the senate is indeed the hypocritical bunch of unfair snobs it used to be.. *smirks*

Still, this is annoying, but in no way unrealistic (and, masochistically, quite fun.. To me at least..)