Too easy? Try Numidia...

[DisruptorX]

Spain is much harder than Numidia. Numidia is easy, the only country near you is carthage, the weakest AI faction in the game. With Spain, you start off near gaul, who outnumber you and have better troops. I'm having trouble with Spain on easy! Numidia I played normally, and didn't have any real major problems.

Just don't build any troops the first couple of turns, except where vital, and build trade related buildings.

[Red Harvest]

Spain is much harder than Numidia. Numidia is easy, the only country near you is carthage, the weakest AI faction in the game. With Spain, you start off near gaul, who outnumber you and have better troops. I'm having trouble with Spain on easy! Numidia I played normally, and didn't have any real major problems.

Just don't build any troops the first couple of turns, except where vital, and build trade related buildings.

Was that on very hard/very hard? Spain was difficult, but once you figure out how to handle the Scipii while building your economy, you have it made. With Spain I didn't go negative every time on the 2nd or 3rd turn while waiting for economic buildings to be completed. I have to capture two provinces quickly just to get some cash in the coffers. And with Spain I wasn't attacked by Gaul at the start, where Egypt always does so because it wants Siwa--the only province I have capable of building archers. With Numidia, Scipii and Egypt always attack me on almost the same turn. I've tried at least 7 different strategies now, and every time Egypt delivers the blow that destroys any chance of winning or having any money. Lose one province and the finances go negative and stay that way.

Spain was easier. I had to figure out how to deal with the Julii (they were the wildcard), then killed off Cordoba, then cleared out the Gaul in Numantia. After that I could face the Gaul armies with good full stacks at my own pace. Fighting the Gauls is easier than fighting the Egpytians.

I'm probably going to drop down to hard/hard to see if that is enough to pull it off.

[Oleander Ardens]

Started yesterday a Numidian campaign after your description;

The finance situation and the devellopment of your city is, well not so amusing. I however made a different approach.

Thought about my Experiences with Controlling and started to:

A) radically reduce my spending, to get a positive bilance and the possibility of further investments. After having fixed the target to transform Numidia in a well-working robust economy I got to work.

So I dismissed in turn one so many units that I had only to pay around 2000 denarii a year instead of almost 3000, bolstering also the population in some very smallsized citys, getting a boost to taxes. Obviously you have to check if public order how strongly public order is affected, and how high you tax income was determined by it, but with a now better RTW experience all work perfectly out.

To assure longterm effects I invested:

B) Builded up the infrastructure with first ports, than streets and than markets. With many firmed trade agreements I making after ten years 2200 denarii in Tignis with a simple port and 2 tier streets and markets.

More to come soon: