What's your pace?

[GFX707]

In my game I like to initially expand very quickly against weaker factions and then build up....but RTW doesn't give you a choice because all of your neighbours/allies just declare war on you one by one until you defeat them or win otherwise :(

[Basileus]

When i play any of the roman families i only try to do what the senate ask almost like GA in MTW, a little diffrent with the other factions..my pace is preety slow im not one that goes for full conquest in my games.

[*Ringo*]

I tend to smash and grab the first 10-15 turns to build some sort of power base. Then consolidate my position and then expand at a slower pace, picking where and when to attack. I do like to build up extremely strong armies but i'll only attack with the bare minimum right tools for the job. I agree it's no fun being totally one sided.
I am also getting a bit annoyed with the senate, they send you to different ends of the known world for little or no reward (wow they held games in my honour, yippee!!! ) I haven't looked into modding the game yet but this ones high on my priority list, no doubt it will be hard coded tho! No Senate would allow for a more drawn out campaign... you wouldn't have to attack the faction you just got trade rights with after twenty turns of trying!!!

Down with the Republic... long live the Emperor!!!

*Ringo*

[RedKnight]

I'm playing my first game (ok, game 1.5) on medium/medium and haven't had hardly anyone declare war on me. In fact, it's quite the other way around. Except that I don't declare it. I just attack.

Yes, I'm finding it moves much faster using exterminate (or occasional enslave). I still wind up holding new towns for about 10 turns, to let the disruption and culture diff. settle down a bit. But I have about 4 marauding stacks, so I'm still taking a new town every other turn or so. The number of marauding stacks is growing over time too, but very slowly.

As usual, there is some method to the madness... one tries to keep their borders as small as possible... e.g. I took Carthage and Gaul and am now consolidating all the Numidia and Spain between them, which will then free up those marauder stacks. Then I'll probably go north and east across Europe and save Egypt for last.

[Excalibur Bane]

I'm still fighting an Easy/Easy (Yeah, yeah, I'm pussy, sue me. ) as the Selucids. Short game. I've taken over most of what was formerly Eygpt and a few provinces here and there of Armenia, Greeks and Parthia. Pontus remains neutral to me.

I tend to play very defensively. Taking my time, upgrading my tech, only striking when I know for certain I can win. I tend to like to tech up as quickly as possible, then rollover the rest of the factions like so much meat in a grinder. That's just me though. The giant that sleeps for many years, but once awoken, spreads across the land like a plague, devouring everything in it's path.

Occasionally, a faction will do something really, really nasty to provoke me and I will start a blood feud with them. I'll kill every one of the backstabbing bastards until the world is rid of them. The Eygptians made the mistake of doing that.

[Tricky Lady]

I like to play a slow-paced game too. This usually results in quite some roughly equal (1:1 or me being outnumbered) battles. So far I haven't noticed anything of a "dumb AI" that is "walked over" in a few years.
I am now playing the Brutii faction, and have 'only' Thermon, Apollonia, and that province near the Adriatic (where the city is present-day Dubrovnik, I guess). The Macedons beat me to Segestica and I've just taken Larissa. Now the Macedons are sending some armies to my lands, cunningly avoiding my army led by Amulius the Mighty I find this game much fun like that. I never feel that I'm walking over the AI, but never find the game too easy either (even though I'm playing 'only' on Hard campaign/Normal).

[Mori Gabriel Syme]

I'm one who likes to build up my cities & amass overwhelming troops before initiating battle. I'm still in my first campaign, playing as Scipii on Normal/Normal, & I've had very little trouble with being attacked from all sides.

My methods has produced a couple of problems, however. My large numbers of troops have lead to a lack of money & stagnation of population. That's not really a complaint--in reality the maintenance of such huge garrisons would do the same thing.