Patience or faction: why am I bored with my game?

[KRALLODHRIB]

Well. I am a bit past halfway through my first sustained campaign (long, h/vh) with the Julii and I am a not nearly as excited as I was in the first 20 turns or so. Fighting the other Roman factions is interesting (thought other observations about the realism of hard and vh in battlle are certainly true--that these settings are not even remotely relative, I mean I've got all post Marius troops while the Ai has pre-Marius type troops and they are holding their own!) . So, what's left?

I've got 30 regions and have all but conquered Rome, while the other Roman factions are restricted totheir original colonies. I've got just about everything on the Latin peninsula and am wondering where's the challenge?

I mean I love the battles while my empire was growing but I sort of expected a much more challenging rise to he top!!!! Is it the faction or am I just to impatient?

[Sid_Quibley]

Same experience here.

Ive got 4 campaigns running Pontus/Greek/Brit/Selucid once youve beat off the initial challenges and got the money rolling in you just know your going to win and it all seems a bit pointless.Even with the realism mod im killing 10/20 to 1 in battles.Any experienced mtw player should find rome a cakewalk.

The ai in battle and campaign seems fundamentally flawed,from what ive read the 1.2 patch will address this.

Hope it does.

[R'as al Ghul]

Is it the faction or am I just to impatient?

I think it's mainly the faction. I guess Julii is the easiest of all factions.
Go to the R:TW guides section and have a look at what other people report. As far as I know the hardest rated factions are Numidia and Parthia. Thrace seems to be challenging as well as Spain.
Veterans who've played the other games of the series, will have little problems to win, that's why they are veterans. We know the basic game-mechanics since years and so have a flying-start. Just look at Maltz blitz tactics and try to copy them. That should be a challenge. I also would recommend to play on VH/VH. Even though the stats are %&$?* up, battles sure are a challenge. Even the AI's vanilla units will be better than yours. Only superiour tactics can help.

R'as

[Empedocles]

I must also complain about how easy the game was for me. I played the Brutii and after I learn to defeat phalanx and get use of the new tactical system it all went uphill to me!
All my enemies do is moving their armies forth and forward and allowing themselves being surrounded in cities. Macedon was powerfull enough to get me out of Greece but they only moved around and their AI in battles was frustrating.
Pontus owned all Asia minor and it's wealth and they never attacked one of my armies. Egypt was hard to conquer only because I was also fighting the last Pontus cities (I started a 2 front-war because it was damn easy!)
The only city one enemy army sieged was one in north asia minor, because thracia attacked me and they were my allies! But I lift the siege (their army was roughly 400 men) and conquered them in less than 7 turns!
Now I'm moving west to attack rome, and decided to let parthians, armenians, and The seleucid at my back hoping they will attack when I'm stuck in Italy and north Africa!
I don't think it should be a matter of saying: "play the numidians in VH/VH because they are the hardest in the game!!" You should pick whatever faction you like, select the difficulty you like and mess with it!
In MTW we even had faction reborn with thousands of troops in the other point of the map that challenged you a lot! Now we see rebels armies of naked warriors that are softer than a panda bear!

Diego, from ARgentina

PS: And guess what are the other romans factions armies made of..... Princeps and with luck... triarii... I'm in 205 bc!

[Commodus]

PS: And guess what are the other romans factions armies made of..... Princeps and with luck... triarii... I'm in 205 bc!

I thought once a Roman faction had the Marius reforms, all factions get access to it. Am I mistaken?

[Empedocles]

You Are Not Mistaken, But They Seems To Prefer Fighting With Triarri And Princeps Than With Good Legionaries!!!
Spqr The Same!
Although They Have A Navy That Will Give Me Some Headaches!!! (i'm Still Fighting The Rebel Hugee Navy The Egyptians Left Behind)

Diego, From Argentina