Population Extermination

[b3rb0m4tiXX]

Ok, so I exterminate the population in Capua when I first conquered it. It was a huge city, so it went down to 4,000 when exterminated, I think. So natural unrest, distance from Antioch (capitol of the Big S), and Culture Penalty means that, regardless of how many pesant units I queue up, maintaining order with new recruits is a difficult proposition.

As far as bringing in peasants from Antioch or whatever, it's hard to keep them within reinforcement distance of your regular army. I put the Peasants in a separate army, because I need all of 20 units in the army to win the major set piece battles against a 20 unit Roman army.

I dunno whether it's bad luck, but it always seems that the Brutii or Scipii manage to attack my peasant army first, my regular army reinforcement fails to materialize, and my peasants withdraw. The Roman armies press their attack during that turn and pwn the peasants.

[Yasko]

I am in a civil war as Brutii. My finances is NOT good at the moment with 6 full armys(20 units). So i finance my war with the other factions by exterminating every city i conquer. First of all it makes the managment of those cities easier, no population, no problem. Secondly i make lots of cash thanx to that, ussually i get between 8000 and 16000 dependent on the size of the city.

So it goes like this,
1.i conquere the city,
2.exterminate the pop.,
3.get around 12000 denarii,
4.retrain the units
5.send a diplomat and bribe their army(ussaully 5+ army which i use as a garrision on the conquered city)
6. I move my 20unit army to the next city....back to 1.



PS. i dont make any difference between roman cities in Italy and the others. I exterminate them all. The best one was when i extermineted Rome, got something like 20000 in begining of the civil war, i used it to bribe 2-3 pretty big rival armies.....

[*Ringo*]

I definitely agree that you should be able to destroy anything you like, even governor building, roads & farms etc. It's quite clear that none of these things are indestructible so why can't we destroy them if need be? I guess to increase the effect of culture penalties but that seems a bit stupid. Even Assassin's don't completely destroy buildings in subterfuge missions. Why?

*Ringo*