higher difficulty level

[lismore]

I played several factions (Julii, Germania, Carthage, Egypt, Scythia and Greece Cities) in hard/hard. Now I miss the challange. And I wonder whether I can change the rules to add more thrill.

For example:
No bribing
no map selling
playing Britons without attacking Gauls
playing Germanians without building new spearbands
...

Do you have any suggestions?

If you go to descr_strat you can mod a couple of the factions to be monsters: e.g give their characters higher management/ command levels, give them a better starting army and a bigger balance, change their character to napoleon or ceasar and give them better starting buildings.

I changed the Germans and carthage and you would not believe the difference it makes to my Julii campaign! Carthage attacked Rome in 261BC and the Germans have crossed the Alps. Much more exciting

[Beefy]

play numidia in RTR, i think i lost on the 6th go summin like that.

[john6305]

For me, to make it more challenging, I would do this:

Set camera to be fixed on the general in the options
Do not pause during battles
Do not save the game at all unless you have to stop playing
Play on VH/VH
Pick one general and only when he fights do you go to the real time battle map - otherwise, you autocalc other generals' battles for the realism of not being there.

Just some ideas
Mebbe use this in combo with the other posters' ideas

John6305

[IliaDN]

Just one fresh idea :
no mercs ... at all!

[Franconicus]

I think if you limit cash flow it is o.k. to use mercs.

[IliaDN]

Well , you know - the idea of my quick conqust is that I use mercs