Hints 4 destroying Ptolemaic Empire/Egypt

[scorillo]

Um, are you a moron? No offense or anything mate, but think about this... all of the major continents are the "same age", aside of small exceptions such as Hawaii, but that is an island. (but then so is every land mass, since they are "all" surrounded by water)

Europe is not the "oldest continent"... if your talking about the continent that has the oldest known civilization, then you should think about the Asia area, Middle East area, Egyptian area in North Africa, they were around long before the Romans, etc.

OK...

[Siris]

Sorry, I just cant stand certain things; a bad part of my personality, if I see somthing utterly wrong, I have to intervene & explain!

[pezhetairoi]

You forget, in all of this... Bribing! Strategic bombing and raids aside, bribe! Bribe their diplomats, bribe their armies, bribe everything Egyptian that isn't bolted down to the desert sand! Take down some of their armies by soft words and gold instead of cold steel. That is more important than any force you can use... money has a language of its own, and must be obeyed.

[Muska Burnt]

build up your fronts against them and in all for each of your huge cities just make a army in each of them just wait the time them just ship all your armies to the port cities first i like doing this so i can capture 3 to 6 cities in one or two turns

[Bartix]

I find good way to destroy Pottymatic Gypsies
Play as them!!

[_Aetius_]

Constantinus 306 AD - 337 AD - he recognised the christianity

Theodosius 379 AD - 395 AD - he splits apart the Empire in 2

Just a couple of things, Constantine did abit more than just covert to christianity, he gave the empire a binding force that would unite it for over a 1000 years etc.

Also the empire had been split way before Theodosius' time, he was simply the last emperor to rule over a united empire.

Europe is not the "oldest continent"...

Maybe not but Europe is certainly the greatest continent, no other continent has influenced the rest of the world as much as Europe, whereas it isnt the oldest its certainly the most successful.

[ChaosLord]

Most successful? What about Asia? They've been home to the largest empire, the longest running dynasty(I think), invention of gunpowder, etc... But this is really a silly arguement, continents are just continents, its the nations that matter. And many of Europes nations have been influenced/come from other continents, so the whole thing is moot.


But to get back on subject, scorillo how is the campaign going? You never said wether you were able to defeat the Egyptians are not. Or are your Roman scientists busy developing nuclear weapons to counter the Yellow Menance?

[Armoryk]

Katank had it right, go straight for Memphis. Hold that and most of your Egyptian unrest problems in other formerly Egyptian cities disappear. You won't need the Governors.

Also, you can implement the "forced migration" mod. Set peasant recruiting times to 0. When you take a city, enslave it (eases the unrest by reducing population immediately), and then make one useful unit and fill the rest of the queue with peasants. Next turn you get one useful unit and a half stack of peasants who are no longer Egyptian malcontents, they are now proud Roman peasants, who can be shipped off immediately to build up the populations of "right minded" cities closer to your Capital, or left at home to form an immediate vigilante police force.

You probably have cities like Segestia, Bylazora, Salona, Iuvavum...places that are starving for right minded peasants to do the hard work that the Barbarian peasants formerly did. Turn those formerly Large cities into Huge cities overnight with an Egypto/Roman transfusion!

[The Stranger]

Just a couple of things, Constantine did abit more than just covert to christianity, he gave the empire a binding force that would unite it for over a 1000 years etc.

Also the empire had been split way before Theodosius' time, he was simply the last emperor to rule over a united empire.



Maybe not but Europe is certainly the greatest continent, no other continent has influenced the rest of the world as much as Europe, whereas it isnt the oldest its certainly the most successful.

it definitly didnt. it only influenced the new world alot. from about 500 bc. not before that no way. africa and asia have influenced the world for milleniums. and europe is loosing its power. asia is rising again while the socalled west is beginning its free fall. where africa and asia were way less an hazard for the enviroment Europe actually destroyed the earth.