Re: CHallenge for Pez'
Heh heh. Egads indeed, it's a rare occasion that I get to update on a holiday, and I don't have me campaign record with me :(
A quick update: I've stopped bribing for now. I am allowing the Scipee and the Brutee to expand, and they have obliged. Scipee now have Sicily and Thapsus. They will not be allowed to take Carthage because I've already taken it with Scipee soldiers, mostly velites. Whoohoo. The Brutee have Salone, Apollonia, THermon, amazingly, Sparta, and are besieging Athens. Looks like they needed no help from me. Giving them Segestica was a wise move because otherwise they would have had no strategic direction.
I'm at turn 40-plus now, and I have annihilated Gaul and Spain is on the brink. I am allied with Thrace and Britannia, and am at war with ONLY Germania. I have now four-and-a-half armies. The ex-Senate army is currently in Spain having just stormed Asturica, together with another one besieging Carthago Nova (stupid Spanish and their fortified mao, they have 17 goddamn units in that goddamn depopulated village), and I have two armies in Germania, one at Mogontiacum and Trier pacifying and ready to move on Batavodurum, and one moving for Damme via Mogontiacum. A half-army is in Carthage, my sole African foothold. It is my objective to hold it to divert Scipee attention away from West Africa (which is MINE, MINE alone) and into the East and a war of attrition with Egypt. The Brutii... let them have Greece. I'll be glad for it. So far I have only my generals as cavalry, only 1 barb cav mercenaries, 1 numidian mercenaries (senate rewards, both) and 2 equites. I have hired no mercenaries, and I see no need to do so.
Bribing-wise, I am getting somewhat disappointed because the Greek armies demand too high a price for me to pay for now, and the barbarians are so weakened that there are no field armies for me to bribe. Currently Britannia's unit count is about 12 in all settlements (I have a diplomat there doing observation) and Germania's is somewhere about the same. Spain has no field armies that I can access because they're all fortified mao =\ Carthage has been reduced to Palma and Corduba, so their main 9-unit army is currently sitting pretty in Corduba. I have a decent fleet of 11 ships and am sitting it in Carthage to add quinqueremes to it (coincidentally the first quinqueremes that I have ever built in 9 campaigns).
Strategically it is my plan to next annihilate Germania and turn on Britannia to secure my rear. After that is done the only theatre of operations left is in Africa. Once I butt up against Africa I will send expeditionary forces to the east to try and snatch shares of Egypt and Asia Minor from the Scipee and Brutee which I expect will have already arrived there. Otherwise I will await the civil war or marian reforms, whichever comes first.
Detailed actions will come, but I'm afraid I've gotten vaguely sick of writing diplomat movements (cos I have so many of them now, 8-9 I think) so unless they do something like sell maps or bribe, I won't be bothering to detail where they go.
Not true that you've made me more powerful, Seamus, you've removed one third of my production :P In normal campaigns I would've built AND bribed. Now I can only bribe.
I sense my lack of cavalry will hurt me soon.
edit: I've elected to spare Macedon from war with the Brutee. They're on the verge of dying anyway. They have only Thessalonica left and the Barbarian hordes are pressing in from the north. Greece was playing around with them, but now Greece is under pressure from Brutee. I don't know. But I'll spare Macedon for now.
Numidia looks to be a 'worthy opponent'. I say worthy because they are incredibly archer-heavy and I'm worried. Very worried. But I have created a four-column deployment strategy that with luck should be able to force any Numidian skirmish army into battle against my hastati if they don't want to be encircled. Will try it out once I invade Tingi, and will see. Of course, there wouldn't be any fun if all it turned out to be was siege battles, which I think will be the case.
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